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invited viewers to vote for their favourite carols throughout 2005. Tens of thousands of votes were cast, and the
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was hastily assembling a selection for radio, and included the song to replace a missing recording. It gained popularity and was included in the 1969 songbook
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in 1964. Perry became one of the UK's leading contemporary hymn writers, but the
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