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O Come All Ye Faithful ( Adeste Fidelis )
- Latin Hymn translated by Frederick Oakeley
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- Recorded in part 1959 ~ medley "The
Story of The First Christmas"
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- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
- Produced by Charles Grean
and Lee Schapiro
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- Recorded July 13, 1959 in Webster Hall, New York
City
- Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
- Matrix No. K2PB 454 ( ? ) Take ( ? )
~ Recording Time
10:01
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- Stereo Compact 33 Double
release: RCA VP-5-2066 (
M2PO-5364 1S )
- Christmas Medley:
includes O Little Town of Bethlehem
/ O Come All Ye Faithful / Silent Night
- Single Flip Side: "O
Holy Night"
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- Notes:
~ This perennial
Christmas favorite was written in France in the mid
1700s under the title "Adeste Fideles."
- The
composers are unknown. "Adeste Fideles" was
first published in England in John F. Wade's volume
Cantus
- Diversi (1751). In 1841 Frederick Oakeley
(1802-1880) translated the Latin words into English.
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- A hymn used at Benediction at
Christmastide in France and England since the close of the eighteenth
century.
- It was sung at the Portuguese Legation in London as early as 1797.
The most popular musical setting was ascribed
- by Vincent Novello, organist
there, to John Reading, who was organist at Winchester Cathedral from
1675-81, and
- later at Winchester College. The hymn itself has been
attributed to St. Bonaventure, but it is not found among his
- works. It is
probably of French or German authorship. It invites all the faithful to come
to Bethlehem to worship
- the new-born Saviour.
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- With Mitchell Ayres'
Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
- Produced by Charles Grean
and Lee Schapiro
- Recorded
July 13, 1959 in Webster Hall, New York
City
- Recording Engineer: Bob
Simpson
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