GLCD 5222 – Christmas Lights
The success of Guild’s first collection of music associated with the Festive Season (“Christmas
Celebration” GLCD5185) has prompted this second compilation, arranged by some of the very
best musicians working in Light Music. Somehow Christmas isn’t the same without Festive
Music, whether traditional carols or the popular melodies dreamed up by composers who
know how to tear at our nostalgic heartstrings. Both categories can be found in abundance in
this collection, which offers tasteful orchestral settings of some of the best-known carols from
various countries alongside the catchy novelties that make Christmas such a happy time of the
year. In the hands of the top arrangers and orchestras assembled on this CD, there is every
chance that the discerning listener will discover some new sounds that add a welcome vibrancy
to old, familiar friends.
Tr. Title
1 Joy To The
World
(Originally
based on
Psalm 98)
2
White
Christmas
3
God Rest Ye
Merry,
Gentlemen
4
Deck The Hall
With Boughs
Of Holly
(Based on a
Welsh winter
carol ‘Nos
Galan’, dating
from the 16th
century)
Snowman’s
Land
5
Composer
George
Frideric
Handel,
Lowell
Mason, Isaac
Watts, arr.
Percy Faith
Irving Berlin
Label
Columbia CS
8176 1959
Time ISRC
2:06 CH66314522
01
FRANK
CHACKSFIELD AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Traditional
BILLY VAUGHN
English carol, AND HIS
believed to
ORCHESTRA
date from the
18th century
Welsh
PERCY FAITH AND
Traditional,
HIS ORCHESTRA
arr. Percy
Faith
Decca SKL
4069 1959
3:10 CH66314522
02
DOT DLP
25148 1958
1:44 CH66314522
03
Columbia CS
8176 1959
2:49 CH66314522
04
Vogel
ZACK LAURENCE,
piano, with KEN
JONES AND HIS
ORCHESTRA
SYMPHONIA
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LUDO
PHILIPP
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Parlophone
45-R 4843
1961
2:03 CH66314522
05
Charles Brull /
Harmonic CBL
387 1956
2:53 CH66314522
06
COLUMBIA CS
8033 1958
2:21 CH66314522
07
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Columbia CS
8176 1959
3:03 CH66314522
08
6
Snowy
Mountains
Joyce
Cochrane
7
Good Christian
Men, Rejoice
(An old English
carol, believed
to date back to
the 14th
century)
Good King
Wenceslas
(Tempus Adest
Floridum)
(Music based
on 13th
Century Spring
Carol ‘Tempus
Adest
Floridum’;
Words John
Traditional,
arr. Percy
Faith
8
Artist
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Traditional,
arr. Percy
Faith
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Mason Neale)
Snow Ride
Eric
Winstone
Santo Natale
Al Hoffman,
(Merry
Dick
Christmas)
Manning,
Belle
Nardone
Hark The
Charles
Herald Angels Wesley, Felix
Sing
Mendelssohn
, adapted
William H.
Cummings,
arr. Percy
Faith
Angels We
Traditional
Have Heard On arr. Percy
High (Believed Faith
to have French
origins in the
18th century)
Away In A
Traditional
Manger
arr. Percy
(Widely known Faith
as 'Luther’s
Cradle Hymn'.
There are
many different
musical
settings for
this carol, and
this one is the
best-known in
the United
States)
Gesù Bambino Pietro Yon,
(The Infant
arr. Percy
Jesus,
Faith
composed in
1917)
I Wonder As I
John Jacob
Wander (A
Niles, arr.
simple
Percy Faith
American folk
song, popular
at Christmas in
the United
States)
Holiday On Ice Len Stevens
17 Once More It’s
Christmas
George
Melachrino
18 Alpine Sleigh
Ride
Roger
Senicourt,
real name
Frank
Chacksfield
Edmund
Sears,
Richard
19 It Came Upon
The Midnight
Clear (An
Unidentified
Orchestra
STANLEY BLACK
AND HIS
ORCHESTRA
Conroy BM
192 1959
Decca LK 4155
1956
2:28 CH66314522
09
3:06 CH66314522
10
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Columbia CS
8176 1959
2:58 CH66314522
11
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
COLUMBIA CS
8033 1958
2:53 CH66314522
12
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
COLUMBIA CS
8033 1958
2:18 CH66314522
13
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
COLUMBIA CS
8033 1958
3:02 CH66314522
14
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
COLUMBIA CS
8033 1958
3:49 CH66314522
15
Unidentified
Orchestra
THE MELACHRINO
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by
GEORGE
MELACHRINO
FRANK
CHACKSFIELD AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Conroy BM
192 1959
RCA LPM 1045
1955
2:28 CH66314522
16
2:24 CH66314522
17
Decca SKL
4069 1959
2:53 CH66314522
18
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Columbia CS
8176 1959
2:43 CH66314522
19
American carol
from the 19th
century)
20 O Come All Ye
Faithful
(Adeste
Fideles)
21 Sleigh Ride
Storrs Willis,
arr. Percy
Faith
Attributed to
various
composers
from the 17th
century
onwards,
especially
John Francis
Wade, but
could have
originated as
early as the
13th century.
