Count Your Blessings (compilation album)

Count Your Blessings is a 1994 Christmas album, taking its title from the song of the same name included as its first track, presenting a concert recorded by Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams.[1] The concert was broadcast on CBC Radio in Canada, and National Public Radio in the United States, in 1993.[2]

Count Your Blessings
Live album by
Recorded1993
GenreChristmas music
LabelCBC Records

The concert presented a program of traditional Christmas music, both well-known standards and lesser-known songs.[3] It also included three original Christmas-themed songs written by the artists themselves: O'Hara's "Never, No", Siberry's "Are You Burning, Little Candle?" and Williams' "A Holy Thing".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Count Your Blessings" (3:19) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
  2. "Please Come Home for Christmas" (2:35) - performed by Cole
  3. "White Christmas" (2:46) - performed by O'Hara
  4. "Un Flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle" (3:38) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
  5. "What Is This Fragrance?" (2:15) - performed by O'Hara
  6. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (3:12) - performed by Williams
  7. "Carol of the Bells" (3:07) - performed by Cole, Jenkins, Siberry
  8. "Never, No" (2:05) - performed by O'Hara
  9. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (3:07) - performed by Jenkins
  10. "Are You Burning, Little Candle?" (2:43) - performed by Siberry
  11. "Deck the Halls" (2:41) - performed by Cole
  12. "A Holy Thing" (3:37) - performed by Williams
  13. "In the Bleak Midwinter" (4:27) - performed by Siberry
  14. "Silent Night" (5:25)

References

  1. "Spirit, sincerity and passion : Holly Cole and friends remind you to Count Your Blessings". The Record, December 8, 1994.
  2. "CBC opens doors for Christmas". Toronto Star, December 12, 1993.
  3. "Spend Christmas under the stars". Ottawa Citizen, December 17, 1994.


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