Christmas Eve and Other Stories is the debut studio album by the American rock band Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was released on October 15, 1996, through Lava Records and Atlantic Records. It is the first album in the band's "Christmas trilogy", with The Christmas Attic (1998) and The Lost Christmas Eve (2004) coming afterward. All three albums, as well as their The Ghosts of Christmas Eve DVD, were featured in the box set of The Christmas Trilogy. The album's cover art was created by Edgar Jerins.

The album became one of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time in the U.S. and has been certified 3× platinum by the RIAA for selling 3 million copies in the US. As of November 2016, the album track "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" has sold 1.3 million downloads, becoming one of the best-selling Christmas songs of all time in the US as well.

 

 

An Angel Came Down     3:51

O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night (Instrumental)     4:19

A Star To Follow     3:49

First Snow (Instrumental)     3:52

The Silent Nutcracker (Instrumental)     2:22

A Mad Russian's Christmas (Instrumental)     4:42

The Prince Of Peace     3:32

Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 (Instrumental)     3:25

Good King Joy     6:35

Ornament     3:37

The First Noel (Instrumental)     0:54

Old City Bar     6:17

Promises To Keep     2:41

This Christmas Day     4:20

An Angel Returned     3:52

Post Script

O Holy Night     2:39

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen     1:16

 

 

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