"Christmas Lullaby" was written by Ann Hampton Callaway, who had previously collaborated with Streisand on Higher Ground (1997) and A Love Like Ours (1999). "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe" was considered by the staff at Show Music to be one of the many songs on the album to "focus on love". "Snowbound" was written by Russell Faith and Clarence Kehner, is set in a "moderately slow" tempo, and features the use of a piano. Streisand's cover of the latter song was described as " an extremely sad song" by Ruhlmann. A "jazzy" rendition of Frank Loesser's " What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" is the third song, followed by a reworked cover of "I Remember" by Stephen Sondheim.
Author Tom Santopietro described the song's message as "an embrace of the holidays filled with honest sentiment". "A Christmas Love Song" is the second track and was written by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Johnny Mandel. The album opens with a cover of "I'll Be Home for Christmas", a war song written by Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, and Buck Ram William Ruhlmann from AllMusic considered the inclusion of this track on Christmas Memories to reflect Streisand's "mature perspective that very much takes loss into consideration". A sampler album/ extended play featuring five tracks from Christmas Memories was also released in 2001 and includes " Grown-Up Christmas List", " It Must Have Been the Mistletoe", "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "Closer", and "One God". To promote the album, Columbia Records issued advertisements in several American magazines, including in InStyle, People, Talk, and Vanity Fair. Ĭhristmas Memories was released on October 30, 2001, by Columbia. According to the liner notes, Streisand dedicated the album to the late artist Stephan Weiss, husband of fashion designer Donna Karan, who was close friends with Streisand before his death in June 2001. Streisand and Jay Landers are credited as the executive producers of Christmas Memories, with musicians David Foster and William Ross also receiving additional production credits. Sessions took place throughout California and in North Vancouver. Streisand began taking part in recording sessions for the album on Jon this day, she recorded both " I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "I Remember". Streisand's cover of " It Must Have Been the Mistletoe" charted on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States, peaking at number 28.Ĭhristmas Memories is Barbra Streisand's second Christmas album, following 1967's A Christmas Album.
It also charted in the United States, where it peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 1,000,000 copies. Commercially, it entered the charts in Canada and the United Kingdom. Christmas Memories received a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album in 2003. Other reviewers called the album "beautifully rendered" and "excellent". The record's mood was described as melancholic, which music critics found fitting due to the album's release occurring soon after the September 11 attacks. To promote Christmas Memories, Columbia Records released an advance sampler version of the album titled A Voice for All Seasons. The album contains several cover versions of various holiday songs. It was executive-produced by Streisand and Jay Landers, while William Ross and David Foster served as additional producers. Streisand recorded the album during July, August, and September 2001 in various recording studios throughout California and in North Vancouver. It was released on October 30, 2001, by Columbia. Christmas Memories is the second Christmas album and twenty-ninth studio release by American singer Barbra Streisand.
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