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1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special Last Sessions Smithsonian Folkways SFCD-40068/71
2. Nowell Sing We Clear: Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy (Nym Cooke / Bruce Randall) Just Say Nowell! Golden Hind GHM-105
3. Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde: The Angels Sang (J.Irien/C.Desbordes) Noels Celtique Green Linnet GLCD 3124
4. Artisan: The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came (trad/arr.Artisan) Bygone Christmas Bygone Films BFCD112
5. Suzanne McDermott: Angels We Have Heard On High (trad) Out Under the Sky Rosema Red RRR 417 (PO Box 380747, Cambridge, MA 02238)
6. Neal & Leandra: Listen to the Angels (Neal Hapberg) Listen to the Angels Uncle Gus UGM02 (612-929-0572 / or email)
7. Mahalia Jackson: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (PD) Silent Night Columbia CK 38304
8. Harvey Reid: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (F.Mendelssohn) The Heart of the Minstrel On Christmas Day Woodpecker 111 (PO Box 815, York, ME 03909)
9. Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner: When All the Songs Were Sad (Horner) Through the Bitter Frost and Snow 1 800 PRIME CD PCD-36
10. Tommy Makem: Wishes Tommy Makem's Christmas Shanachie 52041
11. Carl Sandburg: The Five Marvelous Pretzels (a story) Decca 78rpm K-109
12. Muriel Anderson: Hymn for All the Answered Prayers Music For Life GCD 2000 (P.O.Box 121634, Nashville, TN 37212)
13. Berroguetto: Nadal de Luintra A Putumayo World Christmas Putumayo PUT 181-2
14. The Bittersweet Christmas Band: Dance In the Dark of the Year (S.Urban/M.Nelson) private pressing (630-584-1262 / or email)
15. William Pint & Felicia Dale: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (trad) Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day Waterbug WBG 0039
16. Nowell Sing We Clear: Leaping and Dancing (trad) Best of Nowell Sing We Clear Front Hall/Golden Hind 301
17. Louis Armstrong: The Night Before Christmas (supposedly Clement Moore) The Stash Christmas Album Stash ST-125
18. Doc Watson: New Born King (trad) Poppy 45 rpm
19. Charles Guard: When Christ Was Born (trad/arr.Guard) A Real Irish Christmas Claddagh/Atlantic 83226-2
20. Gerry Armstrong: Seven Joys of Mary (trad) Simple Gifts Folkways FA 2335
21. Cran: Seacht Suailci na Maighdine Muire (The Seven Joys of Mary) A Real Irish Christmas Claddagh/Atlantic 83226-2
22. Peggy & Penny Seeger: The New-Born Baby (trad) American Folk Songs for Christmas Rounder CD0268/69
23. John Harbison: We Three Kings (trad/arr.JH.Hopkins) Six String Christmas Adelphi GCD 1038
24. Jean Redpath: Three Kings from Orient / Kings from the East (trad) Still the Night Jean Redpath JR-109 (email)
25. Maggie Sansone: We Three Kings (trad/arr.Sansone) Sounds of the Season II Maggie's Music MMCD105 (PO Box 4144, Annapolis, MD 21403)
26. Nowell Sing We Clear: Time To Remember the Poor (trad) Just Say Nowell Golden Hind GHM-105
27. John Henry Faulk: Christmas Story (as told to Studs Terkel) (WFMT Studio, early 1960s) WFMT recording
28. Odetta: Shout For Joy (trad) Odetta Sings Christmas Spirituals Vanguard VSD 2079
29. The Bittersweet Christmas Band: Divine Image (trad/Wm.Blake/arr.BCB) private CD
30. Thomas Moore: God Is Born (D.H.Lawrence) The Soul of Christmas Upaya 128
31. Nowell Sing We Clear: Hail Smiling Morn! (trad) Hail Smiling Morn! Golden Hind GHM102CD
32. Kiltartan Road: Deck the Halls (trad) / Carol of the Field Mice (Sobol/Grahame) A Kiltartan Road Christmas Kiltartan Road 1003 (773-871-5142)
33. Rich Warren: Solstice Poem for 2000 live reading
34. Original Broadway Cast: If We Only Have Love (Brel) Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris Columbia D2S 779

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