Christmas Wishes (Anne Murray album)

Christmas Wishes is a seasonal studio album by Canadian country music artist Anne Murray. It was Anne's first Holiday recording, released by Capitol Records in 1981.

The disc peaked at #34 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. It stands as one of Anne's biggest-selling career albums, earning double platinum certification from the RIAA. At the time of its deletion, it had sold nearly 3 million US copies.

Track listing

Personnel

• Anne Murray – lead vocals, additional backing vocals (3), backing vocals (10)
• Brian Gatto – electric piano
• Doug Riley – acoustic piano (1–6, 8, 9)
• Jack Lenz – acoustic piano (7, 10)
• Bob Mann – acoustic guitars
• Bob Lucier – steel guitar
• Tom Szczesniak – bass
• Barry Keane – drums
• Rick Wilkins – arrangements and conductor (1–5)
• Peter Cardinali – arrangements and conductor (6–10)
• Bill Richards – concertmaster
• Tommy Ambrose – backing vocals (1–9)
• Bob Farrar – backing vocals (1–9)
• Debbie Fleming – backing vocals (1–9)
• Bob Hamper – backing vocals (1–9)
• Laurie Hood – backing vocals (1–9)
• Vern Kennedy – backing vocals (1–9)
• Judy Marchak – backing vocals (1–9)
• Colina Phillips – backing vocals (1–9)
• Janie Ray – backing vocals (1–9)
• Debbie Greimann – additional backing vocals (3), backing vocals (10)
• Bruce Murray – backing vocals (10)

Production

• Jim Ed Norman – producer
• Ken Friesen – engineer
• Tom Henderson – recording assistant
• Ken Perry – mastering at Capitol Mastering (Hollywood, California, USA).
• Paul Cade – art direction
• Roy Kohara – art direction
• Phil Shima – design
• Tim Saunders – photography
• Morris Zaslavsky – calligraphy

Chart performance

References