The Surrey roots of O Little Town of Bethlehem

O Little Town of Bethlehem became a success when its original lyrics were married with a folk song from Surrey [SolStock] ...

A Philly priest’s soon-to-be-famous Christmas song was played on this week in Philly history

The result of their delayed creativity was “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” composed and heard in a Philadelphia church. It was a song that spread across the world, and put the 19th-century church on the ...