Oíche Chiún (Silent Night)
~ Recording by Enya
Annotation
traditional, arranged by Enya & Nicky Ryan—in releases, typically printed as "tr. arr. Enya & Nicky Ryan", eg: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=646803
Annotation last modified on 2015-11-29 18:24 UTC.
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.2 | Ocíhe Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Evening Falls | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Ocíhe Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Evening Falls | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Ocíhe Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Evening Falls | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún | 3:50 | Enya | Evening Falls ... | Enya | Single |
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| 1.6 | Oíche Chiún | 3:47 | Enya | 6 Tracks | Enya | EP |
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| 1.6 | Oíche Chiún | 3:47 | Enya | 6 Tracks | Enya | EP |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | 20P2-2725 |
| 1.2 | Ocíhe Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Evening Falls | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | How Can I Keep From Singing? | Enya | Single |
| Warner Music UK (formerly Warner Records Ltd., a branch of WEA International) | YZ635CD 9031-76093-2 |
| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | How Can I Keep From Singing? | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún | 3:47 | Enya | How Can I Keep From Singing? | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún | 3:47 | Enya | How Can I Keep From Singing? | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | How Can I Keep From Singing? | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún | 3:47 | Enya | How Can I Keep From Singing? | Enya | Single |
| wea (Japanese imprint of WEA MUSIC K.K., 1990-1994) | WMD5-4090 |
| 1.1 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | Enya | Single |
| Reprise Records | 9 40660-2 |
| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | The Celts (Single) | Enya | Single |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | YZ705CD |
| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | The Celts | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | The Celts | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | The Celts | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | The Celts (limited edition) | Enya | Single |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | 4509-91166-2, YZ705CDX |
| 1.18 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | Cool Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| WEA International (imprint of WEA International Inc., not likely used since ca. 1990) | 9548 32485 2 |
| 1.1 | Oíche Chiún | 3:47 | Enya | The Christmas EP | Enya | EP + Compilation |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | CD 98393 |
| 1.17 | Oiche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Absolute Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EVA Records (Sweden) | EVACD 5021 |
| 1.4 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Absolute More Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EVA Records ANS (Norwegian record company, not for release label use), The Record Collection | EVACD 107 |
| 1.5 | Oiche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Christmas Through Your Eyes | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.8 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | A Very Special Christmas 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| A&M Records | 31454 0764 2 |
| 1.3 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Only If… | Enya | Single |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | 3984 21009 2, WEA143CD |
| 1.3 | Oíche Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Only If... | Enya | Single |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | WPCR-1801 |
| 1.3 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Only If… | Enya | Single |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | 3984 21009 2, WEA143CD |
| 2.12 | Oiche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | Absolute Christmas 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EVA Records (Denmark) | 8444322 |
| 2.12 | Silent Night | 3:48 | Enya | Classic Rock: Cool Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | TL 607/1 |
| 1.3 | Oíche Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Only If... | Enya | Single |
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| 1.3 | Oíche Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Only If... | Enya | Single |
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| 1.3 | Oíche Chiún | 3:46 | Enya | Only If... | Enya | Single |
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| 2.19 | Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Simply the Best Christmas | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Global Television, Warner.ESP | 9548-36007-2 |
| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | The Celts | Enya | Single |
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| 1.1 | Oiche Chiun | 3:46 | Enya | Christmas With the Stars | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Erato | |
| 1.14 | Silent Night | 3:45 | Enya | Across the Bridge of Hope | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| White Records Limited | White 1CD |
| 1.4 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Bild-Weihnachten | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Polystar (Germany) | 565 264 2 |
| 1.1 | Oíche Chiún | 3:47 | Enya | The Christmas EP | Enya | EP + Compilation |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Only Time / Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | Enya | Single |
| Reprise Records | 9 42420-2 |
| 1.2 | Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Only Time (remix) | Enya | Single |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | 0927431052 |
| 1.2 | Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Only Time (remix) | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Only Time (remix) | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Only Time (remix) | Enya | Single |
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| 1.2 | Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Only Time (remix) | Enya | Single |
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| 4.14 | Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night) | 3:48 | Enya | Only Time: The Collection | Enya | Album + Compilation |
| wea (has logo with just “wea” on it) | 2-49211 |
| 1.6 | Oíche Chiúm (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Sounds of the Season: The Enya Collection | Enya | EP |
