# What Christmas song would you love to hear again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090 "2016-12-07T03:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/1 "2016-12-07T03:47:59Z")
This is a spinoff from the “Christmas song you never want to hear again” thread. The first one that comes to mind is the arrangement of “Do You Hear What I Hear” that my junior high band and chorus did every OTHER year. 😕 It was always stunning, and I never hear any arrangement of that song without thinking of one boy in particular beating the crap out of the tympanis at the end of the song. He’s one of my Facebook friends but rarely posts; I wonder if he remembers it. Another is probably a few decades old, and was on a Christmas compilation album that was a favorite of a woman who co-ran a charity project I used to be involved with. It included the line “Oh yes, it’s Christmas time” several times over, sung by a woman with a powerful contralto voice. I forgot to write down the title and artist and can’t seem to find out who did it. I also appear to be one of the few people who loves Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time.” So sue me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/2 "2016-12-07T08:46:20Z")
One hears it very, very occasionally, usually on religious stations, but sometimes on regular stations. I’d love to hear more often _The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came_. I suppose it’s more properly an Advent song, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/3 "2016-12-07T09:14:37Z")
[Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxVo5mjK4eg), by Tom Waits. Pisses on Fairytale Of New York. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/4 "2016-12-07T09:21:56Z")
_Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow_, by Jethro Tull. In fact, I’ll go and listen to it right now, thanks for the prompt. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/5 "2016-12-07T13:37:32Z")
[No Presents for Christmas - King Diamond](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a5fHMlb4V0) [Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 - Trans-Siberian Orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHioIlbnS_A) [I Am Santa Claus - Bob Rivers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzfygOVLDoM) [We Three Kings - Rob Halford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctTVcYMYXLA) [Winter Wonderland - Stryper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB5_QVnD_g8) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/6 "2016-12-07T13:44:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > One hears it very, very occasionally, usually on religious stations, but sometimes on regular stations. I’d love to hear more often > > _The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came_. I suppose it’s more properly an Advent song, but still… Charlotte Church does a stunning rendition of it. I’ve sung it before at church, too. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/7 "2016-12-07T14:01:52Z")
“O Come, All Ye Faithful,” sung in Latin (“Adeste Fideles”). “Silent Night,” sung in German (“Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht”) “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” American version. ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/8 "2016-12-07T14:23:47Z")
I would give anything to be able to hear my father sing “Sweet Little Jesus Boy” to me just one more time. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/9 "2016-12-07T15:03:32Z")
Dolly Parton’s _Hard Candy Christmas_. When my radio stations switch over to Christmas music around this time, I stop listening to them…except for just quickly checking in case they’re playing this song. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/10 "2016-12-07T16:14:00Z")
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman” and “Greensleeves” are 2 I always look forward to hearing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/11 "2016-12-07T18:09:22Z")
Three of my relatively-recent favorites: Pentatonix, “That’s Christmas to Me” https://www.youtube.com/embed/HAszTEhKLIA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLcipdUN_5lktvQCXWf68wqrMro60Ko4uA The Roches, “We Three Kings” Mariah Carey, “All I Want for Christmas” I could (and have) listen(ed) to these over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/12 "2016-12-07T18:09:35Z")
Not much call for [Six White Boomers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosGBYU5vIE) 'round here. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/13 "2016-12-07T18:48:39Z")
A christmas carol I remember from childhood christmas seasons that has mostly disappeared: “There’s a Song in the Air”. :smack: :: realizes why he’s having a strong Déja Vu experience while writing this :: [Last Year’s thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18951498&postcount=82) = my post about the same song. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/14 "2016-12-07T19:34:23Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Charlotte Church does a stunning rendition of it. I’ve sung it before at church, too. I’ve always preferred[Sting’s version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2BzUDeTkY). But then I like “[Christmas Sucks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAq4H0JEyl0)” by Tom Waits and Peter Murphy. Funny and dark. Never hear it played. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/15 "2016-12-07T19:40:40Z")
Bob and Doug MacKenzie’s (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) Great White North rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas (“Five GOLDEN…touques!”) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/16 "2016-12-07T19:48:37Z")
…you hoser! ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/17 "2016-12-07T21:27:43Z")
Juvenile as it may be, I look forward every year to tossng Duke Tumatoe’s naughty Christmas album into my shuffled Christmas Playlist that I play all day on Christmas. I get a charge out of seeing people’s faces when they catch a snippet and are wondering if they heard what they just thought they heard. On a more serious note, there is a gentle, sweet carol on a Harry Belafonte Christmas album my mother used to play that will occasionally show up on the radio. _The Gifts They Gave_ is the name. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/18 "2016-12-07T23:18:10Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > Bob and Doug MacKenzie’s (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) Great White North rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas (“Five GOLDEN…touques!”) Sure, and this standard: (disregard annoying opening 20-second promo) [ole Nat layin down the X-mas chestnuts thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89gVQvFV7hQ) > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I also appear to be one of the few people who loves Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time.” **So sue me**. 😛 ::drooling grossly:: oh just you wait till my dream team comes after you. [actually, the correct Peter Serafinowicz version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za7JMbkUhkQ) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/19 "2016-12-07T23:29:48Z")
Some years ago at the grocery store, they were playing music over the PA, and one of them was an absolutely beautiful “The Holly and the Ivy” by a female singer I don’t recognize. I’d like to hear that recording again. And John McCutcheon has a couple of songs on his _Winter Solstice_ album that I’ve never heard done by anyone else. One is his own “Christmas in the Trenches”, about a real-life miracle, the Christmas Truce of 1914. The other is an old carol that he lists as “Star in the East”, but which is apparently better known as “Brightest and Best”, which sounds like a sea-shanty. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/20 "2016-12-07T23:38:20Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Not much call for [Six White Boomers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gosGBYU5vIE) 'round here. That is one song that I actively sought out this year. It’s my favourite Boxing Day carol co-written by a sexual predator. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090.md?page=2)