Story Behind Christmas Songs

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Story behind christmas songs. Crosby s original version recorded in may 1942 for decca most christmas songs over the years have been made during the summer months. Over the years the music for this ubiquitous christmas song has been erroneously attributed to plenty of famous composers including haydn and beethoven. The song was actually written by two austrians. One named franz xaver.

Singing holiday songs goes hand in hand with baking christmas treats and learning the story of santa claus and rudolph the red nosed reindeer. The history of christmas carols. Good king wenceslas looked out upon the feast of stephen when the snow lay round about deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night though the frost was cruel when a poor man came in site gathering.

And though his low key recording of the christmas. It makes the singing of them all the richer. Here are eight unusual stories about popular christmas songs that you didn t know. He wrote over 300 songs played piano and drums arranged for orchestra acted in movies and television penned a couple of best selling biographies the other side of the rainbow his book on judy garland is especially insightful and even found time to fly airplanes as a commercial pilot.

Thank you so much for sharing the stories behind the songs. The story behind white christmas is fascinating. What i particularly love about the story of silent night is the reason behind the use of the guitar. The legend behind one of the most popular christmas carols in the world plays out as a sort of christmas miracle.

The story goes that father joseph mohr of oberndorf austria was determined to. Image via wikimedia commons. On a different site all. Here are the stories and meanings behind four of the world s most loved christmas carols.

We should be thankful then that we have christmas carols to remind us why we celebrate and to help us praise god for keeping his promise to send a savior to his people the same savior whom we celebrate today. The story behind the christmas song mel tormé famously co wrote one of the most well known carols of all time in 1945. Jingle bells dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh o er the fields we go laughing all the way while this is a popular christmas jingle this song wasn t written for the holiday at all. So this christmas song has got quite a confusing story behind it.

But the true lyricist was unknown until as recently as 1995 when an 1820 manuscript was discovered that confirmed the men behind the song. His son james tells the story of how the song came to be.