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"When a Child Is Born" is a popular Christmas song. The original melody was "Soleado", a tune from 1972 by Ciro Dammicco (alias Zacar), composer for Italy's Daniel Sentacruz Ensemble, and Dario Baldan Bembo. The English language lyrics were written a few years later by Fred Jay. They do not make specific mention of Christmas but the importance they attach to looking forward to the birth of one particular child somewhere, anywhere, suggests a reference to the birth of Jesus Christ, and the citing of "a tiny star" that "lights up way up high" may allude to the Star of Bethlehem. Fred Jay's lyrics have been sung by many artists, most successfully by Johnny Mathis in 1976. ==Performances== "Soleado" is used in the 1975 Argentinean film ''Nazareno Cruz y el lobo'' (''The Love of the Wolf''), and it is credited as "Theme From the Motion Picture 'The Love of the Wolf'" on Mathis's album ''Johnny Mathis Sings the Movie Greats'' (CBS). Artists who have performed the song include: *ACM Gospel Choir in their 2008 Mail on Sunday giveaway CD ''Christmas with the Choir'' *Boney M. in their 1981 ''Christmas Album'' *Bing Crosby *Cissy Houston *Lutricia McNeal who reached the UK top twenty in 1998 *G4 *Judy Collins in her 1981 album "Trust Your Heart" *Kamahl *Kenny Rogers *Sarah Brightman in her 2008 holiday CD ''A Winter Symphony'' *Charlotte Church in her 2000 holiday CD ''Dream a Dream'' *Tarja Turunen *The Moody Blues in their 2003 album ''December'' *Willie Nelson *Paulini *Il Divo, in ther 2005 álbum ''The Christmas Collection''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「When a Child Is Born」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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