The Animals' Christmas by and Released December 31, 1985 Recorded December 23, 1984 – December 12, 1985, Length 41: 27 Art Garfunkel,, chronology (1984) 1984 The Animals' Christmas (1985) (1988) 1988 chronology (1986) 1986 The Animals' Christmas (1985) The Animals' Christmas1985 (1988) 1988 The Animals' Christmas is the sixth solo studio album and the first Christmas album by vocalist, released in December 1985. The album was written by and features vocals by Garfunkel,, and Wimbledon King's College Choir. The Animals' Christmas tells the story of the from the perspective of the animals present.

The album received positive reviews, with one writer calling it 'one of the best Christmas albums of the '80s.' Contents • • • • • • • Background [ ] During the early 1980s, Jimmy Webb began writing the songs that would become The Animals' Christmas, based on a children's book about the Nativity of Jesus by Anne Thaxter Eaton. Garfunkel became interested in the project because he felt it was 'born out of the love of a musical person to make music.' In his 1989 book, Still Water: Prose Poems, Garfunkel wrote about his experience with the project. In '83, my friend Jimmy Webb showed me a piece he was writing, a cantata for children's choir and small orchestra for his local church in Tuxedo, New York. And it being a noncommercial endeavor, I was particularly interested in it, because I had become cynical about the fact that the record business will professionalize one's musical attempts in a way that can hurt them. And I followed Jimmy's rehearsals in Tuxedo and loved The Animals' Christmas.

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I told him I wanted to get involved. By the next year, he had written an extension, doubled its length and wrote various sections for me as solo singer, narrator and the angel Gabriel.

He added a woman's part—the Virgin Mary. We all performed it with orchestra, children's choir, boy singer, girl singer, at St. John the Divine Cathedral that December in New York, and also at Festival Hall in London. We made a live recording of the shows, which later seemed to me too loose. So we planned to record it in the studio, the following Christmas.

I started in London in '85 and recorded the London Symphony Orchestra; we added the choir from Wimbledon that winter; come the spring I was in Montserrat doing my vocals with Geoff Emeric; I traveled to Nashville to get Amy Grant's vocals on the album, then came to New York for some percussion overdubs—Steve Gadd on drums, and others. I had it finished by Christmas of '86, which I gather is when it came out. It's a gothic cathedral of an album; it's very ambitious.

Amnesia The Dark Descent Download Free Full Pc. It was the type of project that would have been done by papal commission long ago. Production [ ] The Animals' Christmas was recorded between December 23, 1984 and December 12, 1985.

The orchestra was recorded at in Wembley, England. The boys' choir was recorded at St. Paul's Church in Wimbledon, England. Vocals were recorded at Air Studios in Montserrat, West Indies.

Amy Grant's vocals were recorded at Bullet Recording in Nashville, Tennessee. The organ was recorded at the in New York City. Overdubs were recorded at in New York City. Packaging and artwork [ ] The original album contained a 12-page booklet with lyrics in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and German. The album cover art was created by Abby Levine.

Critical reception [ ] Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Writer David A. Milberg called The Animals' Christmas 'one of the best Christmas albums of the '80s.' Track listing [ ] All songs were written by Jimmy Webb, except where indicated.

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