Requested by Thewhiterabbit, and duly entered in our carol contest: An Irish Christmas Blessing, by Keith and Kristyn Getty. So that’s three entries so far today, with room for more. But first I have some business to attend to.
Tag: Christmas 2021
By Request, ‘The Little Drummer Boy’
Okay, let’s have some more entries in our carol contest.
Up now, requested by Ina, The Little Drummer Boy, performed by Boney M.
(So slow this morning! What gives?)
‘Incontrovertible Proof! Elves Are Real’ (2016)
Since I wrote this post in 2016, my copy of Tarzan at the Earth’s Core has inexplicably turned up–on my bookcase, no less! I guess the Elf was done reading it. Took him years, though.
All those little things of yours that go missing for no apparent reason… You might have Elves.
It’s better than having Gremlins.
By Request, ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’
Let’s start the day with a Christmas Carol Contest entry: requested by Phoebe, Go Tell It on the Mountain, here performed by For King and Country.
You can enter as often as you like–but most of our readers haven’t entered even once. Come on–spread some Christmas cheer!
By Request, ‘Let’s Celebrate Christmas’
Requested by Erlene, Let’s Celebrate Christmas, by Carroll Roberson–and that’s an entry into our Christmas Carol Contest.
Now I have to somehow get a Newswithviews column written, and another chapter of my book, and I’ve hardly begun my Christmas shopping— [Puff. puff, pant!]
I’m leaving Byron the Quokka in charge while I try to do those things. Let’s see if he’s ready to preside over this blog.
Our Christmas Carol Contest (Help!)
Is this computer broken? Where are all the Christmas carols? Don’t you know we’ve got a contest going here?
Lee says it’s political science: In any large group of people, 99% of the work will be done by 1% of the members. A few of you submit entries every day, which is totally allowed. Enter as often as you like! But most readers… just don’t. It’s like anything else. Stinkin’ political science! We won’t allow it at Quokka University.
And somehow I, Byron the Quokka, get stuck running all the contests on this blog–and when nobody asks for any hymns, and nobody submits any comments, the other quokkas cast pitying looks at me and I really hate that!
(I told him–you know I told him!–how many times I told him: you’ll never get anywhere unless you offer more bodacious prizes, like a bike or a boat or a bowling alley–and who listens to me? *Sigh!*)
‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’
No one has asked for this yet, but I wouldn’t want it to be passed over–O Little Town of Bethlehem, sung by Nat King Cole.
And I think a lot of the Christmas cards that illustrate the song were painted by Thomas Kinkade.
By Request, ‘Away in a Manger’
This was the first Christmas hymn I learned to sing. At the time I didn’t know what some of the words meant. Cattle were “lowing”? Morning is “nigh”? But I had no trouble at all understanding the meaning.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit: Away in a Manger, sung by Alan Jackson.
By Request, ‘Silent Night’
We weren’t about to let the season pass without Silent Night. Requested by Erlene, sung by the Winchester Cathedral Choir.
Early, early memory: Grandma singing this to me in German. “Stille nacht, heilige nacht…”
By Request, ‘Joy to the World’
There are so many renditions of this hymn available, I don’t know which to choose! Well, let’s try this one–by an unnamed “traditional choir.”
Requested by SlimJim, Joy to the World–written in 1719 by Isaac Watts and still going very strong indeed today.