Christmas Peace (2003)

About this title: You have to hand it to the folks at BMG -- more than 25 years after the passing of Elvis Presley, they've yet to run out of ways to recycle his back catalog, and just in time for the 2003 holiday season, along comes Christmas Peace, still another repackaging of Presley's seasonable material. Disc one of this two-CD set collects the same 20 Yuletide selections that appeared on the seemingly definitive If Every Day Was Like Christmas collection in 1994, minus the alternate takes that appeared as bonus cuts. This represents nearly the entire Presley Christmas canon, this time in chronological ... read more

Tracks:

1. Blue Christmas [Hayes/Johnson]
2. Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) [Autry/Haldeman]
3. White Christmas [Berlin]
4. Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) [DeMetruis/Schroeder]
5. I'll Be Home for Christmas [Ram/Kent/Gannon]
6. Santa Claus Is Back in Town [Leiber/Stoller]
7. O Little Town of Bethlehem [Brooks/Redner]
8. Silent Night [Mohr/Gruber]
9. If Every Day Was Like Christmas [West]
10. O Come All Ye Faithful [Oakeley/Wade]
11. The First Noel [Sandys/Traditional]
12. On a Snowy Christmas Night [Gelber]
13. Winter Wonderland [Smith/Bernard]
14. The Wondeful World of Christmas [Tobias/Frisch]
15. It Won't Seem Like Christmas (Without You) [Balthrop]
16. I'll Be Home on Christmas Day [Jarrett]
17. If I Get Home on Christmas Day [Macaulay]
18. Holly Leaves and Christmas Trees [West/Spreen]
19. Merry Christmas, Baby [Baxter/Moore]
20. Silver Bells [Evans/Livingston]
21. Peace in the Valley [Dorsey]
22. I Believe [Drake/Graham/Shirl/]
23. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) [Hamblen]
24. His Hand in Mine [Lister]
25. In My Father's House [Hanks]
26. Known Only to Him [Hamblen]
27. Mansion Over the Hilltop [Stanphill]
28. Crying in the Chapel [Glenn]
29. How Great Thou Art [Hine]
30. In the Garden [Miles]
31. Where No One Stands Alone [Lister]
32. Somebody Bigger Than You and I [Lange/Heath/Burke]
33. Without Him [le Fevre]
34. We Call on Him [Karger/Wayne/Weisma]
35. Only Believe [Rader]
36. Amazing Grace [Traditional]
37. An Evening Prayer [Battersby/Gabriel]
38. He Touched Me [Gaither]
39. He Is My Everything [Frazier]
40. If That Isn't Love [Rambo]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.