Track Listing

1. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
2. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
3. Joy to the World/For Unto Us a Child Is Born - The American Boychoir, American Boychoir, Amy Grant, Ronn Huff, London Studio Orchestra
4. Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) - Amy Grant
5. O'Come All Ye Faithful - The American Boychoir, American Boychoir, Amy Grant, Ronn Huff
6. Grown-Up Christmas List
7. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Amy Grant
8. Winter Wonderland
9. I'll Be Home for Christmas
10. Night Before Christmas
11. Emmanuel, God With Us - Amy Grant
12. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring [Instrumental]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12582 in Music
• Released on: 1992-10-06
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Amy Grant's Home for Christmas showcases her mellifluent vocal chops in a variety of settings and succeeds mightily. There's a sophisticated touch of Streisand in Grant's clear and bright timbre, but there's also a young tenderness and innocence there, as well, that captures peoples' hearts. Grant puts a batch of standards, more recent works by Carly Simon and David Foster, and her own songs through big but tasty orchestral swells, rock & roll reveries, acoustic pieces, and mild pop surroundings. Most surprising are Grant's two contributions (cowritten with Chris Eaton and Robert Marshal, respectively,) "Breath of Heaven/Mary's Song" and the powerful and humbling "Emmanuel, God with Us." Exquisitely produced and arranged, Home for Christmas is a highly rewarding mainstream Christmas masterpiece without flaw or pretense. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

The best Christmas album ever...PERIOD.
I received the Amy Grant "Home for Christmas" cassette as a Christmas present in 1992, when it first came out. I was 14 at the time, and nine years later, it has yet to loose it's freshness. For me, it is not officially Christmas until I listen to my cassette, which by now is battered and worn, but still sounds good. I refuse to replace it with a CD because I have so much sentimental value attached to it! Every song on this album seems to be infused with an eternal magic I just can't explain. Amy Grant does a phenomenal job interpreting old classics like "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" in a way that makes them sound fresh and new. And her original songs are right up there with the classics--"Breath of Heaven" is a hauntingly beautiful song about how Mary must have felt before the birth of Christ, "The Night Before Christmas" is spirited and uplifting, and "Emmanuel, God With Us" is just plain gorgeous. If you can only buy one Christmas album, buy this one. Even if you aren't an Amy Grant fan, you'll be pleasantly surprised. It just may make your Christmas a little bit brighter. :)

Amy's Gift to the World
Amy Grant has turned out a classic Christmas Album. There are some truly outstanding and heartfelt songs here. "Breath of Heaven" (Mary's Song) is worth the price of the album; Vince Gill also records this song in his current Christmas Album. Grant also does an outstanding job with classic songs such as "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" and "I'll Be Home For Christmas." But perhaps the best Christmas song on the album and ever (it is really that good) is "Grownup Christmas List." In this thought-provoking, heartfelt song, Amy reflects on world peace and what the spirit of Christmas is really all about. I play this song throughout the year...If there is only one album you would buy for Christmas, this is the one...

Another classic mix of Christmas songs from Amy Grant
Amy Grant's first Christmas album was released in 1983, when she was one of the top Christian gospel singers in the country, contained four original songs on which she was one of the writers and a mixture of contemporary Christmas songs and religious hymns. For her second album in 1992, a year after she had three singles on the pop charts ("Baby Baby," "Every Heartbeat," and "That's What Love Is For"), Grant only had a hand in writing two songs for the collection, which clearly emphasized popular Christmas songs over the religious hymns. After all, why argue with success. "A Christmas Album" has been a perennial seller for twenty years and "Home for Christmas" is just a step below (the formula was more impressive the first time around and the choices were a more eclectic and more interesting).

I usually think that Amy Grant is almost the ideal singer of Christmas songs, because she has a nice enough voice, but it is also a natural voice, and you can sing along without feeling like she is blowing you away. She sings slow songs like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas" as well as the fast paced holiday rocker "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." I really like the medley of "Joy to the World/For Unto Us a Child Is Born," and the beautiful "Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)," one of the two songs co-written by Grant. Once again, Grant ends her album with a really old-fashioned hymn, this time Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," as a final reminder of the true meaning of Christmas. Once again, Amy Grant supplies a solid mix of Christmas songs for our holiday listening enjoyment. "Home for Christmas" made it to #2 on the Billboard album chart in 1992 (and #1 on the Top Contemporary Christian chart, of course).