Twas the Night Before Christmas

Here’s an e-book edition of Clement Moore’s Twas the Night Before Christmas, with wonderful illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith. I recommend you read it while listening to Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians as they perform it, recorded in 1942.

It’s available on MP3 as part of a collection of Waring’s Christmas radio broadcasts. Waring was quite an entrepreneur, whose work with choral singing earned him the title “The Man Who Taught America How to Sing.”