*(1971) RCA ''O Come, All Ye Faithful'' (Take 1 Overdubbed Master) Elvis Presley

''O Come, All Ye Faithful'' (APA4-1270) (Take 1 Overdubbed Master) (1:00 AM – 4:00 AM) Recorded Sunday May 16, 1971 at RCA Studio B, Nashville, Tennessee Name (Or. No. of Instruments) Elvis Presley - Vocals James Burton - Guitar Chip Young - Guitar Norbert Putnam - Bass Jerry Carrigan - Drums Kenneth Buttrey - Drums David Briggs - Piano Glen Spreen - Organ & Percussion Charlie McCoy - Harmonica, Organ & Percussion Overdubbed Later: Eddie Hinton - Guitar Larry Lonsdon - Drums & Percussion The Imperials Quartet consisting of Jimmie Murray, Terry Blackwood, Greg Gordon, and Joe Moscheo - Backup Vocals Millie Kirkham - Backup Vocals Producer - Felton Jarvis Recording Engineer - Al Pachucki "O Come, All Ye Faithful", also known as "Adeste Fideles", is a Christmas carol that has been attributed to various authors, including John Francis Wade (1711-1786), John Reading (1645-1692), King John IV of Portugal (1604-1656), and anonymous Cistercian monks. The earliest printed version is in a book published by Wade. A manuscript by Wade, dating to 1751, is held by Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. The original four verses of the hymn were extended to a total of eight, and these have been translated into many languages. In 1841, the English Catholic priest Frederick Oakeley translated the hymn into English as "O Come All Ye Faithful", which became widespread in English-speaking countries. The text has been translated innumerable times into English. The most common version today is a combination of one of Frederick Oakeley's translations of the original four verses, and William Thomas Brooke's translation of the three additional verses. It was first published in Murray's Hymnal in 1852. Oakeley originally titled the song "Ye Faithful, approach ye" when it was sung at his Margaret Chapel in Marylebone (London), before it was altered to its current form. The song was sometimes referred to as the "Portuguese Hymn" after the Duke of Leeds, in 1795, heard a version of it sung at the Portuguese embassy in London, now Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street. McKim and Randell nonetheless argue for Wade's authorship of the most popular English language version. Bennett Zon offers limited support for that argument, although he also suggests that the author may instead have been someone known to Wade. The hymn was first published by John Francis Wade in his collection Cantus Diversi (1751), with four Latin verses, and music set in the traditional square notation used for medieval liturgical music. This version is in triple meter, contrary to modern versions. It was published again in the 1760 edition of Evening Offices of the Church. It also appeared in Samuel Webbe's An Essay on the Church Plain Chant (1782). The hymn tune also made its way to the Sacred Harp tradition, appearing as "Hither Ye Faithful, Haste with Songs of Triumph" in an 1860 collection. With "Herbei, o ihr Gläub'gen" a German translation of the Latin text was published in 1823 by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke. In performance, verses are often omitted – either because the hymn is too long in its entirety or because the words are unsuitable for the day on which they are sung. For example, the eighth anonymous verse is only sung on Epiphany, if at all; while the last verse of the original is normally reserved for Christmas Midnight Mass, Mass at Dawn or Mass during the Day. In the United Kingdom and United States it is often sung today in an arrangement by Sir David Willcocks, which was originally published in 1961 by Oxford University Press in the first book in the Carols for Choirs series. This arrangement makes use of the basic harmonisation from The English Hymnal but adds a soprano descant in verse six (verse three in the original) with its reharmonised organ accompaniment, and a last verse harmonisation in verse seven (verse four in the original), which is sung in unison. This carol has served as the penultimate hymn sung at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, after the last lesson from Chapter 1 of the Gospel of John. Adeste Fideles is traditionally the final anthem during Midnight Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Elvis Presley’s rendition of ''O Come, All Ye Faithful'' can be found in his album titled ''Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas,'' released in 1971. The album, produced by Felton Jarvis, showcases Elvis’s smooth and captivating vocals, which truly bring this traditional Christmas carol to life. Source and more information see: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Digitally Remastered © - Condor Records - ©