A Journey to Bethlehem (A Christmas Medley)

~ Recording by Michael Crawford

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.5A Journey to Bethlehem (A Christmas Medley)7:59Michael CrawfordA Christmas AlbumMichael CrawfordAlbum
Atlantic (Warner Music imprint)83251-2
2.19A Journey to Bethlehem (Christmas medley)7:57Michael CrawfordNow XmasVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint)606838
1.5A Journey to Bethlehem (A Christmas Medley)8:00Michael CrawfordChristmas: O Holy NightMichael CrawfordAlbum
EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint)FANFARE091

Relationships

assistant producer:Carin Lake
producer:Greg Nelson (CCM songwriter/producer)
recording of:1. In dulci jubilo (macaronic of English and Latin) (medley)
2. Once in Royal David’s City
3. Unto Us a Child is Born (medley)
4. While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night (Winchester old version) (medley)
5. O Little Town of Bethlehem (traditional carol with the tune “St. Louis”, as commonly sung in the U.S.) (medley)
6. Good Christian Men Rejoice (medley)
7. Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation) (medley)
8. The Coventry Carol (medley)
9. We Three Kings (medley)
10. I Saw Three Ships (medley)
11. O Come to Bethlehem (medley)
12. The First Noel (medley)
13. Away in a Manger (aka “Cradle Song” composed by William J. Kirkpatrick) (medley)
14. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas carol) (medley)
15. O Come, All Ye Faithful (English version of Latin “Adeste fideles”) (medley)

Away in a Manger (aka “Cradle Song” composed by William J. Kirkpatrick)

additional lyricist:Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (in 1892)
lyricist:[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
composer:William James Kirkpatrick (hymn-writer) (in 1895)
referred to in medleys:Medley: Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly / Away in a Manger / O Little Town of Bethlehem / The First Noel (order: 2)
Medley: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear / Away in a Manger / The First Noel (order: 2)
later translated versions:Ej upplysta gårdar
Gehuld in de stilte
I Orwedd Mewn Preseb
Jesús en pesebre
Käy kanssamme Jeesus
translated version of:Y Preseb
is based on:Sweet Afton (set to music by Jonathan E. Spilman, 1837)
is the basis for:A Lullaby
arrangements:Away in a manger (arr. Moore)
Away in a Manger (for brass, Graham)
Away in a Manger (arr. Willcocks)
Away in a Manger (arr. Rutter)
Away in a Manger (arr. Johnson and Ricketts)
Away in a Manger (arr. Van)
Away in a Manger (arr. Rutter and Parker)
Away in a Manger (arr. Michael McGlynn)
Away in a Manger (arr. Barry)
Away in a Manger (arr. Berry & Howard)
Away in a Manger (arr. Gjeilo)
Away in a Manger (arr. Cole)
Away in a Manger (arr. Ledger)
Away in a Manger (arr. Daniel Walker)
Away in a Manger (arr. Westenburg)
Away in a Manger (for voice, choir and orchestra, Elms)
Away in a Manger (arr. Ellingboe)

Good Christian Men Rejoice

lyricist and composer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
translator:John Mason Neale
referred to in medleys:Christmas Day (medley by Gustav Holst) (order: 1)
I Heard the Bells / Noel / Good Christian Men Rejoice (order: 3)
translated version of:In dulci jubilo (original traditional)

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas carol)

