Christmas Tyme (Engelbert Humperdinck album)

Christmas Tyme is the fourteenth studio album by singer Engelbert Humperdinck, released in 1977.

Background

This was Engelbert's first Christmas album.

Production

• Producer: Joel Diamond and Charlie Calello
• Arranger: Charlie Calello
• Engineer: Roger Rhodes
• Personal Management: Harold Davison
• Design: Roger Carpenter
• Photography: Stephen Harvey
• Type Design: Floyd Uyehara

Release

Epic (US) and EMI (UK) released the album in December 1977.
Hip-O Records re-issued the album on compact disc in 2005 in Canada as The Best of Engelbert Humperdinck: The Christmas Collection. This was a holiday CD in The Best of...20th Century Masters/Millenium Collection series.

Christmas Tyme
Studio album by Engelbert Humperdinck
Released	December 1977
Recorded	1977
Studio	Media Sound Studios, New York
Genre	Easy listening, pop
Length	39:40
Label	Epic (US), EMI (UK)
Producer	Joel Diamond, Charlie Calello
Engelbert Humperdinck chronology
Miracles by Engelbert Humperdinck (1977) Christmas Tyme (1977) Engelbert Sings for You (1977)
Engelbert Humperdinck studio chronology
Miracles by Engelbert Humperdinck (1977) Christmas Tyme (1977) Last of the Romantics (1978)

The Christmas Collection
Studio album by Engelbert Humperdinck
Released	2005
Length	39:40
Label	Hip-O

Track listing

Side 1

1. "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) 4:40
2. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) 3:53
3. "A Night to Remember" (Alan Bernstein, Ritchie Adams) 3:20
4. "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) 2:48
5. "Christmas Time Again" (Y. Barry) 2:34
6. "Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) 4:04

Side 2

1. Sing-A-Long Tyme (3:27)
   1. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
   2. "Deck the Halls"
   3. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Johnny Marks)
   4. "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" (Haven Gillespie, John Frederick Coots)
2. Carol Tyme (6:47)
   1. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"
   2. "The First Noel"
   3. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear"
   4. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
   5. "Joy to the World"
   6. "We Three Kings"
   7. "Oh Holy Night"
3. Home Tyme (4:03)
   1. "(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" (Al Stillman, Robert Allen)
   2. "There's No Christmas Like a Home Christmas" (Carl Sigman, Mickey Addy)
   3. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram)
4. Jingle Bell Tyme (4:04)
   1. "Jingle Bell Rock" (Jim Boothe, Joe Beal)
   2. "Winter Wonderland" (Richard B. Smith, Felix Bernard}
   3. "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn)
   4. "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont)

Charts

Peak positions

Country	Position	Entry date
US Billboard 200	156	December 24, 1977

External links

• Christmas Tyme (Epic PE 35031) at Discogs

• engelbert.com - Christmas Tyme album detail