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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Silent Night (almost)

Posted: December 19th, 2007 | Author: Andrew Branch | Filed under: A Song A Week, Music | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

This week’s song is entitled Silent Night (almost). Almost because the room I recorded in was not exactly silent. If you listen really closely you’ll hear a baby sucking on a bottle in the background and a dog wining at a door it’s been banished behind. Also, almost because I take a fair amount of creative liberties.

I plan to do one more Christmas song this year (yes, beloved co-workers, I do actually appreciate Christmas music, just not two months prior). Next week’s song will feature an adaptation of I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day set to the melody of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. My kind of Christmas music :) . My wife sings melody so it will suck significantly less than my usual weekly song, so stay tuned!

 
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