| 词条 | The Animals' Christmas |
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| name = The Animals' Christmas | type = studio | artist = Art Garfunkel and Amy Grant | cover = The-Animals-Christmas.jpg | alt = | released = December 31, 1985 | recorded = December 23, 1984 – December 12, 1985 | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop, Christmas music | length = 41:27 | label = Columbia | producer = Art Garfunkel, Jimmy Webb, Geoff Emerick | chronology = Art Garfunkel | prev_title = The Art Garfunkel Album | prev_year = 1984 | next_title = Lefty | next_year = 1988 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Amy Grant | type = studio | prev_title = The Collection | prev_year = 1986 | title = The Animals' Christmas | year = 1985 | next_title = Lead Me On | next_year = 1988 }} }}The Animals' Christmas is the sixth solo studio album and the first Christmas album by vocalist Art Garfunkel, released in December 1985 by Columbia Records. The album was written by Jimmy Webb and features vocals by Garfunkel, Amy Grant, and Wimbledon King's College Choir. The Animals' Christmas tells the story of the Nativity of Jesus from the perspective of the animals present. The album received positive reviews, with one writer calling it "one of the best Christmas albums of the '80s."[1] BackgroundDuring the early 1980s, Jimmy Webb began writing the songs that would become The Animals' Christmas, based on a children's book about the Nativity of Jesus by Anne Thaxter Eaton.[2] Garfunkel became interested in the project because he felt it was "born out of the love of a musical person to make music." In his 1989 book, Still Water: Prose Poems, Garfunkel wrote about his experience with the project. {{quote|In '83, my friend Jimmy Webb showed me a piece he was writing, a cantata for children's choir and small orchestra for his local church in Tuxedo, New York. And it being a noncommercial endeavor, I was particularly interested in it, because I had become cynical about the fact that the record business will professionalize one's musical attempts in a way that can hurt them. And I followed Jimmy's rehearsals in Tuxedo and loved The Animals' Christmas. I told him I wanted to get involved. By the next year, he had written an extension, doubled its length and wrote various sections for me as solo singer, narrator and the angel Gabriel. He added a woman's part—the Virgin Mary. We all performed it with orchestra, children's choir, boy singer, girl singer, at St. John the Divine Cathedral that December in New York, and also at Festival Hall in London. We made a live recording of the shows, which later seemed to me too loose. So we planned to record it in the studio, the following Christmas. I started in London in '85 and recorded the London Symphony Orchestra; we added the choir from Wimbledon that winter; come the spring I was in Montserrat doing my vocals with Geoff Emeric; I traveled to Nashville to get Amy Grant's vocals on the album, then came to New York for some percussion overdubs—Steve Gadd on drums, and others. I had it finished by Christmas of '86, which I gather is when it came out. It's a gothic cathedral of an album; it's very ambitious. It was the type of project that would have been done by papal commission long ago.[3]}}ProductionThe Animals' Christmas was recorded between December 23, 1984 and December 12, 1985. The orchestra was recorded at CTS Studios in Wembley, England. The boys' choir was recorded at St. Paul's Church in Wimbledon, England. Vocals were recorded at Air Studios in Montserrat, West Indies. Amy Grant's vocals were recorded at Bullet Recording in Nashville, Tennessee. The organ was recorded at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. Overdubs were recorded at The Hit Factory in New York City.[4]Packaging and artworkThe original album contained a 12-page booklet with lyrics in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and German.[1] The album cover art was created by Abby Levine.[4] Critical reception{{Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} [1] }} Writer David A. Milberg called The Animals' Christmas "one of the best Christmas albums of the '80s."[1] Track listingAll songs were written by Jimmy Webb, except where indicated.
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References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|last=Viglione |first=Joe |title=The Animals' Christmas |publisher=Allmusic |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-animals-christmas-mw0000189976 |accessdate=October 27, 2012}} {{-}}{{Art Garfunkel}}{{Amy Grant}}{{Jimmy Webb}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Animals' Christmas, The}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Eaton |first=Anne Thaxter |title=The Animals' Christmas |publisher=Viking Press |location=New York |url= |date=1966 |page= |isbn= }} 3. ^{{cite web|last=Garfunkel |first=Art |title=Still Water: Prose Poems |publisher=Dutton |location=New York |date=1989 |url=http://www.artgarfunkel.com/articles/fire.html |accessdate=October 27, 2012}} 4. ^1 2 {{cite AV media notes|title=The Animals' Christmas |others=Art Garfunkel |year=1986 |publisher=Columbia Records |location= |ref= }} 11 : 1986 Christmas albums|Amy Grant albums|Art Garfunkel albums|Albums arranged by Jimmy Webb|Albums produced by Jimmy Webb|Christmas albums by American artists|Columbia Records Christmas albums|Vocal duet albums|Christmas cantatas|Pop Christmas albums|Albums produced by Geoff Emerick |
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