Dylan Thomas, 1952: A Child's Christmas in Wales, A Story - Recorded at Steinway Hall, NY

[@alittlegreenjean]

thank you. i listen and read this several times a year. it is my christmas tradition.

[@davidhertzberg]

Thank you for your note, david

[@amychalker]

Me too:)

[@outeast999]

You have Christmas several times a year?!

[@lawrencegbailey5212]

@@outeast999 July!!!!

[@ElegantPaws01]

This is also a family tradition for decades upon decades. Still have the vinyl. So happy to know it has been digitized. Merry Christmas to the uploaded and those whose hearts are warmed by Welsh Dylan's memories of Christmas.

[@jillinthegreen2]

Listening to this on a hot day in sussex in lockdown. But I am not here. I am in Wales at Christmas with wonderful Dylan.

[@cecemeyers6028]

Truly a surreal moment t to be sure

[@marmalou100]

It isn’t Christmas until I listen to this. The words warm my soul.

[@soylentteal]

To quote Mason Williams: “Dylan Thomas has come and gone; his blood turned to words.”

[@cecemeyers6028]

I honor the first Snow Day we have in our little village in the PNW (US). This recording for me goes all the way back to 1979 and an older teacher who came on the scene for some reason right in mid semester. Likely out of some sense of desperation, she introduced this to some of her classes. She trusted me with her LP to take it home and record 3 cassettes. I was honored and made one for myself. So popular it was that a sort of stage production of it was made and it was a huge success with only a cast of 9 students who stepped forward to participate. Thanks to that old(er) teacher who came into our young lives later in her career. It was likely the greatest blessing from my high school years.

[@pathoban1986]

Such a wonderful piece. I listen to this every Christmas and it still startles and surprises and resonates. Thomas was a genius.

[@katperson1955]

My Mom used to read this to us when we were younger. This and A A Milne poems are some of my fondest childhood memories.

[@judiththomas9995]

It was my father who passed on the love of this wonderful genius. Such memories!

[@jeanm9654]

My mother played this every Christmas Eve. Friends would come by to listen.

[@timphares3061]

Mine too.

[@sitarnut]

Lovely, good on Mum. Wish I could have been there.

[@lukevokey8339]

Oh if life could be like this again.....wonderful

[@energybengt]

It is, if we can see it ❤😊

[@narvnamm]

My father read this every year. So glad to hear this. I am sorry we never recorded my father, he loved it so.

[@thabompakanyane1429]

Listening to Dylan Thomas reading his own works is mesmerising, to say the least. Listening to him read Fern Hill has always been my evermore.

[@judiththomas9995]

A precious memory of Xmas with my grandparents in South Wales when I was little - is all within this glorious, wonderful cameo. Thank you.

[@dancelli714]

I play this one every Christmas.

[@bethnoble2028]

I'm 5000 miles from home at Christmas, and the one thing I was so sad about missing was my mum reading this. Thank you for putting this on here and letting me continue the tradition!

[@davidhertzberg]

Thank you for your note, and happy holidays, David

[@Jewels120958]

Memories of Christmas Eve's gone by, when my Stepfather would read this to an ever growing captive audience, of children, stepchildren, and grandchildren.....year after year. We've never said the word "snowman" the same way since. I wish I could have my whole family together again, listening to my stepfather read "A Child's Christmas in Wales". I believe he did Dylan Thomas proud.

[@davidconnell1959]

Here every year we read this to each other every year in the car of a Boxing Day on the road and thought of memories not our own but owned by all.

[@christopherdafoe6081]

This carries me back through so many happy years.

[@meredith218461]

There is music in that cultured mellifluous Welsh accent.

[@jonathanclemens4660]

I listen to this every Christmas. Atmospheric, poetic... a classic. Thanks!

[@BernieMadoff-qv5in]

Thank you Norm.

[@Buf451]

I still have and love this recording. Purchased it at Sam Goody's on 42nd St. in 1965.

[@freedpeeb]

Christmas is not complete without this reading. Thank you.

[@jsilence418]

Pure music and emotion thank you very much .

[@emears955]

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[@richardhealy5720]

I was in my mother's womb, a few miles north on this same day (02/22/1952), and could hear this being spoken thru my spirit. I remember hearing the speaker saying the words "Jim", because my older brothers name was the same. The word "fireman" kept echoing also, and it was snowing. I asked the Spirit that sang to me, what the light tinkling sound was, and he spoke the word: "snow". Chilly, humid, the sound of the man speaking in a voice I will always remember. "Tin soldiers".

[@Olhamo]

what a beautiful articulation. to hear snow like that, from a higher frequency, not yet born into the world, this speaks to me, feels real. thank you for sharing that. Merry Christmas!

[@miamapia]

Dylan Thomas reading his own work this is wonderful

[@fineco100]

My LP is so scratched after so many years, what a pleasure to hear this again purely. So sad a life; so great a poet.

[@PoetAndPriest]

Wow. Awesome. I love this story One sentence, 86 words: Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed. And I had a vest like that from an aunt like that.

[@sonofsound]

Thanks for posting, my dad would always play this around the holidays. Cheers and love of God.

[@timbromilow7769]

Thanks. Always love to hear Thomas a Christmas.

[@stevendouglas6594]

The 1993 BBc production of this is outstanding---I watch it every year.

[@guenterstueven8088]

A literary painting of the past ! Exceptional.

[@hoarj]

Yes, thanks. This brings back such memories for me.

[@cgtravers]

The best of our annual Christmas traditions is listening to this unsurpassed piece.

[@bengtjericho1395]

This recording came into my own personal history of Christmas when my father used to record on cassette, the weekend broadcasts by Max Ferguson on CBC Radio in the early 80's. It's become a huge part of my tradition. Delightful. I like the comment about the static sounding like a fireplace, its true! Thank you for sharing here.

