The Christmas Spirit

The Christmas Spirit is the first Christmas album and seventeenth album by countrysinger Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in November 1963. It contains four original Christmas songs written byCASH and eight tracks originally penned by other artists, including "Blue Christmas" (at this point best known through the version recorded byCASH's former Sun Records labelmate Elvis Presley), "Silent Night" and "Little Drummer Boy".
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==Track listing==
No. 	Title 	Writer(s) 	Length	
1. 	"The Christmas Spirit"   	Cash(incorporates "O Little Town of Bethlehem") 	5:03 	
2. 	"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"  	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jean Baptiste Calkin	2:30 	
3. 	"Blue Christmas"   	Bill Hayes, Jay Johnston 	2:25 	
4. 	"The Gifts They Gave"   	Cash 	3:34 	
5. 	"Here Was a Man"   	Johnny Bond, Tex Ritter 	2:44 	
6. 	"Christmas As I Knew It"   	June Carter, Jan Howard 	3:41 	
7. 	"Silent Night"   	Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr 	3:29 	
8. 	"The Little Drummer Boy"   	Katherine Davis, Henri Onerati, Harry Simeone 	2:34 	
9. 	RINGING the Bells for Jim"   	Carter, Howard 	2:47 	
10. 	"We Are the Shepherds"   	CASH 	3:13 	
11. 	"Who Kept the Sheep"   	CASH Carter 	1:58 	
12. 	"Ballad of the Harp Weaver"   	Vincent Millay 	4:22 	
Total length:	Total length: 	Total length: 	38:20 	
==Personnel==
*JohnnyCASH - Vocals, Guitar
*Luther Perkins, Grady Martin, Jack Clement - Guitar
*Marshall Grant - Bass
*W.S. Holland, Buddy Harman - Drums
*Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Bill Pursell - Organ, Piano
*Maybelle Carter - Autoharp
*Anita Kerr - Organ
*Bob Johnson - Flute
==Charts==
Album - Billboard (North America)
Year	Chart 	Position
1963	Holiday Albums	7
Singles - Billboard (North America)
Year	Single 	Chart 	Position
1959	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Country Singles	24
1959	"The Little Drummer Boy"	Country Singles	63
Category:1963 albums