Memories: The Christmas Collection

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1God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
recording of:
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional, no arrangement credits here)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional]
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 394)
Bing Crosby?:??
2Silent Night
recording of:
Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
lyricist:
Josef Mohr (in 1816)
composer:
Franz Xaver Gruber (in 1818)
translator:
John Freeman Young (in 1859)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 27088)
translated version of:
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
Frank Sinatra?:??
3The Virgin’s Slumber Song (Maria Wiegenlied)
Mario Lanza?:??
4It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
recording of:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (carol version)
lyricist:
Edmund Sears
composer:
Richard Storrs Willis
part of:
The New English Hymnal (number: 29)
is based on:
CAROL (hymn tune)
is based on:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (poem)
Frank Sinatra?:??
5Good King Wenceslas / We Three Kings of Orient Are / Angels We (medley)
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1949-05-31)
lead vocals:
Bing Crosby (on 1949-05-31)
orchestra:
Simon Rady & His Orchestra and Choir (on 1949-05-31)
conductor:
Simon Rady (on 1949-05-31)
medley including a recording of:
Angels We Have Heard on High (on 1949-05-31)
lyricist:
[unknown]
composer:
[traditional]
translator:
James Chadwick (in 1862)
version of:
Les Anges dans nos campagnes
medley including a recording of:
Good King Wenceslas (on 1949-05-31)
lyricist:
John Mason Neale (in 1853)
composer:
[traditional] (from 1201 until 1301)
arranger:
Thomas Helmore (in 1853)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24754)
is based on:
Tempus adest floridum
medley including a recording of:
We Three Kings (on 1949-05-31)
lyricist and composer:
John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24751)
Bing Crosby?:??
6Deck the Halls / Away in a Manger / I Saw Three Ships (medley)
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1949-05-31)
lead vocals:
Bing Crosby (on 1949-05-31)
orchestra:
Simon Rady & His Orchestra and Choir (on 1949-05-31)
conductor:
Simon Rady (on 1949-05-31)
medley including a recording of:
Away in a Manger (aka “Cradle Song” composed by William J. Kirkpatrick) (on 1949-05-31)
additional lyricist:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892)
lyricist:
[anonymous]
composer:
William James Kirkpatrick (in 1895)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25304)
is based on:
Sweet Afton (set to music by Jonathan E. Spilman, 1837)
translated version of:
Y Preseb
medley including a recording of:
Deck the Halls (on 1949-05-31)
lyricist:
Thomas Oliphant
composer:
[traditional]
is based on:
Nos Galan (Talhaiarn, “Goreu pleser ar Nos Galan”)
medley including a recording of:
I Saw Three Ships (on 1949-05-31)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional]
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 700)
Bing Crosby?:??
7O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fidelis)
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)
Deanna Durbin?:??
8Cantique de Noel
tenor vocals:
Georges Thill
recording of:
Cantique de Noël “Minuit chrétiens” (French original of “O Holy Night”)
lyricist:
Placide Cappeau
composer:
Adolphe Adam (in 1847)
is based on:
Minuit, chrétiens (Poem)
Georges Thill?:??
9Coventry Carol
Elisabeth Schumann?:??
10Mary Had a Baby, Yes, Lord
Paul Robeson?:??
11The Star of Bethlehem
Richard Crooks?:??
12Once in Royal David’s City / Good King Wenceslas / It Came Upon (medley)
London Church Carol Choir?:??
13Christmas Bells at Eventide
conductor:
Ray Noble
Gracie Fields?:??
14The Star of the East
vocals:
Judy Garland (on 1941-07-20)
recording of:
Star of the East (on 1941-07-20)
lyricist:
George Cooper
arranger:
Amanda Kennedy
is based on:
Star of the Sea (Tune for "Star of the East")
Judy Garland?:??
15Ave Maria
recording of:
Ave Maria (catch-all for arrangements of the Bach / Gounod work)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach and Charles Gounod
publisher:
Lam Larghetto Music (from 1993 to present)
arrangement of:
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
Deanna Durbin?:??
16Petit Papa Noel
Tino Rossi?:??
17Guardian Angels
Mario Lanza?:??
18Joy to the World
recording of:
Joy to the World (Christmas carol)
lyricist:
Isaac Watts
additional composer:
Lowell Mason (in 1839)
composer:
George Frideric Handel
Bing Crosby?:??
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