Mine:
Merry Christmas Darling (The Carpenters)
Christmas Canon (Trans Siberian Orchestra)
Grown Up Christmas List (Amy Grant)
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)(Nat King Cole)
White Christmas (Bing Crosby)
Ha!!!
A kindred spirit huh?
Your kitchen is cleaned, the guests have all bustled off and the fireplace is dying...and now your thinking about the next event:)
Me too...im already planning for the lights and ladders tmmrw!
Great post
Btw i dont much like the Christmas/Holiday music...but you sir are on point!
I've been thinking about this Christmas since...last Christmas....
shareI can respect that;)
Love the holidays myself...ive got about 300 feet of wire, lights and creepy/robotic reindeer in the garage ready to light up the sky!
Im gonna make the neighbors cringe in awe everytime they zip by!!!
Merry Christmas Alien...i like you
That sounds good. Thanks and Merry Christmas, shogun! I like you, too.
shareI hate christmas...songs....they repeat all over the same subject.
shareIts true that they seem repetitive...not a big fan of holiday music myself tbh Croft
But i suppose the 'glad tidings' and 'best wishes' etc are pretty comforting in a way...a 'universal' way of saying 'hi, i hope all is well, lets all be nice to each other...'
Its really pretty sweet if we think about it...
In a way yes...
shareShogun, it would be if it were true, but it's not, and hasn't been for years. By the way, White Christmas was written by Cole Porter for his Broadway Show, Holiday Inn, and was sung by Bing Crosby and about a million other people, and is the reason why tunesmiths insist on churning out Christmas dreck. White Christmas (what? no diversity?!) has made a fucking FORTUNE, and the music industry keeps hoping that somehow, by accident, it will come up with a duplicate of that financial success. See? Nothing warm or spiritual about it. The motive is sheer, crass greed.
The song that I nominate is O Holy Night. "Fall on your knees/O hear the angel voices/O night devine/O night when Christ was born/0 night, O holy night/O night devine." It's my favorite hymnal refrain.
I respect your song choice...not a bad one by any means my friend RKane:)
But im not giving up on everyone just yet...
I feel like 'tis the season to spread cheer and do charity and be the best we can...
I will offer a proper gentleman's challenge to you...
Terms: we each must find one other person to assist personally/ volunteer to help/ or donate aid to in the next two weeks...
$1 to the winner buddy
Bah! Humbug!
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12 Days of Christmas - Straight No Chaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0loshMzqD4
Gotta Be Good - Chris Isaak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az_DWdc37I0
The Man with the Bag - Kay Starr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH-cmEPKFSY
Christmas Lights - Straight No Chaser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfFv9lMHqb4
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L5mPfpeXxk
"Christmas at Ground Zero" Weird Al Yankovic
shareGrowing up in the sixties, most of the songs on this album became my favorite Christmas songs:
http://goodstonechristmas.com/goodyear-lps/the-great-songs-of-christmas-volume-5/
Some of the tracks are available on YouTube, such as:
Maurice Chevalier's "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7c1aT0Oe18
Dinah Shore's "The Twelve Days of Christmas" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b5LSpJ1wUc
A few others:
Ella Fitzgerald's "O Come All Ye Faithful" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtYcaXIwPaY [But I really prefer the latin version, "Adeste Fideles"]
Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Sing We Now of Christmas" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUD30QfYMLI
And a spanish carol from the renaissance, "Riu, riu chiu", recorded by many groups, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ntpw4PJ0QM
Do They Know it's Christmas - Band Aid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
shareA Spaceman Came Travelling - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZg7tvGN9o
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