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Thread #53488   Message #823569
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
11-Nov-02 - 03:57 PM
Thread Name: What are you learning for the holidays?
Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays?
Well, for starters, there's Great Day In December, recorded by the Swan Silvertones, and No Room At The Inn, recorded by several people including Mahalia Jackson... give me some time to think of some more. I wrote a song we do, Without That Night, that came out of a dream of being in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, the night that Christ was born, and going out to the manger to find it empty... A "what if Christ had never been born" song ... I think I've probably sent you that one, Sian.. I'm not suggesting a whole mother lode of songs, here... probably one or two more unusual songs that I think are good... Harry Belefonte did a wonderful Christmas album that has been re-issued on CD with several beautiful, relatively obscure Christmas songs on it, too. I'll dig it out..

Jerry