Merry Christmas Strait to You!

Merry Christmas Strait to You! is the first Christmas album by American country music artist George Strait, released on September 8, 1986 by MCA Records. It reached #17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and is certified double platinum by the RIAA.

Merry Christmas Strait to You!
Studio album by George Strait
Released	September 8, 1986 (1986-09-08)
Studio	Sound Stage Studios (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country, Christmas
Length	26:38
Label	MCA
Producer	Jimmy Bowen George Strait
George Strait chronology
#7 (1986) Merry Christmas Strait to You! (1986) Ocean Front Property (1987)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	3:03
2.	"There's a New Kid in Town"	Don Cook, Curly Putman, Keith Whitley	4:27
3.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard, Richard Bernhard Smith	2:23
4.	"Merry Christmas Strait to You"	Bob Kelly	2:40
5.	"Away in a Manger"	James R. Murray	2:44

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"For Christ's Sake, It's Christmas"	Hank Cochran, Dean Dillon	3:13
7.	"Frosty the Snowman"	Walter E. Rollins, Steve Nelson	2:18
8.	"When It's Christmas Time in Texas"	Benny McArthur	3:09
9.	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie	2:12
10.	"What a Merry Christmas This Could Be"	Cochran, Harlan Howard	3:05
Total length:			26:38[1]

Personnel

• George Strait – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
• John Barlow Jarvis – acoustic piano
• Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitars
• Larry Byrom – electric guitars
• Reggie Young – electric guitar
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• David Hungate – bass guitar
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Johnny Gimble – fiddle
• Curtis Young – backing vocals

Production

• Jimmy Bowen – producer
• George Strait – producer
• Bob Bullock – recording, overdub recording, mixing
• Steve Tillisch – overdub recording
• Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
• Tim Kish – second engineer
• Russ Martin – second engineer
• Glenn Meadows – mastering at Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Simon Levy – art direction
• Tal Howard – design
• Mike Drake – illustration
• Peter Nash – photography
• Erv Woolsey – management

Chart positions

Chart (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	17