Ace Collins

But you're right.

Very few do.

You know, when you look at the nature of Christmas music, the song that we sing still at Christmas that

goes back in a complete form to performing it just as it was performed 1,200 years ago as O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.

So that's our oldest complete carol.

It probably wouldn't have stuck around, but it was discovered in the 1800s and reprinted at that particular point, and people caught on to it.

It was so easy to sing.

You look at other songs like Silent Night, it was a stopgap measure when a priest had an organ that died and he had based his entire service

around music, went to his friend, the school teacher, and Joseph Moore told Franz Gruber, I have nothing.

And Gruber offered to play guitar for the service, but the music they had picked out didn't work with it.

Moore had written a song two years before, not as a song, but as a poem, when he had been visiting his uncle.

He found that, they sent it to music, and Silent Night became known as the song that saved Christmas in Obendorf, Austria, about

you know, really about 200 years ago.

Joseph Moore used that song as a stopgap measure.

When the organist, when the man who fixed the organ came by and was playing the organ later, when he got it working, he asked Moore, what did you do for Christmas?

Well, Moore sat down at the organ and played him Silent Night and sang it to him.

The man who fixed the organ jotted down the words and remembered the melody, and that was it.

Silent Night should have gone away.

It should have never been heard again.

But 30 years later, this priest, Moore, is walking by a church in one of the large cities in Germany and hears his song that was performed as that stopgap measure, wondering, how in the world did these people hear my Silent Night?