Jesus, The Best Gift of All - Christmas Tidings from the Benson Artists (or Jesus, The Best Gift of All for short) is a 1990 compilation Christmas album released on Benson Records. This collection features the Benson artists at the time with 4Him,
Larnelle Harris, Carman, GLAD, Kelly Nelon Thompson, Billy & Sarah Gaines, Commissioned, Truth and many others. Six of the tracks were previously released from other albums by the artists featured while eight were newly recorded just for this project. Jesus, The Best Gift of All is currently out of print and is not available digitally. A YouTube link to listen to the album is posted below this article.
Track listing
1. The Best Gift of All (4Him) (Paula Carpenter, Russell Maudlin) -4:08
2. Sweet Little Jesus Boy (Larnelle Harris) (Robert MacGimsey) (from the Larnelle
Harris recording Larnelle...Christmas) -3:07
3. Silent Night (Debby Boone) (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) (from the
Debby Boone recording Home for Christmas) -2:50
4. In the First Light (GLAD) (Bob Kauflin) (from the GLAD recording The Acapella
Project) -3:06
5. Christmas All Year (Kelly Nelon Thompson) (Kelly Nelon Thompson, Michael
Sykes, Tanya Goodman-Sykes, David Binion) -3:16
6. Christmasing (Billy & Sarah Gaines) (Randall Dennis) -4:06
7. O Come, O Come Emmanuel/Emmanuel (Truth) (traditional/Michael W. Smith)
(from the Truth recording Your Heart Is Where Christmas Is Found) -4:52
8. Classical Christmas (medley) (Dino Kartsonakis) (from the Dino Kartsonakis
recording A Wonderful Time of the Year) -3:34
*Angels We Have Heard on High (Edward S. Barnes)
*Good Christian Men Rejoice (Cyril Alington)
*For Unto Us a Child is Born (composed by Georg Friedrich Händel)
9. Sleep, Baby Jesus (Michele Wagner) (Randall Dennis) -3:23
10. O Holy Night (Harvest) (Adolphe Adam, John Sullivan Dwight) -6:20
11. For Unto Us... (Ed Kerr and Kelly Willard) (Randall Dennis, Vince Wilcox) -3:34
12. The Christmas Tree (Heirloom) (Barbara Fairchild, Milton Carroll, Don Potter)
-2:52
13. O Come All Ye Faithful (John Francis Wade; additional lyrics by Fred
Hammond) -4:51
14. Our Blessed Savior Has Come (Carman and CeCe Winans) (Carman
Licciardello) (from the Carman recording A Long Time Ago...in a Land Called
Bethlehem) -6:19
Production credits
Greg Nelson -producer (tracks 2 and 14)
Fred Hammond -producer (track 13)
Ed Nalle -producer (track 4)
Dan Posthuma and Gabriel Ferrer -producers (track 3)
Steven V. Taylor -producer (track 7)
Dino Kartsonakis and Bill George -producers (track 8)
Don Koch -producer (track 1)
Michael Sykes -producer (track 5)
Dan Cleary and Andy Ivey -executive producers (all tracks)
Listen to the album Jesus, The Best Gift of All here:
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