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Christmas, Like a Lullaby (1990)

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Only one of this Christmas album's thirteen tracks is original: the title track. The rest are carols, standards and two Tom Paxton songs.

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Christmas, Like a Lullaby: twenty-third studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver
Second Christmas album by Denver, released in December 1990
Only one original track: the title track, written by Denver
Remaining tracks: Christmas carols, standards and two Tom Paxton songs
Thirteen tracks in total, split into two sides of six and seven

First solo Christmas album of music by Denver since Rocky Mountain Christmas in 1975
Earlier Christmas collaboration: A Christmas Together, released in 1979 with The Muppets
Tom Paxton songs on the album: The Children of Bethlehem and Marvelous Toy
Paxton also wrote new verses for the standard Jingle Bells

Denver plays acoustic guitar and sings lead vocals
Band: James Burton (electric guitar), Glen Hardin (keyboards), Jim Horn (saxophone, flute, recorder)
Rhythm section: Jerry Carrigan (drums), Jerry Scheff (bass), Machito Sanchez (percussion)
Recorded at Eleven Eleven Studio
Mixed at Masterfonics, Nashville
Mastering credit: Glenn Meadows
Recording and mixing credit: Roger Nichols

1	Christmas Like a Lullaby	3:53
2	The First Noel	2:16
3	Away in a Manger	2:36
4	The Children of Bethlehem	3:31
5	Jingle Bells	2:43
6	White Christmas	2:37
7	The Marvellous Toy	2:52
8	Blue Christmas	3:25
9	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer	3:12
10	Little Drummer Boy	3:22
11	Mary's Boy Child	3:20
12	The Christmas Song	4:05
13	Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas	2:13

Born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. on December 31, 1943, in Roswell, New Mexico; took the name John Denver on the advice of Randy Sparks, founder of the New Christy Minstrels.
Attended Texas Tech University and sang in the folk group "The Alpine Trio" before dropping out in 1963 and moving to Los Angeles.
Joined The Chad Mitchell Trio in 1965, replacing Chad Mitchell; the trio later became "Denver, Boise, and Johnson".

Solo artist; worked closely with producer Milt Okun early on and later with manager Jerry Weintraub.
Collaborated with friends Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later formed the Starland Vocal Band.

Left the trio in 1969 for a solo career; first album Rhymes & Reasons on RCA Records.
"Leaving on a Jet Plane" became a number one hit for Peter, Paul and Mary.
Breakthrough with Poems, Prayers & Promises (1971) and "Take Me Home, Country Roads", which reached number 2 on the Billboard charts.
Reached number 1 with "Sunshine on My Shoulders", "Annie's Song", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and "I'm Sorry" in 1974–1975.
Named Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year in 1975.
Starred in the 1977 film Oh, God! with George Burns.
Co-founded The Hunger Project and worked for environmental causes through the Windstar Foundation.
Died in a plane crash off Pacific Grove, California, on October 12, 1997.

Released in December 1990 as Denver's twenty-third studio album
Second Christmas album in his catalogue, following the 1979 collaboration with The Muppets
Thirteen tracks mixing carols, pop standards and two Tom Paxton songs
Only original composition is the title track, written by Denver
Denver sings lead; the musicians are credited on the personnel list
Denver's first solo Christmas album of music since Rocky Mountain Christmas in 1975
Side one opens with the title track, Christmas, Like a Lullaby
Side one also contains The First Noel, Away in a Manger and The Children of Bethlehem
Side two opens with Marvelous Toy and closes with Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Thirteen tracks: six on side one, seven on side two
Side two includes Blue Christmas, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Little Drummer Boy and The Christmas Song
Recording credits include Roger Nichols as recording and mixing engineer
Mastering credit: Glenn Meadows
Band members credited include James Burton, Glen Hardin, Jim Horn, Jerry Carrigan, Jerry Scheff and Machito Sanchez

Denver's earlier Christmas album was a collaboration with The Muppets, A Christmas Together from 1979.
Jim Horn played saxophone, flute and recorder on the album.
Roger Nichols is credited with both recording and mixing.
The album was recorded at Eleven Eleven Studio and mixed at Masterfonics in Nashville.
Jingle Bells is included with new verses written by Tom Paxton.