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''Christmas Portrait'' is the first Christmas album recorded by The Carpenters (and the only one issued during Karen Carpenter's lifetime), originally released on October 13, 1978 (A&M 4726). The album includes a revised version of the group's signature Christmas song, "Merry Christmas Darling". It also includes one of two versions of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (a slower version, recorded in 1974, as well as other unused songs recorded during this album's sessions, were issued on the Carpenters' later Christmas album, ''An Old-Fashioned Christmas''). The original album cover by Robert Tanenbaum is modeled on Norman Rockwell's 1960 painting, "Triple Self-Portrait", done as a cover for The Saturday Evening Post. The CD version of ''Christmas Portrait'', issued in 1984, is a compendium of selected tracks from the Carpenters' two Christmas albums into one 74-minute program, with tracks from each interspersed in the running order; "Ave Maria" was remixed at this time in order to include a choral track that went missing in 1978 and was later found.. (A CD of the original LP content was briefly issued exclusively in West Germany around the same time.) In 1996 (1998 in the US), a two-CD set titled ''Christmas Collection'' was issued internationally, containing ''Christmas Portrait'' and ''An Old-Fashioned Christmas'' together in their original respective tracklists. Richard Carpenter remixed most of the album tracks for ''Christmas Portrait'' due to deteriorated masters. On April 16, 1998, ''Christmas Portrait'' was certified Platinum by the RIAA for shipment of one million copies in the United States since its 1978 release.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RIAA Searchable Database )〕 In December 2011, ''Christmas Portrait'' re-entered the ''Billboard'' 200 album sales chart at No. 150 and eventually achieved a new chart peak position of No. 126. In December 2012 and then in December 2013, the album again re-entered the ''Billboard'' 200 album sales chart and attained a new chart peak position of No. 114, and then of No. 113. By the end of November 2014, ''Christmas Portrait'' was the twenty-third best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 1,950,000 copies according to SoundScan. ==Track listing (Original 1978 LP)== ;Side one # "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (0:28) (Traditional, John Mason Neale) # Overture (4:38): # * "Deck the Halls" (Traditional, John Ceiriog Hughes) # * "I Saw Three Ships" (Traditional, David Overton) # * "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) # * "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Traditional) # * "Away in a Manger" (Traditional, James R. Murray) # * "What Child Is This?" (William Chatterton Dix) # * "Carol of the Bells" (Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych, Peter Wilhousky) # * "O Come All Ye Faithful" (John Francis Wade, Frederick Oakeley) # "Christmas Waltz" (2:15) (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) # "Sleigh Ride" (2:39) (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) # Medley (2:53): # * "It's Christmas Time" (Al Stillman, Victor Young) # * "Sleep Well, Little Children" (Alan Bergman, Leon Klatzkin) # "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (3:55) (Blane, Martin) # "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" (1:05) (John Frederick Coots, Haven Gillespie) # "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (3:39) (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) # "Silent Night" (3:19) (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr, John Freeman Young) ;Side two # "Jingle Bells" (1:10) (James Pierpont) # Medley (3:35): # * "First Snowfall" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) # * "Let it Snow" (Cahn, Styne) # "Carol of the Bells" (1:39) (Leontovych, Wilhousky) # "Merry Christmas Darling" (3:05) (Frank Pooler, Richard Carpenter) # "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (3:48) (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram) # "Christ is Born" (3:13)(Ray Charles, Dominico Bartolucci) # Medley (5:31): # * "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith) # * "Silver Bells" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) # * "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) # "Ave Maria" (2:35) (Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christmas Portrait」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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