Although I didn't realize it until recently many performers have one this song.The one to which we're both referring was done by the "Harry Simone Chorale" and came out just before Christmas in '58.
To me it perfectly symbolizes...simply and beautifully...the *true* meaning of Christmas.
I’ve seen a LOT of controversy about this, about which I used to be blissfully unaware.
It could be offensive to some people, who don’t want anything that might even look like a hint at something unhistorical. Once they’ve taken that position then the other objections pile up, like how could something like that appeal to an infant. (They don’t know real infants and their varying moods, but that’s a digression. Add to this the sinless babe factor and we have a non problem.) I don’t get hung up over that point of view... I say, treat it like a parable. Jesus had no problem using parables that mixed historical and fictional elements, which illustrated a broader spiritual point of grace that He sought to make. And the point is so wonderful. Jesus accepts and blesses the humblest gifts. Even the Grinch-stolen Christmas offered the gifts of singing, if you remember the cartoon. So such objection is worse than the Grinch’s evil experiment.