Christmas (Alabama album)

Christmas is the first Christmas album by country band Alabama. The album was released on RCA Nashville in 1985. It was certified double platinum for shipment of 2 million units by the Recording [Industry Association of America] on July 11, 1996. Since 1991 when SoundScan 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 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.

Track listing

"Santa Claus " – 4:07
"Joseph and Mary's Boy" – 4:06
"Happy Holidays" – 3:18
"Christmas Memories" – 3:21
"Tonight Is Christmas" – 4:19
"Thistlehair The Christmas Bear" – 4:06
"Tennessee Christmas" – 3:40
"A Candle In The Window" – 3:51
"Homecoming Christmas" – 3:52
"Christmas in Dixie" – 3:37
Personnel

Alabama

Randy Owen - lead vocals, electric guitar
Jeff Cook - electric guitar, background vocals, lead vocals
Teddy Gentry - bass guitar, background vocals, lead vocals

Mark Herndon, Alabama's drummer, does not play on this album.

Additional Musicians

Eddie Bayers- drums
Kenny Bell- acoustic guitar
David [Briggs |David Briggs]- keyboards
Shane Keister- synthesizer, Fairlight
Farrell Morris- percussion
Larry Paxton- bass guitar
Brent Rowan- electric guitar

Strings performed by the "A" Strings, arranged by Bergen White.

Chart performance

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