Release front cover
Album
The Christmas Spirit
Johnny Cash
Release information
Year
1963
Label
Columbia
Recording personnel
Personnel represented by recordings and sessions linked to this release. Credits can vary by recording or take.
Personnel
- Johnny Cash — narration, guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar
- Carter Family: Maybelle, Anita, Helen, June — harmony vocals
- Jack Clement — guitar
- Luther Perkins — electric guitar
- Maybelle Carter — autoharp, guitar
- Marshall Grant — bass
- W.S. 'Fluke' Holland — drums
- Bill Pursell — organ
- Bob Johnson — 5-string lute, guitar
- Anita Kerr Singers — harmony vocals
- Johnny Western — guitar
- Michael Kazak — drums
- Jimmy Wilson — piano
Description
The mono LP (CL 2117) contains an alternate master for The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver. This master does not appear to have been released anywhere else, as CD and download reissues contain the same master used for the stereo LP (CS 8917).
Reissue history for The Christmas Spirit:
1. Reissued on CD by Sony Music Special Products in the 1990s (A 24082), but with new album artwork.
2. Reissued on CD by Bear Family Records in 1995 on "The Man In Black Vol. 3 - 1963-1969+" (BCD 15588). This set includes one previously unreleased outtake from "The Christmas Spirit" sessions: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear.
3. Released for download by Columbia in 2008.
Images & Source Material
Tracklist
Use this tracklist as a route map: each released track can lead to the specific recording or take, and the studio session behind it.
| # / Side | Track | Archive links | Duration |
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| 1 |
The Christmas Spirit
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| 2 |
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
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| 3 |
Blue Christmas
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| 4 |
The Gifts They Gave
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| 5 |
Here Was A Man
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| 6 |
Christmas As I Knew It
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| 7 |
Silent Night
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| 8 |
The Little Drummer Boy
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| 9 |
Ringing The Bells For Jim
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| 10 |
We Are The Shepherds
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| 11 |
Who Kept The Sheep
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| 12 |
The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver
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