"O Come, All Ye Faithful" genre: Christmas
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	Instrumental by Steve W. Smith. "O Come, All Ye Faithful," was turned out by Frederick Oakeley, a British clergyman who felt that if congregations had good literary texts to sing, they would sing well.
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	Story Behind the Song English words by Frederick Oakeley. Latin words attributed to John Francis Wade. Music by John Reading. This arrangement by Steve W. Smith ASCAP copyright (C) 2002 by Sted Records Music. About This Song: John Francis Wade was an 18th century British exile who move to Roman Catholic community in France, where he eked out an income by copying and selling music, and by giving music lessons to children. Perhaps he himself wrote the Latin stanzas, beginning "Adeste Fideles," which have made his name known; perhaps they were a text he was called upon to translate. In any case, he combined the text with a bit of music, probably by another Englishman, John Reading, and published the resulting hymn around 1751. More than a century later, the English version, "O Come, All Ye Faithful," was turned out by Frederick Oakeley, a British clergyman who felt that if congregations had good literary texts to sing, they would sing well. This hymn proved his point.

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