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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 ...
A Christmas cantata outside the classical music tradition was the 1986 project The Animals' Christmas by Jimmy Webb and Art Garfunkel. In 1995, Bruckner 's Fest-Kantate Preiset den Herrn , WAB 16, has undergone an adaptation as Festkantate zur Weihnacht (festive Christmas cantata) for mixed choir with Herbert Vogg’s text "Ehre sei Gott in der ...
According to a 2023 Cloud Cover Music survey, 28% of respondents said they started listening to Christmas music around Dec. 1, with the most played song being Carey's famous classic. "All I Want ...
This sinewy rock version was recorded by the band in 1975 at a show in New York and remains a live favorite.. 13. 'Grown-Up Christmas List,' Natalie Cole. Written by David Foster and Linda ...
The quintessential Christmas crush song, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" finally hit No. 1 in 2019—25 years after its initial release! 2. Nat King Cole, "The Christmas Song"
These are the Billboard Holiday Songs number one hits from the chart's debut on December 8, 2001 until January 8, 2011. The survey of radio airplay of Adult Contemporary and Adult Top 40 stations is published seasonally for 5-6 weeks after Thanksgiving.
Grande has a couple of Christmas EPs under her belt—2013’s Christmas Kisses and 2015’s Christmas & Chill. “Snow in California” and “Winter Things” have a permanent place on my playlist.