Amy Grant Releases 200th Christmas Album

Babylon Bee ^ | 12/15/16

[SoFloFreeper]

Sparrow Records and Christian recording artist Amy Grant announced Thursday the release of her new Christmas album, which becomes the 200th Christmas collection Grant has produced in her career, a record among all recording artists.

The latest offering, Greatest Hits From This Year’s Christmas Albums, which compiles some of the best songs from the other six Christmas albums Grant has released this year, arrived on shelves to a robust response.

Industry experts attribute the instant success of the album to a growing sense of unrest among Christians, who had not been blessed by a new Amy Grant Christmas album in almost three months.

Since Grant’s iconic “A Christmas Album” was released in 1983, she has compiled an impressive, extensive list of yuletide offerings, including bestsellers Home For Christmas, Christmas in My Backyard, My Second Best Christmas, Christmas All Year, Christmas: The Christmas Album, We Want Christmas and We Want It Now, We Bet You’ll Buy Another Amy Grant Christmas Album, From Christmas to Christmas, the Latin-flavored Mi Christmas Su Christmas, and 1998’s two-volume set The Amy Grant and Friends Christmas Anthology Collection Live From Tennessee.

A spokesperson for Grant says she hopes the album will produce a sense of wonder and anticipation for the release of Volume Two, due out next week.

[mountn man]

Supposedly, Gary Chapman had a terrible drinking problem during their marriage (and after)(partial cause of the disintegration of his second marriage).

[dp0622]

1 a year.

[SoFloFreeper]

yes it is:

[mountn man]

I got their album this year.

[HarleyD]

LOTS of people have done "Mary Did You Know" But Mark Lowry does it best.

I love Pentatonix version of "Mary Did You Know".

[dp0622]

it breaks my heart but they don’t have the same an impact on me anymore like they did when the family kids were young. I’m 48. should get Grand nephew or niece in 2 years

[Charles Martel]

like dogs barking "Jingle Bells."

The only way that tune is acceptable is played through the single radio speaker of a '50s-vintage pickup truck's AM radio.

[Arthur McGowan]

The barking dogs record is SIXTY YEARS OLD, yet people always cite it as an example of recent decadence.

[xp38]

Christmas albums are easy to make and sell for artists and they get a new injection of sales each year unlike other music.

[Salamander]

That is the one BI album I did not buy.

:D

[Buckeye McFrog]

'Neath the Midnight Star
They cried "Ho-san-nah!"
With a Rebel yell
They cried "Ho-san-nah!"
YEEEOOOOOOWWWW!!!!!
As the Wise Men came
They cried "Ho-san-nah!"
Peace, goodwill towards men
They cried "Ho-san-nah!"
Ho-san-nah.....nah....nah......nah.....

[Buckeye McFrog]

Christmas albums are easy to make and sell for artists and they get a new injection of sales each year unlike other music.

Not to mention most of the material is in the Public Domain!

[Dr. Sivana]

The barking dogs record is SIXTY YEARS OLD, yet people always cite it as an example of recent decadence.

Well, the today's talentless dogs can't pull it off without "auto-tune".

Each generation has its own decadence. Two earlier references I heard was to "The Aba-Daba Honeymoon" and the similarly themed "Muskrat Love".

[mountn man]

I made it about 15 seconds in.

Man...did he put me in the Christmas spirit...I wanted to smash him in the face...

REPEATEDLY

Merry Christmas you filthy animal
(Him, not you)

[Salamander]

Okeydokey, then.

o.O

[fwdude]

She did an interview for the "gay" press in 2010 in which she tacitly affirmed homosexuality.

He hedges on any response on questions about redefined marriage. You can tell she is ambiguous on purpose. There is no reason not to proclaim revealed truth when asked point-blank about it unless you don't believe the truth.

"LGBT INTERVIEWER: So how do you respond to people when they ask you about your feelings on gay marriage?
GRANT: In the same way that I did not tell one person who I voted for. I don't. I never talk about anything like that."

[Buckeye McFrog]

Well, the today's talentless dogs can't pull it off without "auto-tune".

[jjotto]

Not only was the Singing Dogs thing released in 1955, it was only the b-side of ‘Oh, Susanna’. Probably the tune fit the spliced barking cuts the Danish recording engineers had available. So it was likely accidental.

[Vermont Lt]

I never really “got” the excitement about Amy. Your geese kind of sum it up. Good post.

[mountn man]

Jews singing Christmas Carols.....a sure sign of the Second Coming.
Granted, it,s not singing, but you get the idea.