Season's Greetings from Perry Como ~ 1959

O Little Town of Bethlehem
Words and Music by Phillips Brooks and Lewis H. Redner
The Shepherds hurry to the manger, fall on their knees before the baby, and they worship him! For He is Christ the Lord!
 
Recorded in part 1959 ~ medley "The Story of The First Christmas"
 
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
Matrix No. K2PB 454 ( ? ) Take ( ? ) ~ Recording Time 10:01
 
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"
1959 Lyrics
Season's Greetings from Perry Como ~ 1959

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Recorded by Perry Como and the Ray Charles Singers
With Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra on July 13, 1959,
at Webster Hall, New York City, for RCA Victor
Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson
 
Notes: ~ This popular Christmas carol was written by Phillips Brooks and Lewis H. Redner in 1868. Brooks,
pastor of the Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia, visited Jerusalem and Bethlehem in December 1865.
Three years later the impressions of Bethlehem remained clear in his mind. In early December 1868, Brooks
wrote a five-stanza poem (modern hymnals omit the third stanza) about Bethlehem. He asked his church
organist and Sunday school superintendent, Lewis Redner, to write music to the poem. Redner wrote the
music on the night of December 26-27, 1868. That Sunday morning (the 27th), "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
was sung for the first time by a chorus composed of six Sunday school teachers and thirty-six children.
Originally, Brooks called his Christmas carol "St. Louis" - a different spelling of Lewis Redner's first name.

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