I Still Believe in Santa Claus


I Still Believe in Santa Claus is a Christmas album by American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Curb Records in 1990. It was his fourth solo album of Christmas music, following The Andy Williams Christmas Album, Merry Christmas and Christmas Present. As with the 1965 LP, this album focuses exclusively on 20th-century compositions, including two new songs: "Christmas Needs Love to Be Christmas" and "My Christmas Vow ", the latter of which Williams describes in the liner notes as "a new lyric set to an old Hawaiian melody".

Track listing

  1. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" – 3:21
  2. "Christmas Needs Love to Be Christmas" – 3:05
  3. "Blue Christmas" – 3:09
  4. "The Christmas Waltz" – 2:26
  5. "My Christmas Vow " – 2:18
  6. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" – 3:14
  7. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" – 3:02
  8. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" – 3:42
  9. Medley – 3:58
    a. "When You Wish upon a Star" from Pinocchio
    b. "Toyland" from Babes in Toyland
  10. "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" – 4:14

Song information

"Toyland" originated in the 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by George Hall & the Hotel Taft Orchestra with Sonny Schuyler on vocal is the only recording of the song to have charted in conjunction with its publication in 1934, reaching number 12. "When You Wish upon a Star" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for its inclusion in the 1940 film Pinocchio and had separate renditions make the charts that same year by Cliff Edwards, Horace Heidt, Guy Lombardo, and Glenn Miller, and Bing Crosby's recording of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" spent two weeks at number three upon its first release in 1943.
In 1949, recordings of "Blue Christmas" by Russ Morgan, Ernest Tubb, and Hugo Winterhalter made the Billboard charts. That same year marked the first charting of "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?", thanks to The Orioles. 1952 saw the release of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", with versions by Molly Bee, Jimmy Boyd, and Spike Jones all making the charts that holiday season. Frank Sinatra's recording of "The Christmas Waltz" was released in 1954, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" first made Billboard's Christmas Singles chart in 1971.

Personnel

Adapted from the album credits.
  • Dennis Belfield - bass
  • Stuart Blumberg - trumpet
  • Ernie Carlson - trombone
  • Dan Higgins - sax, clarinet and flute
  • John Hobbs - piano
  • Molly Jacman - background vocals
  • Angie Jaree - background vocals
  • Joey Johnson - background vocals
  • Laurence Juber - guitar
  • Peter Kent - string direction
  • Paul Leim - drums
  • Gail Levant - harp
  • Michael Lloyd - percussion and synths
  • Robert Martin - percussion and synths
  • Cassie Miller - background vocals
  • Amanda Williams - background vocals
  • Andy Williams - vocals, background vocals
  • Jason Williams - background vocals
  • Richard B. Williams - background vocals

Production

  • Michael Lloyd - producer, mixer
  • Ken Thorne - arranger
  • Dan Nebenzal - engineer, mixer
  • John Valentino - assistant engineer
  • Darryl Dobson - assistant mixer
  • Craig Johnson - assistant mixer
  • Don Griffin/West LA Music - recording musical instruments
  • Debbie Lytton - production coordinator
  • J. Katz Photography - photography
  • Neuman, Walker & Associates - art direction/design