Christmas Songs

[Purron]

Let's share some of our favorites before we get totally sick of them

ELVIS Blue Christmas - YouTube

 

[Chuckanut]

White Christmas!!!

 

[Purron]

White Christmas!!!

Love this one. Bing Crosby - White Christmas - YouTube

 

[Janet H]

A sad one...

First Christmas: Stan Rogers - YouTube

 

[behappy]

Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer

Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - YouTube

 

[behappy]

My favourite... The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) by Nat King Cole

The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) - YouTube

 

[Purron]

Bing and Bowie
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth - YouTube

 

[CCdaCE]

The wife was hooked on anything Christmas-y by Trans-Siberian Orchestra a year or three ago.

Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra - YouTube

-CC

 

[kumquat]

http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/f27/favorite-holiday-songs-47707.html

 

[Tyro]

Let's share some of our favorites before we get totally sick of them

Too late.

 

[Midpack]

If we start now, we won't want to listen to them by the time [-]Thanksgiving[/-] Christmas rolls around? That would be a shame...

 

[MichaelB]

Here's a Venezuelan Christmas folk song I always enjoyed

"El Niño se alumbra". Intérprete: Un Solo pueblo - YouTube

 

[MichaelB]

A favorite Christmas song performed by an artist I really enjoy is usually a treat .. but in this case it's a car wreck.

Annie Lennox - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - YouTube

Apologies in advance to those that like this arrangement and are offended by my post

 

[Purron]

A favorite Christmas song performed by an artist I really enjoy is usually a treat .. but in this case it's a car wreck.

Wow. That is awful. And I like Annie too. Might need a new thread on worst Christmas songs. Here's one I'd put up there.

Neil Diamond - Cherry Cherry Christmas - YouTube

 

[MichaelB]

Wow. That is awful. And I like Annie too. Might need a new thread on worst Christmas songs. Here's one I'd put up there.

This is pretty bad too.

A thread on bad Xmas songs would be funny, but bound to offend someone when they see their favorite song being trashed. Makes you wonder, though, exactly what they were thinking when they did the recording.

 

[drb391]

wondered today walking thru the mall - when did The Sound of Music (or at least the one song from it, Favorite Things) become Christmas music??

 

[braumeister]

Too late.

It was already too late decades ago. Seriously, I've never understood how people can work in retail stores where they have to listen to this glurge all day, every day for weeks on end. I would go stark raving bonkers.

 

[Htown Harry]

Merry Christmas, Baby

i never get tired of this one. So many soul, blue and rock players I admire have recorded a version. (B.B. King, Otis Redding, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, etc.)

Sheryl Crow & Eric Clapton @ A Very Special Christmas Live ("Merry Christmas Baby") - YouTube
Keb' Mo' & Phil Keaggy with The Chester Thompson Trio "Merry Christmas Baby" - YouTube
Ray Charles 'Merry Christmas Baby' 1979 - YouTube
The original, from 1947:
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers With Charles Brown - Merry Christmas, Baby - Exclusive 1145 - 1947 - YouTube

 

[Htown Harry]

Since the topic is Christmas songs, not Christmas carols...

For pure nostalgia, these two get me. I think it's the impressionable age when they were first heard and the fact they are rarely heard outside their original TV shows.

A Charlie Brown Christmas - Christmas Time is Here Song - YouTube
The Grinch Song - YouTube

 

[braumeister]

OK, if I must. Here's my classic.

Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol - YouTube

 

[Purron]

Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses - Lightorama 16 channels - YouTube

 

[Purron]

"The mood ring counter was all a-glow" CHRISTMAS XMAS AT K-MART - ROOT BOY SLIM & SEX CHANGE BAND - YouTube

 

[Alan]

We heard this one by Chris De Burgh back in the early 70's at a Supertramp concert where he was the supporting act.

Just Another Poor Boy - YouTube

 

[Purron]

The BB's!

Merry Christmas, Baby - The Beach Boys - YouTube

 

[Nodak]

how about Mannheim Steamroller
Mannheim Steamroller - 'Joy To The World' - YouTube