Happy Christmas (compilation album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Happy Christmas

| type = compilation

| artist = Various artists

| cover =Happy Christmas (compilation album).jpg

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| released = October 20, 1998

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| genre = Holiday

| length = 65:44

| label = BEC

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| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Happy Christmas series

| type = compilation

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| title = Happy Christmas

| year = 1998

| next_title = Vol. 2

| next_year = 1999

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Happy Christmas is a 1998 Christmas music compilation album released by BEC Records featuring artists from a variety of styles who were signed to BEC and its parent label, Tooth & Nail Records, and its parent EMI Christian Music. While most songs are classic Christmas songs, some are original tunes. The album is the first in what would later become a series of releases.

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/happy-christmas-a-bec-holiday-collection-mw0000044000|title=Happy Christmas: A BEC Holiday Collection|author=Rodney Batdorf|work=AllMusic|accessdate=October 25, 2015}}

| rev2 = HM Magazine

| rev2Score =positive{{cite journal |last=McGovern |first=Brian Vincent |date=January–February 1999 |title=Album Reviews: Various Happy Christmas |journal=HM Magazine |issn=1066-6923 |issue=75 |pages=62 |url=http://www.hmmagazine.com/issue75/75Reviews.htm |access-date=April 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010713013004/http://www.hmmagazine.com/issue75/75Reviews.htm |archive-date=July 13, 2001 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

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Track listing

{{Track listing

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| title1 = Joy to the World

| extra1 = The O.C. Supertones

| length1 = 2:49

| title2 = Winter Wonderland

| extra2 = Joy Electric

| length2 = 2:22

| title3 = O Come Emmanuel

| extra3 = Chasing Furies

| length3 = 3:11

| title4 = A Holiday Song

| extra4 = Starflyer 59

| length4 = 2:08

| title5 = You Gotta Get Up

| extra5 = Five Iron Frenzy

| length5 = 2:29

| title6 = Heaven's Got a Baby

| extra6 = Sarah Masen

| length6 = 4:28

| title7 = Away in a Manger

| extra7 = Plankeye

| length7 = 3:16

| title8 = God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

| extra8 = Almonzo

| length8 = 2:30

| title9 = Feliz Navidad

| extra9 = Pep Squad

| length9 = 2:47

| title10 = Holly Jolly Christmas

| extra10 = Bon Voyage

| length10 = 2:37

| title11 = O Holy Night

| extra11 = Seven Day Jesus

| length11 = 5:28

| title12 = Mele Kalikimaka

| extra12 = Flight 180

| length12 = 2:36

| title13 = Evergreen

| extra13 = Switchfoot

| length13 = 4:44

| title14 = Do You Hear What I Hear?

| extra14 = House of Wires

| length14 = 4:16

| title15 = Asia Minor

| extra15 = Fold Zandura

| length15 = 4:06

| title16 = It's Always Christmas at My House

| extra16 = The Huntingtons

| length16 = 4:38

| title17 = We Three Kings

| extra17 = The Dingees

| length17 = 3:49

| title18 = Savior of the Fools

| extra18 = Puller

| length18 = 7:19

| total_length = 65:33{{cite web|url=http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/HappyChristmas1.asp|title=various artists, "Happy Christmas" Review|work=jesusfreakhideout.com|accessdate=October 25, 2015}}

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References

Category:1998 Christmas albums

Category:Christmas albums by American artists

Category:Happy Christmas albums

Category:Record label compilation albums

Category:1998 compilation albums