The Christmas Spirit is the first Christmas album and seventeenth album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in November 1963. It contains four original Christmas songs written by Cash and eight tracks originally written by other artists, including "Blue Christmas" (at this point best known through the version recorded by Cash's former Sun Records labelmate Elvis Presley), "Silent Night" and "Little Drummer Boy".

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The Christmas Spirit
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	November 11, 1963
Recorded	August 14, 1959–September 17, 1963
Genre	Pop Christmas country
Length	38:20
Label	Columbia
Producer	Don Law Frank Jones
Johnny Cash chronology
Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash (1963) The Christmas Spirit (1963) I Walk the Line (1964)
Singles from The Christmas Spirit
"The Little Drummer Boy" Released: October 1959

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• Johnny Cash - vocals, guitar
• Luther Perkins, Grady Martin, Jack Clement - guitar
• Marshall Grant - bass
• W.S. Holland, Buddy Harman - drums
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Bill Pursell - organ, piano
• Maybelle Carter - autoharp
• Anita Kerr - organ
• Bob Johnson - flute

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