My point though ... I've been trying to get the BEST version of that song for the longest time now. I have purchase many CD's hoping that would be the one I've been searching for, but it never is THE ONE. I hear the right one on the radio at least once every year, but they never say who sang (sung) it. Do you know the performers of a few versions, besides the ones you've mentioned already, that I could look for on the file sharing network I use? It would be old, but not THAT old. It would be a chorus, not one person, and it's not the Mormon Tabernacle(?) Choir.
Anyone? ... anyone? ... Bueller?...
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Oh Yeah ...
Merry Christmas to you, and everyone here at the great Free Republic!
It has always irked me how radio stations will play songs and rarely identify who the artist is. The record companies lose more money this way than file sharing in my opinion. How can you buy the music if you don't know the artist? Hopefully soon, stations will transmit artist/song title information that we can read on our RDS displays. Or at least post to their website the playlist of at least the previous 24 hours.
Running nightly in our church Christmas production...complete with camel, wise men, flying angels and the baby wrapped in swaddling clothes (or a reasonable facsimile of the babe when our cast member is colicky).
Sorry, but we're sold out this year...We play 18 performances to over 25,000 people.
O Holy Night is an annual favorite. In all honesty, we're probably not the "best," but it's still pretty spectacular...
Try Vienna Boys Choir. However, in hearing and downloading several versions of this song, it's hard to find one that isn't beautiful, be it sung by a choir or played by a piano alone. TSO's O Come All ye Faithful/O Holy Night is fabulous, too!