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On the morning of January 8th, 1940 Irving Berlin, turned up at his Broadway publishing office. Without missing a beat he announced he’d written a song over the weekend. “Not only is it the best song I ever wrote,” he told Kresa. “It’s the best song anybody ever wrote.”
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The Story Of Carols
Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b
Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs
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Check Out Some of Our Favorite Versions of White Christmas
The Original Bing Crosby - https://open.spotify.com/track/3XsaSIPWvM61RIFfeb0BBR?si=df6b72a6056847b7The Drifters - https://open.spotify.com/track/72Z28IsvEVLjSWdUKEQgZ0?si=7e120380cbca4d26
Frank SInatra - https://open.spotify.com/track/14QJl6TD0xnKl26NkTVez2?si=918473a259d64abc
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The Nutcracker is the Olympics of ballet. Even people who actively dislike sport - watch the Olympics, and are be moved by the pageantry, dedication and physical skill. For the participants, it’s the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Exactly the same can be said for The Nutcracker.
But no one expected a children’s fairy tale to become the worlds best known ballet.
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The Story Of Carols
Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b
Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QW6El8om0CMH1SU8ZHlQz?si=fa49d81d81cd4ccf
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Check Out The Complete Nutcracker Suite
https://open.spotify.com/album/54Awn36ryf55PkZyOR4iwQ?si=d6a_RMZcQIWHJUdhYfZsEw&dl_branch=1
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We tend to think of “Good King Wenceslaus” as an Old English carol. But Wenceslaus, is an historic figure from first millennium Bohemia... what is now the Czech Republic. And he wasn’t a king - he was a Duke. His story though, has all the palace intrigue of a Shakespeare tragedy. 👍 If you enjoyed this episode check out the film versions of all our episodes at:
The Story Of Carols
Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b
Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QW6El8om0CMH1SU8ZHlQz?si=fa49d81d81cd4ccf
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Good King Wenceslaus
Oxford Trinity Choir - https://open.spotify.com/track/7bVCSdxKp3KXF2JKYvyxyu?si=33db5b03d52c47a9
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The main motif of Carol of The Bells is only four notes, but Mykola Leontovych managed to get far more out of them than the sum of their parts. Considering the strife going on all around him, it’s amazing that he was able to write music at all.
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The Story Of Carols
Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b
Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QW6El8om0CMH1SU8ZHlQz?si=fa49d81d81cd4ccf
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Carol Of The Bells
John Willlams Arrangement - https://open.spotify.com/track/4tHqQMWSqmL6YjXwsqthDI?si=b71b07e5cafb463a The Pentatonix - https://open.spotify.com/track/4cJhiux4xzrdgSHUeAjP48?si=b02012bf5fd248a4
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1945 was one of the hottest on summers on record. And that’s when the power of positive thinking produced one of the best loved Christmas songs of all time.
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The Story Of Carols
Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b
Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QW6El8om0CMH1SU8ZHlQz?si=fa49d81d81cd4ccf
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of The Christmas Song
The original Nat King Cole Version - https://open.spotify.com/track/4PS1e8f2LvuTFgUs1Cn3ON?si=972ac16641384797 Mel Torme - https://open.spotify.com/track/7o6agk7Uy395tk8ZYM5MEi?si=6d4d860569dd4508 MIchael Buble' - https://open.spotify.com/track/4SWAozNLRfZXF25ghKqm2q?si=c46b010b4eae429b
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George Gershwin never officially wrote a Christmas tune. But one of his little known, show tunes, “Snow Flakes,” is beginning to turn up as a carol in waiting.
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The Story Of Carols
Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b
Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QW6El8om0CMH1SU8ZHlQz?si=fa49d81d81cd4ccf
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Snow Flakes
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We’ve all heard of having a cup of wassail at Christmas time. We’ve even heard of wassailing as an event, - a celebration of merriment, as in “here we come a wassailing.” But did you know we still go a wassailing today?
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The Story Of Carols
Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b
Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4QW6El8om0CMH1SU8ZHlQz?si=fa49d81d81cd4ccf
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Here We Come A WassailingPerry Como - https://open.spotify.com/track/4LUAIXN6bpnEVaJZOLfuDt?si=047aef3c377a4c7a London Philharmonic - https://open.spotify.com/track/0k3pWTfIQVnSDPPt1nblQP?si=3ffcdce8e6d643f9
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The Story Of Carols - A Civil War Christmas
It’s ironic that an act as divisive as the Civil War, would unify the way Americans celebrate Christmas. But, the holiday we know today largely came into existence in and around the war.
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Check Out Some of Our Favorite Civil War Era Christmas Tunes
Up On The House Top - The Pentatonix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9eU4qOyHY
Jingle Bells - Michael Buble - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-DvH41Tjo
Silent Night - Bing Crosby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GUnfLPpjLs
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The Story Of Carols - "Silent Night, Holy Night"
A damaged pipe organ, a part time organist, and a forgotten poem all came together to create one of the best loved carols of all time.
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Silent Night
Bing Crosby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GUnfLPpjLs
Perry Como - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGgCsHassPQ
Ella Fitzgerald - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXCgyWwwWxU
Dinah Washington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WESm-X_RaVs
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The Story Of Carols - Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
A young woman working as a secretary, helped save more than a hundred African American Spirituals , and she did it all in the south, during the Civil War.
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
Mary J Blige - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-nIx0z1iwc
Vanessa Williams - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-mmQt_ZM34
The Winans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxGsSIpRp0Q
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The Story Of Carols - "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day"
Did you know that one of America’s most famous poets, wrote a Christmas Song - and made it to the top of the charts in the twenty-first century?
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Casting Crowns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7670CXvPX0
Bing Crosby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMmRkimMBOE
Frank Sinatra - https://youtu.be/eFKwlkJbT0Y
(John Baptiste Calkin Version) St. Peter's Choir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOGz9WqNQoI
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The Story Of Carols - "An Olde English Christmas"
We often don’t understand the lyrics to our favorite Christmas Songs. So we’ll look at the truth behind An Olde English Christmas.
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Olde English Christmas Tunes
Medley - Jim Holthouser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTyeNsLGSI
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Pentatonix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5KpZBQ6yGE
Ding Dong Merrily On High King's College Choir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_2tKCwu7Q
Deck The Halls - Nat King Cole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgEVI8DEkF8
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The Story Of Carols - "O Holy Night"
Today we think of "O Holy Night" as one of the most spiritual of all carols, but it was once banned by the church, and declared absent the spirit of religion.
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of O Holy Night
Josh Groban - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zh-yR0pbmU
Jim Holthouser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIObVjr5Ls
King's College Choir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFG_nvreoI
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The Story Of Carols - "Go Tell It On The Mountain"
The story of how "Go Tell It On The Mountain," saved an early African American University - and that university saved the song for us all.
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Check out some of our favorite performances of Go Tell It On The Mountain
Mahailia Jackson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5aEwtvdRI
Jim Holthouser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKIZEZYFDfE
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