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By Dave Koz & Kelly Sweet, Garth Brooks, Martina McBride, Michael Buble Duet With Shania Twain, Rascal Flatts, and Taylor Swift. By Irving Berlin. Arranged by Leo Silva. Children,Christmas,Holiday,Traditional. Score. 1 pages. Published by MP Sheet Music (A0.508875).

White Christmas is a Christmas song composed by Irving Berlin and originally recorded by Bing Crosby. Crosby's version is listed on Guinness World Records as the best-selling single of all time, having surpassed 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, adding to Crosby's, have sold more than 150 million copies. Sources vary on when and where Berlin composed the song. One version claims the song was written in 1940 in the city of La Quinta, California, with other sources claiming its origins are at the Arizona Biltmore hotel. According to Berlin himself, White Christmas is the best song ever written.

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download

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By Dave Koz & Kelly Sweet, Garth Brooks, Martina McBride, Michael Buble Duet With Shania Twain, Rascal Flatts, and Taylor Swift. By Irving Berlin. Arranged by Leo Silva. Children,Christmas,Holiday,Traditional. Score. 1 pages. MP Sheet Music #120001. Published by MP Sheet Music (A0.534900).

White Christmas is a Christmas song composed by Irving Berlin and originally recorded by Bing Crosby. Crosby's version is listed on Guinness World Records as the best-selling single of all time, having surpassed 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, adding to Crosby's, have sold more than 150 million copies. Sources vary on when and where Berlin composed the song. One version claims the song was written in 1940 in the city of La Quinta, California, with other sources claiming its origins are at the Arizona Biltmore hotel. According to Berlin himself, White Christmas is the best song ever written.

Piano Solo, Easy Piano - Easy/Beginner - Digital Download By The Greatest Showman. Arranged by Jennifer Wilson. Sheet Music Single. 9 pages. Published by EverAlive

Piano,Tuba - Level 1 - Digital Download

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Composed by Gruber. Arranged by James M. Guthrie, ASCAP. Christmas. Score and part. 3 pages. Jmsgu3 #3387257. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.548493).

Silent Night arranged for Tuba & Piano with new harmony for the final verse. Score: 2 pg. Part: 1 pg.

Silent Night

Origins

Father Joseph Mohr wrote the lyrics for a new Christmas Carol. He wanted the new carol for his Christmas Eve Mass. With only a couple of hours until the service, He asked organist and schoolteacher Franz Gruber to write a melody and simple accompaniment to go with the lyrics. The result is probably the most famous of all Christmas carols – Silent Night.

First Performance

Perhaps because the organ was undergoing repairs, or to make sure the accompaniment was easy enough, Mohr asked Gruber to write it for the guitar. Mohr played the guitar, and both Mohr and Gruber gave the world premiere performance at the Christmas Eve Mass in 1818 at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf in Salzburg.

Original Score

Eventually, the original score became lost, and consequently, Mohr's name was largely forgotten.  Though the public originally recognized Gruber as the composer, many people over time began rumors that a more famous composer was responsible. Thus, they floated the names of Haydn, Mozart, and even Beethoven. Authorities eventually settled the matter when a manuscript in Mohr’s handwriting turned up in 1820. Consequently, we learn that Mohr wrote the lyrics in 1816, and Gruber composed the melody in 1818.

Popularity

Nonetheless, Silent Night is still very popular. Singers have performed this song in nearly every genre and in multiple languages. Perhaps the most famous version is the one Bing Crosby crafted. This version is the third best-selling physical single recording in the history of recorded music. This particular recording was released in 1935 and sold at least 30 million copies.

Only two songs have ever sold more. Elton John released Candle in the Wind in 1997 and sold 33 million copies. The record for most copies ever sold goes to Bing Crosby. He released White Christmas in 1942 and sold 50 million physical copies.

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Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download

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By Lionel Richie. By Lionel Richie. Arranged by Academia Unimusica. Film/TV. Score. 2 pages. Unimusic Academy (Academia Unimusica) #6257119. Published by Unimusic Academy (Academia Unimusica) (A0.809430).

Hello is a song by Lionel Richie. Taken as the third single from his second solo album Can't Slow Down (1983), the song was released in 1984 and reached number one on three Billboard music charts: the pop chart (for two weeks), the R&B chart (for three weeks),[3] and the adult contemporary chart (for six weeks). The song also went to number one in the UK Singles Chart for six weeks.[4]

The song later inspired a lawsuit by songwriter Marjorie Hoffman White, who accused Richie of plagiarizing her 1978 composition I'm Not Ready to Go.[

Easy Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download

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By The Beatles. By John Lennon, John Winston Lennon, Paul James Mccartney, and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Academia Unimusica. Rock. Score. 2 pages. Unimusic Academy (Academia Unimusica) #6247353. Published by Unimusic Academy (Academia Unimusica) (A0.809399).

Hey Jude is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in August 1968. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. The single was the Beatles' first release on their Apple record label and one of the First Four singles by Apple's roster of artists, marking the label's public launch. Hey Jude was a number-one hit in many countries around the world and became the year's top-selling single in the UK, the US, Australia and Canada. Its nine-week run at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 tied the all-time record in 1968 for the longest run at the top of the US charts. It has sold approximately eight million copies and is frequently included on music critics' lists of the greatest songs of all time.

The writing and recording of Hey Jude coincided with a period of upheaval in the Beatles. The ballad evolved from Hey Jules, a song McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, after Lennon had left his wife for the Japanese artist Yoko Ono. The lyrics espouse a positive outlook on a sad situation, while also encouraging Jude to pursue his opportunities to find love. After the fourth verse, the song shifts to a coda featuring a Na-na-na na refrain that lasts for over four minutes.

Hey Jude was the first Beatles song to be recorded on eight-track recording equipment. The sessions took place at Trident Studios in central London, midway through the recording of the group's self-titled double album (also known as the White Album), and led to an argument between McCartney and George Harrison over the song's guitar part. Ringo Starr later left the band only to return shortly before they filmed the promotional clip for the single. The clip was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and first aired on David Frost's UK television show. Contrasting with the problems afflicting the band, this performance captured the song's theme of optimism and togetherness by featuring the studio audience joining the Beatles as they sang the coda.

At over seven minutes in length, Hey Jude was the longest single to top the British charts up to that time.[1] Its arrangement and extended coda encouraged many imitative works through to the early 1970s. In 2013, Billboard magazine named it the 10th biggest song of all time in terms of chart success.[2] McCartney has continued to perform Hey Jude in concert since Lennon's death in 1980, leading audiences in singing the coda. Julian Lennon and McCartney have each bid successfully at auction for items of memorabilia related to the song's creation.

By White Lion. For easy piano. Metal; Pop; Rock. 6 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music