This Is The Time

''This Is the Time: The Christmas Album'' is an album by Michael Bolton, released on October 1, 1996. Bolton's first Christmas release, it contains two new songs: "This Is the Time" (performed with Wynonna Judd), and "Love Is the Power", while the others were covers of traditional Christmas songs. " Ave Maria" was performed with Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. "White Christmas" was a single off the album '' Timeless: The Classics'', but was also included on this album. The CD was an "enhanced" CD containing additional material viewable on a computer, including a video of "White Christmas", a discography, and a preview of a Bolton CD-ROM which was never released.

The album was released during Christmas time, narrowly missing the top 10 hitting #11. In United States the album was certified platinum.

Track listing

#" Silent Night" ( Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) – 4:06
#" Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" ( John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 4:06
#" Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" ( Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 4:02
#" Joy to the World" ( Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) – 4:07
#" Ave Maria" (with Plácido Domingo) ( Traditional) – 4:42
#" The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) – 4:10
#" O Holy Night" ( Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) – 4:54
#"White Christmas" ( Irving Berlin) – 3:44
#"This Is the Time" (with Wynonna Judd) ( Michael Bolton, Gary Burr) – 4:06
#"Love Is the Power" ( Walter Afanasieff, Bolton, Diane Warren) – 5:38

Certifications

References

Michael Bolton albums
1996 Christmas albums
Albums produced by David Foster
Albums produced by Walter Afanasieff
Christmas albums by American artists
Pop Christmas albums
Columbia Records Christmas albums

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