Its Christmas All Over the World was written by my longtime friend, neighbor, and mentor Warren E. Vincent. Warren did everything in music from play first alto saxophone in Kay Kysers big band and the US Navy band during World War II to produce Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Ray Coniff, and Andre Kostelanetz for Columbia Records, where he pioneered quadriphonics. When he retired from Columbia Records in the early 1980s, Warren sold 4,000 songs that he had written to ASCAP. In 1988, he thought that his career in music was over when he was asked to compose and arrange Hallmarks 1988 Christmas album featuring Placido Domingo, Placido Domingo, Jr., and Leona Mitchell. In the television special based on the album, Vanessa Williams sang the soprano part. I remember that I went over to Warrens house and he sang the whole song that he was writing to me, a capella. It would be called Its Christmas All Over the World. He made umbrella gestures with his hands as he explained the waltz-like flourishes that he was putting in the song to capture the joy of Christmas. Its Christmas All Over the World has now been played all over the world and become a classic. After the 1988 Hallmark Christmas album of that name was conducted and recorded by Warren before the London Symphony Orchestra, the LSO stood, en masse, and gave him a standing ovation, which was together with this song, the crowning accomplishment of a formidable career in music. -- Andrew D. Basiago https://youtube/watch?v=vwqbzSY44rg
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:08:18 +0000
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