Track Listing 1. If Every Day Was Like Christmas - (with The Jordanaires/The Imperials Quartet) 2. Blue Christmas - (mono, with The Jordanaires) 3. Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - (with The Jordanaires) 4. White Christmas - (with The Jordanaires) 5. Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) - (with The Jordanaires) 6. I'll Be Home For Christmas - (with The Jordanaires) 7. O Little Town of Bethlehem - (with The Jordanaires) 8. Santa Claus Is Back in Town - (mono, with The Jordanaires) 9. It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You) - (with The Imperials Quartet) 10. If I Get Home on Christmas Day - (with The Imperials Quartet) 11. Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees - (with The Imperials Quartet) 12. Merry Christmas Baby 13. Silver Bells - (with The Imperials Quartet) 14. I'll Be Home on Christmas Day - (alternate take, with The Imperials Quartet) 15. On a Snowy Christmas Night - (with The Imperials Quartet) 16. Winter Wonderland - (with The Imperials Quartet) 17. Wonderful World of Christmas, The - (with The Imperials Quartet) 18. O Come All Ye Faithful - (with The Imperials Quartet) 19. First Noel, The - (with The Imperials Quartet) 20. It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You) - (previously unreleased, alternate take, with The Imperials Quartet) 21. Silver Bells - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 22. Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 23. I'll Be Home on Christmas Day - (with The Imperials Quartet) 24. Christmas Message From Elvis / Silent Night - (mono, with The Jordanaires)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | The Imperials Quartet, The Jordanaires | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Compilation producers: Ernst Jorgensen, Roger Semon. Engineers: Jim Malloy, Thorne Nogar, Al Pachucki. Recorded at RCA's Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee and Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Charles Wolfe. All tracks are stereo except tracks 2, 8, 24. Digitally remastered by Jay Newland (August 1994, BMG Studios, New York). IF EVERY DAY WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS is a collection of recordings formerly available on various Elvis Christmas releases, as well as four previously unreleased alternate takes. The special collector's edition of IF EVERY DAY WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS includes a full color "Winter At Graceland" three-dimensional pop-up. Personnel includes: Elvis Presley (vocals); The Jordanaires, The Imperials Quartet. Engineers: Al Pachucki, Thorne Nogar. Compilation producers: Ernst Jorgensen, Roger Semon. Recorded at RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee and Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California between 1957 & 1971. Includes liner notes by Charles Wolfe. Digitally remastered by Jay Newland (1994, BMG Studios, New York, New York). By all accounts, Elvis Presley was fanatical about Christmas. Always generous with friends, Presley enjoyed the excuse to lavish those around him with cars, jewelry, and other expensive gifts. The holiday was particularly meaningful to him in his early years, when he could share it with his mother Gladys, and then later with the arrival of his daughter Lisa Marie. It is no surprise, then, that Presley recorded Christmas material on several occasions throughout his career. IF EVERY DAY WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS compiles all of Elvis Presley's Christmas recordings on a single disc. Included are all the Christmas songs from the 1957 LP ELVIS' CHRISTMAS ALBUM (the four gospel songs that appeared on the original album are not, however, included on this disc), the 1966 single that serves as the title track to this collection, and the 1971 album ELVIS SINGS THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CHRISTMAS. All are very good, but Elvis' first effort was his best. ELVIS' CHRISTMAS ALBUM has rightly joined the pantheon of truly classic Christmas albums. Every track is top-flight, with particular praise due to the raunchy "Santa Claus is Back in Town" and Elvis' take on "White Christmas," the latter strongly based on Clyde McPhatter's version.
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