All Is Well, released November 28, 2006 is a studio
EPAn extended play is a vinyl record, CD, or music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as an LP. Usually, a CD single has around 10–28 minutes of music, an EP has up to 36 minutes, and an album generally has 30–80 minutes. Mini-LPs generally contain 20–30...
recorded by
Clay AikenClay Aiken is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released in October 2003...
. Originally an exclusive for Walmart the album was made available on
iTunesiTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone...
in December 2007. The four tracks are all
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
songs. It is unusual for an extended play (
EPAn extended play is a vinyl record, CD, or music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as an LP. Usually, a CD single has around 10–28 minutes of music, an EP has up to 36 minutes, and an album generally has 30–80 minutes. Mini-LPs generally contain 20–30...
) disc to chart or have its sales tracked; however,
All Is Well debuted at #54 on the
Billboard Comprehensive AlbumsBillboard Comprehensive Albums is a weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine that ranks the biggest selling albums in the United States regardless of the product's age or method of sales....
chart.
- "All Is Well"
- "Christmas Waltz"
- "O Come O Come Emmanuel"
- "My Grown-Up Christmas List"
"All Is Well" Written by:
Michael W. SmithMichael W. Smith is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian Music, and he has achieved considerable success in the mainstream music industry as well...
, Wayne Kirkpatrick / Produced by: John Fields - 3:59"Christmas Waltz" Written by:
Sammy CahnSammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin...
,
Jule StyneJule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
/ Produced by:
Walter AfanasieffWalter "Wally" Afanasieff is a Grammy-award-winning record producer and songwriter who started out as Whitney Houston's arranger, but rose to success co-writing and co-producing music with Mariah Carey....
- 2:59"
O Come, O Come, EmmanuelO come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Catholic Latin text by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons , which now serves as a popular Advent and Christmas hymn...
" Traditional / Produced by: John Fields - 3:38"
My Grown-Up Christmas List"Grown-Up Christmas List" is a Christmas song composed by David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner , and originally recorded by Foster for Foster's 1990 non-holiday album River of Love. Even though it was also released as a single, the song was not a hit upon its first appearance...
" Written by:
David FosterDavid Walter Foster, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and arranger.-Career:Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, whose song “Wildflower” was a top ten hit in 1972...
, Linda Thompson-Jenner/ Produced by: John Fields - 4:57
The traditional Christmas song "
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" is believed to have been originally written in
LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
during the 12th century and translated into English in 1851 by
John Mason NealeJohn Mason Neale , was an English priest, scholar and hymn-writer.-Life:He was born in London, his parents being the Revd Cornelius Neale and Susanna Neale, daughter of John Mason Good...
- Stephen Lu - String Arranger, Conductor, Piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, keyboardsA keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Angela Fischer - background vocals
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
, background vocal arrangement
- Quiana Parler - background vocals
- Conesha Monét - background vocals
- Clay Aiken - background vocals
- Jacob Luttrell - background vocals
- Randy Waldman - piano
- Nathan East
Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
- bassThe electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....
- Dennis Budimir - guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
- Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...
- Andy Abad - acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only acoustic methods to project the sound produced by its strings. The term is a retronym, coined after the advent of electric guitars, which depend on electronic amplification to make their sound audible....
- The Section Quartet - strings
The string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...
- (Eric Gorfain: violinThe violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist, Daphne Chen: Violinist, Leah Katz: violaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range , and nearly identical playing position...
, Richard Dodd: celloThe cello is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra...
) appears courtesy of Decca RecordsDecca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades...
- Engineers: Dave Reitzas, Emanuel Kiriakou
- Early life :Emanuel "Eman" Kiriakou started playing music at the age of twelve in his father’s Greek band.-Instrumentalist:...
, Joe Wohlmuth
- Assistant engineers: Atom Gutierrez, Scott Gutierrez, Nick Marshall, Patrick Spain, Tom Hardisty
- Mixing: Steven Miller, Mick Guzauski
- Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
- Digital editing: Louie Teran
- Seedy Underbelly, Valley Village & Oceanway Recording, Hollywood, CA - recording
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
- Chalice Studios, Los Angeles, CA - engineering
- Signet Studios, Los Angeles, CA - engineering
- The G House, Malibu, CA - mixing
Audio mixing is the process by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics and panoramic position are commonly being manipulated and effects such as reverb might...
- Marcussen Mastering - mastering
Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
The title song, "All Is Well", was recorded by Michael W.
All Is Well, released November 28, 2006 is a studio
EPAn extended play is a vinyl record, CD, or music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as an LP. Usually, a CD single has around 10–28 minutes of music, an EP has up to 36 minutes, and an album generally has 30–80 minutes. Mini-LPs generally contain 20–30...
recorded by
Clay AikenClay Aiken is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program American Idol in 2003. RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album Measure of a Man was released in October 2003...
. Originally an exclusive for Walmart the album was made available on
iTunesiTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone...
in December 2007. The four tracks are all
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
songs. It is unusual for an extended play (
EPAn extended play is a vinyl record, CD, or music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as an LP. Usually, a CD single has around 10–28 minutes of music, an EP has up to 36 minutes, and an album generally has 30–80 minutes. Mini-LPs generally contain 20–30...
) disc to chart or have its sales tracked; however,
All Is Well debuted at #54 on the
Billboard Comprehensive AlbumsBillboard Comprehensive Albums is a weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine that ranks the biggest selling albums in the United States regardless of the product's age or method of sales....
chart.
Track listing
- "All Is Well"
- "Christmas Waltz"
- "O Come O Come Emmanuel"
- "My Grown-Up Christmas List"
Song notes
"All Is Well" Written by:
Michael W. SmithMichael W. Smith is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, composer, and actor. He is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in Contemporary Christian Music, and he has achieved considerable success in the mainstream music industry as well...
