Phillips Brooks
Biography
Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 – January 23, 1893) was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most popular preachers of the Gilded Age, he worked to make the Christian Church more relevant to contemporaries. Among his other accomplishments, he wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem". He is honored on the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar on January 23. In addition to his moral stature, he was a man of great physical height, standing six feet four inches (1.93 m) tall.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Elvis' Christmas Album
1970
The Christmas Song
1962
Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
1960
Elvis' Christmas Album
1957
A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra
1957
A Christmas Album
1967
A Dave Brubeck Christmas
1996
The Twenty-Fifth Day Of December
1962
Merry Christmas II You
2010
Christmas Songs By Sinatra
1948
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
1984
Twelve Songs Of Christmas
1963
Silent Night - Songs For Christmas
1962
The Classic Christmas Album
2012
An Oscar Peterson Christmas
1995
Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
1967
It's Christmas Time
1989
Classic Christmas
1980
Light Of The Stable-The Christmas Album
1979
The Secret Of Christmas
1975
The Great Songs Of Christmas (By Great Artists Of Our Time) Album Five
1965
Great Songs Of Christmas (By The Great Artists Of Our Time) Album Four
1964
Christmas Hymns And Carols
1963
The Great Songs Of Christmas (By Ten Great Artists Of Our Time)
1961
Credited work
1,335 releases · 316 albums · active 1950–2025
- Performance · 1,241
- Other credits · 134
Studios: RCA Victor Studios, Nashville · Radio Recorders · Enactron Truck · Enactron Studio Two