I much prefer this tune to O littles town . . . I hope that you keep posting these sing along songs. During this long pandemic, it helps me feel less isolated to be able to join in. Thank you.
I agree, I don't like St Louis or Wengen. Forest Green should be the only tune for O Little Town Of Bethlehem! Not everything needs an alternate tune. "Boois" to St Louis (the tune, that is; the city doesn't mean anything to me one way or another.)! "Boois" to Wengen as well. Forest Green or bust!
I love how you add the sheet music as it helps people to learn how to read music! Although this piece is quite basic, it does really help! Keep doing this! :)
This is such a great public service! Thanks for doing it. We learn so much from these sessions, and it is so much fun to try each part with all of you.
Odd for a NJB, a rabbi no less, to have a favourite Xmas carol, nevertheless I do, and it has to be this one. This is by far and away the most beautiful version I've come across.
You guys are fantastic... it's wonderful to hear you guys!!! Thank you for the nice work and a very happy Christmas for you! 🙏🙏🙏 Greetings from Brasil.
This is beautiful and all, but ever since I've watched the nativity episode of the Goes Wrong Show, I can't help but bring myself to a chuckle whenever I hear this song.
Wow! What a wonderful performance! But also "wow" to the arrogance and misinformation of the comments implying the "American" version is somehow wrong or inferior. Newsflash: O Little Town of Bethlehem was written by an American, Phillips Brooks, with music by his equally American colleague, Lewis Redner, a full 40 years before Vaughan Williams re-appropriated the text for his own tune, Forest Green, which is heard here. 30 seconds of Googling, or checking Wikipedia, or any Christmas carol or hymnary website would have provided this information. Denigrating the Lewis Redner tune is akin to denigrating The Isley Brothers' version of "Twist and Shout" vs The Beatles' cover. Or, God forbid, the Rodney Dangerfield and Ferris Bueller versions a generation later. (Then again, even the Isleys' version was a cover.)
Newsflash: Forest Green is awesome and epic and terrifical. I loathe the American tune!!! St. Louis is Boo-is! Not all tunes need an alternate tune. Abolish all tunes for O Little Town Of Bethlehem except Forest Green!