O Holy Night - Lea Michelle

Of all the Christmas songs which have been recorded, only the best can make it into The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians and at number 6 we have O Holy Night by Lea Michelle.

Yes i know it's a Churchy song and i know it's all about baby Jesus and the night he was meant to be born but leaving all that aside, it is an amazing song starting with a tinkling piano and then in comes the strings and then it dips and soars majestically and Lea Michelle's amazing voice does all sort of wonderful things to accentuate it.
The song began life after a church in 19th Century France got a new organ and wanted to show it off so asked a local composer to come up with some music to prove what it could do, another one come up with some lyrics and over a hundred years later it makes an appearance in the TV show Glee and in my humble opinion, the best version i have ever heard.
Many opera singers have had a go at it but they make it sound too stuffy and religious while the likes of Mariah Carey and Celine Dion throw in all those annoying twiddly up and down the scales notes but Lea Michelle, who is a stage singer who learnt her trade on Broadway and therefore does not need to add anything to show off her voice, just sings it and knocks it out the park.
A truly beautiful tingling hairs on the back of your neck song perfectly sung.