Give Me Your Love for Christmas is the thirty first original studio album released by vocalist Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standards, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status, and 73 making the Billboard charts...

 and his third album devoted to holiday music.

Overview

The third Mathis holiday album differs from his previous two Christmas collections in that it includes only popular holiday songs such as "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...

", "Do You Hear What I Hear?

Do You Hear What I Hear?

"Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a Christmas song written in October 1962 with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair were married at the time, and wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis...

" and "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....

" and does not include any traditional Christmas carols or classical music.

Track listing

1. "Jingle Bell Rock
   Jingle Bell Rock
   "Jingle Bell Rock" is the name of a popular Christmas song first released by Bobby Helms in 1957. It has received frequent airplay in the United States during every Christmas time since then. "Jingle Bell Rock" was composed by Joseph Carleton Beal , and James Ross Boothe...
   
   " - 2:11
2. "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...
   
   " - 3:29
3. "My Favorite Things
   My Favorite Things
   My Favorite Things may refer to:* "My Favorite Things" , a song from the musical The Sound of Music* My Favorite Things , an album by John Coltrane, or the title instrumental, an interpretation of the Sound of Music song-See also:...
   
   " - 2:37
4. "Give Me Your Love for Christmas" - 2:37
5. "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....
   
   " - 2:19
6. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" - 2:52
7. "Do You Hear What I Hear?
   Do You Hear What I Hear?
   "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a Christmas song written in October 1962 with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair were married at the time, and wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
   
   " - 3:21
8. "Calypso Noel" - 2:13
9. "The Little Drummer Boy" - 2:28
10. "Christmas Day [From Promises, Promises" - 3:24
11. "The Lord's Prayer
    The Lord's Prayer (song)
    "The Lord's Prayer" is a musical setting of the Lord's Prayer written by Albert Hay Malotte in 1935 and recorded by numerous singers including John Charles Thomas, Perry Como, Doris Day, Gracie Fields, Mahalia Jackson, Mario Lanza, Elvis Presley, and Ronnie Milsap...
    
    " - 2:40

Billboard Album Chart

This album was highly successful in its initial release peaking at #1 on the Billboard album chart, Mathis' first album to reach the top spot since "Heavenly

Heavenly (Johnny Mathis album)

Heavenly is the tenth album released by vocalist Johnny Mathis. It is the eighth original studio album recorded by the singer -Overview:This album, arranged and conducted by Glenn Osser, is the epitome of the successful album formula that had...

" in 1959. It was his thirty seventh album to place on the chart.

Johnny Mathis Christmas Albums

In the spoken patter at the outset of the Mathis/Bette Midler

Bette Midler

Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...

 duet "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:...

/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" from Midler's 2006 holiday album "Cool Yule

Cool Yule

Cool Yule is a holiday album by Bette Midler released on October 10, 2006. The album features many Christmas tunes as well as a reworking of her Grammy-winning hit "From a Distance"....

", Midler is heard describing Mathis as "the king of Christmas," a fitting title given his many holiday albums. To date, Mathis has recorded 5 holiday albums:

Album Title	Year
Merry Christmas Merry Christmas (Johnny Mathis album) Merry Christmas is the seventh album and first Christmas album by singer Johnny Mathis. Released in 1958 by Columbia Records , it was also the sixth original studio album by the singer....	1958
Sounds of Christmas Sounds of Christmas Sounds of Christmas is the twenty first album released by vocalist Johnny Mathis. It was his seventeenth original studio album with four compilations of hit singles having been released by the singer to this point...	1963
Give Me Your Love for Christmas	1969
Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis	1986
The Christmas Album	2002

External links

• All Music Review