Christmas Vol. II (Alabama album)
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Christmas, Vol. 2 is the second Christmas album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 of country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 band Alabama
Alabama (band)
Alabama is a country music and southern rock band from Fort Payne, Alabama, United States. The band was founded in 1969 by Randy Owen and his cousin Teddy Gentry , soon joined by Jeff Cook...

. It was released on September 17, 1996
1996 in country music
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1996.-Events:* June 28 — First annual Country Stampede Music Festival begins* October 6 — Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are married, and quickly become country music's most visible couple...

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Track listing

  1. "The Blessings" (Teddy Gentry, Randy Owen
    Randy Owen
    Randy Owen is an American country music artist. He is known primarily for his role as the lead singer of Alabama, a country rock band which saw considerable mainstream success throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Although Alabama only records new albums on occasion, Owen himself has maintained a career...

    , Ronnie Rogers
    Ronnie Rogers
    Randall "Ronnie" Rogers 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 My Angel Out Tonight" and "My Love Belongs to You." He recorded for the Lifesong, Epic...

    , Greg Fowler) - 4:35
  2. "Christmas in Your Arms" (Bill Anderson, Steve Wariner
    Steve Wariner
    Steven Noel "Steve" Wariner is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released eighteen studio albums, including six on MCA Records, and three each on RCA Records, Arista Records and Capitol Records...

    ) - 3:23
  3. "Christmas Is Love" (Rich Alves, T. J. Knight, Jerry Taylor) - 3:24
  4. "When It Comes to Christmas" (Gentry, Owen, Rogers) - 2:51
  5. "I Was Young Once Too" (Richard Leigh
    Richard Leigh (songwriter)
    Richard Leigh is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is best known for penning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" . In 1978 he received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Song" for the popular song...

    , Robert Byrne) - 3:32
  6. "The Night Before Christmas" (Jim McBride, Sam Hogin, Nelson Larkin) - 4:13
  7. "O Little Town of Bethlehem
    O Little Town of Bethlehem
    "O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks , an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. He was inspired by visiting the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his...

    " (Lewis Redner
    Lewis Redner
    Lewis Henry Redner was an American musician, best known as the composer of the popular Christmas carol "St...

    ) (Public Domain) - 3:11
  8. "Happy Birthday Jesus" (J. P. Pennington, Gentry) - 3:08
  9. "The Christmas Spirit" (Gentry, Owen, Rogers) - 4:12
  10. "Hangin' 'Round the Mistletoe" (Kostas
    Kostas
    Kostas Lazarides is a Greek-born American country music songwriter, known professionally as Kostas. He has written for several country music artists, including Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, and Travis Tritt, and has won eleven awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated...

    ) - 2:19
  11. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone
    Harry Simeone
    Harry Moses Simeone was a distinguished music arranger, conductor and composer, best known for arranging the famous Christmas song "The Little Drummer Boy", for which he received co-writing credit.-Early years:Harry grew up listening to stars performing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City,...

    ) - 4:40
  12. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
    Rockin' around the Christmas Tree
    "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958 on Decca 9-30776.-Background:...

    " (Johnny Marks
    Johnny Marks
    Johnny Marks was an American songwriter. Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" , "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" , "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" , and "A Holly...

    ) - 2:21
  13. "New Year's Eve 1999" (Gretchen Peters
    Gretchen Peters
    Gretchen Peters is a singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. She was born in New York and raised in Boulder, Colorado, but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s...

    ) - 2:45

Album

Chart (1996) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 18
U.S. Billboard 200 177

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

1997 "The Blessings" 72
1999 "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" 64
2000 "New Year's Eve 1999" 55
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