This Is Christmas Songwriting Credits by Luther Vandross

Vandross does not write alone anywhere on this album. All seven originals are co-writes, and every co-writer is someone playing or singing on the record or standing close to it: keyboardist Skip Anderson on two, drummer Ivan Hampden Jr. on two, Reed Vertelney on the title track, backing singer and vocal contractor Fonzi Thornton on "I Listen to the Bells," and Richard Marx on the single. Track 8 is the credit worth reading twice. "Please Come Home for Christmas" here is a Vandross and Anderson original that shares a title with the 1960 Charles Brown blues, not a cover of it, and MusicBrainz files it as its own separate work. The three genuine covers are all much older than the band: Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1959, Martin and Blane in 1944, and a Latin hymn from the 1740s.