Auld Lang Syne

They might not realize it, but New Year's Eve celebrants honor a world-renowned Scottish poet and lyricist each time they sing along to “Auld Lang Syne” as ...

Home For The Holidays is brought to you by Great West Media Content Studio and in part by the Sponsors on this page. For auld lang syne. Burns wrote the poem in the Scots language, which is a little known language spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in Ireland.

She delivers a powerhouse vocal performance, opening the tune with its usual delicacy. However, the song then explodes into a bouncing club anthem as she takes ...

In Barbra Streisand’s live rendition, she gives a brief history and meaning behind the classic song before going into “Auld Lang Syne” with subtle theatrics. Playing in the background is a number of different sounds and rhythms, but his voice never falters. While not too far off from the original arrangement of “Auld Lang Syne,” it is Ingrid Michaelson’s intriguing indie-pop vocals that add an alluring touch to the classic. The group’s voices mingle like a meeting of old friends and sound warm, complimentary, and heartwarming. Here are 10 of the best “Auld Lang Syne” covers ranked. The Beach Boys’ rendition features the group’s hypnotizing harmonies, delivering a chilling performance a cappella.

Tonight, many people will gather together to celebrate the new year, but whether you're out at a party or waiting for Big Ben to chime from your sofa, ...

The Scottish phrase “auld lang syne” means “old long since” — or days gone by, times that have long since passed but remembered with fondness, Lloyd Newell ...

The old friendships, the relationships, the memories of days gone by — can we hold on to the old as we also embrace the new that lies ahead? Whether Burns composed the poem, adapted it or simply recorded it, “Auld Lang Syne” has been associated with Burns ever since. The poem was soon paired with a traditional folk tune, and today it is sung as a part of New Year’s celebrations around the world. In our rush for the new and different, the latest and greatest, the song asks, will the “old long since” be forgotten? And Burns himself reported that he heard the words “from an old man’s singing” (see “Letters of Robert Burns,” selected by J. This week’s broadcast includes previously recorded music and a message recorded in Scotland in June 2022.

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This choir gives the piece a remarkable treatment, which includes some creative use of dynamics and overtones (especially in the droning bass part). We may not be on good terms with every one of our acquaintances, but Burn’s poem doesn’t leave room to pick and choose who makes the cut. At its heart, “Auld Lang Syne” is imploring us to remember and love our neighbors and share a cup of peace at the start of the new year.

Despite efforts to belt the tune every New Year's Eve, few people seem to actually know the words.

As the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve, voices all over the world will resurrect the centuries-old tradition of singing "Auld Lang Syne" to say goodbye ...

Despite efforts to belt the tune every New Year's Eve, few people seem to actually know the words.

Tonight, many people will gather together to celebrate the new year, but whether you're out at a party or waiting for Big Ben to chime from your…

The title and lyrics of the song actually come from a poem written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788. Burns’s original five-verse poem is about friends catching up over a drink after a long time apart, and its purpose was essentially to get people to toast to the new year. The group first performed Auld Lang Syne in 1929, during a New Year’s Eve broadcast in New York, minutes after midnight and since became the tradition- broadcasting the song into millions of homes every year, until about 1977.