Bing Crosby
Johnny Mathis
a couple of Mannheim Steamroller
David Benoit “Christmastime” and one other
Christmas at the Met
Manhattan Transfer
Yule Struttin’, a jazz album
I include Wynton Marsalis’ “In Gabriel’s Garden”, which is baroque
The Nutcracker
Vienna Boys’ Choir
Dave Brubeck
Jane Monheit
a mix album of Beach Boys, Brenda Lee and others
An album of Ozark Christmas songs
I’m probably forgetting some.
Rob Halford: Winter Songs
I have over 400 Christmas CDs. You sure you want the whole list?
Too Many Santas by The Bobs.
about 5 volumes of A Very Special Christmas.
all in storage halfway across the country, dammit…
“Christmas” by Low, because nothing says “Christmas” more than Mormon slowcore.
White Christmas - Martina McBride
When My Heart Finds Christmas - Harry Connick Jr
What A Night! A Christmas Album - Harry Connick Jr
A Very Special Christmas 1 & 2 Various Artist
This Christmas Time - Lonestar
A Taste of Christmas - EP Tyler - Barham
A Swingin’ Christmas (feat. The Count Basie Big Band) - Tony Bennett
The Spirit Of Christmas - Ray Charles
The Sound Of Christmas - Various Artists
Songs of the Season - Randy Travis
Snowflakes - Toni Braxton
Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album
Rocky Mountain Christmas - John Denver
Personal Christmas Collection - Johnny Cash
Once Upon A Christmas Kenny - Rogers & Dolly Parton
On This Winter’s Night - Lady Antebellum
A New Thought For Christmas - Melissa Etheridge
My Kind Of Christmas - Christina Aguilera
My Christmas - Andrea Bocelli
A Motown Christmas
A Mormon Tabernacle Christmas
A Merry Little Christmas - Linda Ronstadt
Merry Christmas - Mariah Carey
Marshmallow World & Other Holiday Favorites - Raul Malo
A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas - Kristin Chenoweth
Light of the Stable - Emmylou Harris
Joy: A Holiday Collection - Jewel
A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra
Jewels, A High Holiday Music Sampler - Various Artists
A Jazz Christmas -Various Artists
iTunes Holiday Sampler -Various Artists
An Illect Recordings Christmas Recording - Various Artists
If Every Day Was Like Christmas - Elvis Presley
Holly & Ivy - Natalie Cole
Hey Santa! - Wilson Sisters
Harry for the Holidays - Harry Connick Jr
Green Hill Christmas Music Sampler - Various Artists
Glee: Christmas 2010
Glee The Christmas Album Volume 2
Frontline & Friends Christmas Sampler - Various Artists
Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas
Cool Yule - Bette Midler**
Come Darkness, Come Light - 12 Songs of Christmas - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Christmas With The Stars - Various Artist
Christmas With The Rat Pack
Christmas With Ronnie Milsap
Christmas With Elvis Presley**
Christmas Wishes - Various Artist
Christmas Wishes - Anne Murray
A Christmas Together - John Denver & The Muppets**
Christmas Time With The Judds
Christmas Songs - Diana Krall
Christmas Prayer - Aaron Neville
Christmas Portrait - The Carpenters
Christmas In America - Kenny Rogers
Christmas Grass - Various Artists
A Christmas Cornucopia - Annie Lennox
Christmas Cookies - Various Artists
The Christmas Album Volume II - Neil Diamond
The Christmas Album - Neil Diamond
A Christmas Album - Barbra Streisand
Christmas Album - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Christmas - Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson
Christmas - Michael Buble
Christmas - Anne Murray**
Celtic Christmas - Various Artists
A Celebration Of Christmas - Various Artists
CeeLo’s Magic Moment - CeeLo Green**
Cajun Christmas - Various Artist
Bossa Nova Christmas - Various Artist
Beyond The Season -Garth Brooks
Ave Maria - The Ultimate Sacred Christmas - Various Artists
Ashanti’s Christmas
All Time Christmas Favorites (Vol. 2) - Various Artists
All I Want For Christmas is a Real Good Tan - Kenny Chesney
Aaron Neville’s Soulful Christmas**
I really really really like Christmas music which is odd since I am not a Christian:smack:
I have been collecting these for years. Some I no longer listen to as my tastes have changed.
** favorites
These are in my collection:
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Wynton Marsalis - Crescent City Christmas Card
Various Artists - Phil Spector: A Christmas Gift to You
Are we the only ones who own Bob Rivers’ Twisted Christmas?
Also,
Twisted Sister’s Twisted Christmas
In the Christmas Mood by The Glenn Miller Orchestra
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Several volumes of Pottery Barn Christmas
and probably several others that I’m forgetting.
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
and some timelife compilation
One of my very favorites: “To Drive the Cold Winter Away,” a collection of renaissance and Elizabethan Christmas and seasonal music. Lovely stuff! Their version of “Good King Wenceslas” is absolutely beautiful.
Twisted Sister’s and two MPs (4 songs total) from the 60s. One of these is jotas by two local guys (traditional folk songs but unrelated to anything “folk singers” would sing), the other one is by a priest from I-think-Peru.
I really don’t like Christmas music and avoid it like the plague.
I do like Jonah Lewie “Stop The Cavalry”, which wasn’t supposed to be a Christmas song but became one due to one line in it.
