"My Kind of Christmas" is a 1961 song by Johnny Mathis written by Jerry Livingston with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.Philip Furia American Song Lyricists, 1920-1960 Gale Group, 2002 p.449 & p.455Ken Bloom American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion, Volume 1 Schirmer Books, 1 Jan 1996 p.1460 & p.1962 It was released as a standalone Christmas single in November 1961, with the Allyn Ferguson/Syd Shaw composition "Christmas Eve" on the B-side. When Mathis' 1958 Merry Christmas album was re-reissued on CD in 1998 the A- and B-sides of the 1961 single were included as bonus tracks.
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