The video also has a Strictly reference and there are plans for a Strictly night at the Devenish as part of the anniversary celebrations. “It’s been a really big undertaking between Miss Clenaghan and the Key Stage 1 co-ordinator Miss McKeown, but a lovely part of our celebrations of the school being opened 20 years way back when we’d only 38 pupils.” She’s a real talent when it comes to these videos. The music was co-ordinated my Miss Clenaghan who also did the lyrics with Miss Bunting and the kids have just loved it.
He added: “We’re very proud of them all and it’s gone down very well this last few days when we’ve done the live version for parents. Twice MacGowan and MacColl sing, The boys of the NYPD choir still singing Galway Bay. Donleavy’s novel A Fairy Tale of New York, was chosen after the song had been written and recorded. Kaylee Rogers returns with Killard House School's new Christmas video The lyrics Sinatra was swinging and cars as big as bars seem to place the song in the late 1940s.10 Christmas carols that every primary school kid remembers.Vice Principal at the school, Neil Watson, said around 200 P3 and P4 pupils were involved in the video. singing Galway Bay”, it’s the “girls of the CTR choir. The lyrics mention a few local landmarks, a change from the original, including Mo’s Turkish Barbers, the Laurel Leaf and Chip Co.Īnd instead of the “boys of the NYPD choir. In a specially adapted rendition of the Pogues’ festive standard, Key Stage 1 pupils at Christ the Redeemer have sung their hearts out as part of a special celebration of the school’s 20th anniversary.Ī Fairytale of Lagmore is a tongue in cheek tribute to the West Belfast district where the school draws its 715 pupils from.
It is frequently cited as the best Christmas song of all time in various television, radio and magazine related polls in the UK and Ireland including the UK television special on ITV in December 2012 where it was voted The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song.Never before has the Christmas classic Fairytale of New York been so cute. In the UK, "Fairytale of New York" is the most-played Christmas song of the 21st century.
As of September 2017 the song has sold 1,217,112 copies in the UK, with an additional 249,626 streaming equivalent sales, for a total of 1,466,737 combined sales. Although the single never reached the coveted UK Christmas number one, being kept at number two on its original release in 1987 by the Pet Shop Boys' cover version of "Always on My Mind", it has proved enduringly popular with both music critics and the public: to date the song has reached the UK Top 20 on fifteen separate occasions since its original release in 1987, including every year since 2005, and was certified triple platinum in the UK in 2019. Originally begun in 1985, the song had a troubled two-year development history, undergoing rewrites and aborted attempts at recording, and losing its original female vocalist along the way, before finally being completed in August 1987. It was originally released as a single on 23 November 1987 and later featured on the Pogues' 1988 album If I Should Fall from Grace with God. The song is an Irish folk-style ballad and was written as a duet, with the Pogues' singer MacGowan taking the role of the male character and MacColl the female character. Verse 1 It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you. "Fairytale of New York" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their band the Pogues, featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals. If you’re not familiar with Fairytale of New York, let me catch you up.
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