Le Canzoni Dedicate Al Natale

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Ecco una bella sfornata di brani dedicati al Natale, naturalmente non ci fermeremo qui, il Thread sarà sempre aggiornato, i brani allegati sono rigorosamente cantati dagli Artisti che per primi hanno inciso il pezzo, quando questo mi è stato possibile reperirle in Rete, altrimenti ripiegato con una vecchia cover. Se volete conoscere tutti gli Artisti che hanno cantato questi pezzi nei vari decenni, basta digitare il titolo QUI nel nostro grande Archivio Cover, se volete potete postare anche voi qualche bel titolo sfuggito a questa lista.



1939 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Auld Lang Syne (Tradizionale 1711)

1942 Bing Crosby & Martha Mears - White Christmas

1942 Peter Auty - Walking In The Air

1943 Bing Crosby & The John Scott Trotter Orchestra - I'll Be Home for Christmas

1944 Dick Haymes - The First Noel (Tradizionale "The First Nowell")

1944 Judy Garland - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

1946 Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)

1946 Perry Como - O, Little Town Of Bethlehem (Philip Brooks & Lewis H. Redner)

1947 Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (Eddie Cantor 1943)

1947 Gene Autry  - Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)

1949 Gene Autry and the Pinafores with Orchestral Accompaniment - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

1950 Bing Crosby and Carol Richards - Silver Bells (Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell 1950)

1950 The Andrews Sisters  - Sleigh Ride (Boston Pops Orchestra 1950)

1950 Gene Autry - Frosty the Snow Man

1950 Bing Crosby And The Andrews Sisters - Twelve Days Of Christmas

1950 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka

1951 Perry Como & the Fontaine Sisters - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

1951 Mario Lanza - Away In A Manger (Charles Gabriel-James Murray 1885)

1952 Jimmy Boyd - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

1952 The Weavers - We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Tradizionale 1500)

1954 David Whitfield - Santo Natale (Merry Christmas)

1954  The Robert Shaw Chorale - Coventry Carol (Tradizionale)

1955 Lou Monte - Jingle Bells (Italiano) (Edison Male Quartette 1898)

1956 Mario Lanza - Joy To The World (Edison Concert Band 1719 "Basato su Georg Friedrich - Messia"

1956 Harry Belafonte - Mary's Boy Child

1956 Bing Crosby - I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

1957 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bells Rock

1957 Frank Sinatra & The Ralph Brewster Singers - It Came Upon the Midnight Clea (Richard Storrs Willis - Carol 1850)

1957 Elvis Presley - Santa Claus Is Back In Town

1957 Frank Sinatra - The First Noël (Tradizionale 1500)

1957 Elvis Presley - Here Comes Santa Claus (Gene Autry 1947)

1957 Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas (Doye O'Dell 1948)

1958 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

1959 Perry Como - O holy night (Placide Clappeau & Adolphe Adam - Minuit chrétiens Cantique de Noel 1847)

1959 Pat Boone - Adeste Fideles (John Francis Wade  - Adeste fideles "Oh come all ye faithful" 1743)

1959 Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra 1945)

1959 Doris Day - Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly (Tradizionale 1784 )

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1960 Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey

1960 Domenico Modugno - Buon Natale A Tutto Il Mondo

1960 Nat King Cole - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Tradizionale 1812)

1960 Robert Mason - Glad Christmas Bells

1961 Mitch Miller and the Gang - Must Be Santa

1961 Robertino Loretti - Buona Notte (Ninna Nanna) (Lullaby,Guten Abend Gut Nacht OP N. 49 1868)

1962 Bing Crosby - Winter Wonderland (Richard Himber & His Orchestra 1934)

1962 Twistin Kings - Xmas Twist

1963 Johnny Mathis - Hallelujah Chorus (Georg Friedrich Handel 1742)

1961 Andy Williams - Little Drummer Boy (Katherine Kennicott Davis - Carol Of The Drum 1941)

1963 Ray Conniff - Jolly Old St. Nicholas (Tradizionale 1860)

1963 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

1963 Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper

1963 Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

1964 The Beach Boys - Merry Christmas, Baby

1965 Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas (The Quinto Sisters 1965)

1965 The Ivy League - Once In Royal David's City (Henry Gauntlett - Cecil Alexander - Once In Royal David's City 1849)

1966 Joan Baez - O Come O Come Emanuel (Psalteriolum Cantionum Catholicarum - Veni Veni Emmanuel 1710)

1967 Otis Redding - Merry Christmas Baby (Johnny Moore's Three Blazers 1947)

1968 Donny Hathaway - This Christmas

1969 Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh happy day (Johann Freylinghausen & Philip Doddridge - Oh Happy Day That Fixed My Choice 1704)

1970 Adriano Celentano - Tu scendi dalle stelle (Tradizionale - Quanno Nascette Ninno 1650)

1970 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad

1971 John & Yoko,The Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

1972 Gable Hall School Choir - Reggae Christmas

1973 Wizzard (Roy Wood dei The Move & Electric Light Orchestra - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

1973 Slade - Merry X-Mas Everybody

1973 Elton John - Step Into Christmas

1974 Mud - Lonely This Christmas

1974 Wombling Merry Christmas - The Wombles

1975 Mike Oldfield - In Dulci Jubilo (Tradizionale 1607)

1976 Chris De Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling

1976 Nana Mouskouri - O Tannenbaum (Tradizionale 1550)

1978 Kenny Vance & The Planotones - Doo-Wop Christmas

1979 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

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1980 Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

