Artist: Victor Oratorio Chorus
Author: Rev. Edmund Sears/Richard Willis
Label: Victor
Year: 1914
AKA The Trinity Choir. Oldest Christmas hymn written in the US (older than We Three Kings Of Orient Are, Jingle Bells and O Little Town Of Bethlehem). Words by a Unitarianist from Massachusetts (1849), scored one year later by his friend and organist Willis.
Covers:
Carol Singers [on Edison]
Orla Fallon [from Ireland; the first non American in this list]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)