Once in Royal David's City

Music written by: Henry Gauntlett
Original lyrics written by: Cecil Alexander
Composition date: 1849
Language: English
Adapted from: Once in Royal David's City [Poem] written by Cecil Alexander
Comments: Gauntlett discovered Alexander's poem in 1949 and set it to music.
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Once in Royal David's City [Poem]

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Once in Royal David's City

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Once in Royal David's City [Poem] written by Cecil Alexander English 1848
- Once in Royal David's City written by Henry Gauntlett English 1849
  - A Christmas Song written by Ian Anderson English November 29, 1968
  - Ann am Baile Ri'oghail Dhaibhidh written by unknown author(s) Irish November 16, 1999

Versions

Once in Royal David's City written by Henry Gauntlett English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
Once in Royal David's City	Petula Clark	1958
Once in Royal David's City	Roger Moore	October 1959
Once in Royal David's City	The Mormon Tabernacle Choir	October 1963
Once in Royal David's City	The Ivy League	December 1965
Once in Royal David's City	Harry Secombe	1966
Once in Royal David's City	Choir of King's College, Cambridge	1971
Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas - O' Come All Ye Faithful - Once in Royal David's City - Whil…	Max Bygraves, Orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank Barber	1974	Medley
Once in Royal David's City	The Spinners [GB]	1978
Once in Royal David's City	Patsy Biscoe	1980
Once in Royal David's City	St. Winifred's School Choir	1982
Once in Royal David's City	Martyn Wyndham-Read, Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Phil Beer	1986
Once in Royal David City	Chas & Dave	1986
Once in Royal David's City	The Chieftains with The Renaissance Singers	October 28, 1991
Once in Royal David's City	The Beane Family	1993
Once in Royal David's City	Academy and Chorus of St Martin in the Fields	October 31, 1994
Once in Royal David's City	Cæciliakoret	1995
A Journey to Bethlehem (A Christmas Medley)	Michael Crawford	October 1999	Medley
Once in Royal David's City	Barbers & Bishops	December 2000
Once in Royal David's City	Ars Nova Singers	2000
Once in Royal David's City	The Seekers	November 9, 2001
Once in Royal David's City	St Agnes Fountain	2002
Once in Judah's Lest Known City	Stephen Rush and Quartex	2002
Once in Royal David City	Nancy Hanson	2003
Medley: Once in Royal David's City, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Away in a Manger	Charlie Landsborough	2004	Medley
White Christmas - Please Come Home for Christmas - Oh Little Town of Bethlehem - Blue Christmas - D…	Studio 99	2004	Medley
Once in Royal David's City	Chuck Stevens	November 1, 2005
Royal David's City	Jason Seibert	December 3, 2005
Once in Royal David's City	Sufjan Stevens	November 21, 2006
Once in Royal David's City	Robin Gibb	November 2006
Once in Royal David's City	David M. Bailey	2006
Once in Royal David's City	The CHICKAdivas	2006
Once in Royal David's City	Jim Bohn	2007
Once in Royal David's City	Anne & Pete Sibley	2007
Once in Royal David's City	Jacob Moon	2007
Once in Royal David's City	Mary Chapin Carpenter	September 30, 2008
Once in Royal David's City	Trine Gadeberg	2008
Once in Royal David's City	The Elizabethan Singers	2009
Once in Royal David's City	Daniel O'Donnell	November 22, 2010
Once in Royal David's City	David Krienke	December 12, 2010
Once in Royal David's City	New Dublin Voices	2010
Once in Royal David's City	Bert Clarke	2010
Once in Royal David's City	Connie Brown	September 2011
Once in Royal David's City	Eleanor McCain featuring The Elmer Iseler Singers	2011
Once in Royal David's City	Mary Margaret May	2011
Once in Royal David's City	Robert Lunn	2011
Once in Royal Davids City	Simon Lewis feat. Lena McDonald	2011
Christmas Medley	The Idea of North	November 2, 2012	Medley
Once in Royal David's City	Sinéad O'Connor	November 16, 2012
Once in Royal David's City	Mediæval Bæbes	November 18, 2013
Once in Royal David's City	The Lower Lights	November 26, 2013
Once in Royal David's City	Glasgow Cathedral Choir	November 2013
Once in Royal David's City	Josienne Clark & Ben Walker	December 1, 2013
Once in Royal David's City - Amazing Grace	Andy Pokel and Anna Bakk	December 15, 2013	Medley
Once in Royal David's City	The Boys of St. Paul's Choir School	October 7, 2014
Once in Royal David's City	Allison Crowe	November 2, 2014
Once in Royal David's City	Cecilia Zanzi	November 26, 2014
Once in Royal David's City	Scott Riggan	December 2, 2014
Once in Royal David's City	Rosa Francesca	December 21, 2014
Once in Royal David's City	Sam Robson	November 6, 2015	A cappella
Once in Royal David's City	G4 featuring Rock Choir	November 16, 2015
Once in Royal David's City	Liz Huff	November 25, 2015
Once in Royal David's City / Christ Church	Cherish the Ladies	November 28, 2015	Mash-up
Once in Royal David's City	Puzzled Laymen	December 11, 2016
Once (In Royal David's City)	Jonathan Inc.	December 23, 2016
Once in Royal David's City	J.R. Richards	December 2017
Away in a Manger (Once in Royal David's City)	Eric Clapton	October 12, 2018	Mash-up
Once in Royal David's City	Chris Grillo	December 24, 2018
Once in Royal David's City	Keith & Kristyn Getty	September 27, 2019
Once in Royal David's City	Janie Fricke	September 25, 2020
Once in Royal David's City	Rend Collective	October 23, 2020
Once in Royal David's City	Lauren Henderson	November 13, 2020
Once in Royal David's City	Jenna Nash	November 26, 2020	A cappella
Once in Royal David's City	Alphonso "AJ"Blakeney	November 1, 2021
Once in Royal David's City	Sandra McCracken, Matt Papa & Laura Story	December 23, 2022

