Christmas Party (The Monkees album)

Christmas Party
Studio album by The Monkees
Released	October 12, 2018 (2018-10-12)
Recorded	May, July–September 2018 Unknown, 1991 November 22, 1967 October 1976
Studio	Lucy's Meat Market (Los Angeles) Omelette Station (New York City) The Doghouse (Los Angeles) Beatland Tours (Atwater Village) Institute for the Musical Arts (Goshen)
Genre	Pop rock, Christmas music
Length	37:48
Label	Rhino
Producer	Adam Schlesinger, Chip Douglas, Christian Nesmith, Jonathan Nesmith, Peter Tork, James Lee Stanley
The Monkees chronology
Good Times! (2016) Christmas Party (2018) The Mike and Micky Show (2020)
Singles from Christmas Party
"Unwrap You at Christmas" Released: 2018

Christmas Party is the 13th and final studio album by the American pop rock band the Monkees, released on October 12, 2018, by Rhino Records. Produced mainly by Adam Schlesinger (with Michael Nesmith's tracks produced by his sons Christian and Jonathan), the album is the Monkees' first to focus on Christmas themes. It follows on the success of their 2016 album Good Times!. The two-year gap is the shortest between albums since the 1969/1970 releases of The Monkees Present and Changes. The album features surviving Monkees Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, and Peter Tork, as well as two posthumous contributions from Davy Jones.^[1]

The album features a mix of covers of earlier Christmas songs (from "Angels We Have Heard on High" and "Wonderful Christmastime" to the relatively obscure "Jesus Christ", originally by Big Star) and new holiday tunes written specifically for the album by several Good Times! contributors, including XTC's Andy Partridge, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Schlesinger.^[2] This is the only Monkees album on which there are no songs written by any member of the Monkees.

The Target store exclusive version features two additional tracks, "Riu Chiu" and "Christmas Is My Time of Year", vintage recordings from the group remastered and remixed by original Monkees producer Chip Douglas.^[3]