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A Very Special Christmas is the title of a series of Christmas music compilation albums that benefit the Special Olympics. It features songs performed by artists from a variety of genres, such as U2, Stevie Nicks, Bon Jovi, Madonna, The Smashing Pumpkins, No Doubt, Whitney Houston, Run–D.M.C., Jason Mraz, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen and ...
A Very Special Christmas 5 is the fifth in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. [1] Several of the album's tracks were recorded live in Washington, D.C. in December 2000 at a benefit concert hosted by then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.
9/10 [3] A Very Special Christmas is the first in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released on October 12, 1987, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine for A&M Records. A Very Special Christmas has raised millions of dollars for the Special ...
A Very Special Christmas 2 is the second in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released on October 20, 1992, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine , Vicki Iovine and Robert Sargent Shriver for A&M Records .
"A Holly Jolly Christmas", also known as "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas", is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and most famously performed by Burl Ives. The song has since become one of the top 25 most-performed "holiday" songs written by ASCAP members, for the first five years of the 21st century. [ 1 ]
The story of the making of the song was told at length by Joseph "Run" Simmons and Bill Adler in Mitchell Kezin's documentary film, "Jingle Bell Rocks" (2013). The song was used as part of UK catalogue retailers Argos' Christmas 2014 campaign. The song was used in the 2015 and 2018 Christmas ads for the Nissan automobile lineup.
It is included on her album Christmas in My Heart, released in 2013. American recording artist LeAnn Rimes released her cover of the song as a digital single [21] for her EP, One Christmas: Chapter 1 (2014). [22] American recording artist Kacey Musgraves recorded and released a version in 2016 for her Christmas album entitled A Very Kacey ...
Benjamin Russell Hanby was born in 1833 near Rushville, Ohio, the son of a minister involved with the Underground Railroad. He wrote "Up on the Housetop" while living in New Paris, Ohio. During his short life, he wrote some 80 songs before dying of tuberculosis in 1867. Other than "Up on the Housetop", his best-known song is "Darling Nelly Gray".