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Blue Christmas - Day 5 on Musical Advent Calendar - "All the Colours of a Song"

adrian22 Dec 01, 2016 20:56

Day 5 of our Musical Advent Calendar opens with “Blue Christmas” - from Allison Crowe’s remarkable all a cappella collection, “Souling” (2015). Composed by Jay W. Johnson & Billy Hayes, the song’s first recorded in 1948 by Texan Doye O’Dell - “All America’s Cowboy”. Several popular renditions followed - and, in 1957, another singer/actor, this time ( Read more... )

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