{"id":47731,"date":"2025-12-20T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=47731"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:43:35","slug":"click-here-for-christmas-carols-the-old-fashioned-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/click-here-for-christmas-carols-the-old-fashioned-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Click Here for Christmas Carols &#8212; The Old-Fashioned Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47740\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/12\/20\/click-here-for-christmas-carols-the-old-fashioned-kind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2025\/12\/20\/click-here-for-christmas-carols-the-old-fashioned-kind\/ noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47740 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_2553-1-resized.webp\" alt=\"Christmas-lights-on-the-branches-of-a-tree\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lights and carols this season in honor of the Baby Jesus. <em>Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5><strong>Click Here for Christmas Carols &#8212; The Old-Fashioned Kind<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>If you followed the links on last week&#8217;s post, <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/12\/13\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-readers-for-wrestling-with-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is . . . Readers for \u2018Wrestling with God,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0you heard some fun Christmas season <em>songs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They were two perennials, &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth&#8221; and &#8220;All I Want for Christmas Is You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;m passing along links to some bona fide, old-fashioned Christmas <em>carols <\/em>sung by full-throated choirs.<\/p>\n<p>I listened to these choirs last year, and I&#8217;m listening again this Christmas.\u00a0They\u00a0 keep me company as I wrap presents and decorate the house for a visit from the kids.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>My favorite: a mid-twentieth century &#8212; 1953 &#8212; recording by the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square (known at the time as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZhFnpf4zhCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Next up, another mid-century choir offers simple, heartfelt renditions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0xMgKEKdpqA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Norman Luboff Choir&#8217;s &#8220;Songs of Christmas&#8221; 1956<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you are a fan of boys choirs, don&#8217;t miss the Vienna Boys Choir. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m5Up1BSNItw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Vienna Boys Choir Christmas Classics\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Salt Lake City this year comes a grand, twenty-first-century production featuring orchestra, bells, trumpets and a cast of hundreds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=2024+christmas+with+the+tabernacle+choir&amp;rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS1130US1130&amp;oq=2024+christmas+with+the+tabernacle+choir&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMgcICRAAGO8F0gEJMTQwNzBqMGo3qAIAsAIA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:005577a1,vid:obZDWSUxwVo,st:0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 2025 Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/12\/20\/click-here-for-christmas-carols-the-old-fashioned-kind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/2025\/12\/20\/click-here-for-christmas-carols-the-old-fashioned-kind\/ noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47740 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_2553-1-resized.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas-lights-on-the-branches-of-a[tree\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Click here for Christmas carols &#8212; the old-fashioned kind.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/2025\/12\/20\/click-here-for-christmas-carols-the-old-fashioned-kind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[135,35,1366,3071,3072,3073,3074],"class_list":["post-47731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-christianity","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-carols","tag-mormon-tabernacle-choir","tag-norman-luboff-choir","tag-tabernacle-choir-at-temple-square","tag-vienna-boys-choir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48415,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47731\/revisions\/48415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}