Cover Song
O Holy Night
Brian Kittrell — November 7, 2025
Release Date: November 7, 2025Public Domain Source
Composer Adolphe Adam also has his own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Adam
Original Recording
| Songwriters | Placide Cappeau (French lyrics, 1847), Adolphe Adam (music, 1847), John Sullivan Dwight (English translation, 1855) |
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| Original Release Date | 1847 (French original "Minuit, chrétiens" / "Cantique de Noël"); 1855 (English translation) |
| Release Type | traditional/public domain |
Genuinely a public-domain 19th-century carol — no reclassification needed. Cappeau wrote the French poem in Dec 1847 for a Roquemaure Christmas Midnight Mass; Adam set it to music within days. Dwight's widely-sung English version dates to 1855.
Spotify/Apple Music/YouTube listening links for this cover aren't published here yet — pending real per-song streaming URLs, not fabricated placeholders.