A Kind of Christmas Card
| "A Kind of Christmas Card" | ||||
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| Single by Morten Harket | ||||
| from the album Wild Seed | ||||
| B-side | "Lay Me Down Tonight" | |||
| Released | August 1995 | |||
| Length | 3:50 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Håvard Rem, Morten Harket | |||
| Producer(s) | Christopher Neil | |||
| Morten Harket singles chronology | ||||
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"A Kind of Christmas Card" is the debut solo single by Norwegian singer Morten Harket from a-ha, released in August 1995 by Warner Bros. as the first single from his second album, Wild Seed (1995). The song was written by Håvard Rem and Harket, and produced by Christopher Neil. "A Kind of Christmas Card" reached No. 1 in Norway, No. 9 in Iceland, and No. 53 in the United Kingdom. Harket received the Spellemannprisen "Song of the Year" award for "A Kind of Christmas Card".
A music video was filmed in Los Angeles to promote the single. It was directed by Mark Neal and features Harket's then-wife, Camilla Malmquist Harket. In Germany, the song was re-titled to "Burning Out Again (A Kind of Christmas Card)".