A Very Special Christmas 2

A Very Special Christmas 2
A Very Special Christmas 2
	Cover art by Keith Haring
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	October 20, 1992
Genre	Christmas music, Children's music
Length	69:34
Label	A&M
Producer	Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine, Robert Sargent Shriver
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1992 compilation album by Various artists

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A Very Special Christmas 2 is the second in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released on October 20, 1992, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine and Robert Sargent Shriver for A&M Records. Tupac Shakur was supposed to be featured on the album, but due to legal trouble his song was dropped.

On December 7, 2001, A Very Special Christmas 2 was certified Double Platinum for shipment of two million copies in the United States since its 1992 release.^[1] As of November 2014, it is the 21st best-selling Christmas/holiday album in the United States during the SoundScan era of music sales tracking (March 1991 – present), having sold 2,200,000 copies according to SoundScan.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Artist	Producer(s)	Time
1.	"Christmas All Over Again"	Tom Petty	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	Petty, Mike Campbell, Jimmy Iovine, Jeff Lynne	4:15
2.	"Jingle Bell Rock"	Joe Beal and Jim Boothe	Randy Travis	Richard Perry	4:01
3.	"The Christmas Song"	Mel Tormé and Bob Wells	Luther Vandross	Quincy Jones	4:30
4.	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie	Frank Sinatra and Cyndi Lauper	Phil Kaffel	2:37
5.	"The Birth of Christ"	Nathan Morris and Shawn Stockman	Boyz II Men	Morris, Stockman	2:50
6.	"Please Come Home for Christmas"	Charles Brown, Gene Redd	Jon Bon Jovi	Iovine	2:53
7.	"What Christmas Means to Me"	Anna Gordy Gaye, Allen Story and George Gordy	Paul Young	Don Was	2:53
8.	"O Christmas Tree"	Ernst Anschütz	Aretha Franklin	Marty Paich, David Paich	3:34
9.	"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"	Johnny Marks	Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love	Iovine, Danny Kortchmar	2:49
10.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	Michael Bolton	David Foster, Bolton, Dave Reitzas	3:39
11.	"Christmas Is"	Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels	Run-D.M.C.	Larry Smith, Run-D.M.C., Jam Master J	3:19
12.	"Christmas Time Again"	Nuno Bettencourt and Gary Cherone	Extreme	Bettencourt	5:06
13.	"Merry Christmas Baby"	Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore	Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt	Iovine	4:33
14.	"O Holy Night"	Adolphe-Charles Adam and John Sullivan Dwight	Tevin Campbell	Iovine, Jerry Hey^[a]	2:46
15.	"Sleigh Ride"	Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish	Debbie Gibson	Iovine, Jai Winding, Omar Hakim	3:13
16.	"What Child Is This?"	Traditional	Vanessa Williams	Gerry E. Brown, Williams	4:10
17.	"Blue Christmas"	Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson	Ann and Nancy Wilson	Scott Olson, N. Wilson, A. Wilson	3:48
18.	"Silent Night"	Josef Mohr and Franz X. Gruber	Wilson Phillips	Glen Ballard, Carnie Wilson^[a]	3:04
19.	"I Believe in You"	Bob Dylan	Sinéad O'Connor	O'Connor, Phil Ramone	5:39

^{^[a]} signifies a vocal producer

References

^ "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
^ Billboard Staff (2014-12-01). "The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2014-12-02.

External links

A Very Special Christmas 2 at Amazon.com
Special Olympics: A Very Special Christmas

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[1] "RIAA Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2014-12-02.

[2] Billboard Staff (2014-12-01). "The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2014-12-02.