Old Songs In Old Christmas Movies

While Christmas season once again comes around, the familiar strains of well worn carols sing out from radio and TV. First came the carolers walking around the small village singing carols in exchange for a mug of hot wassail to warm them as they sang their way through the evening.

It is during the 20th century that radios appeared and replaced these carolers, echoing the beautiful melodies of Silent Night and Joy to the World. And so was the birth of television and a huge number of Christmas shows were created.

These shows became the annual Christmas classics that we appreciate.

Among the first shows that became classics was the adaptation of Charles Dickens' reknowned "A Christmas Carol". Who does not know the tale of this old stingy, greedy, selfish and vindictive man called Ebenezer Scrooge, who became a friendly, munificent and grandfatherly gentleman?

Every adaptation of this work features largely many reknowned Christmas songs. The words of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and "Silent Night" are sung by a multitude of young boys hoping to get a reward from their performance; consisting of a mug of the hot alcoholic and spicy drink and some cakes.

And what about the famous movie "It's a Wonderful Life", starred by James Stewart?

How the entire family is gathered around the Christmas tree singing Joy to the World after Clarence the angel shows him what life would have been like for the others around him had he not been born. Yes, it is actually a wonderful life!

Then, naturally, there is the one that is the most watched movie with the best selling Christmas song of all time... "White Christmas" sung by the one and only Bing Crosby.

Nowadays this song is still regarded as the most popular Christmas song in the world.

Everyone of us recalls of the Christmas special presented by Bing Crosby for more than twenty years. These shows hosted an infinite number of Hollywood celebrities like Cyd Charise, Carol Burnett, Michael Landon, Connie Stevens and many more.

Everyone of them would sing a Christmas classic song such as "Christmas Eve in My Home Town", "White World of Winter", "Silent Night", ...

The very last Christmas special of Bing Crosby was a wonderful one as David Bowie did a duet with him. "The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" was performed by these two big names in the world of music.

Exactly like White Christmas, it is certainly one of the most wonderful Christmas songs ever made.