Home for Christmas (1989) (Debby Boone Christmas album)

Joel Caballero
Mar 23
2 min read

Updated: Mar 25

Home for Christmas is the 11th studio and Christmas album by American singer Debby Boone, originally released in the fall of 1989 by Lamb & Lion/Benson Records. The album was produced by Dan Posthuman and Boone's husband Gabriel Ferrer.

This was Boone's second album release of 1989 (Boone released her hymns album Be Thou My Vision earlier that year) and her final recording of the 1980s as she was focusing on her acting career in television and on stage throughout the 1990s. It would be more than 15 years later when Boone returned to music and released her tribute album to her mother-in-law Rosemary Clooney entitled Reflections of Rosemary. Clooney herself duets with Boone singing the classic standard "White Christmas," in which Clooney co-starred in the 1954 motion picture of the same name with crooner Bing Crosby, which he originally recorded back in 1942. Crosby's more famous version was recorded in 1947.

Three different editions of the album were produced; one in 1989 by Lamb & Lion, a CD re-release in 1992 by Sparrow Records, and another CD with new cover art in 2002 by Curb Records. There are three different versions of the cover art for the album.

Track listing

All song were arranged and conducted by Ronn Huff, except where noted.

1. Overture -4:41

2. Some Children See Him (Alfred Burt, Wihla Hutson) -2:59

3. Christmas Time Is Here (Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson; arranged by David

Clydesdale) -2:45

4. Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) -2:26

5. White Christmas (featuring Rosemary Clooney) (Irving Berlin) -2:58

6. I'll Be Home for Christmas (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram; arranged by

David Maddux) -3:45

7. O Come, O Come Emmanuel (traditional) -3:22

8. Silver Bells (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans; arranged by David Maddux) -3:20