I was playing Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle back to back singing O Holy Night – possibly the best Christmas song written – and as great as they both can sing it – one sweet, one earthy – you know who sings this song and makes you fall on your knees? – Irma Thomas – damn, she sings O Holy Night so damn good!!!! <\/p>\n
fall on your knees, oh hear, the angel’s voices, oh night divine [the organ ripping in the background]<\/p>\n
[now the chorus comes in – oh holy night, oh holy night]<\/p>\n
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
\nTill He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
\nA thrill of hope the weary soul rejoices,
\nFor yonder breaks a new and glorious morn…<\/p>\n
[the organ ramps now]<\/p>\n
O night divine…<\/p>\n
[Irma starts getting down]<\/p>\n
O night when Christ was born…<\/p>\n
[organ slides]<\/p>\n
Fall on your knees…<\/p>\n
[choir low and slow in the background – holy holy night, holy holy night]<\/p>\n
[Now Irma puts the finishing touches]<\/p>\n
night that Christ was born – little bitty baby child – holy holy holy – holy night – Mary’s only child – o holy night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was playing Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle back to back singing O Holy Night – possibly the best Christmas song written – and as great as they both can sing it – one sweet, one earthy – you know who sings this song and makes you fall on your knees? – Irma Thomas – damn, she sings O Holy Night so damn good!!!! fall on your knees, oh hear, the angel’s voices, oh night… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}