I heard it first from the original Crazy Eddies ads ( an electronics store from NYC). He ran his ads promoting a "Christmas in July" sale. Very effective too.
The vocal technique heard in this recording is vibrato.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
He didn't miss christmas day! The 3 spirits came the night of christmas eve and he woke up christmas morning. He is happy when he heard he didn't miss christmas day!
I Have a recording by Rod McKuen ,1956/57 .Also heard that June Christy recordd it in 1957.
They are Christmas Carols. Christmas Carols are songs usually heard at Christmas time.
Is the song "Shannon"? Shannon is gone, I heard she's drifting out to sea.... (Which is actually about a dog, or so I've heard.)
I heard the bells on Christmas day by longfellow
Christmas carols that begin with the letter A:Angels We Have Heard On HighAway in a Manger
Christmas. However, I've heard it used as the Christmas season: "las navidenas".
A live recording of Eva Cassidy singing "Over the Rainbow" can heard on many websites. Among those are YouTube, iTunes, Rhapsody, MPS Sheriff, Radio Paradise, and Pandora.
When I was a young boy back in the late 1960 I remember well a recording of The Last Dance sung by Englebert Humperdink. I don't know if he was the first but I have never heard of one before that.