This one’s off the Excelsis collection, and pretty representative of the style of the music there. You can probably get some mileage out of those tracks.
But even if you don’t, Area’s version of O Come, O Come Emmanuel is a must-hear.
Bing Crosby and David Bowie need no introduction.
deck the halls by Gary Hoey it’s a instrumental heavy metal version
“O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear” can each be sung to the other’s tune.* Get someone with a good voice and a guitar to do so, record the results, and play the recordings over the air.
*These are a small subset of the rather extensive list of Ballad (or Common) Meter songs that can be sung to one another’s tunes.
Not mentioned in my above link is “Silent Night” by The Music City Brass on this CD. Has a Tijuana Brass feel to it.
That’s quite the speech impediment you’ve got there.
I recommend closing the show with Bob Rivers’ Twelve Pains.
Not traditional but for eerie, you can’t go wrong with Zat You, Santa Claus
Beck “Little Drum Machine Boy”
Wow.
I’ll comment tomorrow on more of these selections, but right now it is three in the morning after a long hectic day of holiday retail work and I am just BLOWN AWAY listening to some of this music.
blondebear, the December People Pink Floyd *Silent Night *is truly awesome!
The 12 Pains is great fun. Thanks, skywatcher!
Check it out folks! Christmas music does not have to be bad!