additional lyricist:George Whitefield (in 1753)
lyricist:Charles Wesley (hymn writer) (in 1739)
composer:Felix Mendelssohn (composer) (in 1840)
arranger:William H. Cummings (in 1855)
referred to in medleys:(Hark, The Herald) Angels Dream
A Majestic Christmas Theme
Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful
Christmas Train (medley)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Gloria (in excelsis Deo)
Hark! The Herald Angels We Have Heard on High
Medley: O Come All Ye Faithful / Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Medley: Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful (order: 1)
Medley: The First Noel / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / We Wish You a Merry Christmas (order: 2)
The March of the Kings / Hark the Herald Angels Sing (order: 2)
Noëls pour cordes (Christmas Carols for Strings) (order: 3)
The Merry Christmas Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas / Angels From the Realms of Glory / Hark the Herald Angels Sing / It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (order: 3)
A Christmas Festival (order: 5)
later parody versions:Hark! The Herald Angels Rap
皆因一經過六四
later translated versions:Clywch Lu’r Nef yn Seinio’n Un
Clywch y Ddwyfol Sanctaidd Gân
Debespulks dzied apstarots (Latvian version of English "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing")
Hamau! Na Anelá
Hoor de eng'len zingen d'eer
Hoor, de engelen zingen de eer
天には栄え (Japanese version of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”)
新生王
later versions:Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (John Ferguson arrangement)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Die Toten Hosen arrangement)
Hark! The Herald Angels Swing
Høyr kor englar syng frå sky
is the basis for:Ghost of Christmas Past
Hark! The Merry Gentleman, op. 90
Jailhouse Angels
Paraphrase on ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’
Postlude on "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
Suite on Famous Christmas Carols: III. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
With One Voice
arrangements:"Bark!" The Herald Angels Sing
Enkellaulu kajahtaa (translated)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Bob Dylan arrangement)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (arr. Scott Kritzer)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Vince Guaraldi arr.)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Gordon Jenkins arr.)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (arr. Barry)
Hark! the herald angels sing (arr. Ledger)
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (Sovereign Grace version)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (descant and organ arr. Philip Ledger)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Willcocks)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Paulus)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Feller)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

I Saw Three Ships

lyricist and composer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
is the basis for:Fantasia on “I Saw Three Ships”
Sing O’Alleluia
arrangements:As I sat on a sunny bank 'I saw three ships' (arr. Poston)
Christmas Sweet: I Saw Three Ships
I Saw Three Ships (for choir and orchestra, arr. Rutter)
I Saw Three Ships (arr. S. Preston)
I Saw Three Ships (arr. Willcocks)
I Saw Three Ships (arr. Lloyd)
I Saw Three Ships (arr. Ledger)
I Saw Three Ships (arr. Beeby)
I Saw Three Ships (Jim Brickman arrangement)
I Saw Three Ships (for choir and organ, arr. Rutter)
I Saw Three Ships (for organ, arr. Elliot)
I Saw Three Ships (arr. Fissinger)
I Saw Three Ships

In dulci jubilo (macaronic of English and Latin)

lyricist and composer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger and translator:Robert Lucas Pearsall (composer)
later translated versions:Jeg synger julekvad
later versions:In dulci jubilo (Mike Oldfield version)
translated version of:In dulci iubilo (original traditional version in macaronic alteration of medieval German and Latin, use also for unspecified versions)
is the basis for:Sortie on "In Dulci Jubilo"
arrangements:In dulci jubilo (arr. Chilcott)
In dulci jubilo (arr. Moya Brennan)
In dulci jubilo (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)
In Dulci Jubilo
Three More Carols: No. 3. In dulci jubilo

O Come to Bethlehem

writer:Robyn Smith (UK singer/songwriter)

O Come, All Ye Faithful (English version of Latin “Adeste fideles”)

lyricist and composer:John Francis Wade (from 1740 until 1743)
translator:Frederick Oakeley (in 1841)
referred to in medleys:Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful
Christmas Train (medley)
Medley: O Come All Ye Faithful / Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Adeste fideles (Bing Crosby arrangement) (order: 2)
Medley: Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful (order: 2)
The Holiday Spirit Carries On (order: 2)
Medley: The First Noel / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / We Wish You a Merry Christmas (order: 3)
A Christmas Festival (order: 9)
later parody versions:[You Know That I Will Call You]
聖誕堅持
later versions:O’ Come All Ye Faithful (English version of Latin “Adeste fideles” - Bob Dylan arrangement)
translated version of:Adeste fideles (original latin version)
arrangement of:O Come, All Ye Faithful
arrangements:Adeste Fideles (Gordon Jenkins arr.)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Prizeman arrangement)
O Come All Ye Faithful (arr. Johnson and Ricketts)
O Come All Ye Faithful (Psalty arr Frederick Oakeley)
O Come All Ye Faithful (arr. Feller)
O Come All Ye Faithful (arr. Patrick Williams)
O Come All Ye Faithful (arr. Reynolds)
O come, all ye faithful (arr. Ledger)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (arr. Willcocks)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (arrangement by Elvis Presley)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (arr. Paulus)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (arr. Stephen Cleobury)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (arr. Jetton & Howard)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles) (arr. Don Gillis)

