I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Posted: December 20th, 2007 | Author: Andrew Branch | Filed under: A Song A Week, Family, Music | Tags: , , , , | 4 Comments »

Well, looking at our calendar we realized we wouldn’t have any time to record our song before next week if we didn’t do it tonight. And I’ll be darned if I don’t meet my goal of a song a week, so that’s what we did. This was a quick recording so it’s rough, but I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I love my wife’s simple voice. So perfect for a folk hymn like this one.

Of note with this version of the classic Christmas song: since we adapted the words to the melody of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, the five original versus didn’t quite work. I did some searching online and found a really old version of the poem that had a 6th verse, so we threw it in.

 
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4 Comments on “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”

  1. 1 John said at 2:49 pm on December 20th, 2007:

    Mucho gusto guys that’s really cool. WTG Danae too – did you record that all in one run?

  2. 2 admin said at 3:18 pm on December 20th, 2007:

    Almost one. :) Had to go in and touch up some stuff as well as lay down the extra vocals at the end.

  3. 3 Jonathan said at 5:06 pm on December 20th, 2007:

    I like it. Although I kept waiting to hear the word, “Hallelujah”. It was beautiful.

  4. 4 Cavendar said at 5:08 pm on December 20th, 2007:

    I had the same Hallelujah problem.

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