''Hey Santa!'' is a Christmas album recorded by Carnie &

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(SBK K2-27113). It was released in October 1993, and entered the ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums chart on Christmas Day, 1993. The album was the first album recorded by the Wilson sisters after the group

Wilson Phillips Wilson Phillips is an American pop group formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The group consists of Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson, the daughters of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, and Chynna Phillips, the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of t ...

went on hiatus. The album was not a commercial success, peaking at #116 on the ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums chart, and reaching #25 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The track listing for the album consists of eleven Christmas standards, plus the original title track, "Hey Santa!", written by the Wilson sisters and Jack Kugell. The title track is about a man returning home to his love on Christmas, after his love wished that Santa would "bring erbaby home tonight." SBK Records released one single to radio and retail. "Hey Santa!", backed with their cover version of "

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", was issued on cassette single and on a green vinyl 45 rpm, SBK S7-17648-A, and reached #22 on the ''Billboard'' Top Adult Contemporary chart. It also reached #1 on the ''Billboard'' Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, often shown as #101 on the Hot 100 in ''Billboard'' reference books. Despite being a commercial failure, the single still receives recurrent airplay during the Christmas holiday season. Carl Wilson, Carnie and Wendy's uncle and a

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founding member, features prominently in the backing vocal. The album also features a Wilson family recording from 1976 of "

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" that features the Beach Boys on backing vocals and a wide range of Beach Boys band members' children, including Matthew and Adam Jardine, Hailey and Christian Love, and Jonah and Justyn Wilson. ''Hey Santa!'' was later reissued with the same content and a two-page booklet without lyrics in 1999 with the catalog number 98289 by EMI/Capitol Special Markets on both CD and cassette. As of November 2007, this version of ''Hey Santa!'' is still available. As of June 27, 2012, ''Hey Santa!'' has sold 138,747 copies in the U.S., according to SoundScan. Other Christmas albums have followed a decade later. In 2007, Carnie Wilson released a solo Christmas album, ''Christmas with Carnie'', that features new versions of many of the same songs. Then, in 2010, Wilson Phillips, back together in the music business as a group, released ''Christmas in Harmony'', which also features new versions of a few songs used before.

Track listing

#"Hey Santa!" (Jack Kugell; Carnie Wilson; Wendy Wilson) -4:34 #"

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Ralph Blane Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer. Life and career Blane was born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He attended Tulsa Central High School. He studied singing with ...

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Hugh Martin Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', in which Judy Garland ...

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