Once in Royal David’s City

Name: Once in Royal David’s City
Duration: 5 min 35 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
2.1	Once in Royal David's City	5:35	Choir of King’s College, Cambridge	Essential Carols	Choir of King’s College, Cambridge	Album + Compilation	XW2005-11-04	Decca Records	4756655
1.1	Once in Royal David's City	5:35	Henry John Gauntlett	Carols from King's	Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, conducted by Sir David Willcocks, organist Simon Preston	Album + Compilation	GB2008	Decca Records, UCJ (UK label of “Universal Classics & Jazz, a division of Universal Music Operations Ltd.”)	CFM FW 095
3.4	Once in Royal David’s City	5:31	Choir of King’s College, Cambridge	RTL Weihnachten 2011	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	DE2011-11-11	Polystar (Germany)	060075336334 (8)
1.1	Once in Royal David's City	5:35	Henry John Gauntlett	Carols from King's College Cambridge	Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks	Album + Compilation	IE2012-01-01 GB2012-01-01	Decca Classics (“DECCA” in white uppercase on a blue‐over‐red rectangular block; until 1999, for use outside of North America only)

recording of:	Once in Royal David’s City

lyricist:	Cecil Frances Alexander (in 1848)
composer:	Henry John Gauntlett (in 1849)

later parody versions:	Once in Every Carol Service
later translated versions:	Draw yn Ninas Dafydd Frenin I Kong Davids by I Kong Davids stad eingong
is the basis for:	Once in Royal David's City (descant and organ arr. Philip Ledger) Prelude on "Irby" ("Once in Royal David’s City")
has revision:	Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Mann)
arrangements:	Once in Royal David's City (arr. Ferguson) Once in Royal David's City (arr. Wilcocks (vv. 2-3) and Mann (v. 4ff)) Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Rutter) Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Willcocks)
music quoted in:	Song for the King