Like many other Christmas songs, originally “Let it snow!” was not related to Christmas, being composed during a heat wave in California by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne in 1945. It was the winter theme and its lyrics about waiting […]
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One of the most popular modern Christmas songs “Feliz Navidad” was composed by José Feliciano in 1970, an artist of Puerto Rican origins. Feliz Navidad meaning Feliz Navidad means Merry Christmas in Spanish and the simple lyrics are a wish
“12 Days of Christmas” is an old Christmas carol associated with Twelvetide season, most likely with lyrics of French origin. In England it was first published in a book called Mirth without Mischief in 1780 as a game for kids,
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Go Tell it on The Mountain is one of the most popular African-American spiritual songs and Christmas carols of all time. It was first compiled by John Wesley Work Jr, the first African-American folk collector, in around 1865. The lyrics
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One of the most popular Christmas carols everywhere Silent Night was originally written in German in 1818 by Austrian composer Franz Xaver Gruber with lyrics by Austrian priest Joseph Mohr. Since 2011 the song is part of UNESCO cultural heritage.
Deck the Hall is a traditional Christmas carol dating back to the sixteenth century. Traditionally it has been a Welsh song and even the melody is taken from another Welsh song “Nos Galan” or “New Year’s Eve”. It was first
“Frosty the Snowman” is a popular kids song written in 1950 by Walter Rollins and Steve Nelson. It was first recorded by “The Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry. The song proved to be very popular and charted instantly in 1950 and
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Today a very popular Christmas song in America “O Christams tree” was originally written in German by composer Ernst Anschütz (1824) more as an ode to the beauty and permanence of the evergreen fir tree. It was supposed to be
One of the most widely recognized tunes worldwide and inevitably associated with Christmas, Jingle Bells was first intended to be sung during Thanksgiving. Dating back to 1857 when it was written by James Lord Pierpont in Medford, MA, the song
The earliest version of “Little Jack Horner” nursery rhyme dates back to the 18th century England. The character Jacky Horner originated from an old fairy tale “The Fryer and the Boy”. One of the first versions of this rhyme was
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“Christmas Is Coming” is a well known traditional carol talking about the meaning and symbol of Christmas: a time of celebration and goodness. We don’t know the exact origins of the Christmas Is Coming poem. The musical sheet belongs to
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