Your Favorite Holiday Music

[theoddz]

Post 'em here!!!! Let's share!!!

I'll go first with a little favorite of mine from the 1944 film, "Meet Me In St. Louis", starring the incomparable Judy Garland.

YouTube- Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

~Theo~ :musicnote::bouquet:

[Ms. Tabitha]

YouTube- Bing Crosby - Silent Night

Its just not Christmas without Bing Crosby

:santa1:

[Ms. Tabitha]

YouTube- The Lord's Prayer - Perry Como

I adore this version.

:santa1:

[theoddz]

Fairytale of New York -- The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in at ten to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So Happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells are ringing out
For Christmas Day

YouTube- The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York (Xmas Song)

~Theo~ :D:clap::xmascandle::violin::musicnote::bouquet:

[Ms. Tabitha]

YouTube- Bing Crosby - White Christmas

:xmascandle:

[theoddz]

Heh....and this.....

YouTube- Jingle Farts?!

~Theo~ :pointing::musicnote::bouquet:

[Ms. Tabitha]

YouTube- Mr hankey

I guess this should follow the "Fart" song....

:snowysmiley:

[daisygrrl]

YouTube- THE CARPENTERS - MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING (1978)

YouTube- MARTINA MCBRIDE I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

YouTube- Baby it's cold outside

YouTube- I Want a Hippo for Christmas

[Darth Denkay]

I love the old religious classics - Silent Night, It CAme Upon a Midnight Clear, Away in a Manger, O Holy Night. It's not that I dislike the secular music, but my preference is what I call the religious stuff - the songs you'd find in a church hymnal and the like. There's a radio station that plays CHristmas all the time until Christmas, and I've tried listening to it but find myself not enjoying it, and I think it's because they play mostly secular stuff and not religious. I have nothing against Frosty the Snowman, don't mind hearing it, but give me my church music and I'm happiest!

[Selenay]

YouTube- Baby Its Cold Outside - Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer

But baby, it's cold outside.

[theoddz]

And this one always gets my foot tappin' around the holidays..... :D

YouTube- Linus & Lucy by George Winston

~Theo~ :musicnote::smileyXmasTree::linus::dance1:

[Deborah]

YouTube- Barbra Streisand It Must Have Been The Mistletoe

[Scorp]

My all time favorite Christmas Songs:

YouTube- Jackson 5- I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus


YouTube- Darlene Love - Winter Wonderland


YouTube- Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby please come home)


YouTube- Kelly Clarkson - My Grown Up Christmas List w/lyrics


YouTube- Merry Christmas Darling - Karen Carpenter

YouTube- Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song

:smileyXmasTree:

[Medusa]

Sirius Satellite radio had this on REPEAT on Thanksgiving day.


YouTube- Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey song

:blah:

[Scorp]

LMFAO...How can I have forgotten this one??

Dusa this is where "chooch" came from :pointing:



Sirius Satellite radio had this on REPEAT on Thanksgiving day.


YouTube- Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrdxtWgHbE)

:blah:

[Jet]

Tradition Lives!
O Holy Night
Silent Night
Little Drummer Boy
White Christmas
Sleigh Ride
––––––––––––––––––––––––
Although this isn't a traditonal
Christmas song, I remember and venerate
the Blessed Mother
during Christmas in my own way.
Nothing brings me to tears like
Schubert's Ave Maria
sung by a soprano.

YouTube- Schubert - Ave Maria (Opera)

[Hudson]

YouTube- Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree's On Fire

[MsTinkerbelly]

Grown-up christmas list
Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee;
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies.

Well, I'm all grown-up now,
And still need help somehow.(can you still help somehow)
I'm not a child,
But my heart still can dream.

So here's my lifelong wish,
My grown-up christmas list.
Not for myself,
But for a world in need.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,(and wars would never start)
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up christmas list.

As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree.(wrapped beneath the tree)

Well heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up christmas list.

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth.
(there'd be)

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end, oh.
This is my grown-up christmas list.

This is my grown-up christmas list

[Diva]

This is a > > NEAT WEBSITE (http://www.xmasfun.com/Lyrics.asp) < < for Christmas tunes.....some are obscure....some have video with them....

Enjoy!

[Wryly]

Bruce Cockburn's Christmas is one of my all-time favourite Christmas albums. It has some really great songs on it. I've only found a couple on YouTube. I'll try fine something so I can DL a song or two.

This isn't really him playing - but it still sounds nice.
YouTube- Adestes fideles

YouTube- joy to the world

Anne Murray is another favourite - but it seems she's done a couple Christmas albums and has just repackaged them several different ways!

