The Twelve Days of Christmas (song) the Faroe Islands, there is a comparable counting Christmas song. The gifts include: one feather, two geese, three sides of meat, four sheep, five cows, six oxen, seven dishes, eight ponies, nine banners, ten barrels, eleven goats, twelve men, thirteen hides, fourteen rounds of cheese and fifteen deer. These were illustrated in 1994 by local cartoonist Óli Petersen (born 1936) on a series of two stamps issued by the Faroese Philatelic Office. "Les Douze Mois" ("The Twelve Months") (also known as "La Perdriole"—"The Partridge") is another similar cumulative verse from France that has been likened to "The Twelve Days of
The Many Moods of Christmas President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred on November 22, 1963, cast a pall over Christmas for many Americans that year. In 1971, chorus/piano octavos were published by Lawson-Gould. Orchestral score and parts are now rented by European American Music. In 1983, two years after Robert Russell Bennett's death, Shaw recorded a somewhat revised digital stereo version of "The Many Moods of Christmas", with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, released that December by Telarc. It was the first of three Christmas albums that Robert Shaw recorded for Telarc. While the first version of "The Many Moods of Christmas" had