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"The Friendly Beasts" is a traditional Christmas song about the gifts that a donkey, cow, sheep, camel, and dove give to Jesus at the Nativity. The song seems to have originated in 12th-century France, set to the melody of the Latin song "Orientis Partibus". [1] The song is also known as "The Song of the Ass", The Donkey Carol", "The Animal ...
Kate Douglas Wiggin is the first known source of written music for "Rise Up, Shepherd." The song appeared in Nine Love Songs and a Carol as the aforementioned "Plantation Christmas Carol." Wiggin credits Stuart for the lyrics and notes that the song should be performed in the "fashion of a plantation melody," but it is unknown how much she drew ...
Little Donkey is a popular Christmas carol, written by British songwriter Eric Boswell in 1959, which describes the journey by Mary the mother of Jesus to Bethlehem on the donkey of the title. [ 1 ] The first version to chart was by Gracie Fields , followed a fortnight later by The Beverley Sisters , who overtook her in the charts by Christmas ...
"The Little Drummer Boy" (originally known as "Carol of the Drum") is a popular Christmas song written by American composer Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. [1] First recorded in 1951 by the Austrian Trapp Family, the song was further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry Simeone Chorale; the Simeone version was re-released successfully for several years, and the song has been ...
Originally, a "Christmas carol" referred to a piece of vocal music in carol form whose lyrics centre on the theme of Christmas or the Christmas season. The difference between a Christmas carol and a Christmas popular song can often be unclear as they are both sung by groups of people going house to house during the Christmas season.
A recording of an arrangement of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" for congregational singing (2008) "Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual song and Christmas carol which was most likely derived from the oral tradition, but was first printed in an early-1900s compilation of African-American folk songs. [1]
The Animals' Christmas is the sixth solo studio album and the first Christmas album by vocalist Art Garfunkel, and is a collaborative album with Amy Grant, released in October 1986 by Columbia Records. The album was written by Jimmy Webb and features vocals by Garfunkel, Grant, and Wimbledon King's College Choir.
On Christ's Nativity (First Carol for Christmas) ("The darkest midnight in December") Second Carol for Christmas Day ("Christmas day is come") Third Carol for Christmas Day ("Ye sons of man with me rejoice") Fourth Carol for Christ's Nativity ("An angle this night") Song for St. Stephen's Day ("This is St. Stephen's day")