Editing A Partridge Family Christmas Card

{{Infobox album
| name       = A Partridge Family Christmas Card
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[The Partridge Family]]
| cover      = A Partridge Family Christmas Card.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = November 1971
| recorded   = 1971
| venue      =
| studio     = [[United Western Recorders|United Western]] (Hollywood)
| genre      = [[Rock music|Rock]]/[[Christmas music|Christmas]]
| length     = 30:23
| label      = [[Bell Records|Bell]]
| producer   = [[Wes Farrell]]
| prev_title = [[Sound Magazine]]
| prev_year  = 1971
| next_title = [[Shopping Bag]]
| next_year  = 1972
| misc       = {{Extra album cover
 | header  = Alternative cover
 | type    = album
 | cover   = A Partridge Family Christmas Card CD.jpg
 | border  =
 | alt     =
 | caption = 1992 CD reissue cover
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} <ref Name=AM1>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000092420 |label=Review |first=AllMusic |last=Rating |access-date=17 March 2020 }}</ref>
}}
'''''A Partridge Family Christmas Card''''' is a [[Christmas music|Christmas album]] (and the fourth studio album) by [[the Partridge Family]], released in November 1971. The album's case contains a reproduction of a [[Christmas card]] signed by the whole [[The Partridge Family|Partridge Family]], the stars of a 1970s sitcom. The song "My Christmas Card to You" was original, but the remainder of the tracks were standards.  Like most of the Partridge Family songs, the lead vocals are sung by [[David Cassidy]], who played Keith Partridge in the show.  The album also features one of the few Partridge Family recordings featuring [[Shirley Jones]] as the lead singer ("The Christmas Song").

''A Partridge Family Christmas Card'' was the [[Best-selling Christmas/holiday albums in the United States#1970s|best-selling Christmas album in the United States]] during the [[Christmas]] season of 1971.  It was the number 1 album on ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine's special Christmas Albums sales chart for all four weeks that the magazine published the chart that year.<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn  | first = Joel | title = Christmas in the Charts (1920-2004) | publisher = Record Research Inc. | year=2004 | location = Wisconsin  | page = 179 | isbn = 0-89820-161-6 }}</ref>

The album was reissued in 1992 on CD and is also available as mp3 downloads.

Lead guitarist for [[Metallica]], [[Kirk Hammett]],  cited this record to be the first album he owned during an appearance on "[[Jimmy Kimmel Live!|Jimmy Kimmel Live]]!" <ref>{{Cite web |last=Childers |first=Chad|date=2023-04-11 |title=Metallica Members Reveal the First Albums They Ever Owned |url=https://loudwire.com/metallica-members-first-albums-they-owned/ |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}</ref>

==Track listing==
Only two tracks, "Winter Wonderland" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", were featured on the TV show (in the second-season episode "Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa")

==Track listing==
{{track listing
| headline          = Side one
| title1            = My Christmas Card to You
| writer1           = [[Tony Romeo]]
| length1           = 2:33
| title2            = [[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]
| writer2           = [[Irving Berlin]]
| length2           = 2:45
| title3            = [[Santa Claus Is Coming to Town]]
| writer3           = {{hlist|[[Haven Gillespie]]|[[J. Fred Coots]]}}
| length3           = 2:28
| title4            = [[Blue Christmas (song)|Blue Christmas]]
| writer4           = {{hlist|Billy Hayes|Jay W. Johnson}}
| length4           = 3:27
| title5            = [[Jingle Bells]]
| note5             = arranged by [[Wes Farrell]]
| writer5           = [[James Lord Pierpont]]
| length5           = 2:54
| title6            = [[The Christmas Song]]
| writer6           = {{hlist|[[Mel Tormé]]|[[Robert Wells (songwriter)|Robert Wells]]}}
| length6           = 2:30
}}

{{track listing
| headline          = Side two
| total_length      = 30:23
| title1            = [[Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree]]
| writer1           = [[Johnny Marks]]
| length1           = 2:34
| title2            = [[Winter Wonderland]]
| writer2           = {{hlist|[[Richard Bernhard Smith|Richard B. Smith]]|[[Felix Bernard]]}}
| length2           = 2:19
| title3            = [[Frosty the Snowman]]
| writer3           = {{hlist|[[Walter E. Rollins|Jack Rollins]]|[[Steve Nelson (songwriter)|Steve Nelson]]}}
| length3           = 3:51
| title4            = [[Sleigh Ride]]
| writer4           = {{hlist|[[Leroy Anderson]]|[[Mitchell Parish]]}}
| length4           = 2:40
| title5            = [[Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas]]
| writer5           = {{hlist|[[Hugh Martin]]|[[Ralph Blane]]}}
| length5           = 2:22
}}

==Personnel==
*[[Dennis Budimir]], [[Louie Shelton]] - guitar
*[[Max Bennett (musician)|Max Bennett]] - bass
*[[Mike Melvoin]] - piano
*[[Hal Blaine]] - drums
*[[Jackie Ward]], [[John Bahler]], [[Ron Hicklin]], Tom Bahler - background vocals
*[[Wes Farrell]] - arrangement of rhythm tracks
*John Bahler - arrangement of vocal background

Track list and credits verified from the album's liner notes.<ref name=PF>{{Cite AV media notes |title=A Partridge Family Christmas Card |others=The Partridge Family |type=liner notes |year=1971 |publisher=[[Bell Records]] |id=M 86066}}</ref>

==Recording dates==

August 25, 1971
*"White Christmas"
*"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"

August 26, 1971
*"Blue Christmas"
*"Jingle Bells"
*"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
*"Winter Wonderland"
*"Frosty the Snowman"

August 28, 1971
*"My Christmas Card to You"
*"The Christmas Song"
*"Sleigh Ride"
*"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

See recording dates for this and other Partridge Family albums at ''The Partridge Family Recording Sessions''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cmongethappy.com/aguide/recordingsessions.html |title=The Partridge Family Recording Sessions |publisher=cmongethappy |access-date=18 March 2020 }}</ref>

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable"
! Chart (1972)
! Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|UK|45|artist=Partridge Family}}
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Pop Christmas albums]]