arr. Percy
Faith
Wolfgang
Amadeus
Mozart
22 O Holy Night
(Cantique de
Noël)
23 The Skaters’
Waltz
Adolphe
Adam, arr.
Percy Faith
Émile
Waldteufel
24 Mrs. Santa
Claus
Jack Fulton,
Lois Steele
25 By The
Fireside
Ray Noble,
Jimmy
Campbell,
Reg Connelly
Traditional
English
carols, arr.
Percy Faith
Traditional,
arr. William
Hill-Bowen
26 The Holly And
The Ivy; Here
We Go ACaroling
27 The First Noel
(The First
Nowell)
(Believed to be
based on an
English carol,
possibly
Cornish, from
the 18th
century)
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Columbia CS
8176 1959
4:05 CH66314522
20
BOSTON 'POPS'
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by
ARTHUR FIEDLER
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
RCA LSC 2329
1959
2:40 CH66314522
21
Columbia CS
8176 1959
3:44 CH66314522
22
FRANK
CHACKSFIELD AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
THE MELACHRINO
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by
GEORGE
MELACHRINO
STANLEY BLACK
AND HIS
ORCHESTRA
Decca SKL
4069 1959
3:42 CH66314522
23
RCA LPM 1045
1955
2:32 CH66314522
24
Decca LK 4155
1956
2:58 CH66314522
25
PERCY FAITH AND
HIS ORCHESTRA
Columbia CS
8176 1959
2:10 CH66314522
26
THE MELACHRINO
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by
GEORGE
MELACHRINO
RCA LSP 2044
1959
2:58 CH66314522
27
Bar Code: 795754522228 - Total Time:77:27 – Stereo : tracks 1-4, 7, 8, 11-15, 18-23, 26 & 27;
rest in mono
Composer:
George Frideric Handel, Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts, Irving Berlin, Joyce Cochrane, Traditional, Eric
Winstone, Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, Belle Nardone, Charles Wesley, Felix Mendelssohn, Pietro Yon, John
Jacob Niles, Len Stevens, George Melachrino, Roger Senicourt, Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Adolphe Adam, Émile Waldteufel, Jack Fulton, Lois Steele, Ray Noble, Jimmy
Campbell, Reg Connelly
Composer & Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel, Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts, arr. Percy Faith - Joy To The World (Originally based on
Psalm 98); Irving Berlin - White Christmas; Traditional English carol, believed to date from the 18th century
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen; Welsh Traditional, arr. Percy Faith - Deck The Hall With Boughs Of Holly
(Based on a Welsh winter carol ‘Nos Galan’, dating from the 16th century); Vogel - Snowman’s Land; Joyce
Cochrane - Snowy Mountains; Traditional, arr. Percy Faith - Good Christian Men, Rejoice (An old English
carol, believed to date back to the 14th century); Traditional, arr. Percy Faith - Good King Wenceslas
(Tempus Adest Floridum) (Music based on 13th Century Spring Carol ‘Tempus Adest Floridum’; Words John
Mason Neale); Eric Winstone - Snow Ride; Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, Belle Nardone - Santo Natale (Merry
Christmas); Charles Wesley, Felix Mendelssohn, adapted William H. Cummings, arr. Percy Faith - Hark The
Herald Angels Sing; Traditional arr. Percy Faith - Angels We Have Heard On High (Believed to have French
origins in the 18th century); Traditional arr. Percy Faith - Away In A Manger (Widely known as 'Luther’s
Cradle Hymn'. There are many different musical settings for this carol, and this one is the best-known in the
United States); Pietro Yon, arr. Percy Faith - Gesù Bambino (The Infant Jesus, composed in 1917); John
Jacob Niles, arr. Percy Faith - I Wonder As I Wander (A simple American folk song, popular at Christmas in
the United States); Len Stevens - Holiday On Ice; George Melachrino - Once More It’s Christmas; Roger
Senicourt, real name Frank Chacksfield - Alpine Sleigh Ride; Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis, arr. Percy
Faith - It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (An American carol from the 19th century); Attributed to various
composers from the 17th century onwards, especially John Francis Wade, but could have originated as early
as the 13th century. arr. Percy Faith - O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sleigh Ride; Adolphe Adam, arr. Percy Faith - O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël); Émile Waldteufel - The
Skaters’ Waltz; Jack Fulton, Lois Steele - Mrs. Santa Claus; Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly - By
The Fireside; Traditional English carols, arr. Percy Faith - The Holly And The Ivy; Here We Go A-Caroling;
Traditional, arr. William Hill-Bowen - The First Noel (The First Nowell) (Believed to be based on an English
carol, possibly Cornish, from the 18th century);
Tracklist with Composer and Artists:
Joy To The World (Originally based on Psalm 98) - George Frideric Handel, Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts, arr.
Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; White Christmas - Irving Berlin, FRANK
CHACKSFIELD AND HIS ORCHESTRA; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Traditional English carol, believed
to date from the 18th century, BILLY VAUGHN AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Deck The Hall With Boughs Of
Holly (Based on a Welsh winter carol ‘Nos Galan’, dating from the 16th century) - Welsh Traditional, arr.
Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Snowman’s Land - Vogel, ZACK LAURENCE, piano,
with KEN JONES AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Snowy Mountains - Joyce Cochrane, SYMPHONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LUDO PHILIPP; Good Christian Men, Rejoice (An old English carol, believed to date back to
the 14th century) - Traditional, arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Good King
Wenceslas (Tempus Adest Floridum) (Music based on 13th Century Spring Carol ‘Tempus Adest Floridum’;
Words John Mason Neale) - Traditional, arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Snow Ride
- Eric Winstone, Unidentified Orchestra; Santo Natale (Merry Christmas) - Al Hoffman, Dick Manning, Belle
Nardone, STANLEY BLACK AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Hark The Herald Angels Sing - Charles Wesley, Felix
Mendelssohn, adapted William H. Cummings, arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA;
Angels We Have Heard On High (Believed to have French origins in the 18th century) - Traditional arr. Percy
Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Away In A Manger (Widely known as 'Luther’s Cradle Hymn'.
There are many different musical settings for this carol, and this one is the best-known in the United States) Traditional arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Gesù Bambino (The Infant Jesus,
composed in 1917) - Pietro Yon, arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; I Wonder As I
Wander (A simple American folk song, popular at Christmas in the United States) - John Jacob Niles, arr.
Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Holiday On Ice - Len Stevens, Unidentified Orchestra;
Once More It’s Christmas - George Melachrino, THE MELACHRINO ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORGE
MELACHRINO; Alpine Sleigh Ride - Roger Senicourt, real name Frank Chacksfield, FRANK CHACKSFIELD
AND HIS ORCHESTRA; It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (An American carol from the 19th century) Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis, arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; O Come All
Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) - Attributed to various composers from the 17th century onwards, especially
John Francis Wade, but could have originated as early as the 13th century. arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH
AND HIS ORCHESTRA; Sleigh Ride - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, BOSTON 'POPS' ORCHESTRA Conducted
by ARTHUR FIEDLER; O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël) - Adolphe Adam, arr. Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH
AND HIS ORCHESTRA; The Skaters’ Waltz - Émile Waldteufel, FRANK CHACKSFIELD AND HIS
ORCHESTRA; Mrs. Santa Claus - Jack Fulton, Lois Steele, THE MELACHRINO ORCHESTRA Conducted by
GEORGE MELACHRINO; By The Fireside - Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, STANLEY BLACK
AND HIS ORCHESTRA; The Holly And The Ivy; Here We Go A-Caroling - Traditional English carols, arr.
Percy Faith, PERCY FAITH AND HIS ORCHESTRA; The First Noel (The First Nowell) (Believed to be based
on an English carol, possibly Cornish, from the 18th century) - Traditional, arr. William Hill-Bowen, THE
MELACHRINO ORCHESTRA Conducted by GEORGE MELACHRINO;