However, I recently bought “Oh Holy Night” by Jackie Evancho, as anything she sings is just great.
Bought mainly for Panis Angelicus and Pie Jesu though.
Cajun Christmas
Merry Christmas - hava a Nice Life by Cyndi Lauper
The Phil Spector Christmas Album
And a reggae christmas lp in a box of vinyl somewhere…
Maybe one or two others I can’t remember right now.
Did Mick Jagger or Axl Rose ever do a Christmas album?
I have a few, but our record collection is the opposite of organized, and I’m too lazy to inventory them. But out of memory, I know we have:
A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
Jackson 5 Christmas Album - Jackson 5 (Wow, searching that record made me realize it’s worth something. Gotta take better care of that one.)
I’ve got a bunch of inherited compilations with artists like Perry Como and Nat King Cole (one is from Firestone Tires) and I think there’s a Brenda Lee record in there, but those above are the two that I actually listen to enough to be able to name.
Too many to list. Hats off to CT_Damsel for typing all that.
A few favorites are
Don Sickler - An Uptown Christmas
Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem - A Clancy Brothers Christmas
The Star Wars Christmas Album (really only What Do You Get A Wookie for Christmas)
The Roches - We Three Kings
Leon Redbone - Christmas Island
A Windham Hill compilation called - A Winter’s Night
The Chieftains - Bells of Dublin
Luther Vandross - This is Christmas
I choose to play mostly instrumental music in my store and have loads of $5 CDs of Various Artists with titles like “Christmas Brass” and “Christmas Strings”
LP’s include Joan Baez’s Noel, with musical arrangements by “PDQ Bach”–pure, traditional beauty that probably surprised some folks back then. And John Fahey’s first Christmas album. Plus Emmylou Harris–Light of the Stable. (I sometimes buy MP3’s of LP’s I love–hoping some of the money gets back to the creators.)
It’s Christmas, Man by Brave Combo.
Christmas the Cowboy Way by Riders in the Sky.
A Christmas Cornucopia by Annie Lenox.
Quality Street, A Seasonal Selection for the Entire Family by Nick Lowe. (new!)
The Bells of Dublin by the Chieftains.
The Big Christmas Box–one of those cheapo compilations; haven’t heard the whole thing…
The Messiah–I think a version is included in the Big Box, but my favorite is the 1976 version by Sir Neville Mariner & the orchestra & chorus of St Martin In The Fields. Almost “period”–definitely not Overblown Victorian.
Need to check further–I think I’ve got Phil Spector’s compilation, etc…
Maybe not an album, but a quick search shows Mick Jagger recorded Lonely Without You (This Christmas) with Joss Stone, and Axl recorded White Christmas.
My favorite is one called An American Christmas, by the Boston Camerata. Basically, the conductor of the orchestra thought that the rich American musical tradition of the past couple of centuries had been getting short shrift, and decided to showcase it with a Christmas album. Half the songs, I’d never heard of before, but they’re almost all beautiful, and very well-sung.
Also, let’s see…
The Best of Christmas, by Haven, which I’m really not wild about-- The song selection is good, but they’d be much better performed by someone with a modicum of talent.
A various-artists album called A Christmas Night, that’s pretty good.
Christmas with Julie Andrews, which is too short, but anything sung by Julie Andrews sounds good.
Light of the Stable by Emmylou Harris, though I prefer my bluegrass instrumental rather than vocal.
Another various-artists called Orchestral Christmas, also pretty good.
The Russian State Chorus Celebrates Christmas, which has good quality singing, but their accents result in some really weird pronunciations.
Sing We Christmas, by Chanticleer, which seems to include every style of singing known to Man.
Martina McBride’s White Christmas, another one I’m not too wild over (McBride really isn’t my style).
And Winter Solstice, by John McCutcheon, which is rather growing on me lately (just finished listening to it).
Boston Camerata - An American Christmas (early American Christmas music)
Libera - Christmas in Ireland
The Chieftains - The Bells of Dublin
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas
Cee Lo Green - Cee Lo’s Magic Moment
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Christmas Attic
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Lost Christmas Eve
Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift For You
Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia
Leon Redbone - Christmas Island
Various Artists - Christmas Remixed - Holiday Classics Re-Grooved
John Denver & The Muppets - A Christmas Together
Chanticleer - Christmas with Chanticleer
Mahalia Jackson - Christmas With Mahalia
Various Artists - A Classic Cartoon Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller - A Fresh Aire Christmas
Sufjan Stevens - Hark! Songs For Christmas Volumes 1,2 & 3
Kristin Chenoweth - A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas
Various Artists - Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics
Enchanting 19th Century Music Boxes from the Collection of Rita Ford - A Music Box Christmas
Joshua Bell - Musical Gifts From Joshua Bell And Friends
Aimee Mann - One More Drifter In the Snow
Various Artists - Vanessa - Phineas & Ferb: Holiday Favorites
Various Artists - A Putumayo World Christmas
Various Artists - The Reindeer Room, Vol. 1: A Christmas Chillout
Various Artists - The Reindeer Room, Vol. 2: A Festive Collection (more downtempo stuff)
Erasure - Snow Globe
Lindi Ortega - Tennessee Christmas
Straight No Chaser - Under the Influence: Holiday Edition
She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas
Various Artists - A Very Special Christmas
Various Artists - VH1’s The Big 80’s - Christmas
The Roches - We Three Kings
Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong