The Christmas Album (Neil Diamond album)

Track listing

Personnel

• Neil Diamond – lead vocals
• David Campbell – arrangements, conductor, choir arrangements, orchestra arrangements and conductor, BGV arrangements
• Robbie Buchanan – acoustic piano, keyboards
• Ladd Thomas – Hammond organ
• Alan Lindgren – acoustic piano, acoustic piano intro, BGV arrangements, orchestra arrangements
• Bob Mann – guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
• Dean Parks – electric guitar, guitar, mandolin
• Andrew Gold – acoustic guitar
• Waddy Wachtel – electric guitar, guitar
• Louis Gutierrez – guitar solo
• Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar
• Jimmy Johnson – bass guitar
• Bob Glaub – bass guitar
• Bob Magnusson – double bass
• Leland Sklar – bass guitar
• Peter Asher – drum programming, tambourine, rhythm track arrangement
• Russ Kunkel – drums
• Nathaniel Kunkel – drums
• Michael Fisher – percussion
• Marvin B. Gordy – percussion
• Warren Ham – harmonica
• Plas Johnson – tenor saxophone solo
• Gavyn Wright – concertmaster
• The London Symphony Orchestra – orchestra
• The Angel Voices Choir – choir
• The Ambrosian Singers – choir
• John McCarthy – choir director
• The Lower School Chorus of Viewpoint School – choir
• Robert Prizeman – boys’ choir conductor
• Marcie Parker – children’s choir conductor
• Donny Gerard, Raven Kane, Josef Powell, Julia Waters, Maxine Waters and Oren Waters – doo-wop backing vocals
• 139th Street Quartet – vocals and arrangements
• Jim Hass, Jon Joyce, Gene Morford and Jerry Whitman – doo-wop backing vocals
• L.A. Mass Choir – choir
• Donald Taylor – choir director
• Frank Lindgren – choir arrangements

  Production

• Producer – Peter Asher
• Production Coordinator – Ivy Skoff
• Project Coordinator – Sam Cole
• Recorded and Mixed by Frank Wolf
• Assistant Recording and Mixing by Nathaniel Kunkel and Brett Swain.
• Additional Recording and Mixing by Chad Blinman, Alec Marcou, Gil Morales, Marnie Riley and Eric Rudd.
• Recorded at Arch Angel Studios, The Complex, Studio 55 and Ocean Way Recording ; Conway Studios ; The Hit Factory : Abbey Road Studios.
• Mixed at Conway Studios
• Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound.
• Art Direction – David Kirschner
• Design – Jan Weinberg
• Cover Photography – Eugine Adibari
• Liner Notes – Neil Diamond

  Certifications