O Little Town of Bethlehem (traditional carol with the tune “St. Louis”, as commonly sung in the U.S.)

lyricist:Phillips Brooks (in 1868)
composer:Lewis Henry Redner (in 1868)
referred to in medleys:Christmas Medley (Bing Crosby version) (order: 3)
Medley: Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly / Away in a Manger / O Little Town of Bethlehem / The First Noel (order: 3)
Noëls pour cordes (Christmas Carols for Strings) (order: 8)
later translated versions:Bethlehem
Oi Betlehem, sä pienoinen
Tu mazā, klusā Betlēme (Latvian version of "O Little Town of Bethlehem")
later versions:Little Town (Cliff Richard carol -- the traditional words set to new music)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Kenneth Jennings tune)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (traditional carol with the tune “Forest Green”, as sung in the UK and the Episcopal Church in the U.S.)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Walford Davies tune)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (version performed by Elvis Presley)
is based on:St. Louis (hymn tune)
is the basis for:Grandma's Christmas Card
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. The Joy Strings)
O Little Town Of Destrehan
Paraphrase on ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’
Suite on Famous Christmas Carols: V. O Little Town of Bethlehem
arrangements:O Little Town of Bethlehem (Culloton arrangement)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Gordon Jenkins arr.)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (The Mighty Fine Band trad. arr.)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (adapted by Jack Gold)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Feller)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Gene Puerling)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (Sarah McLachlan arrangement)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Chris Walden)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (arr. J. Paterson)
O’ Little Town of Bethlehem (Bob Dylan arrangement)
music quoted in and lyrics quoted in:Bethlehem

Once in Royal David’s City

lyricist:Cecil Frances Alexander (in 1848)
composer:Henry John Gauntlett (in 1849)
later parody versions:Once in Every Carol Service
later translated versions:Draw yn Ninas Dafydd Frenin
I Kong Davids by
I Kong Davids stad eingong
is the basis for:Once in Royal David's City (descant and organ arr. Philip Ledger)
Prelude on "Irby" ("Once in Royal David’s City")
has revision:Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Mann)
arrangements:Once in Royal David's City (arr. Ferguson)
Once in Royal David's City (arr. Wilcocks (vv. 2-3) and Mann (v. 4ff))
Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Rutter)
Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Willcocks)
music quoted in:Song for the King

Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)