[theoddz]

Believe (from the film, "The Polar Express") -- Josh Groban with Beyonce (Oscars, 2005)

Children sleeping, snow is softly falling
Dreams are calling like bells in the distance
We were dreamers not so long ago
But one by one we all had to grow up
When it seems the magic's slipped away
We find it all again on Christmas day

Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe

Trains move quickly to their journey's end
Destinations are where we begin again
Ships go sailing far across the sea
Trusting starlight to get where they need to be
When it seems that we have lost our way
We find ourselves again on Christmas day

Believe in what your heart is saying
Hear the melody that's playing
There's no time to waste
There's so much to celebrate

Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
If you just believe
If you just believe
If you just believe
Just believe
Just believe

YouTube- Beyonce and Josh Groban - Believe (Live at Oscars 2005)

~Theo~ :winky::musicnote::bunchflowers:

[KayCee]

YouTube- Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

YouTube- Dean Martin - Let it Snow!

[Bootboi]

YouTube- LUTHER VANDROSS-EVERY YEAR,EVERY CHRISTMAS

[Jet]

Judy Garland

YouTube- Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

[Hudson]

YouTube- Mele Kalikimaka/Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters

[Scorp]

:smileyXmasTree:


YouTube- TNBC/CB-The 12 Pains of Christmas

[Scorp]

Corny video....but catchy 80's Xmas tune:

YouTube- WHAM - Last Christmas

[NJFemmie]

YouTube- Sister Act- Salve Regina

YouTube- Hail Holy Queen (2nd ver.) by Voices of Heaven gospel choir


... the only time I ever really heard this hymn sung was at Christmas time.
It may not necessarily be a Christmas song, but I equate it as such.

[Jet]

YouTube- Sister Act- Salve Regina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI8lS8hr-nY)

YouTube- Hail Holy Queen (2nd ver.) by Voices of Heaven gospel choir (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8LnpZqQrIs)

great tunes

[Corkey]

Karen Carpenter singing Ave Maria
Ok the whole album
A Carpenters Christmas.
:choir:

[theoddz]

Carol of the Bells -- from Will Vinton's "Claymation Christmas"

YouTube- Claymation Christmas: "Carol of the Bells"

~Theo~ :musicnote::pointing::bouquet:

[theoddz]

Carol of the Bells -- Celtic Women

YouTube- Carol of the Bells - Celtic Woman

~Theo~ :musicnote::xmascandle::winky:

[theoddz]

We Three Kings -- from Will Vinton's "Christmas Claymation"

YouTube- Claymation Christmas: "We Three Kings"

~Theo~ :xmascandle::musicnote::winky:

[Corkey]

YouTube- Trans-Siberian Orchestra- Carol of The Bells Live

Hope it posts, I have no idea how to do it.
Carol of the Bells
Trans Siberian Orchestra

[Queerasfck]

It's not his fault his heart was made two sizes too small!

YouTube- The Grinch Song

[NotAnAverageGuy]

The Hippo song by Gayla Peavey, my folks went to school with her
Any peanuts Christmas music, I own some cd's
The grinch, south park

mainly the fun stuff

[Queerasfck]

Boy George looks great.

YouTube- Do they know it's christmas

[Queerasfck]

The odd couple.

YouTube- "Little Drummer Boy", David Bowie and Bing Crosby

[Corkey]

Karen Carpenter singing Ave Maria
Ok the whole album
A Carpenters Christmas.
:choir:

Found it:
YouTube- Karen Carpenter - Ave Maria

[Sweet_Pea]

My absolute favorite as well "Do They Know its Christmas", Love it, meaningful and has a great tune to it!

[WILDCAT]

TRADITION:

YouTube- Xmas　Album
YouTube- THE VENTURES - Jingle Bells

and the most BEAUTIFUL...
YouTube- The Ventures Silver Bells

This is what my Dad would put on Christmas morning and all us kids knew we could then come downstairs and begin the ritual of getting ready to unwrap our gifts from each other... (fixing cocoa, having sweet rolls, etc...)

(It was either The Ventures Christmas or Elvis Christmas morning!)

YouTube- Elvis Presley
YouTube- Elvis & The Ornaments - Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me

*These are engrained in my brain. In fact, I stayed with my parents last year - and asked my 80 year old father to wake me up this way X-Mas morning, to "be a kid again". And he did. He is so SWEET!!!!!!!! I am so lucky to still have both my parents.

