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Christmas (Alabama album)

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Length
  
37:09

Artist
  
Alabama

Producer
  
Harold Shedd

Genre
  
Country music

Christmas (1985)
  
Greatest HIts (1985)

Release date
  
September 1985

Label
  
RCA Records

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Released
  
September 1985 (1985-09)

Recorded
  
1982 (Track 10), 1985 (Other Tracks)

Similar
  
Alabama albums, Country music albums

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Christmas is the first Christmas album by country band Alabama. The album was released on RCA Records in 1985. It was certified double platinum for shipment of 2 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 11, 1996, with 501,600 copies sold in the United States since 1992 when SoundScan started collating sales data.

Contents

The album is Alabama's first Christmas album and includes one of their more popular holiday songs, 1982's "Christmas in Dixie," which charted on two of Billboard magazine's music popularity charts in six different calendar years. "Christmas in Dixie" peaked at No. 35 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart in January 1983, and also reached No. 3 on Billboard's special, year-end, weekly Christmas Singles chart in December 1983.

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Track listing

  1. "Santa Claus (I Still Believe In You)" (John Jarrard, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Greg Fowler, Linda Gentry) – 4:07
  2. "Joseph and Mary's Boy" (Don Cook, Keith Whitley) – 4:06
  3. "Happy Holidays" (Ronnie Rogers, Swain Schaefer) – 3:18
  4. "Christmas Memories" (Becky Hobbs, John Greenebaum, Randy Albright) – 3:21
  5. "Tonight Is Christmas" (Keith Worsham, Stan Munsey, Jr., Don Matthews, Steve Baccus) – 4:19
  6. "Thistlehair The Christmas Bear" (Donny Lowery) – 3:04
  7. "Tennessee Christmas" (Gary Chapman, Amy Grant) – 3:40
  8. "A Candle In The Window" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge, Gary Baker) – 3:51
  9. "Homecoming Christmas" (Rogers)– 3:15
  10. "Christmas in Dixie" (Mark Herndon, Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry) – 3:33

Alabama

  • Jeff Cook- electric guitar, background vocals
  • Teddy Gentry- bass guitar, background vocals
  • Mark Herndon- drums
  • Randy Owen- electric guitar, lead vocals

    • Additional Musicians

  • Eddie Bayers- drums
  • Ken Bell- acoustic guitar
  • David Briggs- keyboards
  • Jack Eubanks- acoustic guitar
  • Leo Jackson- acoustic guitar
  • Shane Keister- synthesizer
  • Farrell Morris- percussion
  • Fred Newell- electric guitar
  • Larry Paxton- bass guitar
  • Willie Rainsford- keyboards
  • Brent Rowan- electric guitar

    • Songs

    1Santa Claus (I Still Believe in You)4:10
    2Joseph and Mary's Boy4:07
    3Happy Holidays3:20

    References

    Christmas (Alabama album) Wikipedia
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