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Christmas (Alabama album)

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Track listing
Personnel
Alabama Additional Musicians
Chart performance
Certifications
References

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| released = {{Start date|1985|9}}
| recorded = 1982 (Track 10), 1985 (Other Tracks)
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 37:09
| label = RCA Records Nashville
| producer = Harold Shedd and Alabama
| prev_title = 40-Hour Week
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = Greatest HIts
| next_year = 1985
| misc = {{Singles
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| single1date = December 6, 1982
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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.{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States |artist=Alabama |type=album |title=Alabama Christmas }} Since 1991 when SoundScan started to collate sales data, 515,300 copies have been sold in the United States.^[2]

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.^[3] "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.^[3]

Track listing

"Santa Claus (I Still Believe In You)" (John Jarrard, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen, Greg Fowler, Linda Gentry) – 4:07
"Joseph and Mary's Boy" (Don Cook, Keith Whitley) – 4:06
"Happy Holidays" (Ronnie Rogers, 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) – 3:04
"Tennessee Christmas" (Gary Chapman, Amy Grant) – 3:40
"A Candle In The Window" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge, Gary Baker) – 3:51
"Homecoming Christmas" (Rogers)– 3:15
"Christmas in Dixie" (Mark Herndon, Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry) – 3:33

Personnel

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

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	8
U.S. Billboard 200	75

Certifications

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References

1. ^{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r132688}}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2017/11/42552-top-country-catalog-sales-chart-november-26-2017 |title=Top Country Catalog Sales Chart: November 26, 2017 |first= Matt |last=Bjorke |date= November 26, 2017 |publisher=Roughstock |accessdate= December 16, 2017 }}
3. ^¹{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |title=Christmas in the Charts (1920–2004) |publisher=Record Research Inc |date=2004 |location=Wisconsin |page=17 |isbn = 0-89820-161-6}}

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