:heartbeat:

[theoddz]

Hallelujah Chorus (from "The Messiah") -- Walter Cronkite conducting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

YouTube- Walter Cronkite/Hallelujah Chorus from "Messiah"

~Theo~ :D:smileyXmasTree::cc::xmascandle:

[Rook]

YouTube- El Tamborilero - Raphael

El Tamborilero [Little Drummer Boy ]

[Rook]

YouTube- Mi Burrito Sabanero

{Children's "Carol", obviously....They tend to overkill with it often in elementary school in PR...so, :deadhorse: }

[Rook]

YouTube- Dame la mano paloma, (en ritmo de aguinaldo)

kids & oftentimes very drunk adults during "Parrandas" have many versions of this song...
But once it starts on the radio, people know it's christmas
{i took 2 years lessons with a Cuatro like that one...awesome}

here's a vid. with the words

YouTube- NAVIDAD CON JOSE NOGUERAS - DAME LA MANO PALOMA

[Rook]

YouTube- Alegre Vengo - Dame la Mano Paloma

this one's definitely right up there with Faves {yes, it's 2 songs.. that blend.."Alegre Vengo" & "Dame La mano Paloma"}..
:cc::cc::cc::cc:

[Darth Denkay]

I just found O Holy Night sung by Michael Crawford (played the Phantom on Broadway Phantom of the Opera). An amazing song. I'd post a link but haven't figured out how to do that yet.

[Darth Denkay]

I just found O Holy Night sung by Michael Crawford (played the Phantom on Broadway Phantom of the Opera). An amazing song. I'd post a link but haven't figured out how to do that yet.

[NJFemmie]

OOOOoooooooohhhhhhhhh .... the weather outside is frightful ... but the fire is so delightful .... as long as She loves me so ....

Let it snow! Let it Snow! Let it (you guessed it) SNOW!

:anothersnowman:

[Darth Denkay]

Sorry about the double post...anyone know how to edit/delete it?????

I just found O Holy Night sung by Michael Crawford (played the Phantom on Broadway Phantom of the Opera). An amazing song. I'd post a link but haven't figured out how to do that yet.

[Gemme]

:smileyXmasTree:


YouTube- TNBC/CB-The 12 Pains of Christmas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRjjoWy929U&feature=related)

I love, love, love this one!

[cara]

Shameless self promotion: http://www.singers.com/6611c/Seattle-Girls'-Choir/Seattle-Holiday/

:)

:stillheart:

[Ms. Tabitha]

YouTube- Christmas Music: "A Merry Little Christmas", Frank Sinatra


YouTube- Ella Fitzgerald - Silent Night


:smileyXmasTree:

[Ms. Tabitha]

YouTube- Christmas 1950: World Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men ... and Karl Rove

:xmascandle:

[Diva]

This is EVER so cute!!

YouTube- 12 Gays of Christmas Relient Remix

[Tommi]

This is EVER so cute!!

YouTube- 12 Gays of Christmas Relient Remix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcwNlfKoDmY)

DIVA, it is grand....:rose:
I just sent it to my friend's list. It brings a smile to me cheeks :gimmehug:

[Tommi]

Shameless self promotion: http://www.singers.com/6611c/Seattle-Girls'-Choir/Seattle-Holiday/

:)

:stillheart:

WOW-----Thank you...I did the YouTube search, and love this one...WOW thanks cara

YouTube- Salzburg Music Festival '09 - Opening Concert, pt. 2

[theoddz]

Vivaldi's Gloria in Excelsis Deo - King's College Choir

YouTube- Vivaldi - Gloria - 1 - Gloria in excelsis Deo - King's College Choir

~Theo~ :violin::xmascandle::stocking::musicnote::

[theoddz]

Scrooge -- The Muppets (from "Muppet Christmas Carol")

YouTube- Muppet Christmas Carol - Scrooge

~Theo~ :D:smileyXmasTree::musicnote:

[Jet]

Mannheim Steamroller
__________________________

YouTube- Mannheim Steamroller - 'Joy To The World'

[theoddz]

Sleigh Ride -- The Boston Pops, conducted by the incomparable John Williams

YouTube- SLEIGH RIDE The Boston Pops (Live)

~Theo~ :D :musicnote::smileyXmasTree:

[theoddz]

Bugler's Holiday -- U.S. Coast Guard Band

YouTube- Buglers Holiday - U.S. Coast Guard Band

~Theo~ :frog::musicnote::dance1::smileyXmasTree::dance1:

[cara]

WOW-----Thank you...I did the YouTube search, and love this one...WOW thanks cara

YouTube- Salzburg Music Festival '09 - Opening Concert, pt. 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmVV3dFoOc)

Tommi~This piece was written by Jackson Berkey (of Mannheim Steamroller fame). He writes some *amazing* music for choirs. :)

[LadyFlamezzz]

Elvis of course!
:harp:

[theoddz]

This beautiful song by Jim Brickman, which is exactly the way I feel about my beautiful Lady, especially at this time of year. :heartbeat::present::xmascandle:

The Gift
Jim Brickman, featuring Collin Raye and Susan Ashton

Winter snow is falling down
Children laughing all around
Lights are turning on
like a fairy tale come true.

