From the I Shall Be Released #3 booklet:
I SAW THREE SHIPS (traditional) arranged by Sting & Dave Hartley for the athlets of the "Special Olympics", 1997 Bye M On 11-12-2003 20:18, "Raj Manoharan" <raj_manoharan@hotmail.com> wrote:
Speaking of Christmas songs, I recently heard a Sting song on the radio that I never heard before.
I don't know what the title of the song is, but Sting kept repeating a chorus refrain of "on Christmas day, on Christmas day."
It sounded more catchy than anything off of Sacred Love, and it sounded more like a classic Police/Sting melody.
Any ideas?
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Message: 8 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:34:17 -0800 From: "Maggie White" <mwhite@gw.smbsd.k12.ca.us> Subject: [Police] Bethlehem Down and other stuff To: <police@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <sfd84832.048@gw.smbsd.k12.ca.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I got a copy of that Best Buy CD with the Sting Christmas song (the one in the "peppermint" tin). I'm not a member of the BB promotion club which earned the CD, but when I checked out with some other items I just plunked the CD on top of the DVDs I was buying. The clueless clerk kept trying to ring it up and it kept coming up $0.00. Finally, she just threw it in the bag.
It has five songs - Coldplay, Seal, Jewel, Chris Botti and Sting. Bethlehem Down by Sting is a little odd and very short. It's also the only clearly Christian song (other than Botti's "O Come All Ye Faithful."). It talks about the birth and death of Christ (probably one of the few songs ever to feature the word "embalming.") His voice goes from very low/deep to very high. Not a traditional Xmas song.
I think the best songs on the CD are the Coldplay tune and Seal's song. Jewel's is almost unlistenable. Didn't she used to be a yodeler? Because that's what she does through the whole song. More vibrato than Stevie Nicks has ever had, if you can believe that.
Stuff: Has ANYONE heard "Whenever" on the radio?? I had high hopes for this song (it's not one of my favorites, but I thought it had serious hit potential.) I know it's only been a few weeks since it was released, but I wonder if it's doing anything? If it crashes and burns, what will the third (if any) single be? Remember that After the Rain was the third BND single, didn't do much, and then there wasn't anything released after that, as I recall.
Billboards: I couldn't watch last night as I had a late meeting and didn't get home until 10:30 p.m. How was it? I read his speech on S.com and thought it was great. How was the performance?
Maggie
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