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Enrich your holiday celebrations as you discover the incredible stories and the inspiration behind the Christmas songs you know and love.
Jingle Bells Mary
Did You Know?
The First Noel
O Holy Night
Silver Bells
White Christmas
The songs that you’ve sung since you were a child continue to bring Christmas to life each year. Now, you’ll learn how your favorite Christmas songs came to be. Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas reveals the surprising and fascinating origins of over thirty of your favorite Christmas songs and carols, both secular and religious. Along the way you will uncover spiritual insights, heartwarming stories, and tales of the humble men and women of the past who wrote what remain the most beloved Christmas songs today. Discover how:
Iconic artists such as Judy Garland and Nat King Cole were influenced and inspired to record instant classics like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and The Christmas Song.God-inspired words given to an unlikely musician became Mary, Did You Know?One of the oldest Christmas songs still sung today, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, changed from a hymn sung in Latin only in Catholic masses to a carol embraced by every Christian denomination in the world.
From the rollicking appeal of Jingle Bells to the tranquil beauty of Silent Night, the great songs of Christmas contain messages of peace, hope, and truth. Each song in its own way expresses a facet of God’s heart and celebrates the birth of his greatest gift to the world—Jesus. These stories will warm your heart and bring extra significance to the carols you sing each December.
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Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas
Incredible stories and the inspiration behind the most popular Christmas songs, including Jingle Bells, Mary, Did You Know?, The First Noel, O Holy Night, Silver Bells, and White Christmas.
Fascinating Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas:
The Christmas Song
One of the most famous modern-day Christmas songs was written on one of the hottest California days on record. The song, which resulted from a collaboration between two of America’s best singer-songwriters, has touched millions and made both men (Nat King Cole and Mel Torme) a fixture of every holiday season.
Jingle Bells
“Jingle Bells” is perhaps the most well-known, must sung Christmas carol in America. Yet in one of the season’s greatest ironies, “Jingle Bells” does not contain a single reference to the holiday with which it is associated and was actually written for a completely different day of celebration.
Silent Night
Even though “Silent Night” has been recorded more than any other song in history, the fact that we know it at all is a miracle. Created out of necessity and performed in a tiny village on a solitary Christmas Eve by two ordinary Austrians and a tiny choir, this incredibly beautiful and simple carol owes its debut to an organ that wouldn’t play and a priest who wouldn’t hold a Christmas mass without special music. Later, just weeks into the new year, the beloved carol’s march to worldwide popularity was begun by the man who came to fix the faulty instrument.
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Publisher : Zondervan (October 6, 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 0310115906
ISBN-13 : 978-0310115908
Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
Dimensions : 5.11 x 0.78 x 7.41 inches
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Customers find the book easy to read and enjoyable. It provides interesting stories about the history of Christmas songs. They appreciate learning the true meaning behind the songs and what it meant to the authors. The writing quality is praised as well-written and skillful. Readers find the visual appeal visually appealing and consider it a good gift for anyone who loves music.
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