A Very Special Season

~ Release by Diana Ross (see all versions of this release, 7 available)

Annotation

© «1994 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company»
℗ «2018 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company»

Countries excluded (Spotify + Deezer)

(As of 2024-08-30).

  • Northern America: 🇺🇸 United States (us)
Annotation last modified on 2024-08-30 09:22 UTC.

Tracklist

1▼Digital Media
#TitleRatingLength
1Winter Wonderland
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman
cover recording of:
Winter Wonderland
lyricist:
Richard B. Smith (wrote lyrics to “Winter Wonderland”)
composer:
Felix Bernard
publisher:
Bregman, Vocco & Conn, Inc., EMI Music (do not use as release label! this is a music publisher), Francis, Day & Hunter, Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), Warner Chappell Music Inc., Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty. Ltd., WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (until 2019-05-28) and WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
3:23
2White Christmas
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman
cover recording of:
White Christmas
lyricist and composer:
Irving Berlin (from 1938 until 1940)
publisher:
Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships), Irving Berlin Music Corp., Williamson Music Company and Irving Berlin Music Company (from 1940 to present)
sub-publisher:
EMI Allans Music Australia Pty Ltd, Irving Berlin Music Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd. (Australian subsidiary of Universal Music Publishing Group), Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. (1996–2019), Warner/Chappell Music, Hong Kong Limited (華納音樂版權香港有限公司, 1995–2019), シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント (Shinko Music Entertainment Co., Ltd.) and ユニバーサル・ミュージック・パブリッシング Synch事業部 (Universal Music Publishing, Synch Division)
part of:
The 15th Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 1) and Academy Award for Best Original Song (number: 1942 winner)
3:20
3Wonderful Christmastime
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Alan Lindgren (American keyboardist, arranger, producer, studio & session musician)
recording of:
Wonderful Christmastime
lyricist and composer:
Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
publisher:
MPL Communications Ltd. (not for release label use! Paul McCartney-related, London-based company)
3:10
4What the World Needs Now
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Alan Lindgren (American keyboardist, arranger, producer, studio & session musician)
cover recording of:
What the World Needs Now Is Love
lyricist:
Hal David
composer:
Burt Bacharach
publisher:
Casa David LP, New Hidden Valley Music Co., フジパシフィックミュージック BMG事業部 (Fujipacific Music Inc., BMG Division), フジパシフィックミュージック 第2事業部 (Fujipacific Music, Inc. Division 2), BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (Hal David) (not for release label use! see annotation) (in 1965), Songs of Fujimusic (in 1965, in 1993) and BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. (not for release label use! see annotation) (in 1993)
4:21
5Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Mark Portmann
cover recording of:
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
lyricist and composer:
John Lennon (The Beatles) and Yoko Ono (Japanese‐American musician and artist)
publisher:
EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!), Lenono Music and Ono Music
3:16
6Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman
recording of:
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
lyricist:
Sammy Cahn (in 1945-07)
composer:
Jule Styne (in 1945-07)
publisher:
Cahn Music Company, Chappell & Co., Chappell/Morris Ltd., Cherry Lane Music Ltd., Imagen Music, J. Albert & Son Pty. Ltd., Producers Music Publishing Co., Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996), Warner Chappell North America and WB Music Corp. (1929–2019)
2:14
7His Eye Is on the Sparrow
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
John Altman and Sylvester Rivers (Soul / funk keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer)
recording of:
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
lyricist:
Civilla Durfee Martin (Canadian‐American hymn and gospel song writer)
composer:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel
publisher:
KSmithMusic1234 (ASCAP-affiliated)
3:54
8Silent Night
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Jeremy Lubbock
recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (composer/author) (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (composer/author) (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 27088)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
5:02
9Overjoyed
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Nick Ingman
cover recording of:
Overjoyed
lyricist, composer and arranger:
Stevie Wonder
publisher:
Black Bull Music and Jobete Music Co., Inc.
4:05
10O Holy Night
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Chris Boardman (composer)
recording of:
O Holy Night
lyricist:
John Sullivan Dwight (in 1855)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (French composer) (in 1847)
arrangement of:
O holy night (arr. John Ebenezer West)
translated version of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
4:44
11Someday at Christmas
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Mark Portmann
recording of:
Someday at Christmas
writer:
Ron Miller (Motown songwriter Ronald Norman Miller) and Bryan Wells
publisher:
EMI Songs Australia Pty. Ltd., Jobete Music Co., Inc. and Ron Miller Legacy Songtrust Publishing LLC (BMI)
4:09
12Ave Maria
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Alan Lindgren (American keyboardist, arranger, producer, studio & session musician)
recording of:
Ellens Gesang III, op. 52 no. 6, D. 839 “Ave Maria” (Schubert's song, not the Bach/Gounod work; original for voice and piano)
lyricist:
Jairo (Argentinean singer) and Sir Walter Scott (19th-century Scottish author)
composer:
Franz Schubert (composer) (in 1825)
translator:
Adam Storck
part of:
Franz Schubert, thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge (number: D. 839)
5:52
13The Christmas Song
recording engineer:
Tom Leader
engineer:
Giles Cowley
executive producer:
Diana Ross
producer:
Nick Martinelli (record producer)
arranger:
Jack Hayes (American composer & orchestrator)
cover recording of:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
lyricist:
Robert Wells (songwriter) (in 1945-07) and Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) (in 1945-07)
composer:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) (in 1945-07)
publisher:
Chappell/Morris Ltd., MPL Music Publishing Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd., Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP), Warner Chappell, Warner Chappell Ltd., Warner Chappell Music (holding behind all publishing activities of Warner Music Group, 2019–), Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty. Ltd. and Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) (from 1946 to present)
3:13