An Old-Fashioned Christmas

Infobox Album
Name = An Old-Fashioned Christmas
Type = Album
Longtype =
Artist = The Carpenters


Released = 1984
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Holiday
Length =
Label = A&M Records
Producer = Richard Carpenter | Last album = "Voice of the Heart"
(1983)
This album = "An Old-Fashioned Christmas"
(1984)
Next album = "Lovelines"
(1989)|

"An Old-Fashioned Christmas" is a Christmas album from The Carpenters, released in 1984 after the tragic death of leader Karen Carpenter.

The album project had its genesis in several unused tracks from the Carpenters' previous Christmas album, 1978's "Christmas Portrait". Richard Carpenter took these tracks and recorded new material around them, and this album was the end result. The album (in its original LP and cassette form) includes the slow version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (a faster version appeared on the "Christmas Portrait" album).

A 1984 expanded CD reissue of "Christmas Portrait" included several tracks from "An Old Fashioned Christmas". In 1996 a 2-CD set, "Christmas Collection", was issued containing both albums in their original running order.

ingles

*Santa Claus Is Coming To Town US 7" single (1974) A&M 1648 1.Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 2.Merry Christmas Darling

*Little Altar Boy US 7" single (1984) A&M 2700 1.Little Altar Boy 2.Do You Hear What I Hear?