Pentatonix - Little Toy Trains - Musician's Reaction

[@badmama1962]

This is my FAVORITE from this album!!! Mitch's voice is stellar on this. It's so soothing 💜 and Matt's "all is calm" oh my!! All the feels!!

[@JacobRestituto]

So good

[@loricharlonne2167]

Mitch’s voice is so pure, so beautiful in this range…makes me so happy. Love the distant train at the end. Perfect lullaby to end the album, giving a feeling of calmness and closure ❤

[@kristipierce4735]

I so want to hear this live. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Mitch and Matt are just perfect.

[@JacobRestituto]

So good!!

[@badmama1962]

I totally agree!! I love it when Mitch and Matt harmonize/sing together. It really makes my heart happy

[@Karen-Campos]

I too was unfamiliar with this song. It’s a beautiful lullaby to close a Christmas Eve as well as a Christmas album! Mitch’s pristine enunciation! *chef’s kiss*

[@JacobRestituto]

forsure!!

[@ruth2141]

Pentatonix's sound has changed over the years. In the early years, it was because they were gradually able to afford better equipment. Also, for the Christmas recordings they have often relaxed some of their rules about not recording anything they can't do live, adding more obvious vocal layering and sound editing and sometimes including instruments and extra singers. And recently they are doing more in the studio, especially for their original songs, which means when they do the song live they may need to add a pre-recorded track, or use a modified arrangement.

[@sharonstrain9831]

It's a lullaby. Perfect way to end the day and the album. Beautiful, as always.

[@carmengibson]

There is a maturing of their voices and their decisions. I love having watched it all unfold! Such a treat! ❤

[@smithpauld1501]

Our Santa really comes from “The Night Before Christmas/A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement C. Moore in 1822

[@JacobRestituto]

🙏🏼

[@erikanelson7981]

This was always one of my favorite Christmas songs. I have the Glen Campbell Christmas album still. Pentatonix's version is just lovely. Brought back so many memories to revisit the song.

[@edsartistry]

Saint Nicholas was an ancient Greek Bishop ( 270- 343 ) who was a patron Saint of children, sailors, merchants among others. He was known in Germany as Kris Kringle and later in the U.S. as Santa Clause. The idea of him being the jolly old man that brings gifts came from the fact that Saint Nicholas the Bishop was know to secretly give gifts to children and the down trodden. This song was just beautiful and does seem to be a great closure song, since it's about going to bed at the end of the day and waiting for Santa who only comes in the middle of the night. Thanks again Jacob. Always enjoy your reactions and opinions.

[@violetf.2025]

No, I'm from Germany and he was never Kris Kringle. Saint Nicholas is "der Heilige Nikolaus" here. And his assistant is "Knecht Ruprecht". Kris Kringle is completely unknown here.

[@shilohauraable]

I think every high school choral group has done this song! It had to bring back memories of their choir nerd days for all of them! ❤

[@JacobRestituto]

Nice!

[@ruth2141]

This may convey a sense of closure because it's basically a lullaby.

[@JacobRestituto]

Wow cool

[@rue5193]

you skipped o holy night and baby please come home from this album, i hope you're still going to react to them cause theyre both gorgeous

[@Gwennedd]

He has reacted to O Holy Night. Not sure about Baby Please Come Home.

[@callalily9842]

​@@Gwenneddweird I can't find his reaction to O Holy Night. I've been waiting for that track. 😔

[@Gwennedd]

@@callalily9842, Oh...I thought he had. It's quite possible I was wrong. I was wrong once in 2015. 😆

[@callalily9842]

@@Gwennedd Omg hahaha.

[@PtxXtp]

Not sure of the order he’s going in. I assumed he was doing the whole album since he’s been doing the older songs too. 12 days of Christmas is first and I’m pretty sure he didn’t do that.

[@Gwennedd]

I loved this carol when I was singing choir with a group here. We'd go to all the nursing homes/ Long Term Care homes and sing for the residents. Lots of fun helping make Christmas special for them. I fell in love with this one especially because I loved the simple melody and words. I'm actually not too sure I like this revision of it...but it might grow on me.

[@pjb3583]

I had never heard this song at all but it’s very, very sweet, both the lyrics and the delivery. Thanks. Peace …

[@melissacoviello2886]

It’s such a sweet song. It’s so beautiful.

[@elainedavis9053]

Oh wow this is so beautiful -- Love this so much!

[@chrisintoronto7137]

The drone makes it sound so medieval!

[@JacobRestituto]

Legit

[@Try2sayit]

Santa Claus-otherwise known as Saint Nicholas or Kris Kringle-has a long history steeped in Christmas traditions. Today, he is thought of mainly as the jolly man in red who brings toys to good girls and boys on Christmas Eve, but his story stretches all the way back to the 3rd century, when Saint Nicholas walked the earth and became the patron saint of children.

[@JacobRestituto]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@monimoni305]

Santa in the red suit came from a Coca-Cola commercial in the 1970's

[@kristinewalberg2938]

As someone born in 1961, I couldn't help but giggle a little at the thought of Santa as we know him first appearing in the distant, almost unknowable past of the 1970s. Then I remember how long ago that really was, and how much the world has changed. I'm pretty sure the Coca Cola Santa first appeared in 1931, in a series of ads run in The Saturday Evening Post. I knew this song from the Glen Campbell version on one of my mom's old Christmas compilation LPs, but I particularly love the sweetness and sense of peace in this version, and the way it showcases Mitch's voice and the group's harmonies so beautifully. What a perfect end to the album!

[@annmc3878]

Modern America’s Saint Claus’s image of the big belly guy, believe it or not is based on an early Coca Cola ad. There is lots of other descriptions and sources from different cultures.

[@mikebruno5040]

Hey Jacob, you should react to the Philadelphia Eagles Christmas album that came out last year! It’s pretty good! Thanks

[@JacobRestituto]

Thank you!

[@kathyastrom1315]

Santa Claus was early colonial America, from the Dutch Sinterklaas I believe in New York.

[@JacobRestituto]

Interesting