5 Facts About Christmas Carols & More
- There is a distinction between a Christmas carol and a Christmas song. A Christmas Carol has a fairly rapid, regular beat, which would, therefore, exclude a meandering, crooning song such as “White Christmas”.
- The world’s most famous Christmas carol is “Silent night”.
- “Jingle Bells” was originally named, “One-Horse Open Sleigh”, and was written for Thanksgiving, not for Christmas.
- Charles Dickens’s story, “A Christmas Carol”, is the world’s most read Christmas story.
- In 2003, the Austrian Trade Union Federation, representing 100,000 workers, claimed that the non-stop playing of Christmas carols in shopping malls was “psychological terror”.
The history of Christmas Carols
The most fantastic explanation of the term, “Christmas carol”, originates from England. According to this English story, a young girl named Carol got lost in the streets of London on a cold winter night. In an attempt to find her, her friends went from house to house similar to the way we do during Christmas. After this episode, the term “Christmas carol” became widespread.
The more pragmatic explanation is that the word, “carol”, comes from the Greek dance, “Choraulein”, which is accompanied by flutes. Later, the Frenchmen replaced the flutes with singing and named it, “caroller”, which means, “to dance around in a circle”.
The tradition of singing carols can be traced back to the monk, St. Francis of Assisi. He introduced the singing of carols in church ceremonies. Today, each country has its own traditions in connection with Christmas carols. In many places, people walk from house to house and sing at Xmas time; in other places, Christmas carols are sung in church.
Best Selling Christmas Songs of all Time
1. Band Aid Do They Know It’s Christmas? 1984/1985
2. Boney M Mary’s Boy Child 1978
3. Wham! Last Christmas 1984/1985
4. Harry Belafonte Mary’s Boy Child 1957
5. Band Aid 20 Do They Know It’s Christmas? 2004
6. Slade Merry Xmas Everybody 1973/1981/1983/1998/2006
7. Bing Crosby White Christmas 1942/1977/1998
8. Cliff Richard The Millennium Prayer 1999
9. Johnny Mathis When A Child Is Born 1976
10. Cliff Richard Mistletoe And Wine 1988
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