Carpenters ?? Christmas Portrait ? 1978 A&M Records Original Vinyl LP w/Insert
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Christmas Portrait Studio album by Carpenters Released October 13, 1978 Recorded 1977–1978 Genre Christmas Length 49:08 Label A&M Producer Richard Carpenter/Associate Producer – Karen Carpenter Carpenters chronology Passage
(1977) Christmas Portrait
(1978) Made in America
(1981) Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic The Rolling Stone Album Guide
Christmas Portrait is the first Christmas album and ninth studio album by the American popular music duo The Carpenters, released on October 13, 1978.
Background
The album includes a revised version of the duo's signature Christmas song, "Merry Christmas Darling". It also includes one of two versions of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (a slower version, recorded in 1974, as well as other unused songs recorded during this album's sessions, were issued on the Carpenters' later Christmas album, An Old-Fashioned Christmas).
Album artwork
The original album cover by Robert Tanenbaum is modeled on Norman Rockwell's 1960 painting, "Triple Self-Portrait", done as a cover for The Saturday Evening Post.
Commercial performance
On April 16, 1998, Christmas Portrait was certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipment of one million copies in the United States since its 1978 release.
In December 2011, Christmas Portrait: Special Edition (Note: the original Christmas Portrait has not been available on its own in the US since the late-90's when the cassette version was discontinued, so the chart action in the 2010s is from the 1984 compilation) re-entered the Billboard 200 album sales chart at No. 150 and eventually achieved a new chart peak position of No. 126. In December 2012 and then in December 2013, the album again re-entered the Billboard 200 album sales chart and attained a new chart peak position of No. 114. In January 2019, it reached a new peak position of No. 67 on the Billboard 200. In January 2020, it reached another new peak position of No. 56 on the Billboard 200.
By the end of November 2014, Christmas Portrait was the twenty-third best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 1,950,000 copies according to SoundScan.
Track listing
All lead vocals by Karen Carpenter, except where noted.
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (lead vocals: Richard Carpenter)- Traditional
- R. Carpenter[a]
- Traditional / Traditional
- David Overton / Ralph Blane
- Hugh Martin / Traditional / Traditional
- James R. Murray / William Chatterton Dix / Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych
- Peter Wilhousky
- Nick Perito[a]
- Peter Knight[a] / John Francis Wade
- Frederick Oakeley
- Sammy Cahn
- Jule Styne
- Leroy Anderson
- Mitchell Parish
- Al Stillman
- Victor Young / Alan Bergman
- Leon Klatzkin
- Blane
- Martin
- John Frederick Coots
- Haven Gillespie
- Mel Tormé
- Robert Wells
- Franz Xaver Gruber
- Joseph Mohr
- John Freeman Young
- Knight[a]
- James Pierpont
- Knight[a]
- Sonny Burke
- Paul Francis Webster / Cahn
- Styne
- Leontovych
- Wilhousky
- Perito[a]
- Knight[a]
- Frank Pooler
- R. Carpenter
- Kim Gannon
- Walter Kent
- Buck Ram
- Ray Charles
- Domenico Bartolucci
- Felix Bernard
- Richard B. Smith / Jay Livingston
- Ray Evans / Irving Berlin
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Charles Gounod
- Knight[a]
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