Sing It Like Pavarotti

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Welcome to Day 23 of the 2021 Virtual Advent Tour, hosted by my friend Sprite at Sprite Writes. For this day of the Tour, I’m going to tell you about a silly Christmas tradition that my father and I have. One Christmastime, back when I still lived with my parents, we were talking about O Holy Night, a song that we all liked. I said, “I bet Pavarotti sings that one well.” Not long after that conversation, my Mom bought a Christmas Pavarotti CD. That CD got a lot of play, because Pavarotti did indeed sing the song well.

Too well, perhaps. My father and I enjoyed it so much that we couldn’t resist singing along. But we couldn’t sing it in our normal singing voices. No, a voice like Pavarotti’s demands a certain level of excellence. If you’re going to sing with Pavarotti, you have to sing like Pavarotti. You have to really belt it out in your best imitation opera voice. So that’s how we always sang it, and we cracked ourselves up every time.

It has been many years since we listened to that CD together, but O Holy Night is still part of our Christmas celebration. My father and I gather at the piano and sing our favorite carols, for which we use our normal singing voices. But when we get to the finale, which is of course O Holy Night, we sing it like Pavarotti. With each passing year our rendition gets more exaggerated and ridiculous sounding, and we still crack ourselves up every time. It’s one of the high points of the day, I think. My mother and husband do not seem to love it as much as my father and I do, though. I can’t imagine why. ๐Ÿ˜‰

All jokes aside, O Holy Night is a beautiful song. Pavarotti’s version is still great, but these days there are many wonderful versions available. Do you have a favorite version?

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3 Responses to Sing It Like Pavarotti

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  2. sprite says:

    Thank you so much for the last-minute pinch hit. I appreciate you more than you know — or, maybe after all these years, you do.

    I wish you and your dad the extended version of the song, rather than the radio cut, with every embellishment you can possibly come up with.

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