lyricist:Josef Mohr (composer/author) (in 1816)
composer:Franz Xaver Gruber (composer/author) (in 1818)
translator:John Freeman Young (in 1859)
referred to in medleys:Jingle Bells Medley (Psalty’s Christmas Calamity)
Christmas Medley: Holy Night / Snow Falls Over the Ground / Hear Ye the Message (Boney M. medley) (order: 2)
Medley: The First Noël / Silent Night / O Holy Night (order: 2)
Kuklapolitan Christmas Carol Medley (order: 3)
Megamix 2 (It Must Be Christmas) (order: 4)
Mix Two (Greatest Ever Christmas Party Megamix) (order: 4)
What Child Is This? / O Come, O Come Emmanuel / The First Noel / Silent Night, Holy Night (order: 4)
A Christmas Festival (order: 7)
Mix 3 (The Best Xmas Party Ever!) (order: 8)
Noëls pour cordes (Christmas Carols for Strings) (order: 9)
later parody versions:It’s a Fanboy Christmas
Luna’s Silent Night
Sensitive Night (Community, "Comparative Religion")
Silent Night (Aqua Teen Hunger Force version)
Silent Night
later versions:Silent Night (arr. Lindner)
Silent Night (Elvis Presley version)
Silent Night
translated version of:Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
is the basis for:Holy Night
On an Old Christmas Song (Silent Night, Holy Night)
Silent Night (Damien Rice song)
Silent Night
Silent Night
Silent Night (version written for Chanticleer and Dawn Upshaw)
Squiddly Night (Homestuck Gaiden)
has revision:7 O’Clock News/Silent Night
arrangements:Silent Night (arr. Rose)
Silent Night (arr. Rutter)
Silent Night (arr. Johnson, orch. Volpi)
Silent Night (arr. Stephen Cleobury)
Silent Night (arr. Aly and AJ)
Silent Night (arr. Scott Kritzer)
Silent Night (arr. Willcocks)
Silent Night (arr. Walker)
Silent Night (arr. Rathbone)
Silent Night
Silent Night (arr. Van)
Silent Night (arr. Gordon Jenkins)
Silent Night (arr. David Foster)
Silent Night (arr. Pembroke College Girls' Choir)
Silent Night (arr. Feller)
Silent Night (arr. Darlington)
Silent Night (arr. Reynolds)
Silent Night (Sarah McLachlan arrangement)
Silent Night (arr. Clarence)
Silent Night (arr. Chris Walden)
Silent Night (arr. Siegel / Linse)
Silent Night (arr. Berry & Howard)
Silent Night (arr. Benson)
Silent Night (Christian Lee Hutson version)
Silent Night (arr. Lisle Mitnik)
Silent Night (arr. J. Paterson)
Silent Night (lo‐fi arrangement)
Silent Night (arr. Bowers-Broadbent)
Silent Night (arr. David Drury)
Silent Night (arr. Blatchly)
Silent Night, Holy Night (arranged by Malcolm Sargent)
Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night) (arr. Ray Ellis)
Three More Carols: No. 2. Silent Night
lyrics quoted in:Maybe This Year

The Coventry Carol

The First Noel

composer:Amadeus Indetzki (production music)

Unto Us a Child is Born

writer:Robyn Smith (UK singer/songwriter)

We Three Kings

lyricist and composer:John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (composer, “We Three Kings”)
referred to in medleys:Chaconne à son Goût
Medley
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / We Three Kings (order: 2)
Rejoice With Exceeding Great Joy / We Three Kings (arr. Johnson, orch. Volpi) (order: 2)
Christmas Collage (order: 4)
later parody versions:香港長是我的家
later translated versions:Drie wijzen
later versions:We Three Kings (Nox Arcana version)
is the basis for:Paraphrase on ‘We Three Kings of Orient Are’
Star of Wonder
Star of Wonder
Three Kings for Passiontide
We Three Kings (“… of Bankstown Square” parody by Bucko & Champs)
arrangements:We Three Kings (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)
We Three Kings (arr. Neary)
We Three Kings (arr. Aly and AJ)
We Three Kings (arr. Moya Brennan)
We Three Kings (arr. Brett Stewart)
We Three Kings (Psalty)
We Three Kings of Orient Are (arr. Scott Kritzer)
We Three Kings of Orient Are (lo‐fi arrangement)
We Three Kings of Orient Are (for choir and orchestra, arr. Elms)
music quoted in and lyrics quoted in:We Three Kings

While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night (Winchester old version)

lyricist:Nahum Tate
composer:Christopher Tye (English composer & organist, c. 1505–1573)
arranger:George Kirbye
later translated versions:Eņģeļa vēsts (Reiz ganiem lopus sargājot…)
later versions:While Shepherds Watched (descant Marlow)
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Andrew Peterson version)
is based on:Song of the Angels, at the Nativity of Our Blessed Saviour
Winchester Old
is the basis for:While Shepherds Watched
arrangements:While Shepherds Watched (desc. Willcocks)
While Shepherds Watched (arr. Gray)
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (desc. Cleobury)
While shepherds watched their flocks by night (desc. Nicholas Marston & Daniel Hyde)
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night (arr. Thomas Ravenscroft)