Description
Tracklist:
: Christmas Songs
A1: Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something This Year
A2: Sweet Little Baby Boy (Parts 1 & 2)
A3: Merry Christmas, I Love You
A4 : Signs Of Christmas
A5: The Christmas Song (Version 2)
B1: Merry Christmas Baby
B2: The Christmas Song (Version 1)
B3: Please Come Home For Christmas
B4: This Is My Lonely Christmas (Part 1)
B5: This Is My Lonely Christmas (Part 2)
B6: Christmas In Heaven
: A Soulful Christmas
C1: Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
C2: Santa Claus, Santa Claus
C3: Believers Shall Enjoy (Non Believers Shall Suffer)
C4: Soulful Christmas
C5: Tit For Tat (Ain’t No Taking Back)
C6: Christmas Is Coming
C7: Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud (Parts 1 & 2)
D1: In The Middle
D2: Let’s Unite The Whole World At Christmas
D3: You Know It
D4: Santa Claus Gave Me A Brand New Start
D5: It’s Christmas Time (Part 1)
D6: It’s Christmas Time (Part 2)
D7: You Know It (Single Version)
D8: Believers Shall Enjoy (Non Believers Shall Suffer) (Single Version)
: Hey America
E1: Hey America
E2: Christmas Is Love
E3: Santa Claus is Definitely Here To Stay
E4: I’m Your Christmas Friend, Don’t Be Hungry
E5: My Rapp
F1: Go Power At Christmas Time
F2: A Lonely Little Boy Around One Little Christmas Toy
F3: Merry Christmas My Baby And A Very, Very, Happy New Year
F4: Hey America (Sing Along Version)
F5: Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay (Single Version)
F6: Santa Claus Is Definitely Here To Stay (Sing Along Version)
Comes in a tri-fold gatefold jacket with the inner sleeves replicating each albums original artwork.
The labels for ‘Christmas Songs’ have the artist as ‘James Brown And The Famous Flames’.
C1 appears as ‘Say It Loud (I’m Black And I’m Proud) (Parts 1 & 2)
Duration of F2 is shown as 3:49 on the jacket’s back cover where both the inner sleeve and label have 3:59.
[Back cover and each inner sleeve]
2010 2024 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Courtesy of Republic Records under license from Univeral Music Enterprises.
Tracks D5 to D8 and F4 to F6 are identified with ‘**” as ‘Non-album bonus tracks’
[Gatefold interior]
Christmas Songs (1966)
Originally released as [r=4616201], King KLP 1010, November 1966
Recorded October 17-19, 1966, King Studios, Cincinnati, OH.
Hey America (1970)
Side A & Side B (tracks 1-3): Originally released as [r=3202646], King KS 1124, December 1970
Recorded October 6-8, King Studios, Cincinnato, OH
other accompaniment unidentified
Side B, track 4: Originally released as King 45-6339, November 1970
track 5 & 6: Originally released as King 45-6340, November 1970
track 5: Lead vocal overdub recorded October 19, 1970, Bobby Smith Studios, Macon, GA
A Soulful Christmas (1968)
Side A & Side B (tracks 1-4): Originally released as [r=1606659], King KS 1040, November 1968
Recorded October 7-10, King Studios, Cincinnato, OH
Side B, track 5 & 6: Originally released as a non-LP single King 45-6277, October 1969
Recorded August 13, 1969, Harmony Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Unidentified: organ; Probably: Kenny Poole: guitar
track 7: Originally released as King 45-6203, November 1968
track 8: Originally released as King 45-6204, November 1968
[Inner sleeve ‘A Soulful Christmas]
A James Brown Production
[Hype Sticker]
Complete James Brown Christmas Recordings
Three LP Gatefold With Bonus Tracks
Includes Original Album Artwork
Mastered and Cut by Kevin Gray
Liner Notes By Alan Leeds, Former James Brown Publicist and Tour Manager
Included in Rolling Stone: 25-Greatest-Christmas-Albums-Of-All-Time
Runouts are etched.
