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beeswing
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Holiday Songs
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Dec 13 14:56 UTC 2000 |
What are some of your favorite Christmas songs? (Not to exclude those
who do not do Christmas for whatever reason, but you know...)
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beeswing
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response 1 of 51:
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Dec 13 14:57 UTC 2000 |
There is an excellent, boppy version of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
by the Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan. I downloaded it off Napster
last night and I love it!
Also lots of Mannheim Steamroller.
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ashke
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response 2 of 51:
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Dec 13 15:24 UTC 2000 |
"Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives is one of my favorites. I also
love The Entirety of the Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guralidi. "Grandma
got run over by a reindeer" has a special place in my heart....
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flem
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response 3 of 51:
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Dec 13 17:02 UTC 2000 |
Ditto GRandma got run over by a reindeer. I'm also big into old carols, you
know, the ones with all the voice parts, that you never hear in shopping
malls, cause they have religious lyrics.
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ashke
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response 4 of 51:
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Dec 13 18:06 UTC 2000 |
Ahh... Handel's Messiah?
I'm also fond of "Gabriel's Message" by sting, the traditional hymn sung by
him. Very nice on the ears.
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gelinas
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response 5 of 51:
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Dec 13 18:31 UTC 2000 |
Lessee, I like the harmonies of "Carol of the Bells". "God Rest Ye Merry
Gentlemen" and "Good King Wenscelaus", "Angels We Have Heard on High",
"Hark, the Herald Angels Sing", "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "The
First Noel" are all favorites. "White Christmas," too.
"Jingle Bells" and "Let It Snow" are winter songs, not Christmas songs,
like "Sleigh Ride."
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micklpkl
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response 6 of 51:
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Dec 13 19:02 UTC 2000 |
My time-honoured favourite is not really a Christmas "song," although I
remember it from a LP called "A Child's First Christmas."
Red Skelton, "I Am a Little Christmas Tree"
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beeswing
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response 7 of 51:
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Dec 13 19:08 UTC 2000 |
I've forgotten... what is the song that has the chorus "o night divine"?
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micklpkl
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response 8 of 51:
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Dec 13 20:15 UTC 2000 |
re: #7 --- "O, Holy Night" IIRC
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mooncat
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response 9 of 51:
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Dec 13 20:49 UTC 2000 |
I always rather liked "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
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ashke
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response 10 of 51:
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Dec 13 20:56 UTC 2000 |
Umm...."Go Tell It On The Mountain" by Jim Nabors... don't hate me, I was
young
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eeyore
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response 11 of 51:
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Dec 13 22:11 UTC 2000 |
Forever and Always.,....John Denver and the Muppets. :)
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ric
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response 12 of 51:
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Dec 13 22:15 UTC 2000 |
"Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt (and only by Eartha Kitt)
"Blue Christmas" by Elvis (and only by Elvis)
"The Twelve Pains Of Christmas" by unknown (to me at least)
"Sleigh Ride" by The Boston Pops with Arthur Fielder (NOT John Williams)
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happyboy
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response 13 of 51:
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Dec 13 22:19 UTC 2000 |
On Christmas by Dog Latin
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hematite
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response 14 of 51:
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Dec 13 22:27 UTC 2000 |
We have a tape of Christmas songs that we used to always listen to when
we travelled, and my two favourite were
Jingle Bells by Streisand, and a version of Go Tell It on the Mountain
sung by a very deep bass, and I have no clue who it was.
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ashke
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response 15 of 51:
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Dec 14 00:29 UTC 2000 |
"the Twelve days of christmas" by the McKenzie brothers
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scott
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response 16 of 51:
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Dec 14 00:39 UTC 2000 |
"On the first day of Christmas, my brother gave to me...
A beer.............in a tree"
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ashke
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response 17 of 51:
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Dec 14 01:23 UTC 2000 |
"five golden tooks!!"
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abc
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response 18 of 51:
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Dec 14 02:15 UTC 2000 |
Thanks to http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ai251/xcarol.html and
http://rememberjosie.org/carols/
I've been reading lyrics and listening to Christmas songs that I knew by words
or music, but of which I didn't know the title. The joys of the Internet.
Silent Night and O Come, All Ye Faithful often get stuck in my head.
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micklpkl
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response 19 of 51:
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Dec 14 04:03 UTC 2000 |
Speaking of joys of the Internet, if it weren't for mp3s, I'd never had heard
Yogi Yorgesson and his hilarious "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas."
http://www.bufa.org/christmas/go-nuts.htm
More serious favourites are:
The Merry Old Philosopher, sung by Eddie Lawrence
Mary's Boy Child, Harry Belafonte
Take Me Back to Toyland, Nat King Cole
(I'll probably think of more --- as you can tell, I'd rather spend time here,
than in the more political threads) ;)
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bru
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response 20 of 51:
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Dec 14 04:43 UTC 2000 |
"Oh'Holy Night" "The Cherry tree Carol" "The Little Drummer Boy"
Ba-ho Dorais by the whoville singers
"Grandma Got run over by a Reindeer"
"Angels we have Heard on High"
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gelinas
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response 21 of 51:
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Dec 14 05:40 UTC 2000 |
Definitely "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Did I mention "Silver Bells"?
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mcnally
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response 22 of 51:
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Dec 14 07:06 UTC 2000 |
I'm very surprised that in over twenty responses nobody has mentioned
Vince Guaraldi's music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
I'd have to cite that as my favorite Christmas recording, although the
list of Christmas music to which I will voluntarily listen is an
exceedingly short one..
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birdy
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response 23 of 51:
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Dec 14 07:36 UTC 2000 |
Anything Yooperish, anything in Latin, anything that isn't tacky (Grandma Got
Ran Over by a Reindeer comes to mind...)
And no, Yooperish songs aren't tacky. =)
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bru
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response 24 of 51:
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Dec 14 12:38 UTC 2000 |
Rusty Cevrolet?
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