Christmas at Our House is the fifteenth solo studio album by the American
country artist
Barbara Mandrell. The album was released in October 1984 on
MCA Records and was produced by Tom Collins. It was Mandrell's first album of
Christmas music.
Background and content
Christmas at Our House, as described by Bradley Torreano of Allmusic, "shows the country star adding her name to the countless musicians who have released personalized Christmas albums." The album includes ten tracks, including some new material. It includes two tributes of the Christmas season, the title track and "From Our House to Yours", which Torreano described as "down home". It also includes cover versions of Christmas standards such as "
I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "
Winter Wonderland"; it also introduced what would become a holiday standard, "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)". Torreano gave the album three out of five stars staying, "Her brand of country-pop may not appeal to all fans of the genre, but many country listeners will probably find this a nice Christmas album to play for the holidays."[2]
Release
Christmas at Our House was Mandrell's third album released in 1984, officially issued in October. The album peaked at #31 on the BillboardTop Country Albums chart in 1984. No singles were released from the album and it was her first album not to reach the
Billboard 200 albums chart since He Set My Life to Music in 1982.[3]Christmas at Our House was originally released as a vinyl
LP record on
MCA Records in 1984, with five songs on each side.[4] It was reissued as a
compact disc by MCA many years later.[2]
Track listing
Side One
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Christmas at Our House" (Archie Jordan, Don Pfrimmer)