[@eolaspellor1718]

Bengt Jericho oh, Max Ferguson brings back memories, too

[@BrianEllischannel]

My birth year - what incredible visions he paints!

[@DeaconDKPierce]

Love this! What a treasure!

[@EricPalladiniJr]

Thanks for this. Thomas's voice makes it even more compelling.

[@bazildean2324]

I adore this and love listening to Dylan Thomas speak his piece. I used to have this lp but it escaped me sometime in the eighties. Thank you!

[@beingatliberty]

one of the greatest memorial orations of chlldhood history

[@Revsusu1]

Thank you for sharing this. One of my all time favorites to listen to at Christmas. Actually anytime

[@ritaggn]

Thank you for posting this. What a pleasure to listen to this.

[@jdncoke2]

only just read this work although i have already read his poems, really sweet and warm story and delightful lyrically and musically. i can imagine reading this around a fire for children, maybe one day i will. thanks for the upload and best wishes :)

[@sidilicious11]

Always a brilliant Christmas treat to listen to this. Merry Chriatmas!

[@mmbmbmbmb]

Having slight difficulty understanding, due to lack of sufficient English, it was well worth the effort to listen all the way to the end. Nevertheless still catching the basic tenor (Grundtenor), and definitely the 'mood' of the story told. Thank you for this 'adventure'.

[@dax9431]

It's a MUST listen to tradition for me!

[@jondowd7577]

Splendid

[@davidharrison6615]

i loved this when i was a kid . typical attitude of a child towards such a thing.

[@stefanjones2637]

My parents had the LP, and played it on many Christmasses. It is like "A Christmas Story" for an older generation, but while I adore Jean Shepherd, Dylan Thomas' voice is so wonderful it is painful. PBS ran a very nice live-action dramatization which used this recording as the narration.

[@patrickmorgan4006]

Might you be thinking of this? It was Denholm Elliot narrating. I know it ran on PBS here in America. kzbin.info/www/bejne/faOvdZR3fJydldE

[@YourBrilliantLife]

Bless you for posting this. My cassette tape had given up the ghost. Happy Christmas.

[@georgemaines2182]

With the live broadcast of Advent Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge, this recording makes my Christmas. Both were annual traditions for years on WQLN public radio in Atlanta.

[@favier167]

sweet...what a great poet...

[@stibie1]

My all time favorite reading of this classic tale given the print version in 1963!

[@karenkeith6375]

Thank you for that Whit. It made my day.

[@steveschroth8847]

This is amazing. Thank you.

[@harmoniabalanza]

A great poet who died too young!

[@soylentteal]

Alcohol is a cruel master.

[@doyasteve]

Many thanks for sharing this.

[@davidhertzberg]

My pleasure, thank you for your note.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Da iawn Dylan bach - nadolig llawen, eto, i ti. 👍❄️🤍😎

[@phyllispetras2181]

I also listen to Capote reading his Christmas Memory!

[@classic20rock00]

The background static of the radio has a faint resemblance to a crackling fireplace . . .

[@hippojuice23]

classic20rock00 I think what you're hearing is the snap and pop of an LP record!

[@Domingo95x]

thats vinyl cracks my friend

[@beth_levin_piano]

Thank you!

[@Hilde1922]

thank you

[@davidhertzberg]

My pleasure, happy holidays, david

[@davidhertzberg]

Dylan Thomas, 1952: A Child's Christmas in Wales, A Story - Recorded at Steinway Hall, NY

[@trotter9583]

4:28 she said the right thing always; would you care for something to read!?! (big chuckle)

[@blindmantoo]

the tradition continues.

[@timphares3061]

Traditional for Christmas Eve in my family since I was a boy.

[@thetomwestshow]

wonderful :)

[@PMMM9]

Perfect

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

we tried to snowball the catssss but the wise cats never appeared.

[@revpgesqredux]

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[@clarekuehn4372]

Wonderful! And thanks for the visuals. It would be nice to have the right-hand reverse side notes enlarged, with the other record details legible. They are shown in a full-picture back side picture, at the last part of the video, but are completely illegible. Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@ferociousgumby]

Like a pure and grandfather moss

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

Oh easy for Leonardo.

[@TheSuperkooz]

This is to christmas what Alice’s Restaurant is to thanksgiving.

[@legendofschmoe]

Remarkable.

[@robertmacdonaldbespokekilt3063]

'Christmas' to me when I was a sma' boy was "listening to 'that Welshman on the wireless'," as my Gran once put it:

[@brendangallagher8087]

Dylan Thomas and laurie Lee unique amongst poets in that they read theie poems better than professonal actors

[@AmyAlways]

sweet :)

[@julievanberkel3058]

Very evocative. I think John Sargent has a look of Dylan Thomas.

[@gotnotruck]

MY MOTHER MET DYLAN THOMAS IN A BAR IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA. A WEEK OR SO HE DIED FROM TOO MUCH BOOZE.

[@penelopeblissdelpy]

Classic

[@Domingo95x]

this is how it is done, kids.

[@robbdavies7749]

" would you like something to read while you wait "

[@paulasalazar2093]

i have a test on this. wish me luck!

[@cb108]

The text: www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-child-s-christmas-in-wales/

[@doylee555]

placky . good skills

[@cynthiamarston2208]

throwing snowballs at cats.....little crappers

[@radiohwy3328]

"WARNING: It is expressly forbidden to copy or reproduce this recording or any portion thereof in any manner or form, whether for profit, amateur, institutional use. Permission for broadcast, telecast or public performance use must be obtained in advance in writing. Caedmon Records, inc. 505 Eighth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10018"

[@jackspicerisland]

😂