Once in Royal David's City written by Henry Gauntlett instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	Once in Royal David's City	Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra	1959
i	Once in Royal David's City	Stan Kenton and His Orchestra	October 1961
i	Once in Royal David's City	Mantovani and His Orchestra	1963
i	Once in Royal David's City	The Torero Band	1968
i	Once in Royal David's City	Grimethorpe Colliery Band	1969
i	Once in Royal David's City	Michael J. Kenny, Ian Bloxsom	1982	Unverified
i	Once in Royal David's City	O.D. Hall, Jr.	1985
i	Once in Royal David's City	Frank Mills	1994
i	Once in Royal David's City	Matthew Ross	1994
i	Once in Royal David's City	Linn Barnes - Allison Hampton	1995
i	Once in Royal David's City	Lorie Line	1995
i	Once in Royal David's City	Danny Wright	September 28, 1998
i	Once in Royal David's City	Ralph Carmichael's Big Band	1998
i	Once in Royal David's City	Robin Roys	1999
i	Once in Royal David's City	Neal Ewers	1999
i	Once in Royal David's City	Bronn Journey	1999
i	Medley: We Three Kings - Once in Royal David's City - Good King Wenceslas	Acker Bilk	1999	Medley
i	Once in Royal David's City	Rick Wakeman	2000
i	Once in Royal David's City - We Three Kings	Carl Doy	2000	Medley
i	Once in Royal David's City	Donna Germano	2001
i	Once in Royal David's City	Sir Charles Hammer	2001
i	Once in Royal David's City	Steven C. Anderson	2001
i	Once in Royal David's City	The Lyric Brass Quintet	2002
i	Once in Royal David's City	Kris Baines	2002
i	Love Came Down at Christmas / Once in Royal David's City	Barbara Gallagher	2002	Medley
i	Once in Royal David's City	The Capitol Bones Big Band	2002
i	Once in Royal David's City	Rick Seaton	2003
i	Once in Royal David's City	James Spalink	2003
i	Once in Royal David's City	Craig Duncan	2003
i	Once in Royal David's City / We Three Kings	El McMeen	2004	Medley
i	Once in Royal David's City	Joe Curry	October 4, 2005
i	Once in Royal David's City	Gordon Quinton	2005
i	Once in Royal David's City	Embellish	2005
i	Once in Royal David's City	Christopher West	2005
i	Once in Royal David's City	Jenny Crook	September 2006
i	Once in Royal David's City	The Black House Ceilidh	October 8, 2006
i	Once in Royal David's City	Jim Gibson	November 28, 2006
i	Once in Royal David's City	Léo Adrien Gosselin	2006
i	Once in David's Royal City	Earl Wentz	2006
i	Once in Royal David's City	Rick Sparks	2007
i	Once in Royal David's City	Always in Christ	November 30, 2008
i	Once, in Royal David's City	Timothy Seaman	2008
i	Once in Royal David's City	The Gifted Children [US]	2008
i	While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks / Once in Royal David's City	Robin Bullock	2008	Medley
i	Once in Royal David's City	Brian Mann	November 12, 2009
i	Once in Royal David's City	Phyllis Taylor Sparks	2009
i	Once in Royal David's City	Jocko MacNelly	2010
