''Home for Christmas'' is the title of a 1989 album by

Debby Boone Deborah Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956) is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life (song), You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboar ...

. This was Boone's only Christmas album but was reproduced on multiple occasions. Three different editions of the album were produced; one in 1989, a CD re-release in 1992, and another CD with new cover art in 2002. There are three different versions of the cover art for the album.

Track listing

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Overture Overture (from French ''ouverture'', "opening") in music was originally the instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overt ...

" :40# "Some Children See Him" (Alfred Burt, Wihla Hutson) :58# "

Christmas Time Is Here "Christmas Time Is Here" is a popular Christmas standard written by Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson for the 1965 television special ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'', one of the first animated Christmas specials produced for network television in th ...

" (Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson) :43# "

Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" is a light orchestra standard composed by Leroy Anderson. The composer had formed the original idea for the piece during a heat wave in July 1946, and he finished the work in February 1948. The original recordings were instrumental ...

" (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) :58# " White Christmas" - with Rosemary Clooney (Irving Berlin) :44# "

I'll Be Home for Christmas "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent and recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to honor soldiers overseas who longed ...

" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) :25# " O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (John M. Neale, Traditional) :21# " Silver Bells" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) :19# "

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection ''Hymns and Sacred Poems''. The carol, based on , tells of an angelic chorus singing praises to God. As it is known in the modern era, it f ...

" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) :45# "

O Holy Night "O Holy Night" (original title: ) is a well-known sacred song for Christmas performance. Originally based on a French-language poem by poet Placide Cappeau, written in 1843, with the first line (Midnight, Christian, is the solemn hour) that co ...

" (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) :01# "

Silent Night "Silent Night" (german: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht", links=no, italic=no) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an ...

" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) :49

Production credits

Engineers *Bob Clark *Dan Garcia *Warren Peterson Director *Regina Acuna Arrangers *David T. Clydesdale *Ronn Huff *David Maddux *M. Maddux Choir, Chorus *Daniel Acuna *Diana Acuna *Akil Thompson *Jake Young Conductor *Ronn Huff Rhythm *

Michael Omartian Michael Omartian (born November 26, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, keyboardist, and music producer. He produced number-one records in three consecutive decades. He has earned 11 Grammy Awards nominations and won three. He sp ...

Dean Parks Weldon Dean Parks (born December 6, 1946) is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Albums Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los Angeles to work with Sonny and Cher ...

John Patitucci John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz bassist and composer. Biography John James Patitucci was born in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 12, he bought his first bass and decided on his career. He listened to bass parts in R ...

* John "J.R." Robinson Art Direction *Lee Ann Ramey Photography *Mark Tucker

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Home For Christmas (Debby Boone Album) Debby Boone albums 1989 Christmas albums Christmas albums by American artists Pop Christmas albums