The Best of the Season: Holiday Favorites

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1We Three Kings
cover recording of:
We Three Kings
lyricist and composer:
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (composer, “We Three Kings”)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24751)
The Beach Boys4:03
2O Come All Ye Faithful
cover recording of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful (English version of Latin “Adeste fideles”)
lyricist and composer:
John Francis Wade (from 1740 until 1743)
translator:
Frederick Oakeley (in 1841)
arrangement of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful
translated version of:
Adeste fideles (original latin version)
recording of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful (English version of Latin “Adeste fideles”)
lyricist and composer:
John Francis Wade (from 1740 until 1743)
translator:
Frederick Oakeley (in 1841)
arrangement of:
O Come, All Ye Faithful
translated version of:
Adeste fideles (original latin version)
Al Martino2:29
3What Child Is This
The Lettermen2:10
4Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
vocals:
Bing Crosby (on 1962-10-05)
orchestra:
Jack Halloran Orchestra (on 1962-10-05)
recorded at:
Radio Recorders Studios (Santa Monica Blvd. location since 1949) in West Hollywood, California, United States (on 1962-10-05)
compilation of:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing by Bing Crosby and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Bing Crosby
cover recording of:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas carol) (on 1962-10-05)
additional lyricist:
George Whitefield (in 1753)
lyricist:
Charles Wesley (hymn writer) (in 1739)
composer:
Felix Mendelssohn (composer) (in 1840)
arranger:
William H. Cummings (in 1855)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 26)
cover recording of:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (carol version) (on 1962-10-05)
lyricist:
Edmund Sears (American church author)
composer:
Richard Storrs Willis
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 29)
is based on:
CAROL (hymn tune)
is based on:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (poem)
recording of:
The Merry Christmas Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas / Angels From the Realms of Glory / Hark the Herald Angels Sing / It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
arranger:
Sid Bass
publisher:
Saturday Music, Inc.
medley of:
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
medley of:
Angels From the Realms of Glory (sung to the French carol tune “Iris” (Les anges dans nos campagnes))
medley of:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas carol)
medley of:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (carol version)
Bing Crosby3:05
5Away in a Manger
St. Paul Children Choir of Hong Kong3:09
6Good King Wenceslas
The Roger Wagner Chorale3:05
7God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Manfred Mann1:55
8Here We Come A-Caroling
The Mistletones3:23
9Jingle Bells
Count Basie3:20
10O Holy Night
recording of:
O Holy Night
lyricist:
John Sullivan Dwight (in 1855)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (French composer) (in 1847)
arrangement of:
O holy night (arr. John Ebenezer West)
translated version of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
Glen Campbell3:57
11The First Noel
St. Luke's Choir2:54
12Silent Night
Wayne Newton2:48