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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Christmas Songs
New poll today – best Christmas song. This does not include hymns or carols, but rather the songs you hear on the radio.
But I’ll take comments for hymns and carols.
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December 10th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
My real favorite is Sleigh Ride, but as I prefer the seldom played Boston Pops version with the venerable Arthur Fiedler conducting, I’ll go with Let it Snow!
December 10th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
A lot of the Christmas music I like is either from the Middle Ages (“The Holly and the Ivy,” “Downe In Yon Forrest,” “I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In”) or weird, oddball and offbeat (songs on the Bob Rivers Christmas CDs like “Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire” and “White Trash Christmas,” songs from Dr. Demento’s Christmas and Holiday CDs like “I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus” by Kip Addotta and “Green Chri$Tma$” by Stan Freberg.)
December 10th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
My all-time-favorite Christmas song is The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s “A Fairytale Of New York.”
The fact that my all-time-favorite song is about an alcoholic and a junkie figting at Christmastime, and begins with the immortal line, “It was Christmas Eve in the drunk tank,” I’ll let you figure out what that says about me.
December 10th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Er… “fighting,” not “figting,” whatever the hell that might be….
December 10th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Not to be picky, but aren’t “The Christmas Song” and “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” the same song?
Admittedly I voted for the latter, because I adore Nat King Cole.
Eric, I’ll have to check out “A Fairytale Of New York.” To be honest, I only know Kirsty MacColl from “In These Shoes,” but I love that song and now have to check out her collaboration with the Pogues.
December 10th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Oops, I messed up the link.
December 10th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Carol, your wish is my command.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Adam Sandler’s “The Hanukkah Song” is my favorite.
What?
I can’t help that I’m Jewish and the only song we had to combat all of the great Christmas music was “Dreidl, Dreidl, Dreidl”…
But in reality I love most Chrsitmas music. This is the only time of year that my radio station is not stuck on only NPR and the local news station. One local station plays Christmas music constantly from Turkey Day through Christmas Day. Yay!
At my university, they had a Latin Christmas Carol Service — in which the university singing groups sang various Christmas songs in Latin. Not just the ones that are supposed to be in Latin, but even ones like Jingle Bells and the 12 Days of Christmas. As a classics major and Christmas music lover it was doubly fabulous.
December 10th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Yay! Okay, here’s another – world peace!
*waiting, waiting, waiting*
Huh. I thought that would be easier to fill than the one million dollars I asked for on your blog. *shrug*
Thank you, though, it IS a great song.
December 10th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
My fav is Susan Werner’s take on “A Pilgrim’s Way” by Rudyard Kipling. Not exactly Xmas, but I always associate it with this time of year (she recorded it for a local folk music xmas special, I have it off the radio). Or failing that, “Arbolito” by Tish Hinojosa with “Christmas In Paradise” by Mary Gauthier coming in close.
December 10th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Oh, and I have a take on “Mary’s Lullabye” that I forget who did it, a cappella with over dubbing her own voice. Just magical.
December 10th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
As Carol Elaine nominated on Twitter, Bing Crosby and David Bowie’s version of Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth gets me every time.
December 12th, 2009 at 3:10 am
Christmas is coming up (woohoo!) and I wanna start learning some Christmas songs on my guitar. I already know a few carols but I was wondering if you could make a list of popular Christmas songs that I could try to learn on guitar like ‘Last Christmas’
Thanks!
December 12th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Pregnancy, “Greensleeves/What Child Is This.” It’s a fun one to work through and sounds great when you get it. Either that or “O’ come, o’ come Emmanuel.”
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:16 pm
It’s Christmas time — a time to croon to your favourite Christmas carols. We asked DJ Roanne though about which Christmas song he’d like to remix. “I agree that Jingle Bells is played way too much, but it’s a signature song and you can’t escape it. The song I would really love to remix is Santa Claus Is Coming To Town with some hip hop beats. I used to sing it when I was young too and I still sing it!” says Roanne.