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Meaning behind of 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night' are keys to sentiments.

If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists.

Nothing pulls at the heartstrings like a Christmas song because the holiday season is the call of home, family and friends.

Nothing pulls at the heartstrings like a Christmas song because the holiday season is the call of home, family and friends.

Nothing pulls at the heartstrings like a Christmas song because the holiday season is the call of home, family and friends.

Nothing pulls at the heartstrings like a Christmas song because the holiday season is the call of home, family and friends.

When you think of a multi-day music festival, what comes to mind? Woodstock? Coachella? Newport Folk Festival? One hundred and fifty…

These Are the 50 Most Covered Songs of All Time By Angela Underwood, Stacker News On 1/17/21 at 11:00 AM EST If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists. Sometimes, a cover version vastly outshined its original. Such is the case with "Summertime," originally written for the 1935 George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess, which Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong put a jazz spin on in 1957 to make...

It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth Long lay the world in sin and error, pining ‘Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth, The song is a well known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem “Minuet, chretitiens” (Midnight, Christians) by poet Palcide Cappeau. The carol reflects on the birth of Jesus as humanity’s redemption and couldn’t be any better fitting for today as was then. A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, For ...

McBrayer: Chains shall he break Ronnie McBrayer  It was Advent 1843, and the French village of Roquemaure was preparing to celebrate both the season and the restoration of the church’s pipe organ. The parish priest asked a local wine distributer who had a reputation as a poet, Placide Cappeau, to write a poem in honor of the dual celebrations. By Cappeau’s claim, he began working on the poem in a stagecoach. He was on his way to Paris while imagining the first Christmas. His final work, �...