The Little Drummer Boy - Gift of Love 1968
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Uploaded by HolidayFavorites on Dec 13, 2009
In 1968, Rankin-Bass produced a stop motion animated Christmas television special based on The Little Drummer Boy. The film names the drummer boy Aaron and expands the song's storyline to include events before the birth of Jesus. It stars the voices of Greer Garson as "Our Storyteller" and Jose Ferrer as Ben Haramad; it also features the Vienna Boys' Choir singing the title song. It aired for many years on NBC (under original sponsorship of the American Gas Association (AGA)) before entering syndication. It currently airs in the U.S. on the ABC Family cable channel.
A television sequel, titled The Little Drummer Boy, Book II, premiered in 1976, also on NBC, again sponsored by the AGA, again narrated by Greer Garson, and also currently airing on ABC Family. This time the sequel co-starred Zero Mostel as the voice of Ben Haramad. NBC stopped airing the program after many complaints of Anti-Arabism.
The Little Drummer Boy" is a popular Christmas song, with words and music by Katherine K. Davis. Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone have been credited with writing the song, even though they were only the arrangers for their recordings of it. The version that made the song popular was the one sung and recorded by the Harry Simeone Chorale. It is also known as the "Carol of the Drum".
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@yfan26 this doesn't get old. does it?
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I've seen this movie countless times growing up, but... this is the first time I noticed that Mary is the whitest looking blonde person I've ever seen...
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The Roman centurion that ran over Baba disliked this video.
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ein wunder schönes lied
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"...as all hatered is wrong" it´s sooo true !!! Merry Christmas to you from Speyer in Germany
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Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.....
2 months ago 2
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i was 7 when i first saw this and it still makes me want to cry
2 months ago 2
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Classic and wonderful and Greer Garson's superb voice is such a treat!
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I love the abc Christmas countdown, makes it 100x better. I watch it every year
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This part of the show always makes my eyes leak, when are people from Earth, going to learn not to hate? What does it accomplish? Sadly, hate runs rampant, hopefully some day, the Human race can live in harmony with each other, and not hate. Can they?
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The narrator sounds like my grade school libraian
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I am always so sad when i see Baba die! Great upload!
Cheeiro753 2 years ago 5
Thanks.. it is a touching moment in the show for sure.
HolidayFavorites 2 years ago 2