1, making it the best-selling holiday album of 1967 in the U.S. On Billboard magazine's special year-end weekly Christmas Albums chart, A Christmas Album spent all five weeks that the chart was published in late 1967 at No. indicated that Streisand was overly reverent when it came to standards, reverence was no problem with seasonal fare." Reviewing the album for AllMusic, William Ruhlman gave it a retrospective four and a half (out of five) stars and called it "a timeless classic", stating that "If Simply Streisand.
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"The Lord's Prayer" / "I Wonder As I Wander" 1967Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scores. "My Favorite Things" / "The Christmas Song" 1967. "Jingle Bells?" / "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 1967. "Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night)" / "Gounod's Ave Maria" 1967. The album was yet again reissued in October 2007 to commemorate the album's 40th anniversary. It was remastered and reissued once again in October 2004 for the Columbia Records "Essential Holiday Classics" series. The album was released on CD in November 1989. This track remained unreleased until 2005 when it was licensed to a Starbucks Christmas compilation CD titled Baby, It's Cold Outside. (Side 2 of the compilation featured various tracks from Streisand's Columbia labelmates Doris Day, Jim Nabors, and Andre Kostelanetz.) Streisand also recorded an alternate, English-language version of "Gounod's Ave Maria" during sessions for the album in 1966. Many of the tracks from this album were re-issued in 1970 as Side 1 of a compilation album titled Season's Greetings from Barbra Streisand.and Friends, pieced together by Maxwell House Coffee and Columbia Special Products. Most copies of the LP edition seen today are stereophonic. The album is also Streisand's last album to use Columbia's "Stereo 360 sound" banner, and the last to be issued originally in monaural and stereo. The cover photograph of the album was taken on June 16, 1967, during the rehearsal for her concert, A Happening in Central Park. 
The album is one of Streisand's best-selling albums and is ranked as one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time.
Jat Olympic Sound Studios in London 9–16 September 1967 in Los Angeles, CaliforniaĪ Christmas Album (1967) is the first Christmas album and the tenth studio album released by American singer Barbra Streisand.
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