First Christmas contains refreshing, new-sounding instrumental Christmas music which projects the same appealing qualities as Rachel's Song -- inspiring, soothing, beautiful, and moving. Gary Prim is featured on acoustic grand piano and keyboard. Dave Combs plays the piano and bells on his original composition, Happy Christmas Bells. Dave's father, Joe Combs, wrote the other original composition, King of Kings Is Born. A two-page SATB choral arrangement of King of Kings Is Born is available in Acrobat PDF format for downloading and printing from the combsmusic.com website. Permission is granted to choral/choir directors to download and print a limited number of copies of this arrangement for use by their chorus/choir. The file is 275K and is 600 dpi resolution. Dave Combs, a native of Erwin, Tennessee, grew up in a family that enjoyed making music. Both of his parents and his grandmother Combs played the piano. During his college years, Dave played the piano and served as choir director for his home church in Erwin. After college he moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he served as Minister of Music at a church and worked as a computer systems engineer. Dave's first musical composition, Rachel's Song, was recorded by Gary Prim in 1986 and continues to be a popular instrumental standard around the world. Since that time, Dave has written, produced, and released several additional instrumental albums of beautiful and inspiring melodies. An article written by Dave about how music has changed his life and touched the lives of millions of people appeared in the September 1994 issue of Guideposts magazine (a reprint of "Two-Part Harmony" can be found on the CombsMusic website). Dave and his wife, Linda, live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Gary Prim is a very gifted, talented, and versatile artist and professional studio musician. Gary grew up in East Tennessee, and was raised in a family where church and music were an important part of their family life. His style of arranging and performing has the rare and distinct quality of deeply touching and moving all who listen. Gary has worked with many renowned recording artists and groups and also writes music. Several of his songs have been recorded by well-known artists. Gary and his wife, Julie, live in Nashville, Tennessee.