1984 Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

1984 Gary Glitter - Another Rock And Roll Christmas

1984 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

1984 Wham (George Michael) - Last Christmas

1984 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

1985 Bryan Adams - Christmas Time

1985 Bryan Adams - Christmas reggae

1985 Julie Andrews - Ding Dong Merrily On High (Tradizionale - Bransle l'Officiale 1588 )

1987 The Pogues Feat Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

1988 Cliff Richard - Mistletoe And Wine

1990 David Foster  Feat Natalie Cole - Grown-Up Christmas List

1990 John Williams - Somewhere In My Memory

1990 John Denver - The Children Of Bethlehem (Tom Paxton 1988)

1991 Cliff Richard & The Drifters - Saviour's Day

1992 Darlene Love - All Alone On Christmas

1992 Home Alone Children's Choir - My Christmas Tree

1992 Deloris & The Sisters - I Will Follow Him (Franck Pourcel et son Grand Orchestre - Chariot 1961)

1993 The Acappella Company - Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Tradizionale 1865)

1993  Bebe & Cece Winans - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing  (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 1840)

1994 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

1995 Il Complesso Misterioso - Christmas With The Yours

1997 Andrea Mingardi - Anche quest'anno è già Natale

1997 98 Degrees - This Gift

1999 The Irish Rovers - Good King Wenceslas (John Mason Neale 1856 )

2001 Secret Garden Feat Brian Kennedy - You Raise Me Up (basato su pezzo strumentale intitolato "Silent Story" sempre dei "Secret Garden")

2004 Mick Jagger and Joss Stone - Lonely Without You (This Christmas)

2004 Al Bano - Astro Del Ciel (Tradizionale - Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht 181 )

2004 Jeanette - Christmas Time

2006 Aly & Aj - We Three Kings (John Henry Hopkins Jr. 1857)

2006 Gregorian - Child in a manger (tradizionale titolato anche "Leanabh An Aigh" e "Morning Has Broken")

2008 The London Fox - As With Gladness, Men of Old (tradizionale del 1860  di William Chatterton Dix)

2009 Andrea Bocelli - Caro Gesù Bambino (Christian Morandi 1962)

2015 Cesare Cremonini And Massena Boys - Eccolo Qua Il Natale

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Nuovi brani Natalizi ritrovati molti dei quali poco conosciuti in Italia.

1987 Maddy Prior - On Christmas Night (Luke Wadding - Sussex Carol "On Christmas Night All Christians Sing" 1684)

2003 Cliff Richard - When A Child Is Born (Ciro Dammicco - Le Rose Blu 1972 conosciuta meglio come "Soleado")

1955 Barry Gordon And Art Mooney And His Orchestra - Nothin' For Christmas

1958 The Jack Halloran Singers - The Holly And The Ivy (Henry Ramsden Bramley - The Holly And The Ivy 1871 "Tradizionale")

1952 Burl Ives - There Were Three Ships

1607 Michael Praetorius - Es Ist Ein Ros' Entsprungen

1967 Ella Fitzgerald - Angels We Have Heard On High (Quatuor Sylva - Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes  1930 "Tradizionale")

1969 Al Bano - Mille cherubini in coro (Franz Schubert - Wiegenlied "Schlafe Schlafe Holder Susser Knabe")

1947 Frank Sinatra & The Ken Lane Singers - Carol (It Came Upon The Midnight Clear) (Richard Storrs Willis - Carol "It Came Upon The Midnight Clear" 1850)

1962 Harry Simeone Chorale - Do You Hear What I Hear

1958 Norman Luboff Choir - Still Still Still "Weil's Kindlein Schlafen Will" (tradizionale)

1957 The Hampstead Parish Church Choir - Here We Come A-Wassailing (Tradizionale)

1952 Burl Ives - What Child Is This (Raymond Dixon, William Hooley & Reinald Werrenrath - Greensleeves "Tradizionale")

1962 The Chipmunks - Up On The Housetop (Benjamin Russell Hanby - Up On The Housetop 1864)

1956 Mario Lanza - Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Hark The Herald Angels Sing 1840)

1968 Heintje - Oh Du Fröhliche (Bielefelder Kinderchor Und Klaus Miedel - Oh Du Frohliche 1958 "Tradizionale")

1993 R.E.M. - Christmas Time Is Here (Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here 1965)

1963 Freddy Quinn - Vom Himmel Hoch Da Komm Ich Her (Martin Lutero - Vom Himmel Hoch Da Komm Ich Her 1535)

1962 The Four Seasons - Carol Of The Bells (Mykola Leontovych - Carol Of The Bells 1914 ) contiene citazione Tradizionale "Shchedryk"

1951 The Trapp Family Singers - Zu Bethlehem geboren (Friedrich Spee - Zu Bethlehem Geboren 1638)

1966 The Choir Of St. Patrick's Church - Love Came Down At Christmas (Christina Georgina Rossetti 1885 "Tradizionale")

1958 Harry Belafonte - The Gifts They Gave (Robert Davis - The Friendly Beasts 1934) pezzo conosciuto anche altri titoli come "The Song of the Ass", "The Donkey Carol", "The Animal Carol" "The Gift of the Animals in"

1971 Tino Rossi - Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant (Romain Grosjean - Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant 1874)

1960 The Anita Kerr Singers - Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella (Nicolas Saboly - Emile Blémont - Un Flambeau Jeannette Isabelle 1553)

1972 The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - For Unto Us A Child Is Born (cover di Georg Friedrich Handel - For Unto Us A Child Is Born 1741)