Christmas Carols by JewS?
Holiday season.
Precious moments.
Wide-eyed children opening gifts.
Loving family members wolfing down, eating a scrumptious dinner.
Gathering around the fireplace for photos, that we want to tear up later. Heh.
Hugs and kisses all around as the festivities draw to a close.
What’s not to love?
Some admit to having a love/hate relationship with the season..the stress, the rushing, the pressure!
But when it comes to Christmas songs…I have a love/love relationship.
O.K. I’ll go a step further..I’m obsessed! 
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year”….. 
Who wrote your favorite song? 
“According to a study of American musicians published in 1933, at a time when Jews comprised less than 4% of the total United States population, 36% of the players in American “amusement orchestras” were Jews.”
Who Knew It’s By a Jew?
But Christmas carols by Jews?
Some you may know..others..may surprise ya!
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) by Mel Torme and Robert Wells 1946
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by: J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie
White Christmas by Irving Berlin 1942
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne 1943
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree by Johnny Marks
A Holly Jolly Christmas by Johnny Marks
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer by Johnny Marks 1949
Silver Bells by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans 1950
Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson and Mitchell Parish
Writer with most Top Holiday Songs:
Johnny Marks with three - “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” and “A Holly Jolly Christmas”
Most recorded Holiday Song:
“White Christmas” with well over 500 versions in dozens of languages.
ASCAP ANNOUNCES TOP 25 HOLIDAY SONGS
And last but not least……….
O Holy Night.
This carol has been heralded as among the most beautiful of all Christmas carols, with excellent lyrics and a superb melody.
O Holy Night
Notwithstanding its intrinsic beauty and initial success, the song was later attacked by churchmen in Cappeau’s native France. The reason was not because of the nature or subject of the song. Rather, the attacks were based on the reputations of the lyricist and composer.
And the composer, Adolphe Adam, was Jewish.
Do you have an all time favorite holiday tune sweet friends?
And what do ya suppose the Jew haters do knowing that the very utterances they sing were penned by none other than a Jew?
Perhaps we should teach them Hava Nagila. Heh. 
Falalala lala lala!
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December 20th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Sweet posting! I knew some of them where by Jews.
Not to mention there are Jews who believe in Jesus as their Messiah.
Good night Angel.
Merry Christmas!
FTGF!
December 20th, 2006 at 11:42 pm
ah, talented writers adding to the joy of others…
very special…
my favorite?
Silent Night
all is calm, all is bright…
December 21st, 2006 at 1:05 am
Favorite song of Chruistmas?
Joy to the World. I especially like the later verses- such rich lyrics.
The song was obviously written about the second coming- not His birth.
I like lots of the newer stuff too.
My daughter begged me to buy
“Shout Praises!: Kids Christmas” last year.
Wow , I’m glad she did. Really wets my eyes, but I’m such a sap for great Christmas music. Can listen here:
http://www.independentbands.com/cd/integritymusic/shoutpraiseskidschristmas.html
I don’t care much for “The 12 days Of Christmas”.
Though I like the parody of it here:
http://www.bobrivers.com/audiovault/tunes/tunestop30.asp
Look for
“Twelve Pains of Christmas, The”
It pokes fun at the mess Christmas celebration can become.
Merry Christmas.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:45 am
My favorite carol is probably “Joy to the World.”
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_to_the_world :
“Joy to the World” is one of the best-known and best-loved of Christmas carols. It contains a message of joy and love replacing sin and sorrow. The hymn is significant for its widespread use throughout Christian denominations and for the musical stature of the people who created it.
The scripture-based words are by Isaac Watts. The music was adapted and arranged by Lowell Mason from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel; not least because the theme of the refrain (And heaven and nature sing…) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort Ye from Handel’s Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio. However, Handel did not compose the entire tune.
But I like some of the more unusual carols as well, including “The Holly and the Ivy,” “Coventry Carol,” and “Patapan.”
I didn’t know all that info about “O Holy Night!” Another bit of trivia about that song, from this source
This is said to have been the first music ever broadcast over a radio.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:34 am
Great songs,,,,,,BUT
Some of stiks favorites were left off the list…..
WHERE”S:
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas?
Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer….by Tiny Tim
I’m gettin Nutting for Christmas
http://www.stiknstein.com/?p=2658
Kidnap the Sandy Claus….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc94Rpu0sMs
Cartmans Chritsmas Carol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oW98naK8CA
Eating Chinese Food For Christmas
http://www.stiknstein.com/?p=2659
Clearly some classics left out here…….
Stik figures some people just don’t know how to celebrate…..
December 21st, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Thanks thanks alls for sharing!
lol StiK!..sheesh I should update my list!
December 21st, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Let’s not forget that the ACLU has a large proportion of Jewish lawyers who are helping to dismantle Christmas via the intimidation and lawsuit route. Somehow I dont believe they are the religious traditionalists -just more liberals.
My favorite story in this arena is a friend (Jewish)whose father bought the public school Christmas trees for years.
December 21st, 2006 at 3:11 pm
With the exception of “O Holy Night” I’d not personally count any of the list as “carols,” and frankly, “O Holy Night” doesn’t make my cut as a “carol” either, but that’s not to say that I don’t appreciate the listed songs as fun (and some, as the case is with OHN), indeed quite good Christmas songs.
(Yeh, blame my strict formalism concerning musical genres, a close cousin to the persnickity approach I have to pejoration of any English word usage… *heh*)
A good list of (mostly) secular songs generally regarded as “carols” though. And, to be clear, dictionaries (surely not MUSIC dictionaries, yet! at least, one could hope) recently have accepted the blurred distinction that popular usage has foisted off on the term “Christmas carol” but still… I’m gonna be the stick in the mud and cry “Bah, Humbug!” at labeling all Christmas songs as carols.
But that’s just me. And as I said, a good list of Christmas songs.
OK, you showed me yours. Wanna see mine?
December 21st, 2006 at 3:19 pm
“Not to mention there are Jews who believe in Jesus as their Messiah.”
There’s a church of them here in Cincinnati!
O Holy Night is one of my faves!
December 21st, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Heck angel, everytime I look at your blog I end up with a warm glow. I’m supposed to be a grumpy, cynical old git.
keep up the good work! God bess you and yours.
December 21st, 2006 at 4:58 pm
Music is a gift from GOD. The man or woman wielding the pen is unimportant. The Heavenly Author is all-important.
December 21st, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Good things come in many different packages..i just wish we would stop for a moment and enjoy the gift, rather than investigate the givers!!!
December 21st, 2006 at 11:17 pm
Darn… I guess I better start writing some Hannakuh songs…
December 23rd, 2006 at 6:13 pm
thanks alls for sharing!
December 26th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Let It Snow! is my favorite on the list. They’re all great songs.