The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World

The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World is a compilation/remix album by Boney M. released simultaneously with greatest hits package Gold - 20 SUPER Hits in November 1992. The album is a slightly re-edited and remixed version of 1986's The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs.
After the chart success of the 1992 "Megamix", the 1978 Christmas number one "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord" was also re-issued as a single under the name "Christmas Megamix".
The Most Beautiful Christmas Songs of the World has since been re-packaged with new artwork and re-issued as A Wonderful Christmas Time in 1998 and Christmas Party in both 1998 and 2003.

Track listing

1. "Christmas Medley ("Silent Night, Holy Night" / "Snow Falls Over the Ground" / "Hear Ye the Message" / "Sweet BElls") (Traditional, Farian, Jay) - 7:15
   • Includes all three verses of "Silent Night, Holy Night" sung in English (as on the 1981 "Mary's Boy Child - The Christmas Album" UK album pressing)
2. "Oh Christmas Tree" (Traditional, Farian) - 2:54
3. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley, Farian) - 3:03
4. "Zion's Daughter" (George Frideric Handel, Traditional, Farian, Jay, Rulofs) - 3:50
5. "The First Noel" (William B. Sandys) - 3:03
6. "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" (Traditional, Farian) - 3:41
7. "Petit Papa Noël" (Martinet, Vincy) - 1:41
8. "Darkness Is Falling" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:02
9. "Joy to the World" (Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) - 2:32
10. "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:21
    • Edited version
11. "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont, Farian) - 3:28
12. "Feliz Navidad" (José Feliciano) - 2:21
13. "When a Child Is Born" (Jay, Rulofs) - 3:19
14. "Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 4:21
15. "Medley: Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" (Jester Hairston, Farian) - 5:09
    • 1992 remix
16. "Auld Lang Syne" (William Burns, Traditional) - 2:34

Personnel

• Liz Mitchell - lead vocals (except trk. 2, 5, 6, 9, 16), backing vocals
• Marcia Barrett - backing vocals (track 11, 12, 15)
• Frank Farian - backing vocals
• Reggie Tsiboe - lead vocals, backing vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 & 16)
• London Christmas Choir - choir (tracks 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13 & 14)
• Amy & Elaine Goff - lead- and backing vocals (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 & 16)
• London Philharmonic Orchestra - orchestra

Production

• Frank Farian - producer, remixer

Release history

• 1992 EU: Hansa / BMG 74321 119332.
• 1998 Germany: "A Wonderful Christmas Time" BMG-Ariola
• 1998 UK: "Christmas Party" Camden 74321 607882.
• 2003 UK: "Christmas Party" Camden 74321 607882 (alternate album art).

Single releases

Germany
7"

• "Christmas Megamix" ("Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord") (Radio Edit) - 3:58 / "Zion's Daughter" (MCI/BMG 74321 11933-7, 1992)

CD
* "Christmas Megamix" (MCI/BMG 74321 11933-2, 1992)

*# "Christmas Megamix" (Radio Edit) - 3:58

*# "Zion's Daughter"

*# "When a Child Is Born"

*# "Christmas Megamix" - 5:09
==Sources and external links==

• Rate Your Music, detailed discography
• [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Boney+M., Discogs.com, detailed discography]
• [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:a9foxqr5ldte~T1, All Music Guide, biography, discography etc.]