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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 18:20:19 GMT -5
One of my favorites .... Always has been, always will be.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 18:29:05 GMT -5
A favorite, nostalgic song. I grew up with Andy Williams as he was one of my aunt's favorite artists. Andy, Tom Jones & Ingelbert Humperdink! LoL! I also love the Carpenter's version of this song. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 18:30:56 GMT -5
My favorite artist for this song... Not that I don't enjoy Mariah Carey's festive rendition. OH, and Vince, Vance & the Valiants vintage/original version.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 18:34:06 GMT -5
Your posted version is beautiful, Fjordmom .... Here is Lindsey Sterling & her violin.... What Child is This... |
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Post by shutterbug5269 on Dec 15, 2015 18:49:22 GMT -5
I seriously could not help myself...
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Post by shutterbug5269 on Dec 15, 2015 18:52:04 GMT -5
I remember watching this in 1977... I was 8, but I have always had a soft spot for it.
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Post by java on Dec 15, 2015 22:13:35 GMT -5
I remember watching this in 1977... I was 8, but I have always had a soft spot for it. There's an interesting story to this. "Peace on Earth" was written for Bowie who hated "Little Drummer Boy" so Crosby sung it. Bing didn't live to see the broadcast which lead to some conspiracy theories about a computer generated Crosby singing with Bowie. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 14:37:53 GMT -5
Mary Did You Know.... Pentatonix. Incredible sound for five of them A Cappella.
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Post by java on Dec 17, 2015 1:27:26 GMT -5
1.87 million copies sold making this one of the best selling single in the UK as of November 2015 and the most successful version of this song.
Boney M, "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord", released as a single November 1978 and included as track #6 on the album, "Christmas Album", 1981.
Originally written as a calypso song for a birthday party but was later recorded by Harry Belafonte when he heard a choir performing, "Mary's Boy Child". It is track #8 from the album, "An Evening with Belafonte", 1957, and later as track #1 on the 1962 reissue of "To Wish You a Merry Christmas".
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Post by shutterbug5269 on Dec 17, 2015 1:58:37 GMT -5
I remember watching this in 1977... I was 8, but I have always had a soft spot for it. There's an interesting story to this. "Peace on Earth" was written for Bowie who hated "Little Drummer Boy" so Crosby sung it. Bing didn't live to see the broadcast which lead to some conspiracy theories about a computer generated Crosby singing with Bowie. You are aware that CGI didn't exist in 1977 when this edition of the Bing Crosby Christmas Special was shot, right? Nothing was computer generated then. Chroma Key was problematic at best and very easy to spot. Back then they worked this crap out like professionals. |
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Post by java on Dec 18, 2015 22:57:42 GMT -5
Hilary Duff, "What Christmas Should Be". Track #1 from the 2003 re-release of "Santa Clause Lane".
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Post by java on Dec 18, 2015 23:43:54 GMT -5
Known for a rock-n-roll style adaptation of Christmas songs, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra departed from their usual repertoire for their 7th track on the album, "The Christmas Attic", released in 1998, adding strings, piano, lyrics, and a child choir to Johann Pachelbel's, "Canon in D Major". This is my all-time favorite Christmas song and I play it year-round: "I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year." ~Ebenezer Scrooge.
In 2004, TSO released the rock version, "Christmas Canon Rock", track #21, from the album, "The Lost Christmas Eve".
In 1968, French conductor Jean-Francois Paillard recorded an obscure and long forgotten "Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo" that lead to the meteoric popularity of what we know today as "Pachelbel's Canon in D". I have the CD and this romantic adaptation is one of my all-time favorite music.
Jean-Francois Paillard, "Pachelbel Canon in D for Strings and Continuo". Track #1 from the album, "Pachelbel Canon; Fasch Trumpet Concerto" (1968).
According to legend, you can blame the 1980 movie, "Ordinary People", for introducing the song to the public that would later fill wedding chapels even though it wasn't used for a wedding in the film.
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Post by java on Dec 19, 2015 0:03:10 GMT -5
Your posted version is beautiful, Fjordmom .... Here is Lindsey Sterling & her violin.... What Child is This... Lindsey disguised and playing on the subway. No one noticed. I don't really have an issue with it because classical music is a niche market and I'm likely to have missed Lindsey during rush hour when I'm trying to get to work. Anne-Sophie Mutter playing? I would have missed work and that's because I've followed Mutter for many, many, many years. www.ew.com/article/2015/12/08/lindsey-stirling-hallelujah-new-york-city-subway |
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Post by java on Dec 19, 2015 0:26:55 GMT -5
Recorded for the Ethiopian famine of 1983-1985 and released as a single on December 3rd, 1984.
Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Band Aid II, 1989. Famine. Images may disturb some.
Band Aid 30, 2014. Virus. Images WILL DISTURB most.
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Post by ProudTVJunkie on Dec 19, 2015 18:21:47 GMT -5
Recorded for the Ethiopian famine of 1983-1985 and released as a single on December 3rd, 1984. Band Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas?" I was in my early teens when "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was released and a huge fan of Duran Duran. I bought the video of the making of this and watched it so many times that I warped the tape! |
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