It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (carol version)

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lyricist:	Edmund Sears
composer:	Richard Storrs Willis

part of:	The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 29) (order: 7)

SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/48785 [info]
Wikidata:	Q96279161 [info]

referred to in medleys:	Noëls pour cordes (order: 4) 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: 4)
later translated versions:	Pār mazo ciemu ielejā (Latvian version of "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear")
is based on:	CAROL (hymn tune) It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (poem)
is the basis for:	Paraphrase on ‘It Came upon the Midnight Clear’
arrangements:	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (arr. Scott Kritzer) It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Gordon Jenkins arr.) It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. C. J. Franklin) It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. Barry Manilow) Midnight Clear

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Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
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1947-12-28	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (1947 original studio master)		Frank Sinatra	3:33
1947-12-28	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	3:29
1947-12-28	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra with Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra	3:28
1947-12-28	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	3:28
1957	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear / The First Noel / Silent Night	medley	The Jack Halloran Singers	3:56
1962-10-05	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Bing Crosby	3:05
1967	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble	1:25
1986-01-07	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Chet Baker	2:01
1991-06 – 1991-08	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Johnny Cash	3:59
2002-05	It Came Upon A Midnight Clear		Antti Sarpila	3:09
2006-05-24	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Eddie Higgins Trio	4:03
2011-05-18 – 2011-05-20	It Came Upon the Midnight Clear		The Oxford Choir	2:18
2015-12-06	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (live, 2015‐12‐06: Stonebriar Community Church Worship Center, Frisco, TX, USA)	live	Stonebriar Community Church Sanctuary Choir & Orchestra	3:49
2018-01-04 – 2018-01-06	It Came Upon the Midnight Clear		Choir of Westminster School, Ben Bloor, Timothy Garrard	3:27
2018-02 – 2018-03	Three Carols (Away in a manger / It came upon the midnight clear / Ding, Dong! Merrily on high)	medley	Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki	3:51
2018-12-23	It came upon the midnight clear	live	Choir of St Mary’s, Fishponds	3:31
2019-12-22	It came upon a midnight clear	live	Choir of St Mary’s, Fishponds	3:29
2021-12-19	It came upon the midnight clear	live	Choir of St Mary’s, Fishponds	3:34
	Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	3:38
	God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / It Came Upon the Midnight Clear / Joy to the World	medley	The Pete King Chorale	2:42
	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Angels We Have Heard On High / It Came Upon A Midnight Clear	cover and instrumental	Jim Hendricks & Bob Burns	8:01
	It came upon a midnight clear		Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra	1:54
	It Came upon a Midnight Clear		Vienna Boys Choir, London Symphony Orchestra	4:06
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Dick Haymes	?:??
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		The Bach Choir, Jacques Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks	3:30
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Pat Boone	2:59
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Jan August	2:25
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	St. Agnes Fountain	?:??
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		The Johner Brothers	3:30
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Carpenters	0:42
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	3:30
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Mario Lanza	2:48
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	?:??
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		The Louvin Brothers	3:08
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Anne Murray	2:48
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Thanatos	2:19
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		The Canadian Brass & Indianapolis Children's Choir	2:16
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Luther Kent	5:03
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Edmund Sears & Richard Storrs Willis	6:09
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover and instrumental	José Feliciano	1:50
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Aaron Neville	3:42
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Ty Hardin	2:19
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		St Peter’s Choir	3:06
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Jim Brickman	2:37
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		John Fahey	1:28
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Elizabeth McGovern	2:38
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Jack Jezzro	2:52
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Rosemary Clooney	2:42
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	3:27
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Rick Wakeman	5:14
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Sara Groves	4:42
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Heritage Singers	2:36
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover and instrumental	Kurt Bestor	4:24
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Sergio Franchi	2:38
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	3:36
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Rosemary Clooney	2:45
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Randy Sandke	3:14
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Brian Wilson	3:10
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Sandy Posey	2:58
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Virgil Fox	3:34
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Dionne Warwick	3:39
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra	2:25
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Kevin MacLeod	4:25
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	The Mistletoe Orchestra	3:02
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	[unknown]	2:28
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Carpenters	0:43
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Sufjan Stevens	0:48
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Sergio Franchi	2:35
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	[christmas music]	1:16
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Jackie Evancho	3:38
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Mormon Tabernacle Choir	2:10
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover and instrumental	David Arkenstone	3:46
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Percy Faith & His Orchestra	2:45
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		The Manhattan Transfer	5:55
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Butch Baldassari	2:05
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Sufjan Stevens	0:39
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Kate Smith	?:??
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Playhouse Revue	3:28
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Mario Lanza	2:52
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Johnny Cash	3:00
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Attila Fias	3:20
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		[unknown]	3:15
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Norah Jones	2:42
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Julie Andrews	3:35
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Kitaro	4:00
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover and instrumental	[unknown]	4:08
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		AJ Rafael	1:33
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Ella Fitzgerald	3:21
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	cover	Thanatos	2:16
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Hall & Oates	4:16
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Rosemary Clooney	2:40
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Eileen Farrell, Luther Henderson	2:52
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Cedar Walton	3:49
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Sam Phillips	?:??
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Caribbean Steel Drum Ensemble	2:27
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		The Choir of St Bride's Church, Fleet Street	3:21
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear	instrumental	Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra	1:32
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra	2:02
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Samuel Sebastian Wesley	2:30
	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear		Frank Sinatra	3:33
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