Ultimate Christmas

"Christmas Time Is Here Again" redirects here. For the song by the Beatles, see Christmas Time (Is Here Again).

"Winter Symphony" redirects here. For the album by Sarah Brightman, see A Winter Symphony.

Ultimate Christmas
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Compilation album by The Beach Boys
Released	22 September 1998
Recorded	October 1963–November 1977
Genre	Rock
Length	61:58
Label	Capitol
Producer	Brad Elliot
The Beach Boys chronology
Endless Harmony Soundtrack (1998)Endless Harmony Soundtrack1998 Ultimate Christmas (1998) The Capitol Years (1999)The Capitol Years1999

Ultimate Christmas is a 1998 compilation of Christmas music by the Beach Boys released on Capitol Records. It rounds up all of the tracks from 1964's The Beach Boys' Christmas Album in addition to a handful of unreleased tracks from the aborted Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys album in 1977, some of which were revised to be included on M.I.U. Album the following year.

As a collection of the Beach Boys' Christmas tunes, Ultimate Christmas manages to round up virtually every song the band recorded and released on the subject. In 2004 Capitol took it out of print and replaced it with Christmas with The Beach Boys, essentially the same compilation with new cover art and one song ("Christmas Time Is Here Again") removed from the tracklist.

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Ultimate Christmas (Capitol 72434 95734 2 0) never charted in the US or the UK.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Little Saint Nick"	Brian Wilson, Mike Love	Mike Love	2:01
2.	"The Man with All the Toys"	Brian Wilson, Love	Brian Wilson and Love	1:32
3.	"Santa's Beard"	Brian Wilson, Love	Love	2:00
4.	"Merry Christmas, Baby"	Brian Wilson	Love	2:21
5.	"Christmas Day"	Brian Wilson	Al Jardine	1:47
6.	"Frosty the Snowman"	Steve Nelson, Jack Rollins	Brian Wilson	1:54
7.	"We Three Kings of Orient Are"	John Henry Hopkins	Love and Brian Wilson	4:03
8.	"Blue Christmas"	Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson	Brian Wilson	3:09
9.	"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"	J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie	Brian Wilson and Love	2:20
10.	"White Christmas"	Irving Berlin	Brian Wilson	2:29
11.	"I'll Be Home for Christmas"	Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram	Brian Wilson	2:44
12.	"Auld Lang Syne"	Traditional; arranged by Brian Wilson	group	1:19
13.	"Little Saint Nick" (Single version)	Brian Wilson, Love	Love	2:08
14.	"Auld Lang Syne" (Alternate mix)	Traditional; arranged by Brian Wilson	group	1:23
15.	"Little Saint Nick" (Alternate version)	Brian Wilson, Love	Brian Wilson and Love	2:04
16.	"Child of Winter (Christmas Song)"	Brian Wilson, Stephen Kalinich	Brian Wilson and Love	2:49
17.	"Santa's Got an Airplane"	Alan Jardine, Brian Wilson, Love	Love and Al Jardine	3:09
18.	"Christmas Time Is Here Again"	Buddy Holly, Norman Petty, Jerry Allison, Jardine	Jardine	3:02
19.	"Winter Symphony"	Brian Wilson	Brian Wilson	3:00
20.	"(I Saw Santa) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"	Brian Wilson, Jardine	Al, Matt and Adam Jardine	2:23
21.	"Melekalikimaka" (aka "Kona Christmas")	Jardine, Love	Love and Jardine	2:34
22.	"Bells of Christmas"	Jardine, Ron Altbach, Love	Love	2:44
23.	"Morning Christmas"	Dennis Wilson	Dennis Wilson	3:22
24.	"Toy Drive Public Service Announcement"			1:23
25.	"Dennis Wilson Christmas Message"			0:31
26.	"Brian Wilson Christmas Interview"			2:35