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The Singing Saw at Christmastime

album by Julian Koster

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7764427 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Singing Saw at Christmastime is an album released by Julian Koster on October 7, 2008 by Merge. It features covers of popular Christmas songs played by Julian Koster on the singing saw.

Track listing

"The First Noel" - 2:26

"Frosty the Snowman" - 1:36

"Silent Night" - 2:18

"Santa Claus is Coming to Town" - 1:48

"Jingle Bells" - 2:41

"White Christmas" - 2:44

"Silver Bells" - 3:17

"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" - 2:51

"O Come All Ye Faithful" - 1:25

"O Holy Night" - 4:16

"O Little Town of Bethlehem" - 1:44

"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" - 2:07

Reception

The album received mixed-to-positive reviews.

Editorial summary

“The Singing Saw at Christmastime” enters the record as album by Julian Koster. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Singing, Christmastime and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-10-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Singing, Christmastime and album.
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“The Singing Saw at Christmastime” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Singing, Christmastime and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7764427. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Singing Saw at Christmastime” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.