Sitting by the fire we made
You're the answer when I prayed
I would find someone
and baby I found you.

All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
from being broken apart
You gave your love away
and I'm thankful every day
for the gift.

Watching as you softly sleep
What I'd give if I could keep
Just this moment
if only time stood still.

But the colors fade away
And the years will make us grey
But baby in my eyes
You'll still be beautiful.

All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
from being broken apart
You gave your love away
And I'm thankful every day
for the gift.

(instrumental)

All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
from being broken apart
You gave your love away
I can't find the words to say
That I'm thankful every day
for the gift

YouTube- The Gift -- Collin Raye & Susan Ashton

~Theo~ :winky::love1::xmascandle:

[theoddz]

YouTube- Linus & Lucy by George Winston

~Theo~ :frog::dance1::smileyXmasTree::grandpiano:

[Andrew, Jr.]

Auld Lang Syne by Guy Lombardo

Ave Maria by Placido Domingo

Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives

White Christmas by Bing Crosby

Baby, It's Cold Outside - I am not sure of the singer

[theoddz]

Christmas In Dixie -- Alabama

By now in New York City.
There's snow on the ground.
And out in California.
The sunshines' falling down.
And maybe down in Memphis, Graceland's all in lights.
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight.

Christmas in Dixie, its snowing in the pines.
Merry Christmas from Dixie to everyone tonight.

Its windy in Chicago.
The kids are out of school.
There's magic in Motown.
The city's on the move.
In Jackson, Mississippi to Charlotte, Caroline.
And all across the Nation, its a peaceful Christmas time.

Christmas in Dixie, its snowing in the pines.
Merry Christmas from Dixie, to everyone tonight.
And from Fort Payne, Alabama..Merry Christmas tonight.

YouTube- Christmas in Dixie

~Theo~ :winky::cc::xmascandle::rockband::smileyXmasTree:

[Andrew, Jr.]

Favorite Hymns:

O Come, All Ye Faithful
Joy to the World
Angels We have Heard On High
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Away in a Manger
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
O Come, Little Children
Go Tell It On The Mountain
What Child is This

[theoddz]

I Believe -- :frog:Kermit the Frog:frog:

What makes a miracle?
What makes a Christmas dream come true?
How can a man in red
Now change the world I thought I knew?

How can there be miracles
If hearts are filled with doubt?
It's time to leave the doubt behind
And find out what life's about

I believe in a wonderous place he calls the imagination
I believe in his childhood world of hope and celebration
I believe in the miracle of love
Because, oh yes, I believe in Santa Claus

Snowflakes, angels, sleigh bells ringing
Lights that twinkle, children singing
Oh yeah, I believe in Santa Claus

YouTube- Kermit The Frog sings "I Believe"

~Theo~ :heartbeat::frog::stocking::present::santa1:

[Galahad]

YouTube- Bonnie Rideout at West Potomac High School Winter Concert 2009-12-17

A family favorite, couldn't find it without all the explanations.

[theoddz]

Christmas Cookies -- George Strait

I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees, bells, and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe

Now Christmas cookies are a special treat
The more she bakes the more I eat
And sometimes I can't get myself to stop
Sometimes she'll wait till I'm asleep
She'll take the ones I didn't eat
And put those little sprinkly things on top

I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees, bells, and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe

Now those sprinkly things just makes things worse
Cause it makes them taste better than they did at first
And they're absolutely impossible to resist
Some disappear to who knows where
But I make sure I get my share
And those kids just stand there waiting for the ones I miss

Sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
Sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe

She gets mad that they're all gone
Before she gets the icing put on
Sure do like those Christmas cookies babe

Now there's a benefit to all of this
That you might have overlooked or missed
So now let me tell you the best part of it all
Every time she sticks another batch in the oven
There's 15 minutes for some kissin' and'a huggin'
That's why I eat Christmas cookies all year long!

I sure do like those Christmas cookies, sugar
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe
The ones that look like Santa Claus
Christmas trees, bells, and stars
I sure do like those Christmas cookies, babe

YouTube- George Strait - Christmas Cookies

~Theo~ :D:musicnote::heartbeat::winky:

[cinnamongrrl]

I heard Blake Shelton made a Christmas CD. We will have to get it! :)

[Rockinonahigh]

Mannhime Steamroller is one of my favs,then Elvis annnnd the corney one that really bring a laugh to me.