Episodes
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I Need Thee Every Hour / How Great Thou Art
Sheet music available at https://music.justinreeve.com/i-need-thee-every-hour-how-great-thou-art/
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My Heavenly Father Loves Me (Whenever I Hear the Song of a Bird)/Teach Me To Walk In the Light
Sheet music available at https://music.justinreeve.com/my-heavenly-father-loves-me-teach-me-to-walk-in-the-light/
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A Spaceman Came Travelling (Piano)
Written by Chris de Burgh in 1975, "A Spaceman Came Travelling" topped the Irish charts a year after it was released. But it wasn't until 1986 with De Burgh's success of "The Lady in Red" that the UK took notice and it reached the top charts there, too. The idea for the song came to de Burgh when...
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Dives and Lazarus / A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief (Piano)
The tune to "Dives and Lazarus" is used in many folk songs throughout western Europe, including "Gilderoy" and "Crooked Jack" in Scotland, "The Star of the Country Down" in Ireland, and "The Unquiet Grave" in England. Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged the tune in his composition Five Variants of...
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Once Upon a December
"Once Upon a December" is a song from the 1997 animated film Anastasia, a story about the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, and the rumors surrounding her purported escape from Communist revolutionaries in 1918 who executed the rest of the Romanov royal...
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The Holly and the Ivy
First published in 1861 by Joshua Sylvester in A Garland of Christmas Carols, the lyrics to "The Holly and the Ivy" are centuries old. The symbols predate Christianity and were likely altered to represent the symbols of Jesus, Mary, and His blood, crown of thorns, and crucifixion. The adapted...
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Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
"Infant Holy, Infant Lowly" originates from the Polish carol "W zlobie lezy" ("He Lies in the Cradle"). In 1908, the carol was published in a book of Polish carols. 13 years later, Edith Margaret Reed wrote English-language lyrics for the song, and came up with the title "Infant Holy, Infant...
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Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" was written by Randy Brooks, and originally performed by husband-and-wife duo Elmo and Patsy Trigg Shropshire in 1979. Brooks played the song while he was performing with Elmo and Patsy at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe in December 1978. After the show, Elmo and Patsy...
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A Spaceman Came Travelling
Written by Chris de Burgh in 1975, "A Spaceman Came Travelling" topped the Irish charts a year after it was released. But it wasn't until 1986 with De Burgh's success of "The Lady in Red" that the UK took notice and it reached the top charts there, too. The idea for the song came to de Burgh when...
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
The words to “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” are a translation of the Catholic Latin text “Veni, veni, Emmanuel” by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century. Their origins are very old indeed, and may date as far back as the 12th century. They were of such importance in medieval days that in…
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Huron Carol ('Twas in the Moon of Wintertime)
Generally considered the first Canadian Christmas carol, “‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime” was written in 1640 by a Jesuit priest, Jean de Brébeuf. He set the song to a French folk tune, “Une Jeune Pucelle.” Brébeuf was ministering to the Huron natives in Ontario, and created a song in their...
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Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" was composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in the early 1700s, as part of the final movement of the Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben cantata ("Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"). The original German lyrics differ quite a bit from the traditional English lyrics, and…
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The First Noel
It's difficult to know just how old "The First Noel" is. The song (at least the words) is thought to be of Cornish origin, and may date back as early as the 13th or 14th century. During this time, miracle plays and mystery plays -- dramatic productions of Catholic saints and biblical stories --...
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Carol of the Bells
Legend says that at the stroke of midnight on the evening when Jesus was born every bell on the earth began ringing joyously together. It is said there was never a sound quite like it. The song "Carol of the Bells" probably comes from that legend. Traditionally, the song starts out soft and gets...
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I Wonder As I Wander
John Jacob Niles was traveling through a raucous revivalist meeting in North Carolina on July 16, 1933. A group was about to begin street preaching, when a girl stepped out of the entourage. She was unkempt and ragged, but once she started singing she had a beautiful voice. She smiled as she sang…
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In the Bleak Midwinter
"In the Bleak Midwinter" is based on a poem by Christina Rossetti, written around 1872. The evocative lyrics paint a picture of the Nativity in a snowy Northern landscape. The text of this Christmas poem has been set to music many times, the most famous settings being composed by Gustav Holst and...
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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Edmund Hamilton Sears was a young Unitarian minister living in Massachusetts when he penned the poem "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849. It was published that year in the Christian Register magazine in Boston. The following year, Richard Storrs Willis, an editor and critic for the New York...
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God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" is an old carol sung by the waits, the municipal watchmen of old England. The waits were licensed to perform the duty of singing seasonal songs to the gentry, or the upper-class citizens. The author of the carol is unknown. The song was first published in 1827 as an...
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O Holy Night
Adolphe Charles Adam was an accomplished composer for opera, theatre, and ballet, and a teacher at the Paris Conservatoire. At the age of 27, in 1830, he had completed nearly 30 theatre productions. "Cantique de Noël," translated to English as "O Holy Night" is one of his most famous works, done…
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Away in a Manger
In 1887, James R. Murray published this verse and called it "Luther's Cradle Hymn, composed by Martin Luther for his children, and still sung by German mothers to their little ones." Incidentally, Martin Luther, the famous father of the Reformation, was not the author, nor was Murray. The origin…
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Where Are You Christmas?
This song, originally called "Christmas, Why Can’t I Find You," was written by James Horner for the 2000 movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas. It was first performed by Taylor Momsen, who played Cindy Lou Who in the movie. A different version was later co-written by James Horner, Will Jennings…
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What Child Is This?
"What Child Is This?" was written by William Chatterton Dix in 1865. At the age of 29, William was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a deep depression. Yet out of his near-death experience, Dix wrote many hymns, including...
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