Ace Collins

Come to find out, this man who fixed the organ had become the Johnny Appleseed of Silent Night and had taken it all across Europe, every place he was fixing organs, and taught it to everyone.

And so here's a song that should have been heard once and put away that has become the most sung song at Christmas.

The best-selling song, by the way, is White Christmas.

But the most sung and recorded song is Silent Night.

And the thing I find the most interesting about all of this, the church in Obendorf, Austria, where Joseph Moore led a choir singing Silent Night for the very first time, is named St.

Nicholas.

Wow.

Yeah, and Jingle Bells is another weird one that shouldn't be associated with Christmas.

Jingle Bells is, in truth, the best-known Thanksgiving song in the world.

And the man was instructed to create a song for a children's choir at a Thanksgiving service, and he went to the only piano in town, which was on a

Mystic Lane, ironically enough, at a lady's house and was playing it and couldn't come up with anything and went outside and watched a bunch of teenage boys attempting to impress girls by drag racing sleighs.

And he went in and immediately wrote Jingle Bells.

And Jingle Bells was performed at that Thanksgiving service and was so popular, the church came back at Medford and had their choir perform it again at Christmas.

And the people in

who were visiting from Boston and New York, their relatives took that song back as a Christmas song.

So it's actually kind of a Thanksgiving song.

But Jingle Bells is responsible for the way most Americans picture Christmas.

We picture one-horse sleighs.

Currier and I has later painted those scenes.

So a Thanksgiving song that was morphed into a Christmas song is the way that Americans picture Christmas.