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Looking for some vinyl to place under the tree this season?  Legacy is coming to the rescue with five new Christmas releases from the label’s top tier artists including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Luther Vandross and more!

Merry Christmas Baby arrives from Elvis Presley this Friday, October 7.  This new 120-gram vinyl compilation features seventeen of the King’s bona fide Christmas Classics, all newly remastered from original sources.  Naturally, “Blue Christmas” is here, as well as “Santa Claus Is Back in Town,” “Silent Night, “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” “Santa Bring My Baby (Back to Me),” “The Wonderful World of Christmas” and more.  For an added Christmas surprise, Merry Christmas Baby is being pressed on randomly-inserted red or green vinyl.

The following quartet of releases arrives from Legacy on November 4.  First up is another newly-curated collection: Johnny Cash‘s Christmas: There’ll Be Peace in the Valley.  Featuring Johnny, June Carter Cash, The Carter and Cash families, and The Statler Brothers, it boasts fourteen selections drawn from The Man in Black’s Christmas and gospel recordings, all remastered from original sources.  Expect to hear “The Little Drummer Boy,” “Silent Night,” “Jingle Bells,” “Blue Christmas,” “The Christmas Spirit” and more.

Next up is a straight vinyl reissue of the Luther Vandross classic This is Christmas.  The 1995 platinum seller features Vandross’ inimitably velvet vocals on original songs such as “With a Christmas Heart,” “Every Year, Every Christmas” and “I Listen to the Bells” (featuring Darlene Love) as well as the familiar chestnuts “My Favorite Things,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “O Come All Ye Faithful.”

Two various-artists sets are also slated to arrive on November 4.  Legacy is bringing last year’s CD release of The Classic Christmas ’80s Album to vinyl, featuring fifteen cuts from superstars like Whitney Houston (“Do You Hear What I Hear”), Wham! (“Last Christmas” – what else?), The Bangles (“Hazy Shade of Winter”), Daryl Hall and John Oates (“Jingle Bell Rock”) and RUN-DMC (“Christmas in Hollis”).  And no eighties Christmas compilation would be complete without “Christmas Wrapping” from The Waitresses!

Finally, Legacy turns the clock back even further with The Classic Big Band Christmas Album.  All of the legends of the big band era are here including Benny Goodman (“(I Love The) Winter Weather,” with Miss Peggy Lee), Sammy Kaye (“Winter Wonderland,” “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”), Kay Kyser (“Hello, Mr. Kringle”), Harry James (“White Christmas,” with Marion Morgan), Les Brown (“The Christmas Song”) and Glenn Miller (“Jingle Bells”).  Spike Jones even adds a dash of irreverence with “All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth).”  (And for more of Sammy Kaye, check out Real Gone Music’s reissue of the bandleader’s 1957 Columbia album I Want to Wish You a Merry Christmas, also due on November 4!)

You can pre-order all of Legacy Recordings’ new vinyl releases at the links below!

Elvis Presley, Merry Christmas Baby (RCA/Legacy, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

1. Santa Claus is Back in Town
2. Blue Christmas
3. Winter Wonderland
4. White Christmas
5. I’ll Be Home for Christmas
6. Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees
7. Here Comes Santa Claus
8. It Won’t Seem Like Christmas (Without You)
9. O Come All Ye Faithful
10. Silent Night
11. Merry Christmas Baby
12. If Every Day Was Like Christmas
13. Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)
14. O Little Town of Bethlehem
15. The Wonderful World of Christmas
16. On a Snowy Christmas Night
17. I’ll Be Home for Christmas

Johnny Cash, Christmas: There’ll Be Peace in the Valley (Columbia/Legacy, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD)

1. Opening Dialogue
2. Christmas Time’s A-Comin’
3. The Little Drummer Boy
4. Ringing the Bells for Jim
5. Merry Christmas Mary
6. Matthew 24 (Is Knocking at the Door)
7. Silent Night
8. Jingle Bells – The Johnny Cash Family
9. Blue Christmas
10. The Christmas Spirit
11. Here Was a Man
12. King of Love
13. The Ballad of the Harp Weaver
14. (There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me) – Johnny Cash with The Carter Family

Luther Vandross, This is Christmas (Columbia EK 57795, 1995 – reissued Columbia/Legacy, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD)

1. With a Christmas Heart
2. This is Christmas
3. The Mistletoe Jam (Everybody Kiss Somebody)
4. Every Year, Every Christmas
5. My Favorite Things
6. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
7. I Listen to the Bells – with Darlene Love
8. Please Come Home for Christmas
9. A Kiss for Christmas
10. O Come All Ye Faithful

Various Artists, The Classic ’80s Christmas Album (Legacy, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD)

1. Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
2. Last Christmas – Wham!
3. Hazy Shade of Winter – The Bangles
4. Christmas in Hollis – Run-DMC
5. Jingle Bell Rock – Daryl Hall and John Oates
6. Do You Hear What I Hear? – Whitney Houston
7. Christmas is the Time to Say “I Love You” (Single Version) – Billy Squier
8. Run Rudolph Run – Dave Edmunds
9. Zat You Santa Claus – Buster Poindexter and His Banshees of Blue
10. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town – The Pointer Sisters
11. Christmas Time is Here – Ray Parker, Jr.
12. Twelve Days of Christmas (Single Version) – Bob and Doug McKenzie
13. This One’s for the Children – New Kids on the Block
14. Slick Nick, You Devil You – Fishbone
15. Silent Night – The Hooters

Various Artists, The Classic Big Band Christmas Album (Legacy, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD)

1. Winter Weather – Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee
2. (Don’t Wait Till) The Night Before Christmas – Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra
3. It’s Winter Again – Isham Jones and His Orchestra featuring Frank Sylvano
4. A Wonderful Winter – Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
5. Winter Wonderland – Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra
6. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! – Woody Herman and His Orchestra
7. Snowfall – Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra
8. I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm – Red Norvo and His Orchestra
9. Jingle Bells – Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
10. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town – Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra
11. Hello, Mr. Kringle – Kay Kyser and His Orchestra
12. White Christmas – Harry James and His Orchestra feat. Marion Morgan
13. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) – Les Brown and His Orchestra
14. I Want You for Christmas – Russ Morgan and His Orchestra
15. All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) – Spike Jones and His City Slickers
16. Little Jack Frost Get Lost – Frankie Carle with Marjorie Hughes
17. What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve – Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
18. Auld Lang Syne – Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra