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So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Beam Me Up Scotty
Date: December 05, 2019 09:33AM
Christmas music is everywhere right now, radio & PBS shows among the offerings. Rather then 'Bah Humbug!' the Xmas tunes in my typical cynical fashion (it's not just a hobby for me but an act of defiance) I thought I'd post this topic to bring out the 'joy & harmony' that this season is supposed to bring out. So take a moment from clicking the 'Buy Now' button and post your favorite, a link to the music would be helpful.

I'm choosing a rather sappy schmaltzy tune:
Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling

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Now where is my egg nog and brandy?...

D & C
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: December 05, 2019 09:42AM
.......don't like most of the 'standards'.......and like the one you can 'rock' to......


.....this one has been played a lot this year (on holiday movies)....

Up On A House Top - Gene Autry - YouTube.............?!

and love Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me....................?!


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: neophyte
Date: December 05, 2019 09:51AM
You Tube
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Spiff
Date: December 05, 2019 09:56AM
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Kraniac
Date: December 05, 2019 09:57AM
truthfully, the whole thing gives me the creeps...and i am not a humbug. I am a very spiritual person also..but i'd rather it be just a big ol end of year Smash with good food and rock and roll or whatever makes your jelly move.. with no Christmas or Hanukkah or any of the other 'this is my version of god, there is no other' bs..Fractured fairy tales they are..keep them in your own bag..it's caused nothing but trouble on this earth, and i can prove that.
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Bernie
Date: December 05, 2019 10:03AM
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy


Paul McCartney - Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here - Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits

Mannheim Steamroller - Carol of the Bells - A Fresh Aire Christmas



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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: December 05, 2019 10:17AM
Carol of the Bells light

Carol of the Bells heavy



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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: December 05, 2019 10:27AM
anything BUT the McCartney tune.... I don't know what it is about that song, but I feel physically ill when I hear that one.
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: pinion
Date: December 05, 2019 10:27AM
Not just a song but I grew up with this record and found it last year. Managed to rip it off youtube and I've listened to it at least a dozen times already...

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: steve...
Date: December 05, 2019 11:06AM
There are so many good ones.

Pandora has a Rocking Holidays Radio station that's pretty good this time of the year.




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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: ztirffritz
Date: December 05, 2019 11:22AM
I pretty much just listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack on repeat....Vince Guaraldi's style is so unique. You hear the trio on just about any recording and immediately can identify them. There aren't too many musical acts that can cultivate that unique style that doesn't get stale with time.


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: flightdelayedagain
Date: December 05, 2019 11:23AM
Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas

Just found this version with Ian Anderson

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: December 05, 2019 11:27AM
Carol of the Bells light

Carol of the Bells heavy


I like Christmas music, but don't have any favorites except Carol of the Bells.

I've had that on every iPod and 'Phone I've had, and listen to it often, year long.

It's never struck me as a Christmas song, just that as a kid, I only got to hear it at Christmas.

People say 'Isn't that a Christmas song?!

Nope. It's not just for Christmas anymore.





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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Thrift Store Scott
Date: December 05, 2019 11:29AM
I like the more "Blues-y" Christmas songs, so...

"Blue Christmas"- Elvis Presley

"Please Come Home For Christmas (Bells Will Be Ringing)"- The Eagles or the original version by Charles Brown from 1961

"Pretty Paper"- Willie Nelson

"Santa Claus Is Back In Town"- Elvis Presley or the cover by Dwight Yoakum

"I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm"- Dean Martin


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Steve G.
Date: December 05, 2019 12:01PM

'Panda Veal For Christmas' by The Four Xi's.
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Spiff
Date: December 05, 2019 12:09PM
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flightdelayedagain
Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas

Just found this version with Ian Anderson

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Nice!!!
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: davester
Date: December 05, 2019 12:12PM
Blue Christmas - Elvis

Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano

The Hannukah Song - Adam Sandler


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: December 05, 2019 12:18PM
Carol of the Bells

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RAMd®d

Nope. It's not just for Christmas anymore.

Of course you can listen to it whenever you want, but..."It is now strongly associated with Christmas because of its new lyrics, which reference bells, caroling, and the line 'merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas'"
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: testcase
Date: December 05, 2019 12:26PM
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: bazookaman
Date: December 05, 2019 12:32PM
The Season's Upon Us


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Rick-o
Date: December 05, 2019 01:08PM
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ztirffritz
I pretty much just listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack on repeat....Vince Guaraldi's style is so unique. You hear the trio on just about any recording and immediately can identify them. There aren't too many musical acts that can cultivate that unique style that doesn't get stale with time.

One of my all time favorite albums! thumbs up

O Holy Night is pretty swell when sung by someone with a big voice. I'm thinking like Pavarotti.

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: vision63
Date: December 05, 2019 01:14PM
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Rick-o
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ztirffritz
I pretty much just listen to the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack on repeat....Vince Guaraldi's style is so unique. You hear the trio on just about any recording and immediately can identify them. There aren't too many musical acts that can cultivate that unique style that doesn't get stale with time.

One of my all time favorite albums! thumbs up

O Holy Night is pretty swell when sung by someone with a big voice. I'm thinking like Pavarotti.

[www.youtube.com]

O Holy Night is my favorite too
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Bill in NC
Date: December 05, 2019 01:15PM
Christmas Wrapping
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: voodoopenguin
Date: December 05, 2019 01:24PM
Won't choose any particular song but I have always quite liked this one. Over here we had a DJ on a London radio station that loved Bruce and had got a copy of this recording soon after the show at C.W. Post College, Greenvale, NY in December 1975 and kept playing it. It was not officially released until 1982.

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Ombligo
Date: December 05, 2019 01:26PM
o Tannenbaum and Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
There is just something about carols in German that get to me - and I don't speak German.

however, the greatest piece must be Handel's Messiah, the complete work - not just the hallelujah chorus. It is incredibly moving.


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: December 05, 2019 01:27PM
....so you can......Handel.....the truth......????


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Don C
Date: December 05, 2019 01:31PM
I rather like "One more sleep 'til Christmas" from the Muppet Christmas Carol movie.

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Acer
Date: December 05, 2019 01:51PM
What, no love for the hippo? I was incredibly fortunate to have never heard the hippo song for the first time until I was in my forties, along with my young children who also heard it for the first time with me at a holiday event. Now it's shared family memory. OK, still a little irritating if heard more than once in a great while, though.

But for a true favorite, I'd have to go with the Messiah as well, particularly Part One at Christmas with myself in the choir, but I love to sing or hear the whole thing when I have the chance. In the original Klingon, of course.
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: December 05, 2019 01:54PM
"It is now strongly associated with Christmas because of its new lyrics, which reference bells, caroling, and the line 'merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas'"


Not that it was ever disputed, but retrofitting the song doesn't change my 'it's not just for Christmas any more'.

Now if the author could recall all the original versions and just leave v2.0 to the unwashed masses, then that might mean something.

So I will continue to ignore any versions with vocals added.

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: jdc
Date: December 05, 2019 01:56PM
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Christmas Wrapping

Took long enough. smiley-score010

Pandora "Swingin Christmas" is pretty good too.




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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Thrift Store Scott
Date: December 05, 2019 02:23PM
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Cheers, Mate! I seriously considered adding that one to my earlier list but it didn't fit with the "Blues-y" theme.

Also:

"Frosty The Snowman"- The Ronettes

"Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer"- Gene Autry


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Buzz
Date: December 05, 2019 02:25PM
While we were still innocent...
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: rz
Date: December 05, 2019 02:32PM
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Christmas Wrapping

Agreed. Also agree that McCartney's tune is one of the worst.

Absolute worst for me, though, is the Jackson 5 version of "Up on the Housetop". My wife insists on listening to one of the XM Christmas stations when we go up north for Christmas. One year, they must have played that one every half hour. After hearing it for like the bazillionth time, I made her change the station whenever it came on.
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: vision63
Date: December 05, 2019 02:46PM
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Christmas Wrapping

Agreed. Also agree that McCartney's tune is one of the worst.

Absolute worst for me, though, is the Jackson 5 version of "Up on the Housetop". My wife insists on listening to one of the XM Christmas stations when we go up north for Christmas. One year, they must have played that one every half hour. After hearing it for like the bazillionth time, I made her change the station whenever it came on.

Then she made you turn it back. nono smiley
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: tronnei
Date: December 05, 2019 02:55PM
Nuttin' For Christmas, Joe Ward version. My long-departed grandfather gleefully played this every year for me and my sister to remind us to be good, or else. My children got the same treatment.

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Microman
Date: December 05, 2019 03:11PM
Chestnuts. Roasting on an open fire

And O holy night



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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: mrbigstuff
Date: December 05, 2019 03:23PM
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Christmas Wrapping

Took long enough. smiley-score010

Pandora "Swingin Christmas" is pretty good too.

yes! I couldn't recall this when I first saw the topic. but this and Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC are my two faves. what can I say? I'm an Xer through and through.
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: msglee
Date: December 05, 2019 03:46PM
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Ammo
Date: December 05, 2019 04:44PM
A Cradle in Bethlehem by Nat King Cole. Very sweet traditional song. It’s hard to beat Nat’s voice.

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For those who like contemporary versions of traditional Christmas music, I recommend 2 Windham Hill CDs: The Carols of Christmas and Guitars and Other Stringed Instruments.

Sample from The Carols of Christmas: Do You Hear What I Hear?

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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: srf1957
Date: December 05, 2019 04:52PM
I like this version . I am Santa Claus
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: DeusxMac
Date: December 05, 2019 05:42PM
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Chestnuts. Roasting on an open fire

That’s “The Christmas Song”, composed and co-written by The Velvet Fog.
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Markintosh
Date: December 05, 2019 08:07PM
If I chose one song, it would have to be Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" or Brenda Lee's "Rocking Around The Christmas Tree".

But when it comes to Christmas music, it's always been the 1959 album "Christmas With Coniff". MrsM and I discovered while dating that both of our families always seemed to have a love for this album. I suspect that at some time it must have been a top seller in the Columbia House Record Club.


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Grateful11
Date: December 05, 2019 10:10PM
Carol of the Bells


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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: Sam3
Date: December 06, 2019 07:37AM
Walking in the Air, from "The Snowman":
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Carol of the Bells, the above mentioned TSO version as well as the quieter, but yet still intense George Winston's:
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Re: So What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Posted by: mrlynn
Date: December 06, 2019 10:50AM
The Stanley Brothers, "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem":

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A few years ago I posted a brief history of ‘Beautiful Star of Bethlehem’ here:

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