With less than three days until Christmas, Ryan DeRamos has released his version of the traditional holiday song “O Christmas Tree” (an English-language translation of “O Tannenbaum”).  A mono mix of the song will soon be found within LibriVox‘s 2010 Christmas Carol Collection.  Here is the song in glorious stereo:

O Christmas Tree (2:22)

Ryan says:  “Last year, I recorded an EP’s worth of Christmas songs for LibriVox.  I almost wasn’t going to record a holiday single this year, but a friend convinced me otherwise.  While deciding what song to perform, I wanted to have this A Night at the Opera vibe, and ‘O Christmas Tree’ was just a perfect fit.  I imagined that an alternate-universe Brian May could have arranged ‘O Tannenbaum’ instead of ‘God Save the Queen’ to close that particular Queen album.  In any case:  I chose, learned, re-arranged, and produced the song in the course of two days.  That’s an accomplishment in and of itself.”