Mr. Christmas (album)
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Mr. Christmas is a Christmas music
Christmas music
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 album, released in 1995, by country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Joe Diffie
Joe Diffie
Joe Logan Diffie is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. Between 1990 and 2004, Diffie charted 35 cuts on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including five number one singles: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced ", "Third Rock from the Sun",...

. The song "Leroy the Redneck Reindeer" was released as a single
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, peaking at #33 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs
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) charts that year. Otherwise, the album features a mix of traditional Christmas music and newly-penned songs.

Track listing

  1. "Mr. Christmas" (Joe Diffie, Lee Bogan) – 3:14
  2. "The Christmas Song
    The Christmas Song
    "The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...

    " (Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

    , Robert Wells) – 4:23
  3. "Leroy the Redneck
    Redneck
    Redneck is a historically derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern United States...

     Reindeer" (Stacey Slate, Diffie, Steve Pippin) – 3:17
  4. "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...

    " (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...

    , 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...

    ) – 3:51
  5. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

    , Jule Styne
    Jule Styne
    Jule 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:...

    ) – 2:46
  6. "Wrap Me in Your Love" (Slate, Wyatt Easterling) – 3:14
  7. "All Because of a Baby Boy" (Slate, Easterling) – 3:27
  8. "Silent Night
    Silent Night
    "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...

    " (Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 2:58
  9. "Praise and Alleluia to the Savior" (Diffie, Bogan) – 3:47
  10. "Magazine Angels" (Raymond C. Davis Jr., Gene Pistilli) – 4:01
  11. "O Holy Night
    O Holy Night
    "O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...

    " (Adolphe Adam
    Adolphe Adam
    Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle and Le corsaire , his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau , Le toréador and Si j'étais roi , and his Christmas...

    , John Sullivan Dwight) – 4:58

Chart performance

Chart (1995) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 24
U.S. Billboard 200 129
U.S. Billboard Top Holiday Albums 32
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