I suddenly realized yesterday that I’d neglected to post one of my favorite Christmas carols–but not to worry: SlimJim requested it this morning. Have you noticed that we have a great many coincidences around here?
Pat-a-Pan is an old, old Burgundian carol. Here we have it by Quadriga Consort. I’m so happy that we haven’t missed it. Now, if I can just find a carol featuring a harpsichord…
Yesterday two different readers, Thewhiterabbit and ElderMike, requested the same hymn on the same day. If it winds up winning our Christmas Carol Contest, I’ll have to ship out two prizes.
Mary, Did You Know, sung by Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Well, here they are on that little train again, packing the seats and the aisles with Christmas music…
Requested by Thewhiterabbit, Joy to the World–with the train ride, of course, brought to you by Fountainview Academy.
I have two more hymns to post–and enter into our Christmas Carol Contest–before I go on to anything else. I don’t propose to cover any putrid nooze, though.
First up, requested by Ina: In the Bleak Midwinter, sung by Susan Boyle.
Requested by Phoebe, starting us off on Christmas Eve–the Robert Shaw Chorale, singing Christ Was Born on Christmas Day (am I starting to sound like Ed Sullivan?).
Oy, have I got work to do today! But there’ll be Christmas music playing the whole time I’m doing it.
I have to thank Phoebe for requesting this–We Are Not Alone, sung by the Voice of Eden, our brothers and sisters in India.
As dark as things are, these days, what with the ungodly running wild and the wicked trying to set up global government… Well, we are not alone, our God is with us!
And somehow I think of that invincible Assyrian army that invaded Judah in the days of Hezekia: “…And behold, they were all dead corpses.” Amen.
Here’s a request by Erlene–What Began in a Manger, by Carroll Roberson.
So many Christmas carols still un-entered! We’ll never be able to post them all.
But we could try!
I was sure Thewhiterabbit would eventually ask for this one–Once in Royal David’s City–and here it is, today’s first entry in our annual Christmas Carol Contest. Sung by the chapel choir at Kings College, Cambridge.
I don’t know why, but the carol contest doesn’t seem to be quite catching on this season. Two entries remain tied for the lead with 19 views. Maybe it’s just me saying so, but I think we need Christmas this year like we haven’t needed it in a long time.
Even if you don’t request a carol, you can help the contest along just be viewing the ones that have been posted so far. What could be easier than that?
Requested by SlimJim, O Come All Ye Faithful, sung by Alan Jackson.
Did you know you can request a specific artist along with your hymn or Christmas carol? Just as for Such and Such a Carol sung by Whoever–we’ll do the rest.
Yipes! Just five days till Christmas! And no carol has yet managed to get 20 views.
Maybe Byron’s right. Maybe the prize should’ve been a bicycle…
Thewhiterabbit requested this carol a few days ago, and although I posted it, he never saw it. Neither did anybody else. Somehow WordPress had only one view for it.
So let’s try again–An Irish Christmas Blessing, this time by Life Church Worship…