Because It's Christmas | 
| Artist: Barry Manilow
Label: Sony special product
Category: Music
List Price: $6.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 22765
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 145676
UPC: 755174567629
EAN: 0755174567629
ASIN: B00004WKA6
Release Date: March 7, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | The Christmas Song - Barry Manilow, Wells, Robert [1] | | • | Jingle Bells - Barry Manilow, Pierpont, J.S. | | • | Silent Night/I Guess There Ain't No Santa Claus - Barry Manilow, Traditional | | • | The First Noel/When the Meadow Was Bloomin' - Barry Manilow, Traditional | | • | Excerpt from Handel's Messiah ("For Unto Us a Child Is Born...")/B ... - Barry Manilow, Feldman, Jack | | • | Baby, It's Cold Outside - Barry Manilow, Loesser, Frank | | • | White Christmas - Barry Manilow, Berlin, Irving | | • | Carol of the Bells/The Bells of Christmas - Barry Manilow, Leontovich, M. | | • | Joy to the World/Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Barry Manilow, Traditional | | • | We Wish You a Merry Christmas/It's Just Another New Year's Eve - Barry Manilow, Traditional |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 This good CD is not just for Christmas! January 18, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have this CD and there are excellent cover versions of old classic Christmas songs which could only be covered this well by Barry Manilow.
The new songs are well worth listening to with brilliant arrangements.
Well done Barry, this is worth listening to all year round!!
I'm Heartbroken December 4, 2002
James Fenos (Columbus, OH United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a fab album. I bought this beauty when it was new. Beautifully recorded and performed, this album does not belong in the budget rack. This platinum recording should go out of print instead of the status it now holds. If this album (cd) is available at the nearest grocery, it'll be the best six bucks you've ever spent. What a tragedy.
My most PRIZED Christmas CD July 22, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If I could only pick one Christmas CD for a trip, this would be it. It's not a song, pause, next song...the songs flow right from one into another. Every emotion that you feel around the holidays is on this CD. His duet, "Baby It's Cold Outside," is the best I've heard since Dean Martin's version. You're right there in his New York apartment with a blizzard going on outside. And, of course, the final song is his famous, "It's Just Another New Year's Eve," which I think has saved many a person's sanity over the holidays. I know a previous reviewer lamented the fact that this CD should not be sold in supermarkets or on bargain racks...but you know, maybe other people like us will discover and share the excellence of this Christmas music.
Soft Christmas Songs November 24, 2006
Kathy W (Baltimore)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful Christmas album. You are asking which of the 2 Barry Christmas albums you should buy? Now, you know I'm gonna say BOTH! I LOVE Barry music. The other (Christmas Love) album is more peppy. This one is the softer Christmas music that you might play later at night while you're waiting for Santa to come. These are just beautiful heart-melting versions of Christmas songs, many classics, and rearranged and tweeked by the Manilow master. The versions leave you feeling so very peaceful and full of those special feelings of the season.
Favorites, such as "The Christmas Song" (Chestnuts roasting by the open fire.. ..), "Silent Night," "The First Noel" and "White Christmas" are done so beautifully well by Barry. They are just awesome, in my opinion, as is the whole CD. (I keep almost typing the word "record." I guess I'm telling my age again.) There is something about "When the Meadow Was Bloomin'" that I can feel inside my heart. "For Unto Us a Child is Born/Because It's Christmas (For all the Children)," to me, is what the season is all about. My hat goes off to Barry for including it (if I wore a hat, that is.) "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a cute duet with K.T. Oslin. Oh, I could just go on and on and on and on about these fantastic arrangements.
I had purchased this album earlier this year, listened to it a couple of times, and put it away. When I pulled it out the other day, I got hooked on its beauty all over again. It is not only Barry's singing, but a compilation of the vibration of his beautiful voice and the gorgeous accompanying musical arrangements. He really sings with his heart and it vibrates all the way through to his soul, and back out to his audience.
This CD would be great anytime, but ideal to sit with in front of a fireplace, at 11:30 p.m., on Christmas Eve, with a glass of wine and someone special--then listen into midnight and beyond--into Christmas Day.
And, once again, I am happy to see that an International Star is not afraid to sing the word "Christmas."
As a side note, I did so NOT want to do the NordicTrack last night, but I am on an exercise and diet "mission". So, I plopped this CD in, earphones on, closed my eyes, and walked into heaven. Before I realized it, the album ended and I did almost 45 minutes. Not only that, but I felt so peaceful; I could have taken on just about anything at that point. (Now I ask you, who feels peaceful after 45 minutes on an elliptical walker/bike without a seat?) Then I took a shower and slept like a baby with Barry's music playing in my heart all night long.
Buy this bee-yoo-tee-full CD. You won't be disappointed. Total running time is approximately 42 minutes.
Record! Record! RECORD!!! There! I said it! Does anybody remember what a RECORD was? It was a round black disk that played music--in the old days--Like B.C.-- No, not a frisby!
Because Its Christmas May 22, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is my favorite Christmas Album and one of my favorite Barry Manilow albums of all time. The single "Because its Christmas" alone is worth buying this album.
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