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An amended, movie-related album by Garth Brooks leads a short parade of new country Christmas packages for the 2001 season.

On Tuesday, Capitol Records released a new version of Brooks' 1999 holiday collection, The Magic of Christmas. It contains three new cuts — "Call Me Claus," "'Zat You, Santa Claus?" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Three cuts from the original album were deleted.

"Call Me Claus" and "'Zat You, Santa Claus?," a Louis Armstrong standard, are featured in the upcoming TNT holiday special "Call Me Claus," of which Brooks and Whoopi Goldberg are executive producers. The movie is scheduled to air December 2 and will go on sale as a home video December 11.

Most of country music's largest labels — including Sony, Warner Bros., Mercury, Curb and DreamWorks — are not issuing new Christmas titles this year.

RCA will be selling a collection titled Country Christmas 2001 through Target department stores. Made up mostly of previously released material, it will contain four new cuts: Brad Paisley's "364 Days to Go," Kenny Chesney's "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," Sara Evans' "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and Diamond Rio's "What Child Is This?" No release date has been set.

Other holiday titles and their release dates:

• Lee Greenwood - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (September 11)
• Paul Overstreet - My Favorite Time of the Year (September 11)
• Aaron Tippin - A December to Remember (September 18)
• Various artists - No Wrapping Required (September 18)
• Michael McDonald - In the Spirit — A Christmas Album (October 16)
• Various artists - Prancer Returns (October 16)
• Suzy Bogguss - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (October 19)
• Dale Watson - Christmas Time in Texas (October 23)

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• Lee Greenwood
• Michael McDonald
• Aaron Tippin

Aaron Tippin
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NASHVILLE — Aaron Tippin, whose "You've Got to Stand for Something" became an anthem during the 1991 Gulf War, has recorded a track he hopes will help in the latest national crisis.

Tippin spent the weekend cutting "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly." He wrote the song two years ago with Kenny Beard and Casey Beathard but had never recorded it.

"We thought it might be an inspiration to people at this difficult time," Tippin said in a statement.

"Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" will be sent to radio stations immediately, and a commercial single, featuring a new recording of "You've Got to Stand for Something," will be available as soon as the discs can be manufactured and shipped to stores.

Proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross to aid victims of the terrorist attacks.

As the country works to find a way to combat the terrorists who struck on Tuesday, Tippin sees parallels to the Gulf War. During that conflict, he went to Saudi Arabia to entertain U.S. troops with Bob Hope.

"This song is an opportunity to speak to people," Tippin said. "I hope it will be an inspiration to the soldiers, the men and women about to be [soldiers] and the Americans at home."

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