Ultimate Christmas

Ultimate Christmas is a 1998 compilation of Christmas music by the Beach Boys released on Capitol Records. It rounds up all of the tracks from 1964's The Beach Boys' Christmas Album in addition to a handful of unreleased tracks from the aborted Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys album in 1977, some of which are alternative versions of songs included on M.I.U. Album the following year.^[4]

Ultimate Christmas
Compilation album by the Beach Boys
Released	September 22, 1998
Recorded	October 1963 – November 1977
Genre	Rock
Length	61:58
Label	Capitol
Producer	Brad Elliot
The Beach Boys chronology
Endless Harmony Soundtrack (1998) Ultimate Christmas (1998) The Capitol Years (1999)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Blender	[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]

As a collection of the Beach Boys' Christmas tunes, Ultimate Christmas manages to round up virtually every song the band recorded and released on the subject. In 2004, Capitol took it out of print and replaced it with Christmas with the Beach Boys, essentially the same compilation with different cover art and one song ("Christmas Time Is Here Again") removed from the track list. Tracks 14-15 and 17-26 were previously unreleased.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Little Saint Nick"	Brian Wilson, Mike Love	Mike Love	2:01
2.	"The Man with All the Toys"	B. Wilson, Love	Brian Wilson and Love	1:32
3.	"Santa's Beard"	B. Wilson, Love	Love	2:00
4.	"Merry Christmas, Baby"	B. Wilson	Love	2:21
5.	"Christmas Day"	B. Wilson	Al Jardine	1:47
6.	"Frosty the Snowman"	Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins	B. Wilson	1:54
7.	"We Three Kings of Orient Are"	John Henry Hopkins	Love and B. Wilson	4:03
8.	"Blue Christmas"	Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson	B. Wilson	3:09
9.	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie	B. Wilson and Love	2:20
10.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	B. Wilson	2:29
11.	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram	B. Wilson	2:44
12.	"Auld Lang Syne"	Traditional; arranged by B. Wilson	group	1:19
13.	"Little Saint Nick" (Single Version, Stereo)	B. Wilson, Love	Love	2:08
14.	"Auld Lang Syne" (Alternate Mix)	Traditional; arranged by B. Wilson	group	1:23
15.	"Little Saint Nick" (Alternate Version)	B. Wilson, Love	B. Wilson and Love	2:04
16.	"Child of Winter (Christmas Song)"	B. Wilson, Stephen Kalinich	B. Wilson and Love	2:49
17.	"Santa's Got an Airplane"	Alan Jardine, B. Wilson, Love	Love and Al Jardine	3:09
18.	"Christmas Time Is Here Again"	Buddy Holly, Norman Petty, Jerry Allison, Jardine	Jardine	3:02
19.	"Winter Symphony"	B. Wilson	B. Wilson	3:00
20.	"(I Saw Santa) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"	B. Wilson, Jardine	Al, Matt and Adam Jardine	2:23
21.	"Melekalikimaka" (aka "Kona Christmas")	Jardine, Love	Love and Jardine	2:34
22.	"Bells of Christmas"	Jardine, Ron Altbach, Love	Jardine	2:44
23.	"Morning Christmas"	Dennis Wilson	Dennis Wilson	3:22
24.	"Toy Drive Public Service Announcement"			1:23
25.	"Dennis Wilson Christmas Message"			0:31
26.	"Brian Wilson Christmas Interview"			2:35