This time of year, Christmas music is everywhere. From classic carols and hymns to today's pop music, the spirit of Christmas has been reflected in music for generations. Many of Christmas's classic hits have been covered time and time again by different artists, resulting in some great holiday remakes. Here are our favorite Christmas song remakes!
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You can listen to the original version here.
Though this song has been recorded by both Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, the original version comes from Judy Garland in 1944's 'Meet Me is St. Louis.' Listen here.
This song is a traditional Christmas song, and has been covered by a variety of artists.
Gene Autry recorded this song in 1949. Click here to listen.
A traditional Christmas carol, 'Jingle Bells' was written by James Lord Pierpont in 1857. Click here to hear Jingle Bells in the traditional style.
Originally recorded in 1984 by Band Aid, 'Do they Know It's Christmas' featured artists such as Bono, George Michael, Phil Collins, David Bowie and more. In 2014, Band Aid 30's version of the song features One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Sinead O'Connor, and again Bono, among others. Listen to the 1984 version here.
'Do You Hear What I Hear' was originally recorded in 1962 by the Harry Simeone Chorale. Listen to it here.
This song was originally performed by Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting in 1949. Listen to this version here.
'Mary, Did You Know?' features lyrics and music written by Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene. The song was as originally recorded by Michael English. Listen to English's version.
What are some of your favorite holiday songs? Leave them in the comments below!
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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
See also: How To Get LibriVox Audio Files
LibriVox volunteers narrate, proof listen, and upload chapters of books and other textual works in the public domain. These projects are then made available on the Internet for everyone to enjoy, for free.
There are many, many things you can do to help, so please feel free to jump into the Forum and ask what you can do to help!
See also: How LibriVox Works
Most of what you need to know about LibriVox can be found on the LibriVox Forum and the FAQ. LibriVox volunteers are helpful and friendly, and if you post a question anywhere on the forum you are likely to get an answer from someone, somewhere within an hour or so. So don't be shy! Many of our volunteers have never recorded anything before LibriVox.
We have three main types of projects:
Not all volunteers read for LibriVox. If you would prefer not to lend your voice to LibriVox, you could lend us your ears. Proof listeners catch mistakes we may have missed during the initial recording and editing process.
Readers record themselves reading a section of a book, edit the recording, and upload it to the LibriVox Management Tool.
For an outline of the Librivox audiobook production process, please see The LibriVox recording process.
We require new readers to submit a sample recording so that we can make sure that your set up works and that you understand how to export files meeting our technical standards. We do not want you to waste previous hours reading whole chapters only to discover that your recording is unusable due to a preventable technical glitch.
A book coordinator (commonly abbreviated BC in the forum) is a volunteer who manages all the other volunteers who will record chapters for a LibriVox recording.
Metadata coordinators (MCs), help and advise Book Coordinators, and take over the files with the completed recordings (soloists are also Book Coordinators in this sense, as they prepare their own files for the Meta coordinators). The files are then prepared and uploaded to the LibriVox catalogue, in a lengthy and cumbersome process.
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