Christmas In Concert is a Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

-themed album of music performed live by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

singer-songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

 John Denver

John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...

. It was released in November 2001 by RCA Records

RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

. It features the World Children's Choir

World Children's Choir

The World Children's Choir is a 501 non-profit organization whose goals are to provide a musical alternative for achieving world peace and to create a better home for everyone's children to grow up in...

 (directed by Sondra Harnes) and the National Symphony Orchestra(conducted by Richard Kaufman

Richard Kaufman

Richard Ian Kaufman is an English cricketer. Kaufman is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born at Kettering, Northamptonshire....

).

Track listing

1. Christmas For Cowboys
2. Christmas, Like A Lullaby
3. The Marvelous Toy
4. Good Evening Talk
5. A Baby Just Like You
6. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
7. Choir Intro
8. Away In A Manger
   Away in a Manger
   "Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain it is one of the most popular carols, a 1996 Gallup Poll ranking it joint second.-History of the lyrics:...
   
   
9. Jingle Bells
   Jingle Bells
   "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...
   
   
10. What Child Is This?
    What Child Is This?
    "What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, English writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression...
    
    
11. Intro To Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
12. Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
13. Intro To Alfie/The Christmas Tree
14. Alfie / The Christmas Tree
15. Silent Night
    Silent Night
    "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber...
    
    
16. Living Legend Story
17. Noel-Christmas Eve 1913
18. Little Drummer Boy
    Little Drummer Boy
    "The Little Drummer Boy," originally known as "Carol of the Drum," is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer/teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. It was recorded 1955 by the Trapp Family Singers and further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry...
    
    
19. O Holy Night
    O Holy Night
    "O Holy Night" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" by Placide Cappeau , a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem...
    
    
20. Take Me Home, Country Roads
21. Annie's Song
    Annie's Song
    "Annie's Song" is a rock/country song recorded and written by singer-songwriter John Denver. It was his second number-one song in the United States, occupying that spot for two weeks in July 1974. "Annie's Song" also went to number one on the Easy Listening chart...
    
    
22. Calypso
23. Intro To Falling Leaves (The Refugees)
24. Falling Leaves (The Refugees)

Personnel

John Denver

John Denver

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...

- guitars, vocal
Pete Huttlinger

Pete Huttlinger

Pete Huttlinger is an American guitarist. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music. He is a respected Nashville studio artist. In 2000, he won the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. He has performed around the world with such artists as...

- guitar, mandolin, banjo
Chris Nole- keyboards
Alan Deremo- bass
Michito Sanchez- percussion

Chart performance

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	60