A Very Special Season

~ Release by Diana Ross (see all versions of this release, 4 available)

Annotation

BOSPCD 256 has another release title: Wonderful Christmas Time

Annotation last modified on 2008-09-01 21:28 UTC.

Tracklist

▼CD 1
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1Winter Wonderland
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman
cover recording of:
Winter Wonderland
lyricist:
Richard B. Smith (wrote lyrics to “Winter Wonderland”)
composer:
Felix Bernard
publisher:
Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc., EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), Francis, Day & Hunter, Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
3:23
2White Christmas
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman
cover recording of:
White Christmas
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin (from 1938 until 1940)
publisher:
Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships), Irving Berlin Music Corp., Williamson Music Company and Irving Berlin Music Company (from 1940 to present)
sub-publisher:
Irving Berlin Music Ltd., Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. (1996–2019), シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント and ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部
part of:
Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 15)
3:20
3Wonderful Christmastime
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Alan Lindgren
recording of:
Wonderful Christmastime
lyricist and composer:
Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
publisher:
MPL Communications Ltd. (not for release label use! Paul McCartney-related, London-based company)
3:10
4What the World Needs Now
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Alan Lindgren
cover recording of:
What the World Needs Now Is Love
lyricist:
Hal David
composer:
Burt Bacharach
publisher:
Casa David LP, New Hidden Valley Music Co., フジパシフィックミュージック BMG事業部, フジパシフィックミュージック 第2事業部, BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (Hal David) (not for release label use!) (in 1965), Songs of Fujimusic (in 1965, in 1993) and BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (not for release label use!) (in 1993)
4:21
5Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Mark Portmann
cover recording of:
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
lyricist and composer:
John Lennon (The Beatles) and Yoko Ono (Japanese-American musician and artist)
publisher:
Lenono Music and Ono Music
3:16
6Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman
recording of:
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
lyricist:
Sammy Cahn (in 1945-07)
composer:
Jule Styne (in 1945-07)
publisher:
Cahn Music Company, Chappell & Co., Chappell/Morris Ltd., Cherry Lane Music Ltd., Producers Music Publishing Co., Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996), Warner Chappell North America and WB Music Corp. (1929–2019)
2:14
7Amazing Grace
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Lalo Schifrin (pianist & composer)
recording of:
Amazing Grace (popular hymn first published 1779, catch-all)
publisher:
Alfred Music (publisher of sheet music for music education)
lyricist and writer:
John Newton (English poet) (in 1779)
additional composer:
Edwin Othello Excell
composer:
[anonymous] (Special Purpose Artist) and [traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation, EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS-affiliated), Patterdale Music Ltd., Rokstone Music Ltd., Universal Classics & Jazz (Japanese label division - read the annotation before using!), Universal Music Publishing Group Japan (work publisher - do NOT use as a release label), イーエムアイ音楽出版 C・F事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
part of:
Viisikielinen (Song book of "Viides herätysliike") (number: 94)
5:21
8His Eye Is on the Sparrow
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman and Sylvester Rivers (Soul / funk keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer)
recording of:
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
lyricist:
Civilla Durfee Martin (Canadian‐American hymn and gospel song writer)
composer:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
3:54
9Silent Night
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Jeremy Lubbock
recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
5:02
10Overjoyed
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Nick Ingman
cover recording of:
Overjoyed
lyricist and composer:
Stevie Wonder
4:05
11O Holy Night
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Chris Boardman
recording of:
O Holy Night
lyricist:
John Sullivan Dwight (in 1855)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (composer) (in 1847)
translated version of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
4:44
12Someday at Christmas
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Mark Portmann
recording of:
Someday at Christmas
writer:
Ron Miller (Motown songwriter Ronald Norman Miller) and Bryan Wells
publisher:
Jobete Music Co., Inc. and Ron Miller Legacy Songtrust Publishing LLC (BMI)
4:09
13Ave Maria
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Alan Lindgren
recording of:
Ellens Gesang III, op. 52 no. 6, D. 839 “Ave Maria” (Schubert's song, not the Bach/Gounod work; original for voice and piano)
lyricist:
Sir Walter Scott (19th-century Scottish author)
composer:
Franz Schubert (composer) (in 1825)
translator:
Adam Storck
part of:
Franz Schubert, thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge (number: D. 839)
5:52
14The Christmas Song
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Jack Hayes (American composer & orchestrator)
cover recording of:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
writer:
Mel Tormé ("The Velvet Fog") (from 1944 until 1945) and Robert Wells (songwriter) (from 1944 until 1945)
publisher:
Chappell/Morris Ltd., Sony/ATV Tunes LLC, Warner Chappell Ltd. and E. H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) (from 1946 to present)
3:13

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Release

ASIN:DE: B0000073FQ [info]

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Wikidata:Q4660451 [info]