Trimming the Tree is a Mannheim Steamroller album of Christmas music, released in 2007. It is a compilation album, having copyrights listed as 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007. Although released by Chip Davis' American Gramaphone label, the album was available exclusively through Lowe's, a major home-improvement retailer in the United States It was packaged in shrink wrap (but in separate jewel cases) as a two-disc set, along with Christmas Extraordinaire. It is the third such compilation (after 2005 and 2006) in the Lowe's series, the fourth was Morning Frost in 2008.
| Trimming the Tree | ||||
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| Compilation album by | ||||
| Released | 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Christmas, symphonic pop | |||
| Length | 32:50 | |||
| Label | American Gramaphone | |||
| Producer | Chip Davis | |||
| Mannheim Steamroller chronology | ||||
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "O Little Town of Bethlehem" | Phillips Brooks / Lewis Redner | 3:57 |
| 2. | "Joy to the World" | Isaac Watts | 3:40 |
| 3. | "Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming" (Traditional) | 2:26 | |
| 4. | "In dulci jubilo" (Traditional) | 2:48 | |
| 5. | "The First Noel" (Traditional) | 3:39 | |
| 6. | "The Holly and the Ivy" (Traditional) | 3:04 | |
| 7. | "Coventry Carol" (Traditional) | 2:44 | |
| 8. | "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" | Johnny Marks | 3:16 |
| 9. | "Los Peces en el Rio" (Traditional) | 3:52 | |
| 10. | "Away in a Manger" (Traditional) | 3:24 | |
| Total length: | 32:50 | ||