This Is The Time: The Christmas Album This Is The Time: The Christmas Album This Is the Time: The Christmas Album is an album by Michael Bolton, released on October 1, 1996. Bolton's first Christmas release, it contains two new songs: "This Is the Time" (performed with Wynonna Judd), and "Love Is the Power", while the others were covers of traditional Christmas songs. "Ave Maria" was performed with Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo. "White Christmas" was a single off the album "", but was also included on this album. The CD was an "enhanced" CD containing additional material viewable on a computer, including a video of "White Christmas",
Christmas Time Is in the Air Again tempo of 50 beats per minute; Carey's voice spans just short of two octaves from F♯ to E. On November 26, 2012, Carey announced via her Twitter account that "Christmas Time Is in the Air Again" would be released as a promotional single. "The Village Voice" writer Rich Juzwiak felt that "Christmas Time Is in the Air Again" was the only song on "Merry Christmas II You" that matched "the magic" of her 1994 single "All I Want for Christmas Is You", describing it as "exquisite". He continued to write that it is "a sweeping big-band ballad that you'd swear