Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Barbra Streisand - I Wonder As I Wander

This song came out of the folk revival in the 1950s-60s. The credited composer, John Jacob Niles, claimed to have learned it from a woman in North Carolina, but this version was recorded in about as different a social milieu as you could find from that origin. Nowadays the key changes in this version get on my nerves, but otherwise I like it. That minor-key melody, and the overall feeling of being alone in the dark, make it unusual among holiday standards.

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