{"id":14104,"date":"2014-12-11T15:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14104"},"modified":"2016-12-08T06:59:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:59:18","slug":"christmas-album-review-the-little-drummer-boy-by-the-abbey-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/christmas-album-review-the-little-drummer-boy-by-the-abbey-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Album Review: <i>The Little Drummer Boy<\/i> by the Abbey Choir (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004CD1GL8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B004CD1GL8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cathelittledrummerboy1.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004CD1GL8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B004CD1GL8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This album<\/a> includes <em>the<\/em> definitive version of &#8220;The Little Drummer Boy&#8221; in my mind.  When I was a little boy, I had a book with the lyrics to the song along with some pictures of what&#8217;s depicted in the lyrics, and when my mother played this album, the song came to life.  Or so I thought at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The truth of the matter is that this disk is a collection of choir renditions of some common Christmas carols and some uncommon ones.<\/p>\n<p>The track list includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Little Drummer Boy \t<\/li>\n<li>Silent Night \t<\/li>\n<li>O Come All Ye Faithful \t<\/li>\n<li>The Twelve Days Of Christmas \t<\/li>\n<li>As With Gladness Men Of Old \t<\/li>\n<li>God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen \t<\/li>\n<li>Christians Awake \t<\/li>\n<li>The Wassail Song \t<\/li>\n<li>While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks \t<\/li>\n<li>Once In Royal David&#8217;s City \t<\/li>\n<li>The Holly And The Ivy \t<\/li>\n<li>Angels From The Realms Of Glory \t<\/li>\n<li>Ave Maria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tFor the most part, I&#8217;ve reviewed individual artists&#8217; albums and collections of individual artists&#8217; songs, but the choral album is integral to the whole Christmas experience, and you can&#8217;t hardly go wrong with them as background music.  This album gets plenty of play in the household.  And, apparently, it&#8217;s available on MP3s for you 21st century types.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Album mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B004CD1GL8&#038;asins=B004CD1GL8&#038;linkId=IFTX4UDWQ5GN4YEC&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This album includes the definitive version of &#8220;The Little Drummer Boy&#8221; in my mind. When I was a little boy, I had a book with the lyrics to the song along with some pictures of what&#8217;s depicted in the lyrics, and when my mother played this album, the song came to life. Or so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-albums","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14105,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14104\/revisions\/14105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}