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\'The Little Drummer Boy\' is
a popular Christmas song, with
words and music by Katherine
K. Davis. Henry Onorati and
Harry Simeone have been
credited with writing the
song, even though they were
only the arrangers for their
recordings of it. The
best-known and
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\'The Little Drummer Boy\' is
a popular Christmas song, with
words and music by Katherine
K. Davis. Henry Onorati and
Harry Simeone have been
credited with writing the
song, even though they were
only the arrangers for their
recordings of it. The
best-known and most standard
version is by the Harry
Simeone Chorale. It is also
known as the \'Carol of the
Drum\'.

Davis first composed the words
and music for \'Carol of the
Drum\' (ostensibly transcribed
from a traditional Czech
carol) in 1941. [1] In 1957
Onorati arranged the song for
a recording by the Jack
Halloran Singers on Dot
Records. The following year
Simeone re-arranged the song
yet again and retitled it for
his Chorale's hit single
version, which was issued on
20th Fox Records' 45-121 with
a 45rpm picture sleeve, then
on their LP called Sing We Now
of Christmas, which became an
enormous bestseller. In 1963
the company, now known as 20th
Century Fox Records, retitled
and reissued their album. It
was now called The Little
Drummer Boy: A Christmas
Festival, in order to boost
sales even higher, as the
45-rpm single had continued to
be a seasonal hit. The album
was first issued only in mono,
then in stereo a year later.
Harry Simeone signed to Kapp
Records in 1964 and recorded a
new version of \'The Little
Drummer Boy\' in 1965 on Kapp
K-711 with a 45rpm picture
sleeve. This version came from
his new album O' Bambino-The
Little Drummer Boy [Kapp
1450(mono) / 3450(stereo)]

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