Home for Christmas (Amy Grant album)

Home for Christmas is the 13th album by Christian music and pop music singer Amy Grant, released on October 6, 1992. It is Grant's second holiday album, the first being 1983's A Christmas Album.

Home for Christmas
Studio album by Amy Grant
Released	October 6, 1992
Recorded	September 1992
Studio	Javelina, Nashville RCA Studios, Nashville Omni Sound, Nashville The Dugout, Nashville Record One, Sherman Oaks, California Tejas Recorders, Franklin, Tennessee Quad Studios, Nashville Hip Pocket, New York City The Hit Factory, New York City CTS Studios, Wembley, England Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood
Genre	Holiday, pop
Length	42:56
Label	A&M
Producer	Brown Bannister, Ronn Huff
Amy Grant chronology
Heart in Motion (1991) Home for Christmas (1992) House of Love (1994)
Singles from Home for Christmas
"Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)" Released: 1992 "Grown-Up Christmas List" Released: 1992 (US)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Commercial success

Coming off the heels of Grant's successful 1991 album, Heart in Motion, Home for Christmas performed even better than Heart in Motion on the Billboard charts, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Christian album chart. It was later reissued in 2003 as 20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection: The Best of Amy Grant.

On November 17, 1997, Home for Christmas was certified Triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipment of three million copies in the United States.[2]

As of November 2014, Home for Christmas is the eighteenth best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,540,000 copies according to SoundScan.[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"	Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin	2:36
2.	"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"	Edward Pola, George Wyle	2:26
3.	"Joy to the World/For Unto Us a Child Is Born"	George Frideric Handel, Isaac Watts	2:33
4.	"Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)"	Amy Grant, Chris Eaton	5:29
5.	"O Come All Ye Faithful"	John Francis Wade	3:01
6.	"Grown-Up Christmas List"	David Foster, Linda Thompson, additional lyrics by Amy Grant	5:00
7.	"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"	Johnny Marks	2:07
8.	"Winter Wonderland"	Felix Bernard, Dick Smith	2:17
9.	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram	3:27
10.	"The Night Before Christmas"	Carly Simon	3:52
11.	"Emmanuel, God With Us"	Grant, Eaton, Robert Marshall	4:56
12.	"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Instrumental)"	Johann Sebastian Bach	4:47

Personnel

• Amy Grant – lead vocals
• Shane Keister – acoustic piano (4, 10), keyboards (8, 10, 11), string arrangements (10)
• Carl Marsh – synthesizer (4), keyboards (11, 12), orchestration (12)
• Robbie Buchanan – keyboards (6)
• Clare Fischer – acoustic piano (9)
• Blair Masters – keyboards (10, 11)
• Phil Keaggy – guitars (5)
• Tom Hemby – guitar (6, 12), acoustic guitar (10)
• Jerry McPherson – guitar (7), acoustic guitar (10)
• Dann Huff – guitar (10)
• Craig Nelson – bass (7, 9)
• David Hungate – bass (8, 10)
• Chris McHugh – drums (7)
• Steve Forman – percussion (7)
• Paul Leim – drums (8, 10), percussion (10)
• Harold Jones – drums (9)
• Mark O'Connor – violin (12)
• Ronn Huff – orchestration (1, 2, 3, 9), choral arrangements (3, 5, 11), conductor
• Alan Moore – orchestration (6)
• The London Studio Orchestra – strings (1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 12)
• Nat Peck – contractor
• The American Boychoir (3, 5, 10), directed by James Litton
• Chris Eaton – background vocals (2, 7, 11), acoustic piano (11)
• Marty McCall – background vocals (2, 7, 10)
• Marabeth Jordan – background vocals (2, 7, 10)
• Bonnie Keen – background vocals (2, 7, 10)
• John Darnall – children's choir director (10)
• Children's choir (10) – Jessica Owen, Kristina Owen, Carrie Gardner, Lisa Pardin, Asher Larrison, Emily Estes, Bethany Wright, Skyla Carnahan, Katy Dunham and Ellie Bannister

Production

• Brown Bannister – producer
• Ronn Huff – producer (2, 3)
• Amy Grant – executive producer
• Michael Blanton – executive producer
• Bill Deaton – tracking engineer
• Patrick Kelly – assistant engineer
• Rich Indelicato – assistant engineer
• Greg Parker – assistant engineer
• Steve Bishir – overdub engineer
• Anthony Zecco – overdub assistant engineer
• Brett Perry – overdub assistant engineer
• Martin Woodley – overdub assistant engineer
• Rail Rogut – overdub assistant engineer
• Michael O'Reilly – additional engineering
• Adrian Kerridge – orchestra sessions engineer
• James Collins – orchestra sessions assistant engineer
• Bill Schnee – mix engineer
• Noel Hazen – mix assistant
• Doug Sax – mastering at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles
• Steve Hall – remastering at Futuredisc, North Hollywood
• Traci Sterling – production coordinator
• Rich Frankel – art direction
• Chuck Beeson – art direction, design
• Rebecca Chamlee – design
• Victoria Pearson Cameron – photography

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1992	The Billboard 200	2
	Top Contemporary Christian	1
	Top Holiday Albums	1
1993	Top Pop Catalog	3

Singles - CCM Magazine/Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1992	Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)	Christian Radio–Adult Contemporary	1
2011		Christian Digital Song Sales	2

Commercial performance

Country	Sales	Certifications (sales thresholds)
Canada (CRIA)	50,000	Gold
United States (RIAA)	3,000,000	Platinum (3x)

References

1. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r133935/review
2. "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
3. "The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 1, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.