From The Times of London Online
December 7, 2007
Top ten Carols and things you didn't know about them
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without singing a few carols, but what are the origins of the familiar words and tunes we sing every year? Read on to find out the history of the Christmas Carol and the top ten tunes that churches across the country will be singing this year
Joanna Sugden
The carol, as a religious song for a particular season, dates back to the 13th century but it hit glory days during the next century gaining widespread popularity. Over the following hundred years the carol developed musically and as a literary form in its own right, but was silenced by the Reformation in England and replaced by the metrical Psalm. A resurgence of carols in the 18th century has helped them become the sine qua non of the Christmas season.
"Hark the Herald Angels Sing' was penned in 1739 by Charles Wesley, whose brother John founded the Methodist church.The original ti
Twisted Sister made a X-mas album called "Twisted Christmas". One of their songs is this version of "Oh come ye faithful".The video is really fun and hilarious. A different way of living Christmas.Trans-Siberian Orchestra have some albums about Christmas Carols. This song is "Christmas Canon" belonging to their album "The Christmas Attic".Good voices, good guitars...Good music.Sex Pistols also had their Christmas Carol and was called "Punk Rock Christmas". A very good song, very Sex Pistol's style.So folks now you can not tell that you don't like the Christmas carols because they are "so sweet..."
Purplebaby gave me this great idea to compile a Pasko Songs for the Filipinoes around the world. Maligayang Pasko sa lahat!
Listen to Various Traditional Holiday or Christmas Songs by Filipino Artists.
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1. Schizophrenia - Do You Hear What I Hear?
2. Multiple Personality Disorder - We Three Kings Disoriented Are
3. Dementia - I Think I’ll be Home for Christmas
4. Narcissistic - Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me
5. Manic - Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Buses and Trucks and Trees and…..
6. Paranoid - Santa Claus is Coming to Town to Get Me
7. Borderline Personality Disorder - Thoughts of Roasting on an Open Fire
8. Depression - You Better Watch Out, I’m Gonna Cry, I’m Gonna Pout, Maybe I’ll Tell You Why
9. Attention Deficit Disorder - Silent night, Holy oooh look at the froggy can I have a chocolate, why is France so far away?
10. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells
Nativity Scene Handcrafted from Olive Wood in Bethlehem. Each figure is richly detailed handcrafted from Olive Wood, stable size 11x9.6", figure sizes from 3" - 7". Every piece is an original-no two are alike.This Beautiful wood comes from olive trees, the type that grew in Gethsemane and around Jerusalem where Jesus walked. Every Two years the olive trees are pruned so that they bear fruit. These beautiful pieces are made from these pruning by Christian craftsmen living in Bethlehem.
This special nativity scene comes with a musical box embedded in the set and can be turned on mechanically without batteries by rotation of front Star. It will play traditional Christmas Carols songs such as Silent Night or Jingle Bells.
