Christmas Carols, bring warmth, happiness to the season. But, do you know how most of them came into being?
Well that’s what The Story of Carols will help you discover, and as we learned researching these tunes, the story is rarely what you’ll expect.
It’s ironic that an act as divisive as the Civil War, would unify the way Americans celebrate Christmas. But, the holiday we know today largely came into existence in and around the war.
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A damaged pipe organ, a part time organist, and a forgotten poem all came together to create one of the best loved carols of all time.
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A young woman working as a secretary, helped save more than a hundred African American Spirituals , and she did it all in the south, during the Civil War.
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Did you know that one of America’s most famous poets, wrote a Christmas Song - and made it to the top of the charts in the twenty-first century?
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Casting Crowns - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7670CXvPX0
Bing Crosby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMmRkimMBOE
Frank Sinatra - https://youtu.be/eFKwlkJbT0Y
(John Baptiste Calkin Version) St. Peter's Choir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOGz9WqNQoI
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We often don’t understand the lyrics to our favorite Christmas Songs. So we’ll look at the truth behind An Olde English Christmas.
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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Olde English Christmas Tunes
Medley - Jim Holthouser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTyeNsLGSI
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Pentatonix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5KpZBQ6yGE
Ding Dong Merrily On High King's College Choir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_2tKCwu7Q
Deck The Halls - Nat King Cole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgEVI8DEkF8
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Today we think of "O Holy Night" as one of the most spiritual of all carols, but it was once banned by the church, and declared absent the spirit of religion.
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Josh Groban - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zh-yR0pbmU
Jim Holthouser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIObVjr5Ls
King's College Choir - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFG_nvreoI
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The story of how "Go Tell It On The Mountain," saved an early African American University - and that university saved the song for us all.
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Mahailia Jackson - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5aEwtvdRI
Jim Holthouser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKIZEZYFDfE
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