{"id":11315,"date":"2014-10-05T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/earth-wind-and-fire-releasing-christmas-album\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T13:41:12","slug":"earth-wind-and-fire-releasing-christmas-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/earth-wind-and-fire-releasing-christmas-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind And Fire Releasing Christmas Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary band Earth, Wind and Fire has announced they are releasing a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> album later this month to be called \u201cHoliday\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoliday\u201d features seasonal standards like \u201cWinter Wonderland,\u201d \u201cThe Little Drummer Boy,\u201d \u201cSleigh Ride,\u201d \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d, and carols \u201cJoy to the World,\u201d \u201cOh Come All Ye Faithful,\u201d \u201cWhat Child Is This?,\u201d \u201cAway in a Manger,\u201d \u201cThe First No\u00ebl\u201d, as well as the traditional Japanese winter song \u201cSnow\u201d, a modern day <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> song \u201cEvery Day Is Like Christmas\u201d and new and original songs \u201cHappy Seasons\u201d (inspired by \u201cHappy Feelin\u2019), and \u201cDecember\u201d (inspired by \u201cSeptember\u201d) featuring original vocals from Maurice White.<\/p>\n<p>Lead vocalist and Earth, Wind &amp; Fire co-founder Philip Bailey says, \u2018This album is the band\u2019s first and only holiday music project. We are very proud to offer it as a labor of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> to all of our fans and soon to be. Enjoy and happy holidays from our families to all of yours.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018Holiday\u2019, album was a joy to record, it is a celebration of tradition, <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">love<\/a> and spirituality, some of the elements of Earth, Wind &amp; Fire. From our families to yours, we wish you a happy holiday\u201d, said EWF\u2019s co-founder Verdine White.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Philip Bailey and Myron McKinley (the band\u2019s Musical Director) \u2018 \u2018Holiday\u2019 \u2013 Earth Wind &amp; Fire\u2019s 21st album.<\/p>\n<p>Earth, Wind &amp; Fire \u2018Holiday\u2019 Track listing: <\/p>\n<p>1. Joy to the World<br \/>\n2. Happy Seasons<br \/>\n3. Oh Come All Ye Faithful<br \/>\n4. Winter Wonderland<br \/>\n5. What Child Is This?<br \/>\n6. Away In a Manger<br \/>\n7. The Little Drummer Boy<br \/>\n8. Every Day Is Like <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a><br \/>\n9. The First No\u00ebl<br \/>\n10. Sleigh Ride<br \/>\n11. Snow<br \/>\n12. Jingle Bell Rock<br \/>\n13. December<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary band Earth, Wind and Fire has announced they are releasing a Christmas album later this month to be called \u201cHoliday\u201d. \u201cHoliday\u201d features seasonal standards like \u201cWinter Wonderland,\u201d \u201cThe Little Drummer Boy,\u201d \u201cSleigh Ride,\u201d \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d, and carols \u201cJoy to the World,\u201d \u201cOh Come All Ye Faithful,\u201d \u201cWhat Child Is This?,\u201d \u201cAway in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-11315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-music","tag-christmas-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}