12 Little Known Facts About Your Favourite Christmas Songs

2015-12-09

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“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” is one of the oldest Christmas hymns to still be played on radio. It was originally composed in gloriously accessible Latin
in the twelfth century!
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The writer of ‘White Christmas’, Irving Berlin, hated Elvis Presley’s version of the song so much that he tried to prevent radio stations from playing it.
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Bing Crosby’s splendidly cosy, warming version of “White Christmas” is the highest‐selling single of all time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSUT8Inl14
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“Let It Snow” snuck into the Christmas cannon despite the fact that it never explicitly mentions Christmas ONCE.
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Mariah Carey’s Christmas smash “All I Want For Christmas Is You” was co‐written by her and the man who produced Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” Walter Afanasieff
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‘Jingle Bells’ was the first song to be performed in space.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76cFcwxFMPk
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Singer Brenda Lee recorded the original version of “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” when she was merely 13 years oldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xNuUEnh2g
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono may have written the lyrics for “Happy Xmas (War is Over),” but the melody was taken from an old folk song about a racehorse called “Stewball.
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When Irving Berlin wrote “White Christmas” in his head, he said to his secretary, “Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I’ve ever written — heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody’s ever written!”. Modesty prevails.
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Wham! Got Sued For “Last Christmas” – by the writers of Barry Manilow’s 70’s smash hit ‘I Can’t Smile Without You’. Did they have a point..?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8uOxBLtdFc
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David Bowie and Bing Crosby once did an astoundingly corny Christmas special together – ratherly sadly, Bing died only a month after this was filmed
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And, being perfectly frank, we just wanted to draw your attention to this version of ‘Jingle Bells’ from Stax legends Booker T & the MG’s. Simply perfect.