Winter Wonderland (Paul Carrack album)

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2005 studio album by Paul Carrack

Winter Wonderland

Studio album by

Paul Carrack

Released| 2005
Genre|

* Big band
* Christmas

Length| 36:50
Label| Carrack-UK
Producer| Chris Walden
Paul Carrack chronology
| It Ain't Over
(2003)  | Winter Wonderland
(2005)  | Old, New, Borrowed, And Blue
(2007)

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A Soulful Christmas cover

Artwork for the 2005 European release version, A Soulful Christmas

Winter Wonderland is the tenth solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Paul Carrack, and his first after leaving the supergroup Mike + The Mechanics. It was originally released in 2005 on Carrack's own Carrack-UK label.

This was Carrack's first holiday-themed album, and was recorded in collaboration with the SWR Big Band. The songs are mostly familiar Christmas/winter-themed classics; Carrack covers his own "Beautiful World" as the album's final track.

The album was issued in Europe as A Soulful Christmas, with an altered running order and four additional tracks.

## Track listing[edit]

No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Winter Wonderland"| Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith| 3:29
2.| "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"| Johnny Marks| 3:19
3.| "White Christmas"| Irving Berlin| 3:26
4.| "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"| Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin| 4:16
5.| "Let It Snow"| Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne| 2:39
6.| "The Christmas Song"| Robert Wells, Mel Tormé| 3:31
7.| "Sleigh Ride"| Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish| 2:32
8.| "What A Wonderful World"| Bob Thiele, George David Weiss| 3:10
9.| "Silver Bells"| Jay Livingston, Ray Evans| 3:37
10.| "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"| Johnny Marks| 2:37
11.| "Beautiful World"| Paul Carrack, T-Bone Wolk| 4:14

### A Soulful Christmas track listing[edit]

This album was released in Europe with a revised track listing as A Soulful Christmas. This version of the album features 4 additional tracks: "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "I Say A Little Prayer", and 2 duet versions of "Silent Night",

No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Let It Snow"| Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne|
2.| "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"| Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin|
3.| "Silent Night (duet with Lindsay Dracass)"| Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr| 2:44
4.| "Winter Wonderland"| Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith|
5.| "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"| Johnny Marks|
6.| "I'll Be Home for Christmas"| Kim Gannon, Walter Kent| 2:29
7.| "The Christmas Song"| Robert Wells, Mel Tormé|
8.| "Silver Bells"| Jay Livingston, Ray Evans|
9.| "White Christmas"| Irving Berlin|
10.| "I Say A Little Prayer"| Burt Bacharach, Hal David| 3:52
11.| "Sleigh Ride"| Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish|
12.| "What a Wonderful World"| Bob Thiele, George David Weiss|
13.| "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree"| Johnny Marks|
14.| "Beautiful World"| Paul Carrack, T-Bone Wolk|
15.| "Silent Night / Stille Nacht  (duet with Stefan Gwildis)"| Gruber, Mohr| 2:44

## Personnel[edit]

* Paul Carrack – vocals
* Lindsay Dracass – vocals (3)
* Stefan Gwildis – vocals (15)
* Chris Walden – conductor, arrangements (1-4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 15)
* Steve Sidwell – arrangements (5, 14)
* Dieter Reith – arrangements (8, 11, 13)
* Conny Schock – arrangements (10)
* Klaus-Peter Schöpfer – arrangements (10)

SWR Big Band

* Conny Schock – keyboards
* Klaus Wagenleiter – keyboards, acoustic piano
* Dieter Reith – organ
* Klaus-Peter Schöpfer – guitars
* Decebal Badila – bass
* Guido Jöris and Thomas Simmerl – drums
* Jörg Gebhardt – percussion
* Klaus Graf, Jörg Kaufmann, Axel Kühn, Andreas Maile and Pierre Paquette – saxophones, woodwinds
* Ian Cumming, Marc Godfroid, Ernst Hutter and Georg Maus – trombone
* Felice Civitareale, Karl Farrent, Claus Reichstaller and Rudi Reindl – trumpet, flugelhorn

Production

* Chris Walden – producer
* Klaus-Peter Schöpfer – additional producer, mixing
* Ulrich de Veer – executive producer
* Karl Farrent – executive producer
* Rudi Reindl – executive producer
* Volker Neumann – recording engineer
* Manfred Deppe – recording supervisor
* Tanja Hiesch – recording assistant
* Jürgen Koppers – mastering
* Felix Gaubatz – editorial contributor
* Michael Golla – A&R consultant
* WAPS (Hamburg, Germany) – design
* Marcus Weber – photography
* Hans-Peter Zachary – album concept, liner notes

## References[edit]

## External links[edit]

* Winter Wonderland at AllMusic
* Winter Wonderland at Discogs (list of releases)

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Paul Carrack

Studio albums|

* Nightbird (1980)
* Suburban Voodoo (1982)
* One Good Reason (1987)
* Groove Approved (1989)
* Blue Views (1996)
* Beautiful World (1997)
* Satisfy My Soul (2000)
* Groovin' (2001)
* It Ain't Over (2003)
* Winter Wonderland (a.k.a. A Soulful Christmas) (2005)
* Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2007)
* I Know That Name (2008)
* A Different Hat (2010)
* Good Feeling (2012)
* Rain or Shine (2013)
* Soul Shadows (2016)
* These Days (2018)

Songs|

* "When You Walk in the Room"
* "Don't Shed a Tear"
* "Button Off My Shirt"
* "Love Will Keep Us Alive"

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