OH!
LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
ELVIS
PRESLEY
SONGWRITER: PHILLIPS
BROOKS & LEWIS REDNER
COUNTRY: U. S. A,
ALBUM: ELVIS’ CHRISTMAS ALBUM
LABEL: RCA VICTOR
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1957
Elvis' Christmas Album (also reissued
as It's Christmas Time) is the third studio
album and first Christmas album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Victor,
LOC -1035, a deluxe limited edition, released October 15, 1957, and recorded at
Radio Recorders in Hollywood.
It has been reissued
in numerous different formats since its first release. It spent
four weeks at Nº. 1 on the Billboard
Top Pop Albums chart, and was the first of two Christmas-themed albums Presley would record, the other being Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas,
released in 1971. The publication Music Vendor listed Elvis' Christmas Album on
their singles charts for two weeks in December 1957 – January 1958, with a peak
position of Nº. 49.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Elvis' Christmas Album along with its reissues has shipped
at least 17 million copies in the United States. It is the first Presley title
to attain Diamond
certification by the RIAA, and is also the best-selling Christmas album of all
time in the United States. With total sales of more
20 million copies worldwide, it remains the world's best-selling Christmas
album and one of the best-selling albums of all time.
"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a Christmas carol.
Based on an 1868 text written by Phillips
Brooks, the carol is popular on both sides of the Atlantic,
but to different tunes: in North
America to "St. Louis" by Brooks'
collaborator, Lewis Redner; and in the United Kingdom and Ireland to "Forest Green", a tune collected by Ralph Vaughan
Williams and first published in the 1906 English Hymnal.
The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, then rector of Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia and later of Trinity
Church, Boston. He was inspired by visiting the
village of Bethlehem in the Sanjak of Jerusalem in 1865. Three
years later, he wrote the poem for his church, and his organista Lewis Redner (1831-1908) added the music.
Oh little town of
Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth, the everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.
For Christ is born of
Mary, and gathered all above
While mortals sleep the angels keep their watch of wondering love
Oh morning stars together, proclaim thy holy birth.
And praises sing to God the king, and peace to men on earth.
Oh little town of
Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth, the everlasting light
The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.
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