On the morning of January 8th, 1940 Irving Berlin, turned up at his Broadway publishing office. Without missing a beat he announced he’d written a song over the weekend. “Not only is it the best song I ever wrote,” he told Kresa. “It’s the best song anybody ever wrote.”

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The Story Of Carols

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Check Out Some of Our Favorite Versions of White Christmas

The Original Bing Crosby - https://open.spotify.com/track/3XsaSIPWvM61RIFfeb0BBR?si=df6b72a6056847b7 The Drifters - https://open.spotify.com/track/72Z28IsvEVLjSWdUKEQgZ0?si=7e120380cbca4d26

Frank SInatra - https://open.spotify.com/track/14QJl6TD0xnKl26NkTVez2?si=918473a259d64abc

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The Nutcracker is the Olympics of ballet. Even people who actively dislike sport - watch the Olympics, and are be moved by the pageantry, dedication and physical skill. For the participants, it’s the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Exactly the same can be said for The Nutcracker.

But no one expected a children’s fairy tale to become the worlds best known ballet.

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Check Out The Complete Nutcracker Suite

https://open.spotify.com/album/54Awn36ryf55PkZyOR4iwQ?si=d6a_RMZcQIWHJUdhYfZsEw&dl_branch=1

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We tend to think of “Good King Wenceslaus” as an Old English carol. But Wenceslaus, is an historic figure from first millennium Bohemia... what is now the Czech Republic. And he wasn’t a king - he was a Duke. His story though, has all the palace intrigue of a Shakespeare tragedy. 👍 If you enjoyed this episode check out the film versions of all our episodes at:

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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Good King Wenceslaus

Oxford Trinity Choir - https://open.spotify.com/track/7bVCSdxKp3KXF2JKYvyxyu?si=33db5b03d52c47a9

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The main motif of Carol of The Bells is only four notes, but Mykola Leontovych managed to get far more out of them than the sum of their parts. Considering the strife going on all around him, it’s amazing that he was able to write music at all.

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The Story Of Carols

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b

Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs

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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Carol Of The Bells

John Willlams Arrangement - https://open.spotify.com/track/4tHqQMWSqmL6YjXwsqthDI?si=b71b07e5cafb463a The Pentatonix - https://open.spotify.com/track/4cJhiux4xzrdgSHUeAjP48?si=b02012bf5fd248a4

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1945 was one of the hottest on summers on record. And that’s when the power of positive thinking produced one of the best loved Christmas songs of all time.

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The Story Of Carols

Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b

Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs

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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of The Christmas Song

The original Nat King Cole Version - https://open.spotify.com/track/4PS1e8f2LvuTFgUs1Cn3ON?si=972ac16641384797 Mel Torme - https://open.spotify.com/track/7o6agk7Uy395tk8ZYM5MEi?si=6d4d860569dd4508 MIchael Buble' - https://open.spotify.com/track/4SWAozNLRfZXF25ghKqm2q?si=c46b010b4eae429b

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George Gershwin never officially wrote a Christmas tune. But one of his little known, show tunes, “Snow Flakes,” is beginning to turn up as a carol in waiting.

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The Story Of Carols

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b

Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs

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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Snow Flakes

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We’ve all heard of having a cup of wassail at Christmas time. We’ve even heard of wassailing as an event, - a celebration of merriment, as in “here we come a wassailing.” But did you know we still go a wassailing today?

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The Story Of Carols

Listen to The Story Of Carols Playlist on Spotify From classical to classics, perennials to pop tunes, you get more than a hundred of the best Holiday tunes, and their most interesting recordings. Oh! It also includes the music from The Story Of Carols! Happy Holidays!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3tSMBpNpX9bnpQBWtoLK15?si=d43ebb02bda64d4b

Or Check Out the Jim Holthouser Holiday Playlist Listen to piano versions of all of Jim’s Holiday Songs

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Check Out Some Of Our Favorite Versions of Here We Come A Wassailing Perry Como - https://open.spotify.com/track/4LUAIXN6bpnEVaJZOLfuDt?si=047aef3c377a4c7a London Philharmonic - https://open.spotify.com/track/0k3pWTfIQVnSDPPt1nblQP?si=3ffcdce8e6d643f9

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It’s ironic that an act as divisive as the Civil War, would unify the way Americans celebrate Christmas. But, the holiday we know today largely came into existence in and around the war.

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Check Out Some of Our Favorite Civil War Era Christmas Tunes

Up On The House Top - The Pentatonix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc9eU4qOyHY

Jingle Bells - Michael Buble - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-DvH41Tjo

Silent Night - Bing Crosby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GUnfLPpjLs

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