When a Child Is Born

“When a Child Is Born” is a popular Christmas song. The original melody was from “Tränen lügen nicht”, a song from 1970 by Michael Holm. The English lyrics were written a few years later by Fred Jay (Friedrich Alex Jacobson IPI number 00015195204, who wrote many hits for Boney M such as Rasputin and Ma Baker). They do not make specific mention of Christmas. Fred Jay’s lyrics have been sung by many artists, first version by Michael Holm in 1974 but most successfully by Johnny Mathis in 1976, whose version was the Christmas number one of that year in the UK. “Soleado” is used in the 1975 Argentinean film Nazareno Cruz y el lobo (The Love of the Wolf) and, credited as “Theme From the Motion Picture ‘The Love of the Wolf'” on Mathis’s album Johnny Mathis Sings the Movie Greats