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"Silent Night" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. [1] It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. [ 2 ]
"7 O'Clock News/Silent Night" is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their third studio album, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966). The track is a sound collage juxtaposing a rendition of the Christmas carol " Silent Night " with a simulated " 7 O'Clock News " bulletin consisting of actual events from the summer of 1966.
Give Love at Christmas is a Christmas album by the Temptations, released on August 14, 1980 via Gordy Records.The group's second holiday release following 1970's The Temptations Christmas Card, it features each Temptation leading on various popular Christmas carols and original Christmas songs.
Franz Xaver Gruber (25 November 1787 – 7 June 1863) was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer in the village of Arnsdorf, who is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night").
It was released on November 3, 2009 by Sony Music, two years after the band's previous studio album, Find Your Own Way Home. On July 1, 2010, the album was re-released with three bonus tracks, [1] and a DVD was released in a series from Sony Music called The Yule Log DVD, [2] in which the music from "Not So Silent Night ... Christmas with REO ...
4′33″ greatly influenced modernist music, furthering the genres of noise music and silent music, which—whilst still controversial to this day—reverberate among many contemporary musicians. Cage re-explored the idea of silent composition in two later renditions: 0′00″ (1962) and One 3 (1989).
The Temptations' Christmas Card is a 1970 Christmas album by The Temptations for the Gordy label.The album was released on October 30, 1970. It's also the group's first holiday release, it features each Temptation leading on various popular Christmas standards and original Christmas songs.
1959- Bing recorded "The Secret of Christmas" in a studio version after performing the song in the 1959 movie Say One for Me.; June 1964- Crosby re-recorded this track for the album 12 Songs of Christmas, which he released with Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring.