This Christmas
This Christmas may refer to:
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This Christmas (Patti LaBelle album)
This Christmas is the first holiday album released by singer Patti LaBelle on the MCA label. The album included original compositions such as "Twas Love", which LaBelle shot a video for, and "Nothing Could Be Better", which was sung live by LaBelle during an appearance on the show, A Different World, where she played Kadeem Hardison's mother. The album was released while LaBelle was working on a follow-up to her last pop album, Be Yourself. This would be LaBelle's only Christmas-related studio album until the release of Miss Patti's Christmas nearly 20 years later.
The album would be re-released in 1995 (and again in 2004 under the "20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection" line) with the bonus track "Angel Man".
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This Christmas (Donny Hathaway song)
"This Christmas" is a song by American jazz musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records. The song gained renewed interest when it was included in 1991 on Atco Records' revised edition of their 1968 Soul Christmas compilation album and has since become a modern Christmas standard, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers reporting that it was the 30th most-performed holiday song of all time.
Phil Upchurch said the song was "absolutely the premiere holiday song written by an African American". It was written by Hathaway and Nadine McKinnor.
Background
"This Christmas" was recorded at Audio Finishers Studio on Ontario Street, Chicago in the fall of 1970. Ric Powell (see credits below) said that Hathaway was "very upbeat during the session" and that he "knew what he wanted to do musically and the impact he wanted to make with this song" regarding the representation of African Americans in Christmas music. On writing the song with Hathaway (who died in 1979), Nadine McKinnor said she felt "blessed to have written with Donny a song that celebrates the possibilities, the expectations, and the anticipation of Christmas and the good fun and happy loving times", and that the creation of the song "was a God plan. God was in this plan. And Donny Hathaway was a genius."
This Christmas (film)
This Christmas is a 2007 American Christmas romantic musical comedy-drama film produced by Rainforest Films and distributed by Screen Gems. Written, produced and directed by Preston A. Whitmore II, it is a Christmas time story that centers on the Whitfield family, whose eldest has come home for the first time in four years. The film is based on the 1970 Donny Hathaway song of the same name, which is covered by Chris Brown in the film. The Whitfield family overcome many trials and obstacle during the Christmas season
Plot
One morning, Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield(Loretta Devine) greets her boyfriend, Joe(Delroy Lindo) when he wakes up. She helps him gather his belongings since she doesn't want her children to know that they are living together and asks him to keep his stuff in the garage for a while. Lisa and her husband(Laz Alonso) and their two kids are about to leave to go to Ma'Dere's house, and Michael "Baby" Whitfield(Chris Brown) gets a digital camera from Joe and Ma'Dere confronts him about this. Quentin(Idris Alba) plays a saxophone at a local bar; after being followed by a couple of thugs who he owes money to, he manages to avoid them and he retreats the bar. Lisa, Kelli(Sharon Leal) who is a model, and Claude(Columbus Short)who is a soldier on leave, come to Ma'Dere's house for the Christmas holiday. Melanie "Mel"(Lauren London) shows up with her boyfriend(Keith Robinson) Devean on winter break from school.
This Christmas (TobyMac song)
"This Christmas" was a Christmas single released by TobyMac in 2002.
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This Christmas (98 Degrees album)
This Christmas is a 1999 Christmas album by 98 Degrees. The album sold over 1 million copies in the US alone and spawned the Top 40 hit single "This Gift".
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