Song 699: This week the playlist puts the spotlight on Do You Hear What I Hear? by Jim Nabors, written by Gloria Shayne and Noël Regney, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. A few years after the group who did last week's song got a lot of folks to start applauding a young male percussionist in late November, those singers also got people to begin asking a particular simple question around then as well. As the 1960s unfolded, I regularly watched the Andy Griffith Show, which at a certain point introduced its audience to a character named Gomer Pyle. The actor who portrayed that fellow soon got a lot of notice, and five years after the Harry Simone Chorale had sold a quarter-million copies of their 45 of this song, which had originally gotten crafted as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Jim Nabors put out his own rendition of the tune, and I thought it sounded good. It was a song, high above the trees with a voice as big as the sea - do you hear what I heard? The message applies to today as much as it did six decades ago - Pray for peace, people everywhere!
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