Merry Christmas to You
Merry Christmas to You is the thirteenth studio album and first Christmas album by American country music singer Reba McEntire, with most of the tunes being McEntire's renditions of very familiar traditional Christmas fare. It was released on November 27, 1987, by MCA Nashville. It was her last album to bear her surname on the front cover until she released Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope in 2017. Songs from the album would not chart until ten and twelve years after its release.
Personnel
Musicians
- John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards
- Matt Betton – drums
- Tom Brumley – steel guitar
- Larry Byrom – electric guitar
- Bill Cooley – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Vince Gill – backing vocals
- Emory Gordy Jr. – bass
- Suzy Hoskins – backing vocals
- Donny Howard – acoustic piano
- Donnie LaValley – steel guitar
- Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
- Reba McEntire – lead vocals, arrangements, backing vocals
- Farrell Morris – chimes, vibraphone
- Mark O'Connor – fiddle
- Leigh Reynolds – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Steve Short – drums
- Ricky Solomon – fiddle
- Billy Joe Walker Jr. – electric guitar
- Roger Wills – bass
Production
- Chuck Ainlay – mixing
- Milan Bogdan – digital editing
- Jimmy Bowen – producer
- Tony Brown – producer
- Bob Bullock – overdub recording, mixing
- Mark J. Coddington – second engineer
- Katherine DeVault – design
- J. Jacklyn Furriers – fur
- Tim Kish – second engineer
- Simon Levy – art direction
- Russ Martin – second engineer
- Glenn Meadows – mastering
- Reba McEntire – producer
- Jim McGuire – photography
- Jesse Noble – project coordinator
- Ann Payne – styling
- Willie Pevear – overdub recording
- Steve Tillisch – recording engineer, mixing, overdub recording
- Ron Treat – recording engineer
- Marty Williams – second engineer
- * Mixed at The Castle.
- * Mastered at Masterfonics.