My favorite is this version of O Holy Night from Mom and Daddy.
Its that time of year when I and many others flog Tim Minchin’s White wine in the Sun as the perfect Australian Christmas song and one of the most honest evocations of what its actually all about.
I really love Christmas music.
My favorite piece, and perhaps my favorite piece of music, is from Handel’s Messiah “For unto Us a Child is Born:”
When I first started listening it wasn’t what I expected but before I could click away, it hooked me. Good call.
Night of Silence/Silent Night always beings me to tears.
Maybe it’s simply the memories from when I sang it in choir so many years ago.
I love actual Christmas music. There’s plenty of it that’s great. There’s enough that you could play nothing but great Christmas music for hours on end without ever repeating a song. I just hate the crap, mostly Boomer crap, that gets played nonstop this time of year just because it happens to mention a snowflake in passing.
I don’t know anything about any marketing campaign, but all I can ever think when I hear that song is “That poor, poor man”. Because he’s probably going to think that she means it, and then he won’t even understand why he’s in the doghouse.
And whether “My Favorite Things” is actually a Christmas song or not, at least it’s a good song, and the canonical version is by a good singer.
True, which is why I dont really mind hearing it during the season.
The Middle Aged Dad Jam Band does “Mr. Grinch”, and I love it.
GRINCH | Middle Aged Dad Jam Band feat. “Weird Al” Yankovic
Great version
I’m not sure if the tracks are still available for download anywhere but check out these compilations!
Holiday Freak-Out
Holiday Freak-In
I know a few of these already.
Some of them sound absolutely bizarre.
I’ll have to explore this list over the holidays
For transgressive Christmas music, you can’t beat Lux Interior’s Christmas playlist.
Thank you! Christmas is not complete without that, or without Fred Waring* and the Pennsylvanians:
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*Fun fact: the bandleader is the inventor of the Waring Blendor.
Cthulhu!
That’s a video unavailable, for me.
I only know of them from the Allan Sherman song No One’s Perfect.
I didn’t have my glasses on and I read that as Fair Warning, and thought, ‘Van Halen has a Christmas record!?
I used to wrap presents for a Christmas project, and the people who ran it had a CD with a great song I’ve never heard before or since. It’s a female singer with a very deep contralto voice, and the lyrics that I remember were “Yes, it’s Christmas time / Oh, yes, it’s Christmas time! / (la la la la la la la la la I couldn’t understand that) / Oh, yes, it’s Christmas time!” Does that ring anyone else’s bell, no pun intended?
Speaking of terrible music, one evening, a bunch of teenagers showed up to wrap gifts, and they put on a hard rock Christmas album that was AWFUL. I finally went to them and said something when I overheard a person at the next table say they were going to leave if the music wasn’t changed, and the people in charge admitted that they didn’t like it either.
On “The Santa Clause” soundtrack. Loreena sings a lovely little song, full of wonder- The Bells of Christmas.
Sadly, that recording is not available on any Mckennitt CD I can find, and the soundtrack CD is also hard to find.
I only know of them from the Allan Sherman song No One’s Perfect.
I thought the same. “…and the Ray Charles Singers, who were made famous by their frequent appearances on the Perry Como show, and the Mormon Tablernacle Choir….”.