Sure thing, Armando.

And by the way, I talk about Mitch Miller’s two Christmas albums on the following thread: http://forum1.aimoo.com/theyulelog/IN-THE-SPOTLIGHT/Mitch-Miller-Must-Be-Santa-1-1568323.html

For me, nothing ushers in the season like Mr. Faith's playful introduction to 'Winter Wonderland' off Johnny's 'Merry Christmas' album, it's as if Mr. Faith was able to put the sound of falling, swirling snow to music. 
My grandparents, mother and aunts were all big Johnny Mathis fans so the 'Merry Christmas' album was a big part of my childhood, especially when it was being played on my Grandfather's huge TV/turntable stereo console.  I still remember the day when I picked up the CD version in a Shop Rite when I was much older and beginning my own Christmas music collection. 

Chip,
Is there a back story to the two bonus tracks that made it onto the 2003 remastered version ('Christmas Eve' and 'My Kind Of Christmas')?  Just two tracks that they could fit on the vinyl?

This quote is from your 'Percy Faith' thread...

Columbia Records first acquired the rights to the original 1963 Mercury Records LP, "Sounds of Christmas," in 1971. At that time, they reissued the LP on their budget label, Harmony Records. Harmony Records was to Columbia, like Camden Records was to RCA. Anyway, in 1971, when it was reissued, it included 2 less songs: "The Little Drummer Boy," and a delightful original song, "Have Reindeer Will Travel." The former was the last song on side 1, and the latter was the first song on side 2. Therefore, that meant that these 2 songs were consecutive songs on the Mercury master. It is my theory that the master must have gotten damaged. So when Columbia Records reissued the LP on their Harmony label in 1971 as "Christmas With Johnny Mathis," they had no choice but to delete these 2 songs from the album. There could be no other explanation as to why Columbia would not have used these 2 great songs, none. Further proof of this is that they had Johnny go to the trouble of re-recording "The Little Drummer Boy" in 1969 for his LP, "Give Me Your Love For Christmas." But sadly, as we know, this recording was inferior to the version that was on the 1963 Mercury LP, which was arranged by the great Don Costa and conducted by Jack Feirman.

This is such great information and why I feel like I'm gonna wind up spending a lot of time here (and ultimately becoming a pain in your a**).  You would assume in the wikipedia/google age that information like this would be readily available on the internet, but it isn't.  Maybe you're just appealing to the lunatic fringe, but tidbits like this are very much appreciated.  I came across a 'sharity' site a few years ago that posted an mp3 of 'Have Reindeer, Will Travel' and they did mention that this track and 'The Little Drummer Boy' were omitted from 'Christmas With...', but I always assumed the version of 'Drummer Boy' on 'Give Me Your Love...' was the one that didn't make 'Christmas With...'.  I'm happy to finally have the record set straight for me.  After last Christmas, I decided to start doing my own Christmas vinyl transfers and began collecting and hunting down old albums that weren't readily available (or were significantly altered) in the digital age. I did find a copy of 'The Sounds Of Christmas' (albeit pretty beat up) and now I'm really interested in hearing the original version of 'Drummer Boy' so it will be moving up closer to the top of the 'to do' list.  

I just picked up another odd CD compilation:

2004 Johnny Mathis Christmas Favorites

I can't say much about it yet though...just got it.