| Rhino Custom Products (retail, mail order and premium use compilations for WMG catalog), NBC (American TV network) | R2CD-74115 |
| 1.8 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | A Very Special Christmas 3 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| A&M Records | |
| 1.1 | Oíche Chiúin (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Christmas Secrets | Enya | Album + Compilation |
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| 1.11 | Silent Night | 3:48 | Enya | Christmas Joy 2002 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation | |||
| Promotion | |||||||||
| 1.11 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:45 | Enya | Warner Music Canada: Christmas 2000, Vol. 441 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Music Canada (imprint of Warner Music Canada Co.) | PROC 441 |
| 1.1 | Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) | 3:47 | Enya | Holiday Sampler | Enya | Other |
| PRO-CDR-100795 | |
| Bootleg | |||||||||
| 1.16 | Silent Night (Gaelic version) | 3:45 | Enya | Book of Days | Enya | Album + Compilation |
| wea (fake label, for bootlegs/counterfeits/pirated releases only) | 02-122 |
| 2.21 | Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) (6 Tracks EP) | 3:49 | Enya | Dark Sky Island (Deluxe / Bonus CD: B-Sides & Rarities) | Enya | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (bootleg version of the real Warner Bros. Records label) | 4607147916711 |
| 2.14 | Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) (6 Tracks EP) | 3:45 | Enya | Limited Edition 7 CD Set | Enya | Album + Compilation |
| Chinese Dragon Music | ECCD-RME1403 |
| 1.14 | Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) (6 Tracks EP) | 3:47 | Enya | Watermark | Enya | Album |
| Chinese Dragon Music | ECCD-RME1402 |
| 1.12 | Silent Night | 3:47 | Enya | Caribbean Blue | Enya | Album + Compilation | |||
| (unknown) | |||||||||
| 1.17 | Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) | 3:46 | Enya | Paint the Sky With Stars | Enya | Album + Compilation |
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Relationships
| recording engineer and producer: | Nicky Ryan |
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| engineer: | Daniel Polley |
| co-producer: | Enya (Irish singer-songwriter) |
| mixer: | Enya (Irish singer-songwriter) Nicky Ryan |
| instruments and vocals: | Enya (Irish singer-songwriter) |
| arranger: | Enya (Irish singer-songwriter) Nicky Ryan |
| phonographic copyright (℗) by: | Warner Music UK Ltd. (not for release label use!) (from 1988 to present) |
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| recorded at: | Aigle Studios in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Leinster, Ireland |
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| recording of: | Oíche Chiúin (Enya’s Irish version of “Silent Night”) Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation) (cover) |
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Related works
Oíche Chiúin (Enya’s Irish version of “Silent Night”)
| lyricist: | Josef Mohr (composer/author) |
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| composer: | Franz Xaver Gruber (composer/author) |
| arranger: | Enya (Irish singer-songwriter) Nicky Ryan |
| translator: | Enya (Irish singer-songwriter) |
| publisher: | EMI Blackwood Music Inc. EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated) EMI Songs Ltd. イーエムアイ音楽出版 (EMI Music Publishing Japan) (until 2021-06-30) ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., EMI Overseas Division, sub‐publisher for non‐Japanese works) (from 2021-07-01 to present) |
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| translated version of: | Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht |
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Silent Night (Christmas carol, English translation)
| lyricist: | Josef Mohr (composer/author) (in 1816) |
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| composer: | Franz Xaver Gruber (composer/author) (in 1818) |
| translator: | John Freeman Young (in 1859) |
| referred to in medleys: | Jingle Bells Medley (Psalty’s Christmas Calamity) Christmas Medley: Holy Night / Snow Falls Over the Ground / Hear Ye the Message (Boney M. medley) (order: 2) Medley: The First Noël / Silent Night / O Holy Night (order: 2) Kuklapolitan Christmas Carol Medley (order: 3) Megamix 2 (It Must Be Christmas) (order: 4) Mix Two (Greatest Ever Christmas Party Megamix) (order: 4) What Child Is This? / O Come, O Come Emmanuel / The First Noel / Silent Night, Holy Night (order: 4) A Christmas Festival (order: 7) Mix 3 (The Best Xmas Party Ever!) (order: 8) Noëls pour cordes (Christmas Carols for Strings) (order: 9) |
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| later parody versions: | It’s a Fanboy Christmas Luna’s Silent Night Sensitive Night (Community, "Comparative Religion") Silent Night (Aqua Teen Hunger Force version) Silent Night |
| later versions: | Silent Night (arr. Lindner) Silent Night (Elvis Presley version) Silent Night |
| translated version of: | Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht |
| is the basis for: | Holy Night On an Old Christmas Song (Silent Night, Holy Night) Silent Night (Damien Rice song) Silent Night Silent Night Silent Night (version written for Chanticleer and Dawn Upshaw) Squiddly Night (Homestuck Gaiden) |
| has revision: | 7 O’Clock News/Silent Night |
| arrangements: | Silent Night (arr. Rose) Silent Night (arr. Rutter) Silent Night (arr. Johnson, orch. Volpi) Silent Night (arr. Stephen Cleobury) Silent Night (arr. Aly and AJ) Silent Night (arr. Scott Kritzer) Silent Night (arr. Willcocks) Silent Night (arr. Walker) Silent Night (arr. Rathbone) Silent Night Silent Night (arr. Van) Silent Night (arr. Gordon Jenkins) Silent Night (arr. David Foster) Silent Night (arr. Pembroke College Girls' Choir) Silent Night (arr. Feller) Silent Night (arr. Darlington) Silent Night (arr. Reynolds) Silent Night (Sarah McLachlan arrangement) Silent Night (arr. Clarence) Silent Night (arr. Chris Walden) Silent Night (arr. Siegel / Linse) Silent Night (arr. Berry & Howard) Silent Night (arr. Benson) Silent Night (Christian Lee Hutson version) Silent Night (arr. Lisle Mitnik) Silent Night (arr. J. Paterson) Silent Night (lo‐fi arrangement) Silent Night (arr. Bowers-Broadbent) Silent Night (arr. David Drury) Silent Night (arr. Blatchly) Silent Night, Holy Night (arranged by Malcolm Sargent) Sleep in Heavenly Peace (Silent Night) (arr. Ray Ellis) Three More Carols: No. 2. Silent Night |
| lyrics quoted in: | Maybe This Year |
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