It's officially day 1 of A Very Vintage Christmas!
It is also a Thursday, which means today we start building your vintage Christmas playlist.
The first song I picked for this month just happens to be one of my personal favorite Christmas songs.It was actually a poem put to music in the 1800s, but the lyrics we know today weren't used used until they were written by John Sullivan Dwight in 1855.
"O, holy night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of our dear Savior's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
'Til He appeared and the soul felt it's worth.
A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees! O, hear the angel voices!
O, night divine! O, night when Christ was born!"
There are more verses that make up the whole song, but the first is the most popular, and the first verse is also the only one used in the version which I now present to you.
O Holy Night first appeared on Nat King Cole's Christmas album, The Magic of Christmas, which was released in 1960, and re-released in 1963 after a couple changes were made.
This is the link to the song:
To my knowledge, the album The Magic of Christmas cannot be bought with it's original track listing.However, you can buy The Nat King Cole Christmas Album, which is a compilation, of sorts, of all his Christmas songs, and does include O Holy Night.
You can buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Album-Nat-King-Cole/dp/B000026K6T/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1322761712&sr=1-1
And I'm sure you can also find the song to download on iTunes.
We here at Think Classic wish you a very merry, and a Very Vintage Christmas!
See you Saturday with my first classic Christmas movie post of the season!
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