Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818. Originally it was sung to a simple guitar accompaniment. The carol began life as a poem, written in 1816 by ...

Then in 1995, a manuscript surfaced that contained Joseph Mohr’s handwriting and showed he wrote the poem ... Silent Night recorded by Bing Crosby in 1935 sold a whopping 30 million copies ...

Silent Night, originally a German poem written by pastor Joseph Franz Mohr, is now a Christmas staple to celebrate the birth ...