This Is the Time: The Christmas Album

Track listing

1. "Silent Night" – 4:06
2. "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" – 4:06
3. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" – 4:02
4. "Joy to the World" – 4:07
5. "Ave Maria" – 4:42
6. "The Christmas Song" – 4:10
7. "O Holy Night" – 4:54
8. "White Christmas" – 3:44
9. "This Is the Time" – 4:06
10. "Love Is the Power" – 5:38

    Personnel

• Michael Bolton – vocals, arrangements
• Walter Afanasieff – keyboards, Synclavier, additional programming, acoustic nylon guitar, arrangements, additional bass, additional drum programming, horn arrangements, Hammond B3 organ, synth bass, drum and rhythm programming
• Dan Shea – keyboards, synthesizer and Macintosh programming, synth bass, drum programming, arrangements, acoustic piano, bass, rhythm programming, orchestra programming and performer, additional drum and rhythm programming
• Mike McKnight – additional synthesizer and Macintosh programming, synthesizer and Macintosh programming
• Mike Lang – acoustic piano
• Ian Underwood – synthesizers, acoustic piano
• Randy Kerber – electric piano
• Keith Thomas – acoustic piano, synthesizer programming, guitars, drum programming, arrangements, string arrangements
• Phil Madeira – Hammond B3 organ
• Dann Huff – guitars, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• John Chiodini – guitars
• Jerry McPherson – guitars
• Michael Landau – electric guitar
• Dean Parks – acoustic guitar
• Chuck Domanico – bass
• Byron House – bass
• Sol Gubin – drums
• Mark Hammond – drum programming
• Larry Bunker – vibraphone, percussion
• Dan Higgins – baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Marc Russo – tenor sax solo
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone
• Gary Grant – trumpet
• Jerry Hey – trumpet, horn arrangements
• Sam Bush – violin
• The Nashville String Machine – strings
• Ronn Huff – string arrangements, string conductor
• Carl Gorodetzky – string contractor
• Mariah Carey – arrangements
• David Foster – arrangements
• Kitty Beethoven – backing vocals
• Sandy Griffith – backing vocals
• Conesha Owens – backing vocals
• Claytoven Richardson – backing vocals
• Jeanie Tracy – backing vocals
• Placido Domingo – vocals
• Wynonna Judd – vocals
• Ada Dyer – backing vocals
• Chris Rodriguez – backing vocals
• Audrey Wheeler – backing vocals

• Johnny Mandel – arrangements and conductor
• Jules Chaikin – contractor
• Leland Bond, Elizabeth Finch, Rick Giovinazzo, Steve Juliani, Suzie Katayama, Frank Macchia and Fred Newman

• Bob Efford, Gene Cipriano and Sam Karam – clarinet
• Valarie King, Fred Selden and Jim Walker – flute
• David Duke, William Lane, Mark Taylor and Brad Warnaar – French horn

• Robert Adcock, Ernie Ehrhardt, Anne Karam, Ray Kelley, Miguel Martinez and Daniel Rothmuller – cello
• Peter Doubrovsky, Arni Eglisson, Christian Kollgaard and Dave Stone – double bass
• Amy Shulman – harp
• Rollice Dale, Jerry Epstein, Peter Hatch, Laura Kuennen-Poper, Michael Ramos, Jimbo Ross, Harry Shirinian and Herschel Wise – viola
• Israel Baker, Mark Baranov, Mark Cargill, Isabelle Daskoff, Yvette Devereaux, Assa Drori, Brian Leonard, Yoko Matsuda, Irma Neumann, Donald Palmer, Bob Sanov, Marc Sazer, Eve Sprecher, Gerald Vinci, Elizabeth Wilson and Shari Zippert – violin

• Johnny Mandel – arrangements and conductor
• Debbi Datz-Pyle and Patti Zimmitti – contractors
• Gerald Vinci – concertmaster

• Donald Ashworth, Jon Clarke, Gary Foster, Dan Higgins, Marty Krystall, Jack Nimitz and Joel Peskin – woodwinds
• Jim Atkinson, Jeff DeRosa, Calvin Smith and Richard Todd – French horn

• Chuck Domanico, Edward Meares, Buell Neidlinger and Margaret Storer – bass
• Jodi Burnett, Larry Corbett, Ronald Cooper, Christine Ermacoff, Maria Fera, Paula Hochhalter, Anne Karam, Suzie Katayama, Dane Little, Frederick Sekoya and Tina Soule – cello
• Gayle Levant – harp
• Roland Kato, Donald McInnes, Cynthia Morrow, Carole Mukogawa, Kazi Pitelka, Harry Shirinian, Linn Subotnick and Ray Tischer – viola
• Dixie Blackstone, Mari Botnick, Russ Cantor, Isabelle Daskoff, Assa Drori, Henry Ferber, Michael Ferrill, Ronald Folsom, Armen Garabedian, Berj Garabedian, Harris Goldman, Gwenn Heller, Reginald Hill, Lisa Johnson, Norma Leonard, Michael Markman, Betty Moor, Irma Neumann, Donald Palmer, Claudia Parducci, Haim Shtrum, Robert Sushel, Gerald Vinci and Dorothy Wade – violin

• Walter Afanasieff – arrangements
• Mariah Carey – arrangements
• Nicholas Bearde, Larry Batiste, Kitty Beethoven, Darlene Coleman, Tina Gibson, Cynthia Green, Sandy Griffith, Derick Hughes, Miffin "Dooney" Jones, Terrance Kelly, Conesha Owens, Anna Lisa Patterson, Claytoven Richardson, Brenda Roy and Jeanie Tracy – singers

  Production

• Michael Bolton – producer
• Walter Afanasieff – producer
• Johnny Mandel – producer
• Grace Row – vocal producer for Placid Domingo
• David Foster – producer
• Keith Thomas – producer
• Barbara Stout – production coordinator
• Shaun Shankel – production coordinator
• Louis Levin – direction
• Christopher Austopchuk – art direction
• Timothy White – photography

• Vlado Meller – mastering
• Tom Ruff – mastering
• Sony Music Studios – mastering location
• Dana Jon Chappelle – engineer, vocal engineer, mixing
• David Gleeson – engineer
• Jan Fairchild – vocal engineer
• Dave Reitzas – vocal engineer, mixing, additional vocal engineer
• John Richards – engineer, mixing
• Mick Guzauski – mixing
• Ellen Fitton – vocal engineer for Placido Domingo
• Tim Wood – vocal engineer for Placido Domingo
• Al Schmitt – engineer, mixing
• Billy Whittington – recording, mixing
• Steve Milo – assistant engineer
• Kenny Ochoa – assistant engineer
• Jeff Griffin – assistant engineer
• Steve Kinsey – assistant engineer
• Jen Wyler – assistant engineer
• Dann Thompson – assistant engineer
• David Hancock – assistant engineer
• Shawn McLean – assistant engineer
• Greg Parker – assistant engineer
• Carry Summers – assistant engineer

  Certifications