The Animals' Christmas

The Animals' Christmas
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1986
RecordedDecember 23, 1984 December 12, 1985
GenrePop, Christmas music
Length41:27
LabelColumbia
ProducerArt Garfunkel, Jimmy Webb, Geoff Emerick
Art Garfunkel chronology
The Art Garfunkel Album
(1984)
The Animals' Christmas
(1986)
Lefty
(1988)
Amy Grant chronology
The Collection
(1986)
The Animals' Christmas
(1986)
Lead Me On
(1988)

The Animals' Christmas is the sixth solo studio album and the first Christmas album by vocalist Art Garfunkel, and is a collaborative album with Amy Grant, released in October 1986 by Columbia Records. The album was written by Jimmy Webb and features vocals by Garfunkel, Grant, and Wimbledon King's College Choir. The Animals' Christmas tells the story of the Nativity of Jesus from the perspective of the animals present. The album received positive reviews, with one writer calling it "one of the best Christmas albums of the '80s."[1] The album failed to chart.

  1. ^ Viglione, Joe. "The Animals' Christmas". Allmusic. Retrieved October 27, 2012.