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More Details on 'One Wish - The Holiday Album'
submitted by: Stephen, Eduardo
source: Business Wire, Billboard, MTV
Date: October 27, 2003
Whitney Houston Makes a Holiday Wish; ONE WISH - THE HOLIDAY ALBUM, First Christmas Collection of Her Career, Featuring Bobbi Kristina, to Arrive in Stores on November 18th
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2003
Collaborations with Troy Taylor, Mervyn Warren, and Team of Gordon Chambers and Barry J. Eastmond
Arista recording artist Whitney Houston will add another landmark accomplishment to one of the most extraordinary careers in popular music when ONE WISH - THE HOLIDAY ALBUM, her first collection of Christmas tunes arrives in stores on November 18th, it was announced today by Antonio "L.A." Reid, President and CEO, Arista Records.
ONE WISH is comprised of a joyous mix of yuletide favorites from the traditional and contemporary songbooks, along with several new compositions. At the helm with Whitney on the project are producers and arrangers Troy Taylor (who worked on 2002's Just Whitney... and Aretha Franklin's current album, So Damn Happy), Mervyn Warren (whose association with Whitney goes back to 1996's The Preacher's Wife), and the team of Gordon Chambers and Barry J. Eastmond (most recently collaborated on So Damn Happy).
Ms. Houston commented, "I've wanted to do an album of holiday songs for some time. I think these are some of the most beautiful songs ever written about such a wonderful time of year and I hope they appeal to everyone."
Attention is sure to focus on Bobbi Kristina Brown, who appears on "Little Drummer Boy," one of eight tracks produced and arranged by Warren. The others include "Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," a medley of "Deck The Halls/Silent Night," "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," "O Come O Come Emanuel," "Who Would Imagine A King" and "Joy To The World," both co-produced by Mervyn Warren and Whitney Houston, with vocal arrangements by Whitney.
ONE WISH opens with a pair of evergreens produced and arranged by Taylor, the classic "The First Noel" and Mel Torme's timeless "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)." Chambers and Eastmond contribute the original composition "One Wish (For Christmas)," whose 23-piece string section (recorded in New York City) is one of the highlights of the album.
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Whitney Makes A Holiday 'Wish'
Whitney Houston's first collection of seasonal music, "One Wish - The Holiday Album," will be released Nov. 18 via Arista. The 11-track set includes a duet with her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, on "Little Drummer Boy," and collaborations with producers Troy Taylor, Gordon Chambers and Barry J. Eastmond. Mervyn Warren, who previously worked with Houston on the 1996 soundtrack "The Preacher's Wife," produced eight cuts.
"I've wanted to do an album of holiday songs for some time," Houston says in a statement. "I think these are some of the most beautiful songs ever written about such a wonderful time of year and I hope they appeal to everyone."
"One Wish" includes Houston's renditions of such tracks as "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," "The First Noel," an opening medley of "Deck the Halls" and "Silent Night" and the Chambers/Eastmond original, "One Wish (For Christmas)," which features a 23-piece string section.
Houston's latest studio album, "Just Whitney," debuted in December 2002 at No. 3 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 9 on The Billboard 200. The set has sold 704,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Here is the "One Wish" track list:
"Deck the Halls"/"Silent Night"
"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"
"Little Drummer Boy" featuring Bobbi Kristina Brown
"Cantique De Noel (O Holy Night)"
"One Wish (For Christmas)"
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
"I'll Be Home for Christmas"
"The First Noel"
"O Come O Come Emanuel"
"Joy to the World"
"Who Would Imagine a King"
-- Jonathan Cohen, San Francisco
She's the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, so obviously music runs in her blood. On November 18, Bobbi Kristina Brown makes her singing debut alongside her famous mom on One Wish - The Holiday Album. The LP is Whitney Houston's first Christmas LP and will feature such standards as "The First Noel," "The Christmas Song" and "The Little Drummer Boy," the track on which Bobbi Kristina is featured. Houston will include several new tunes on the set as well.
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