Winter Song (song)
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| Single by Sara Bareilles featuring Ingrid Michaelson | ||||||||||||||||
| from the album The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs | ||||||||||||||||
| Released | December 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Format | Digital download, CD | |||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2008 | |||||||||||||||
| Label | Epic | |||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson | |||||||||||||||
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| Single by Twitterxmassingle | |||||||
| Released | 4 December 2011 | ||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||
| Recorded | 27 November 2011 | ||||||
| Label | Holles Street Neonatal Unit | ||||||
| Writer(s) | Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson | ||||||
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"Winter Song" is a seasonal song co-written and co-sung as a duet by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson (both being born in 1979). It became a very minor hit in Canada in Christmas 2008, reaching #97. But upon release in Ireland in 2011 it reached #2.[1] A special charity single by #twitterxmassingle also was a separate hit in Ireland alongside the original version reaching #8.
Twitterxmassingle version
The song (full name on single sleeve Twitterers and the Twitterettes of the Parish of Twitter Proudly Present Winter Song) became a charity single in Ireland released simultaneously with the original.
The idea started with a single tweet from account holder @BrendaDrumm on the social networking site Twitter on 19 November 2011. An account was established at #twitterxmassingle to garner support for the idea. The co-writers also supported the project. 140 people from Ireland took part in recording it in a grand hall in Westin Hotel in Dublin on one Sunday on 27 November 2011 exactly one week from the tweet. The instrumentation was recorded at Ian Callanan Studios, with Callanan as producer and musical director, Brenda Drumm as executive producer and Paul Keegan as engineer and mixing.
The single (also known as the "TWinter Song") and the accompanying video were launched on an independent label on 4 December 2011 and through iTunes downloads. The single went straight into #8 on the Irish Singles Chart dated December 8, 2011, while the original by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson was at #2 in the Irish chart the same week. All proceeds of the charity recording went to the Neonatal Unit of Holles Street Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
- Credits
- Composers - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
- Artist - TwitterXMasSingle
- Label - Holles Street Neonatal Unit
- Executive Producer - Brenda Drumm
- Producer - Ian Callanan
- Arranged by Ian Callanan
- Instrumentalists:
- Piano - Anne Cullen
- Bass - Paddy Kiernan
- Synthesizer and Programming - Ian Callanan
- Bodhrán, Whistles and Uilleann pipes - Darragh Ó Héiligh
- Guitar - David Byrne
- Violin - Christopher Edwards
- Viola - Nicola Bermingham
- Cello - Róisín Magee
- Instrumentation recorded at Ian Callanan Studios engineered by Ian Callanan
- Choir and soloists recorded at The Westin Hotel, Dublin on Sunday 27 November 2011, engineered by Paul Keegan
- Choir Director - Ian Callanan
- Mixed by Paul Keegan at Retreat Recording Studio
Charts
Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson single
| Chart (2008–11) | Peak position |
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| Canadian Hot 100 | 97 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 2 |
Twitterxmassingle single
| Chart (2011) | Peak position |
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| Irish Singles Chart[2] | 8 |
Remix
The Winter Song has been used for D Thought's song Land Of Broken Dreams.[3] D Thought, born John Wapioke in 1988, is a Canadian Hip Hop recording artist originally from Iskatewizaagegan 39 Independent First Nation.[4]
In popular culture
- The song was also performed during the 2010 United States National Christmas Tree Lighting, attended by the American President Barack Obama with the United States Coast Guard Band playing with Bareilles and Michaelson singing live.
- Irish O2 telecommunications company used the original version by Bareilles and Michaelson in their Christmas ad campaign
- The song was featured in Scrubs Season 8 episode "My Chief Concern", at the end of the episode.
- The song was used in fifth season of Grey's Anatomy.
- The song was used in the fourth season of Brothers & Sisters.
- The song was used in the second teaser for the third season of American Horror Story
- The song was sampled by John Legend for his song "The Beginning..." from his 2013 album Love in the Future
- The song was covered by Ronan Keating on his album "Winter Songs"
- The song was used in the season six episode "Christmas Through Your Eyes" of The Vampire Diaries.
- Heavy metal band Halford, solo project of Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford, recorded a version of the song for the 2009 album Halford III: Winter Songs.
- British female vocalist Kim Wilde recorded a version of the song on her 2013 holiday album Wilde Winter Songbook.
- Broadway performer Leslie Odom Jr. recorded a version for his Simply Christmas holiday album in 2016.
- French canadian artist, Celine Dion cover the song during a Facebook Live event on her official page, December, 1, 2016.
References
External links
- Irish charity links