O CHRISTMAS TREE
ARETHA FRANKLIN
SONGWRITERS: ERNST ANSCHÜTZ; PUBLIC DOMAIN & JÖRGEN ELOFSSON
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS 2
LABEL: A & M RECORDS
GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG
YEAR: 1992
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25,
1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, actress,
pianist, and civil rights activist. Franklin began her career as a child
singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan,
where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister. At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular-music
career as a recording artist for Columbia
Records. While Franklin's career did not immediately
flourish, she found acclaim and commercial success after signing with Atlantic Records in 1966. Hit songs such as "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I
Love You)", "Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A
Natural Woman", "Chain
of Fools", "Think", and "I Say a Little Prayer" propelled her
past her musical peers. By the end of the 1960s, Aretha Franklin had come to be
known as the "Queen of Soul".
Franklin continued to record acclaimed albums
such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Spirit
in the Dark (1970), Young,
Gifted and Black (1972), Amazing Grace (1972), and Sparkle (1976) before experiencing problems with her record company. Franklin
left Atlantic in 1979 and signed with Arista Records.
She appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers before
releasing the successful albums Jump to It (1982), Who's
Zoomin' Who? (1985), and Aretha (1986) on the Arista label. In 1998, Franklin returned to the Top 40
with the Lauryn Hill-produced
song "A Rose Is Still a Rose";
later, she released an album
of the same name which was certified gold.
That same year, Franklin earned international acclaim for her performance of
"Nessun dorma"
at the Grammy Awards; she filled in at the last
minute for Luciano Pavarotti,
who canceled his appearance after the show had already begun. In a widely noted
performance, she paid tribute to 2015 honoree Carole
King by singing "(You Make Me Feel
Like) A Natural Woman" at the Kennedy
Center Honors.
Franklin recorded 112 charted singles on Billboard,
including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top-ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries, and 20 number-one R&B
singles. Besides the foregoing, Franklin's well-known hits also include "Ain't No Way",
"Call Me", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)",
"Spanish
Harlem", "Rock Steady", "Day Dreaming", "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm
Gonna Do)", "Something
He Can Feel", "Jump to It",
"Freeway of Love",
"Who's
Zoomin' Who", and "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" (a
duet with George Michael).
She won 18 Grammy Awards,
including the first eight awards given for Best Female R&B Vocal
Performance (1968–1975). Franklin is one of the best-selling music artists of all time,
having sold more than 75 million records worldwide.
Franklin
received numerous honors throughout her career. She was
awarded the National
Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In
1987, she became the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She
also was inducted into the UK
Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012. In
2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked her number one on its list of the "100 Greatest
Singers of All Time"and number nine on its list of "100 Greatest
Artists of All Time".The Pulitzer
Prize jury in 2019 awarded Franklin a
posthumous special citation "for her indelible contribution to American music and culture
for more than five decades". In 2020, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Ernst Gebhard Salomon Anschütz (28 October
1780 in Goldlauter near Suhl, Electorate of Saxony;
18 December 1861 in Leipzig) was a
German teacher, organist, poet,
and composer. He is
also known for his account of the death of Johann Christian Woyzeck[de] in 1824 (see: Georg Büchner's
play Woyzeck). Anschütz
worked as a teacher in Leipzig for 50 years.
"O Tannenbaum" (German: [oː ˈtanənbaʊm]; "O fir tree", English: O
Christmas Tree) is a German Christmas song. Based on a traditional folk song which was unrelated to
Christmas, it became associated with the traditional Christmas tree by the middle of the 19th century and sung as a Christmas carol.
The modern lyrics were written in 1824, by
the Leipzig organist, teacher and composer Ernst Anschütz.
A Tannenbaum
is a fir tree. The
lyrics do not actually refer to Christmas, or describe a decorated Christmas
tree. Instead, they refer to the fir's evergreen quality as a symbol of constancy and faithfulness.
Anschütz based his text on a 16th-century Silesian folk song by Melchior
Franck, "Ach Tannenbaum". August Zarnack in 1819 wrote a tragic love song inspired by this folk song, taking
the evergreen, "faithful" fir tree as contrasting with a faithless
lover. The
folk song first became associated with Christmas with Anschütz, who added two
verses of his own to the first, traditional verse. The custom of the Christmas
tree developed in the course of the 19th century, and the song came to be seen
as a Christmas carol. Anschütz's version still had true
(true, faithful) as the adjective describing the fir's leaves (needles),
harking back to the contrast to the faithless maiden of the folk song. This was
changed to grün (green) at some point in the 20th century, after the song had
come to be associated with Christmas.
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
How are thy
Leaves so verdant
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
How are thy
Leaves so verdant
Weeee
Not only
In the summertime
But even in winter
Is thy prime
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
How are thy
Leaves so verdant
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
Much pleasure
Doth thou bring me
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
Much pleasure
Doth thou bring me
For every year
The Christmas tree
Brings to us
All both joy and glee
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
Much pleasure
Doth thou bring me
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
Thy candles
Shine out brightly
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
Thy candles
Shine out brightly
Each bough doth
Hold it's tiny light
That makes each toy
To sparkle bright
O Christmas tree
O Christmas tree
Thy candles
Shine out brightly.
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