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A Very Special Christmas (album)

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{{Infobox album
| name = A Very Special Christmas
| type = Compilation album
| artist = Various artists
| cover = A Very Special Christmas.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Cover art by Keith Haring
| released = October 12, 1987^[1]
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Christmas music, Children's music
| length = 50:57 (Original version)
51:11 (Revised version)
| label = A&M
| producer = Jimmy Iovine
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = A Very Special Christmas 2
| next_year = 1992
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}^[2]
| noprose = yes
}}

A Very Special Christmas is the first in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit Special Olympics. The album was released in mid-October 1987, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine for A&M Records. A Very Special Christmas has also raised millions of dollars for the Special Olympics.^[3] The cover artwork was designed by Keith Haring.

On January 16, 1998, the album was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of four million copies in the United States.^[4]

As of November 2014, A Very Special Christmas is the nineteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,520,000 copies according to SoundScan.^[5]

Track listing

Track	Song Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Time
1.	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie	The Pointer Sisters	3:22
2.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith	Eurythmics	3:36
3.	"Do You Hear What I Hear?"	Noël Regney and Gloria Shayne Baker	Whitney Houston	3:33
4.	"Merry Christmas Baby"	Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore	Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band	4:53
5.	"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"	Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane	Pretenders	4:42
6.	"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"	Tommie Connor	John Cougar Mellencamp	2:39
7.	"Gabriel's Message"	Charles Bordes and Sabine Baring-Gould	Sting	2:14
8.	"Christmas in Hollis"	Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels and Jason Mizell	Run-D.M.C.	3:00
9.	"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"	Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Phil Spector	U2	2:21
10.	"Santa Baby"	Joan Javits, Philip Springer and Tony Springer	Madonna	2:35
11.	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Katherine Kennicott Davis, Harry Simeone and Henry Onorati	Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band	3:32
12.	"Run Rudolph Run"	Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie	Bryan Adams	2:43
13.	"Back Door Santa"	Clarence Carter and Marcus Daniel	Bon Jovi	3:54
14.	"The Coventry Carol"	Traditional	Alison Moyet	3:25
15.	"Silent Night"	Josef Mohr and Franz X. Gruber	Stevie Nicks	4:37

On later pressings of the album, "Back Door Santa" was replaced with "I Wish Every Day Could Be Like Christmas", also by Bon Jovi.
Also, on later pressings of the album, a spoken introduction on The Pretenders' "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", presumably by a young child, was omitted.

References

1. ^http://www.averyspecialchristmas.org/albums/a-very-special-christmas-vol-1
2. ^{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r134092/review}}
3. ^{{cite book | last = McGee | first = Matt | title = U2:A Diary | publisher = Omnibus Press | year = 2008 | pages = 111 | isbn = 978-1-84772-108-2}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database# |title=RIAA Searchable Database |work=Recording Industry Association of America |accessdate=2014-12-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830055854/http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database |archivedate=2014-08-30 }}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6334706/holidays-biggest-radio-and-album-hits |title=The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays |last=Staff|first=Billboard|work=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|date=2014-12-01|accessdate=2014-12-02}}

External links

{{Official website|http://www.averyspecialchristmas.org/}}
A Very Special Christmas Article at SpecialOlympics.org

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