Merry Christmas (Andy Williams album)
1965 studio album by Andy Williams / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Merry Christmas is the second Christmas album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Columbia Records in 1965, and his seventeenth studio album overall. This seasonal LP is focused exclusively on 20th century compositions, unlike 1963's The Andy Williams Christmas Album, which, of its 12 tracks, had six with origins predating the turn of the century.
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Released | October 18, 1965 | |||
Recorded | 1965 | |||
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Length | 35:37 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Robert Mersey[2] | |||
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For the six consecutive holiday seasons from 1965 through 1970, Merry Christmas charted on Billboard magazine's special year-end weekly Christmas Albums sales chart.[4] The album spent two weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1966 and one week atop that same chart in 1969.[4] The single from the album, "Do You Hear What I Hear?", reached number 18 on the Christmas Singles chart in 1965.[5]
On May 23, 1968, Merry Christmas was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States.[6] Platinum certification for sales of one million copies followed on November 10, 1989.[6]