The Christmas Spirit

The Christmas Spirit
The Christmas Spirit
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	November 11, 1963
Recorded	August 14, 1959–September 17, 1963
Genre	Christmas; country;
Length	38:20
Label	Columbia
Producer	Don Law; Frank Jones;
Johnny Cash chronology
Singles from The Christmas Spirit
	"The Little Drummer Boy"; Released: October 1959;

The Christmas Spirit is the first Christmas album and tenth album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in November 1963. It contains four original Christmas songs written by Cash and eight tracks originally written by other artists, including "Blue Christmas" (at this point best known through the version recorded by Cash's former Sun Records labelmate Elvis Presley), "Silent Night" and "Little Drummer Boy".

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ReleasedNovember 11, 1963

RecordedAugust 14, 1959–September 17, 1963

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Length38:20

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No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Christmas Spirit" (incorporates "O Little Town of Bethlehem")	Cash	5:03
2.	"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jean Baptiste Calkin	2:30
3.	"Blue Christmas"	Bill Hayes, Jay Johnston	2:25
4.	"The Gifts They Gave"	Cash	3:34
5.	"Here Was a Man"	Johnny Bond, Tex Ritter	2:44
6.	"Christmas as I Knew It"	Cash, June Carter, Jan Howard	3:41

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Silent Night"	Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr	3:29
8.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine Davis, Henri Onerati, Harry Simeone	2:34
9.	"Ringing the Bells for Jim"	Carter, Howard	2:47
10.	"We Are the Shepherds"	Cash	3:13
11.	"Who Kept the Sheep"	Cash, Carter	1:58
12.	"Ballad of the Harp Weaver"	Edna St. Vincent Millay	4:22

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