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  Type Album
  Artist Johnny Cash
  Cover JohnnyCashClassicChristmasjpg
  Released 1980
  Recorded August 19-20, 1980
  Genre Country
  Length 31:44
  Label Columbia
  Reviews All Music Guide link
  Chronology Johnny Cash
  Last Album '' Rockabilly Blues ''<br />(1980)
  This Album '''''Classic Christmas'''''<br />(1980)
  Next Album '' The Baron ''<br />(1981)


''Classic Christmas'' is a Christmas Album by American Country singer Johnny Cash , released on Columbia Records in 1980 (see 1980 In Music ). Unlike '' The Christmas Spirit '' or '' Family Christmas '', none of the songs are originals; all are traditional Christmas songs. It is the third and final full-length Christmas album by Cash.


TRACK LISTING

#" Joy To The World " ( Lowell Mason / Isaac Watts ) – 2:04
#" Away In A Manger " (William James Kirkpatrick/Traditional) – 3:05
#" O Little Town Of Bethlehem " ( Phillips Brooks /Lewis Redner) – 3:26
#" Silent Night " ( Franz Xaver Gruber / Joseph Mohr ) – 3:01
#" It Came Upon A Midnight Clear " ( Edmund Sears / Richard Storrs Willis ) – 3:37
#" Hark! The Herald Angels Sing " ( Felix Mendelssohn / Charles Wesley ) – 2:29
#"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (Jean Baptiste Calkin/ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ) – 2:19
#" O Come All Ye Faithful " ( Frederick Oakeley / John Francis Wade ) – 2:55
#"Little Gray Donkey" ( Charles Tazewell /Roger Wagner) – 4:11
#"The Christmas Guest" ( Grandpa Jones /Bill Walker) – 4:37


PERSONNEL


  • Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar



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