| "This Christmas" | ||||
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:This_Christmas_by_Donny_Hathaway_US_vinyl.png) 1970 US retail vinyl release | ||||
| Single by Donny Hathaway | ||||
| B-side | "Be There" | |||
| Released | December 9, 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Studio | Audio Finishers Studio, Chicago | |||
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| Length | 3:51 | |||
| Label | Atco Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Donny Hathaway (as "Donny Pitts") and Nadine Theresa McKinnor | |||
| Producer(s) | Don-Ric Enterprises[2] | |||
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| "This Christmas" on YouTube | ||||
"This Christmas" is a song by American soul musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records.[3] The song gained renewed popularity when it was included in 1991 on Atco Records' revised edition of their 1968 Soul Christmas compilation album[4] and has since become a modern Christmas standard, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers reporting that it was the 30th most-performed holiday song of all time.[5]
Phil Upchurch said the song was "absolutely the premiere holiday song written by an African American". It was written by Hathaway and Nadine McKinnor.[6]
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- ^ "ASCAP Unwraps the Top 30 Holiday Songs of the Century". ASCAP. Retrieved December 19, 2014.
- ^ "This Christmas - Donny Hathaway". AllMusic. Retrieved December 19, 2014.