i	Once in Royal David's City	Joseph Sullinger	2010
i	Once in Royal David's City	Samuel Cho and Shane Spangler	2010
i	Once in Royal David's City	Manor House String Quartet	2010
i	Once in Royal David's City	Annie McGee	2010
i	Once in Royal David's City	Trevor Nasser	September 2011
i	Once in Royal David's City	Roger Sinatra	2011
i	Once in Royal David's City	David Phillips	2011
i	Once in Royal David's City	Bruce Kurnow	2011
i	Once in Royal David's City	Leslie Bridges	September 19, 2012
i	Once in Royal David's City / O Little Town of Bethlehem	The Wild Oats [CA]	2012	Medley
i	Once in Royal David's City	David Hicken	2013
i	Medley: The Holly and the Ivy / While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks / Once in Royal David's City /…	Charles Timberlake and John Daniels	October 6, 2014	Medley
i	Once in Royal David's City	Eric Paździora	December 12, 2014
i	Once in Royal David's City	Rudi Seitz	December 15, 2014
i	Once in Royal David City	Electron Planet	March 18, 2015
i	Once in Royal David's City	Doug Hammer	November 2015
i	Once in Royal David's City	Sally DeFord	November 23, 2016
i	Once in Royal David's City	Franco Danger	December 18, 2016
i	Once in Royal David's City	Lucy Marie Hill	December 23, 2016
i	Once in Royal David's City	Greg Howlett	August 2017
i	Once in Royal David's City	Don Anderson	September 2017
i	Once in Royal David's City	Duo Concertante [CA]	October 20, 2017
i	Once in Royal Davids City	Jules Amaro	October 11, 2018
i	Once in Royal David's City	Jonny Southard	October 29, 2018
i	Once in Royal David's City	Natasha Stoll	December 2018
i	Once in Royal David's City	Paul Cardall	2018
i	Once in Royal David's City	Jan Thompson-Hillier	April 2019
i	Once in Royal David's City	Open Blue Sky	August 26, 2020
i	Once in Royal David's City	Camille Nelson	October 23, 2020	Acoustic
i	Once in Royal David's City	Josh Kimbrough	December 11, 2020
i	Once in Royal David's City	Limelight Glow	September 14, 2021
i	Once in Royal David's City	Shin Giwon Piano	November 2, 2021
i	Once in Royal David's City	Steve Petrunak	November 10, 2021
i	Once in Royal David's City	Ron Adelaar	November 12, 2021
i	Once in Royal David's City	Ola Gjeilo	October 7, 2022
i	Once in Royal Davids City	Annie Leigh	October 14, 2022
i	Once in Royal David's City	Poella	October 27, 2022

A Christmas Song written by Ian Anderson English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
A Christmas Song	Jethro Tull	November 29, 1968	First release
Christmas Song	Folk Studio A	1985
A Christmas Song	The Grip Weeds	2011
A Christmas Song	Thijs van Leer	2019

Ann am Baile Ri'oghail Dhaibhidh written by unknown author(s) Irish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Ann am Baile Ri'oghail Dhaibhidh	The Barra MacNeils	November 16, 1999	First release

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