Line #46 Music/ChristmasInTheHeart


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''Do you hear what I hear?'']]
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4	''Christmas in the Heart'' is the thirty-fourth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 2009. At the time it surprised many fans and critics, because it was a straight CoverAlbum of old Christmas carols and songs, coming from an iconic [[ProtestSong protest singer]] like Dylan who'd never done anything like this before--especially given that Dylan had reportedly converted back to Judaism from his 1970s born-again Christianity. The profits of the album went to the charities [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_America Feeding America]] in the USA, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_(charity) Crisis]] in the United Kingdom, and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Programme World Food Programme]].
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7	!! Tracklist:
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9	# "Here Comes Santa Claus"
10	# "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
11	# "Winter Wonderland"
12	# "Hark the Herald Angels Sing"
13	# "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
14	# "Little Drummer Boy"
15	# "The Christmas Blues"
16	# "O' Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)"
17	# "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
18	# "Must Be Santa"
19	# "Silver Bells"
20	# "The First Noel"
21	# "Christmas Island"
22	# "The Christmas Song"
23	# "O Little Town of Bethlehem"
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26	!!Tropes in the heart:
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28	* AlliterativeTitle:
29	** "'''W'''inter '''W'''onderland"
30	** "'''H'''ark the '''H'''erald Angels Sing"
31	* AndStarring: David Hidalgo from ''Music/LosLobos'' on guitar, accordion, violin and mandolin.
32	* AsTheGoodBookSays: Some songs refer to Jesus Christ's supposed birth on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, which in fact is not historically proven to have happened on that specific day. People already held end-of-the-year festivities centuries before Christ's birth and the Church simply adapted Jesus' birth to that date because these pagan festivities were too popular to simply ignore or suppress.
33	* AwayInAManger: "Adeste Fideles", "O Little Town of Bethlehem", "The First Noel" are about Jesus Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
34	* CharityMotivationSong: All the profits for this album go to charity.
35	* ChristmasSongs: Naturally.
36	* ConceptAlbum: In the sense that all tracks are about Christmas.
37	* CoverAlbum: All tracks are covers, and it's the first time he did a CoverAlbum in which the majority of the songs are 20th Century pop numbers (a trend that continued on ''Shadows in the Night'', ''Fallen Angels'' and ''Triplicate'').
38	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The album cover is an old fashioned picture of people travelling by sled. If you didn't know any better you'd never think it was recorded by Bob Dylan.
39	* DidIMentionItsChristmas: All songs allude to it.
40	* EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas: Especially true with Dylan himself, who is Jewish (well, AmbiguouslyJewish; he had a born-again Christian phase in the 70s, but everybody ''thought'' he had gone back to Judaism until he released this album, but now everyone's confused), but still felt that Christmas is celebrated by everyone worldwide, thus everyone can allude its own meanings to it.
41	* GratuitousLatin: He opens "O Come All Ye Faithful" with the original "Adeste Fideles" verse. His pronunciation isn't bad, but it's still Bob Dylan singing Latin.[[note]]He ''was'' a member of his high school's Latin Club growing up, for what it's worth.[[/note]]
42	* InTheStyleOf: "Must Be Santa" has some echoes of ''klezmer'' in this version, true to Dylan's Jewish roots.
43	* LocationSong: "O Little Town of Bethlehem", where Jesus Christ, according to the New Testament, was born.
44	* NewSoundAlbum: For Dylan this was a triple change in style: 1) A CoverAlbum 2) built [[ConceptAlbum around one concept]]: 3) Christmas.
45	* OneManSong: "Little Drummer Boy".
46	* PenName: Dylan is credited as producer under the PunnyName "Jack Frost".
47	* QuestioningTitle: "Do You Hear What I Hear?".
48	* RecordProducer: Bob Dylan.
49	* SantaClaus: "Here Comes Santa", "Must Be Santa".
50	* SomethingBlues: "The Christmas Blues".
51	* TheSomethingSong: "The Christmas Song".
52	* TheThreeWiseMen: They appear as characters in "Adeste Fideles", "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "The First Noel".
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