What a Night! A Christmas Album

What a Night! A Christmas Album
Studio album by Harry Connick Jr.
Released	November 4, 2008
Recorded	August 21–30, 2008
Genre	Jazz, Christmas
Label	Sony/Columbia (U.S.)
Producer	Tracey Freeman
Harry Connick Jr. chronology
Oh, My NOLA (2007) What a Night! A Christmas Album (2008) Your Songs (2009)
Harry Connick Jr. Christmas albums chronology
Harry for the Holidays (2003) What a Night! A Christmas Album (2008)
Singles from What a Night! A Christmas Album
"Song for the Hopeful" Released: October 7, 2008

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Metromix	[2]
Windsor Star	[3]
Mercury News	(Favorable)[4]
Eye Weekly	[5]

What a Night! A Christmas Album, by American singer, pianist and bandleader Harry Connick Jr., was released on November 4, 2008.,^[6] being his third Christmas album, since 1993's When My Heart Finds Christmas and 2003's Harry for the Holidays. The album consists of new recordings of Christmas classics, and new songs written by Connick.^[7]

The first public mentioning of recording the album, came in an interview in The Times-Picayune in June 2008.^[8]

The album was first called Christmas Day, but the title was changed in September 2008, to What a Night! A Christmas Album.

The track "Song for the Hopeful", is a duet with Kim Burrell. The song was written by Connick for the 2008 television film Living Proof.^[9] Burell is also featured on "Let There Be Peace On Earth".

Connick has three daughters with his wife Jill Goodacre, and their middle daughter Sarah Kate, sings a duet with him on the track "Winter Wonderland".^[10]

When the track list was first announced, the songs "Christmas Time is Here" and "Trinity", was part of the album. In early October, those two tracks were replaced with two new tracks: "Christmas Day", and an instrumental version of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy".^[10]