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  2. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas - Wikipedia

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    Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Larry Weinstein and released in 2017. [1] The film profiles a number of musicians, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who made a mark on contemporary culture by writing many of the most beloved Christmas music standards even though they were Jewish ...

  3. The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) - Wikipedia

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    "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).

  4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Wikipedia

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    The original hymn text was written as a "Hymn for Christmas-Day" by Charles Wesley, included in the 1739 John Wesley collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. [4] The first stanza (verse) describes the announcement of Jesus's birth. Wesley's original hymn began with the opening line "Hark how all the Welkin rings".

  5. Here's What You Need to Know About the '12 Days of Christmas ...

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    As a song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is known for its' out of the box, seemingly silly phrases—but there's actually a backstory on how the song came to be. ... 9 Ladies Dancing = the nine ...

  6. White Christmas (song) - Wikipedia

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    The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs [13] —in this case, written by a Jewish immigrant to the United States. [14] Ronald D. Lankford Jr., wrote, "During the 1940s, 'White Christmas' would set the stage for a number of classic American holiday songs steeped in a misty longing for yesteryear."

  7. The Surprising Origins of Popular Christmas Songs - AOL

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    It was written by Joseph Mohr, a priest at the Catholic St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf and first performed in 1818. As Foley says, Mohr was “an Austrian priest who was very eager to celebrate ...

  8. Christmas music - Wikipedia

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    The newest song in the top 30 most performed Christmas songs – "All I Want for Christmas is You", co-written and performed by Mariah Carey in 1994 – entered the list for the first time in 2015; the song hit the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the first time in 2017, [47] and was named "the UK's favourite Christmas song" the same year by The ...

  9. The story behind the song 'White Christmas' is even sadder ...

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    Berlin's three-week-old son had died on Christmas day in 1928, so every year on December 25, he and his wife visited their baby's grave, Jody Rosin, author of White Christmas: The Story of an ...