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unusual facts about Christmas songs



A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector

A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (originally released as A Christmas Gift for You from Philles Records) is an album of Christmas songs, produced by Phil Spector, and originally released as Philles 45 in 1963.


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A Gerald Walker Christmas EP

The album is inspired by Charles M. Schulz's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and contains two traditional Christmas songs and three original songs.

Christmas Songs by Sinatra

Christmas Songs By Sinatra is the name of the third studio album by the American singer Frank Sinatra.

Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

Fernando Ortega also recorded "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus" on his 2011 album, "Christmas Songs".

Coro amadeo

They performed four Christmas songs: Kampana ng Simbahan, Munting Sanggol, Feliz Navidad, and Joy to the World.

Florent Vollant

His Innu-language album of Christmas songs, Nipaiamianan, earned him an apostolic blessing from Pope John Paul II, as well as the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year in 2001.

Fum, Fum, Fum

One source, the Musical Heritage Society insert 3428 (Christmas Songs From Around the World), indicates that "fum, fum, fum" is an onomatopoeia imitating the noise of a rocking cradle, and that the rhythms come from the Sardana, a courtly dance which originated in Catalonia and the Provence.

Jobe Bells

It contains drug/sex themed parodies of various Christmas songs, such as the "12 Days of Christmas" and "Silent Night".

Kaspersky Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition

Team leader Felicity Aston, of the United Kingdom, explained: "Half of the team don’t usually celebrate Christmas so the others are having great fun teaching them Christmas songs and explaining why they have to hang their smelly socks outside the tent on Christmas Eve".

Kate Rusby

2008 saw the release of Sweet Bells, an album of traditional Christmas songs interpreted by Rusby.

Lisa Ono

On this album Lisa returns to Brazil with a new "winter bossa" collection of Christmas songs in English and Portuguese recorded with three of Brazil's top guitarists - Toninho Horta, Oscar Castro-Neves, and Romero Lubambo.

Maximón

This shrine differs from the one at Santiago Atitlan in that an EPROM chip, presumably from a novelty Christmas Card, has been rigged up to speakers and plays a continuous loop of a few bars from three Christmas songs at volume.

My Best Christmas

It features two hard-to-find Christmas songs: "Merry Christmas Darling," a cover of the Carpenters song, which was only available on the Target store version of A Christmas to Remember, and "Child of God," which appears on the various-artists compilation album One Silent Night (2000).

Olivia Newton-John 2011 United States Tour

The setlist included the Christmas songs, "Christmas on My Radio" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", and the new song "Weightless", from soundtrack A Few Best Men.

Taste of Christmas

The Taste of Christmas compilation is a collection of holiday music from artists on the Taste of Chaos tour, with exclusive newly recorded versions of Christmas songs.

The Man with All the Toys

As a single that year it had limited success (No. 6 on the Billboard Christmas chart), but built sales over successive Christmases and is listed by Billboard in the Top 100 selling Christmas songs in history, though well below the Beach Boys' 1963 Christmas single "Little Saint Nick".