, Wayne Kirkpatrick / Produced by: John Fields - 3:59"Christmas Waltz" Written by:
Sammy CahnSammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to Tin Pan Alley and Broadway songs, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, Doris Day and many others. He played the piano and violin...
,
Jule StyneJule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
/ Produced by:
Walter AfanasieffWalter "Wally" Afanasieff is a Grammy-award-winning record producer and songwriter who started out as Whitney Houston's arranger, but rose to success co-writing and co-producing music with Mariah Carey....
- 2:59"
O Come, O Come, EmmanuelO come, O come, Emmanuel is a translation of the Catholic Latin text by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century. It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons , which now serves as a popular Advent and Christmas hymn...
" Traditional / Produced by: John Fields - 3:38"
My Grown-Up Christmas List"Grown-Up Christmas List" is a Christmas song composed by David Foster and Linda Thompson-Jenner , and originally recorded by Foster for Foster's 1990 non-holiday album River of Love. Even though it was also released as a single, the song was not a hit upon its first appearance...
" Written by:
David FosterDavid Walter Foster, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and arranger.-Career:Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, whose song “Wildflower” was a top ten hit in 1972...
, Linda Thompson-Jenner/ Produced by: John Fields - 4:57
The traditional Christmas song "
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" is believed to have been originally written in
LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
during the 12th century and translated into English in 1851 by
John Mason NealeJohn Mason Neale , was an English priest, scholar and hymn-writer.-Life:He was born in London, his parents being the Revd Cornelius Neale and Susanna Neale, daughter of John Mason Good...
Musicians
- Stephen Lu - String Arranger, Conductor, Piano
The piano is a musical instrument which is played by means of a keyboard. Widely used in Western music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, keyboardsA keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Angela Fischer - background vocals
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
, background vocal arrangement
- Quiana Parler - background vocals
- Conesha Monét - background vocals
- Clay Aiken - background vocals
- Jacob Luttrell - background vocals
- Randy Waldman - piano
- Nathan East
Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
- bassThe electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....
- Dennis Budimir - guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that adapts readily to a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four-, seven-, eight-, ten-, eleven-, twelve-, thirteen- and eighteen-string guitars also exist. The size and shape of the neck and the base of the guitar...
- Vinnie Colaiuta - drums
A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...
- Andy Abad - acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only acoustic methods to project the sound produced by its strings. The term is a retronym, coined after the advent of electric guitars, which depend on electronic amplification to make their sound audible....
- The Section Quartet - strings
The string section is the largest body of the standard orchestra and consists of bowed string instruments of the violin family.It normally comprises five sections: the first violins, the second violins, the violas, the cellos, and the double basses...
- (Eric Gorfain: violinThe violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist, Daphne Chen: Violinist, Leah Katz: violaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range , and nearly identical playing position...
, Richard Dodd: celloThe cello is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra...
) appears courtesy of Decca RecordsDecca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; later the link with the British company was broken for several decades...
Production
- Engineers: Dave Reitzas, Emanuel Kiriakou
- Early life :Emanuel "Eman" Kiriakou started playing music at the age of twelve in his father’s Greek band.-Instrumentalist:...
, Joe Wohlmuth
- Assistant engineers: Atom Gutierrez, Scott Gutierrez, Nick Marshall, Patrick Spain, Tom Hardisty
- Mixing: Steven Miller, Mick Guzauski
- Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
- Digital editing: Louie Teran
Studios
- Seedy Underbelly, Valley Village & Oceanway Recording, Hollywood, CA - recording
Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical or mechanical inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects. The two main classes of sound recording technology are analog recording and digital recording...
- Chalice Studios, Los Angeles, CA - engineering
- Signet Studios, Los Angeles, CA - engineering
- The G House, Malibu, CA - mixing
Audio mixing is the process by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics and panoramic position are commonly being manipulated and effects such as reverb might...
- Marcussen Mastering - mastering
Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
Additional Notes
The title song, "All Is Well", was recorded by Michael W. Smith for his album
Michael W. Smith Christmas (1989). Smith included the song on his album
The Wonder Years CD Two (1993) and on the album
The Christmas Collection (2004).
Point Of GracePoint of Grace is a group of Christian pop music singers and authors. This all-ladies trio consists of Shelley Breen, Denise Jones, and Leigh Cappillino. The group started out as a quartet in 1991, with original members Breen and Jones, as well as Terry Jones and Heather Payne...
recorded this song on their album
Winter WonderlandWinter Wonderland is the eleventh album by Contemporary Christian group Point of Grace and their second Christmas album, after 1999's A Christmas Story...
(2005). Janet Walters covered this song for her
Music of the Season album (2006).
The televised
Capital One Holiday Celebration on Ice (November 2007) featured Aiken singing songs from this album and his
Merry Christmas With LoveMerry Christmas with Love is Clay Aiken's first Christmas album, released by RCA Records on November 16, 2004. It was certified platinum and was recognized by Billboard as the Best Selling Christmas Album of 2004 and the Best Selling Christian Album of 2005.The album was re-released on August 18,...
album. "All Is Well" was chosen by
Todd EldredgeTodd James Eldredge is an American figure skater. He is the 1996 World Champion and a six-time national champion .-Biography:...
for his skating performance. Eldredge used Aiken's recording of this song for his Rockerfeller Center performance on ice for the
ChristmasChristmas , also referred to as Christmas Day, is an annual holiday celebrated on December 25 that commemorates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The day marks the beginning of the larger season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days. The nativity of Jesus, which is the basis for the anno Domini...
Day 2007
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