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The carol was written by Katherine Kennicott Davis, an American classical music composer and teacher, in 1941. \u00a0(She originally called it \u201cThe Carol of the Drum.\u201d) \u00a0The Trapp Family Singers \u2014 think\u00a0The Sound of Music \u2014\u00a0<\/em>recorded it in 1955 and it became even more popular when the Harry Simeone Chorale recorded it in 1958.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m guessing that the latter may have been the version that I first encountered; I vaguely remember hearing the carol as \u201cnew\u201d when I was a very little boy \u2014 on the radio, while riding in our family car down the main drag in Alhambra, California, underneath the street\u2019s Christmas lights, which were a highly anticipated and wonder-inducing sign\u00a0of the season every year of my childhood \u2014 and loving it. \u00a0That was a magical moment, which is why it remains, among my earliest memories.<\/p>\n
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