Andy Williams - Merry Christmas (1965) Vinyl LP • Silver Bells, Holiday

Catalog Number: CS-9220

Record Grading: Excellent (EX), Sleeve Grading: Excellent (EX)

Condition Details:

Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover has a few creases near edges and surface impressions (front/back); small missing bit of shrink near bottom-right. Inner-sleeve is original (generic white); two seams partially split. Spine is mostly easy-to-read with mild-wear. Shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. 1965 stereo pressing with red "2-eye" label. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

• Sleigh Ride
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
• Winter Wonderland
• My Favorite Things
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
• Christmas Holiday
• Some Children See Him
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Little Altar Boy
• Silver Bells
• Mary's Little Boy Child
• The Bells Of St. Mary's

About The Record:

Merry Christmas, a Christmas album by American pop singer Andy Williams, is his second holiday LP which focuses exclusively on 20th century compositions, unlike 1963's The Andy Williams Christmas Album, which, of its 12 tracks, had six with origins predating the turn of the century. For the six consecutive holiday seasons from 1965 through 1970, Merry Christmas charted on Billboard magazine's special year-end weekly Christmas Albums sales chart. The album spent two weeks as the number one selling Christmas album during the holiday season of 1966 and one week atop that same chart in 1969. The single from the album, Do You Hear What I Hear?, reached number 18 on the Christmas Singles chart in 1965. On May 23, 1968, Merry Christmas was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the United States. Platinum certification for sales of one million copies followed on November 10, 1989.