Track listing

1. "Winter Wonderland
   Winter Wonderland
   "Winter Wonderland" is a winter song, popularly treated as a Christmastime pop standard, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith . Through the decades it has been recorded by over 150 different artists.-History:...
   
   " (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith)
2. "O Little Town of Bethlehem
   O Little Town of Bethlehem
   "O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks , an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. He was inspired by visiting the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his...
   
   " (Phillips Brooks
   Phillips Brooks
   Phillips Brooks was an American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopal liturgical calendar he is remembered on January 23...
   
   , Lewis H. Redner
   Lewis Redner
   Lewis Henry Redner was an American musician, best known as the composer of the popular Christmas carol "St...
   
   )
3. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
   "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" is a Christmas song. It was written by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie, and was first sung on Eddie Cantor's radio show in November 1934....
   
   " (J. Fred Coots
   J. Fred Coots
   John Frederick Coots was an American songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history....
   
   , Haven Gillespie
   Haven Gillespie
   James Lamont "Haven" Gillespie was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", "Right or Wrong," "Beautiful Love",...
   
   )
4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas/Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
   Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
   "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane...
   
   " (Ralph Blane
   Ralph Blane
   Ralph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.-Life and career:Born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Blane was the son of grocery store owners. He attended Tulsa Central High School...
   
   , Kim Gannon, Walter Kent
   Walter Kent
   Walter Kent was a Jewish American composer who wrote the music for songs including the Christmas standard "I'll Be Home for Christmas", and the wartime hit " The White Cliffs of Dover", co-written with fellow American Nat Burton. He died at the age of 82-External links:...
   
   , Hugh Martin
   Hugh Martin
   Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St...
   
   , Buck Ram
   Buck Ram
   Buck Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.-Biography:...
   
   )
5. "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (Traditional, John Wesley Work II)
6. "Burgundian Carol" (Oscar Brand
   Oscar Brand
   Oscar Brand is a folk singer, songwriter, and author. In his career, spanning over 60 years, he has composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs...
   
   )
7. "White Christmas
   White Christmas
   A white Christmas refers to the presence of snow on Christmas Day. This phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere...
   
   " (Irving Berlin
   Irving Berlin
   Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
   
   )
8. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
   God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
   God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen is an English traditional Christmas carol. The melody is in Aeolian mode. It was published by William B...
   
   " (Traditional)
9. "Pretty Paper" (Willie Nelson
   Willie Nelson
   Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
   
   )
10. "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Personnel

• Don McLean - vocals, arrangements
• Brent Mason
  Brent Mason
  Brent Mason is an American session guitarist and occasional songwriter. He is known primarily for his work in the field of country music. In addition to releasing two instrumental studio albums, he holds several credits as a songwriter...
  
   - electric guitar
• Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
• Robert Thomas Wray - bass
• Tommy Wells - drums
• Tony Migliore - keyboards, string arrangements
• The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires
  The Jordanaires are an American vocal quartet, which formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are best known for providing vocal background for Elvis Presley, in live appearances and recordings from 1956 to 1972...
  
  - background vocals