Christmas!

~ Release by Five Times Harder (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1CD
#TitleRatingLength
1Christmas Time's a Coming
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Christmas Time's A-Coming
lyricist and composer:
Tex Logan
publisher:
Bill Monroe Music, Inc.
2:41
2The Friendly Beasts
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
The Friendly Beasts
lyricist:
Robert Davis (lyricist, 1881-1950)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
3:36
3Mary Had a Baby
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Mary Had a Baby
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
2:47
4Lo, How a Rose E'Er Blooming
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (English version of “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen”)
additional composer:
Michael Praetorius (composer and organist)
composer:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
translator:
Theodore Baker (in 1894)
translated version of:
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Praetorius’ harmonisation)
2:19
5On This Day, Earth Shall Ring
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
On this Day Earth shall Ring
lyricist:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Haldane Stewart (English organist and composer)
3:21
6O Holy Night
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
O Holy Night (catch-all for arrangements)
composer:
Adolphe Adam (French composer)
arrangement of:
O Holy Night
5:29
7Santa Claus Is Coming to Town1:50
8Away in a Manger
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Away in a Manger (aka “Cradle Song” composed by William J. Kirkpatrick)
additional lyricist:
Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892)
lyricist:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
composer:
William James Kirkpatrick (hymn-writer) (in 1895)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 25304)
is based on:
Sweet Afton (set to music by Jonathan E. Spilman, 1837)
translated version of:
Y Preseb
3:14
9Overture to the Messiah
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Messiah: Overture
composer:
George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer)
part of:
Messiah, HWV 56 (Goossens-Beecham Edition)
3:55
10The Christmas Song
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
lyricist:
Robert Wells (songwriter) (in 1945-07) and Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) (in 1945-07)
composer:
Mel Tormé (“The Velvet Fog”) (in 1945-07)
publisher:
Chappell/Morris Ltd., MPL Music Publishing Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing Australia Pty Ltd., Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP), Warner Chappell, Warner Chappell Ltd., Warner Chappell Music (holding behind all publishing activities of Warner Music Group, 2019–), Warner/Chappell Music Australia Pty. Ltd. and Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc. (a division of MPL Communications Inc.) (from 1946 to present)
4:44
11Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
lyricist and composer:
R. Fisher Boyce (in 1938)
4:02
12Little Drummer Boy
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Little Drummer Boy (arr. Mensinger/Noris)
arranger:
Dietmar Mensinger and Günter Noris
is based on:
Carol of the Drum (aka “The Little Drummer Boy”)
3:05
13Light of the Stable2:08
14Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
orchestrator:
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
lyricist:
Robert Bridges (poet)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician)
translated version of:
Kantate, BWV 147 „Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben“: Teil II, X. Choral „Jesus bleibet meine Freude“ (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring)
3:06
15Go Tell It on the Mountain
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Go, Tell It on the Mountain (catch-all for arrangements)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arrangement of:
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
2:34
16Ave Maria
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
lyricist:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician) and Charles Gounod (French composer) (in 1853)
is based on:
Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach
is based on:
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue no. 1 in C major, BWV 846: Prelude
6:20
17Auld Lang Syne
performer:
Five Times Harder
recording of:
Auld Lang Syne (original Scots version, lyrics by Robert Burns)
lyricist:
Robert Burns (18th century Scottish poet/lyricist) (in 1788)
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 6294)
3:10