A Cherry Cherry Christmas
A Cherry Cherry Christmas is the third Christmas album and also the twenty-eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Neil Diamond. The album contains five new tracks, and nine tracks compiled from his previous two Christmas albums. It was released on October 13, 2009. The title track is a new Christmas carol written by Diamond.
The album includes a cover of Adam Sandler's "The Chanukah Song", which Diamond recorded because, he explained, "There are so many beautiful Christmas songs around and so few Hanukkah songs."
Personnel
Tracks 1, 5 & 12–14- Neil Diamond – vocals
- Alan Lindgren – acoustic piano, orchestra arrangements and conductor
- DJ Ashba – all instruments
- Hadley Hockensmith – guitars
- Reinie Press – bass
- Don Markese – saxophone, penny whistle
- Josef Powell, Julia Waters, Maxine Waters and Oren Waters – group vocals
Production
- Arch Angel Music – compilation production
- Neil Diamond – producer
- Peter Asher – producer
- DJ Ashba – producer, mixing
- Bernie Becker – recording, mixing, mastering at Bernie Becker Mastering
- Marti Fredrickson – mixing
- Dale Becker – mastering assistant
- Sam Cole – production coordinator
- Glen Nakasako – art direction, design
- Jesse Diamond, Mark Seliger and Jason Ware – photography
- Irving Azoff and Kate McNeil – management