''Christmas'' is the first

Christmas album Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of carols, may employ lyrics about the nativity of Je ...

country A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity. When referring to a specific polity, the term "country" may refer to a sovereign state, state with limited recognition, constituent country, ...

band

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

. The album was released on

RCA Nashville RCA Nashville is an American country music record label based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is distributed by Sony Music Nashville which is part of Sony Music. Artists Current artists *Kane Brown * Corey Kent * Nate Smith * Morgan Wade Former art ...

in 1985. It was certified double platinum for shipment of 2 million units by the

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on July 11, 1996. Since 1991 when

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started to collate sales data, 515,300 copies have been sold in the United States. 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

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chart in January 1983, and also reached No. 3 on ''Billboard'''s special, year-end, weekly Christmas Singles chart in December 1983.

Track listing

# "Santa Claus (I Still Believe In You)" ( John Jarrard, Teddy Gentry,

Randy Owen Randy Yeuell Owen (born December 13, 1949) is an American country musician. He is best known for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band that saw commercial success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Alabama became the most su ...

, Greg Fowler, Linda Gentry) – 4:07 # "Joseph and Mary's Boy" (

Don Cook Don Kirby Cook (born May 25, 1949) is an American record producer and songwriter whose work is mainly in the field of country music. Artists who recorded Cook's material include Barbara Mandrell, John Conlee, Mark Collie, Wade Hayes and Brooks & ...

Keith Whitley Jackie Keith Whitley (July 1, 1954 – May 9, 1989) was an American country music and bluegrass singer and songwriter. During his career, he released only two albums, but charted 12 singles on the ''Billboard'' country charts, and seven more af ...

) – 4:06 # "Happy Holidays" (

Ronnie Rogers Randall "Ronnie" Rogers (born in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American country music singer and songwriter. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Rogers charted eight singles on the ''Billboard'' country charts, including the top 40 hits "Gonna Take M ...

, Swain Schaefer) – 3:18 # "Christmas Memories" ( Becky Hobbs, John Greenebaum, Randy Albright) – 3:21 # "Tonight Is Christmas" (Keith Worsham, Stan Munsey Jr., Don Matthews, Steve Baccus) – 4:19 # "Thistlehair The Christmas Bear" (Donny Lowery) – 4:06 # "Tennessee Christmas" ( Gary Chapman,

Amy Grant Amy Lee Grant (born November 25, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She began her music career in contemporary Christian music (CCM) before crossing over to pop music in the mid-1980s. Grant has been referred to as "Honorific ...

) – 3:40 # "A Candle In The Window" (Susan Longacre,

Walt Aldridge James Walton Aldridge Jr. (born November 12, 1955, in Florence, Alabama) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, engineer and record producer. Aldridge is known primarily as a Muscle Shoals songwriter, having had songs recorded by a divers ...

, Gary Baker) – 3:51 # "Homecoming Christmas" (Rogers) – 3:52 # " Christmas in Dixie" (Mark Herndon, Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry) – 3:37

Personnel

Alabama

- lead vocals, electric guitar * Jeff Cook -

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, background vocals, lead vocals (9) * Teddy Gentry -

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

, background vocals, lead vocals (5) Mark Herndon, Alabama's drummer, does not play on this album.

Additional Musicians

Eddie Bayers Eddie Bayers (born January 28, 1949) is an American session drummer who has played on 300 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for fourteen years, has three times won the Nashville Music ...

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Kenny Bell-

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

* David Briggs- keyboards *Shane Keister-

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

Fairlight Fairlight may refer to: In places: * Fairlight, East Sussex, a village east of Hastings in southern England, UK * Fairlight, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Fairlight, Saskatchewan, Canada In other uses: * Fairlight (company), ...

*Farrell Morris-

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

*Larry Paxton- bass guitar *

Brent Rowan Brent Rowan (born May 28, 1956, in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American session musician and record producer who works primarily in country music. Active since the 1970s, Rowan began working with John Conlee through the recommendation of record produ ...

- electric guitar Strings performed by the "A" Strings, arranged by Bergen White.

Chart performance

Certifications

References

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