# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/81 "2017-12-26T02:24:25Z")
Puddles Pity Party [Oh Holy Night](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzCI6OKEGPI) [Christmastime is here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkPoCH5tM2w) [Do you hear what I hear?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKXM4YYV4YQ) [Little Drummer Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3NYrJMSh88&index=2&list=PLz65BQoKWgkl3kw_tbbnCXVSTQh_GJCop) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/82 "2017-12-26T20:38:29Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > CD’s we play over and over every year: > Vince Vance and the Valiants. Their song “All I Want for Christmas is You” (not the one Mariah Carey and countless others sing) is “our song” and I’ve never heard it done better. And we have a winner! Hearing Mariah’s fifth-rate knockoff on the radio instead of the divine original makes my blood boil. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/83 "2017-12-26T21:10:30Z")
I really like Train’s [Shake up Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-8VCL4uSUc). It was on medium rotation at my store this year and I never tired of hearing it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/84 "2017-12-26T21:20:14Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > [Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exSDgA9eMtU) > > The only one there needs to be. Still this. She performed it on the last episode of David Letterman each year which will never happen again I assume. Quite a spectacular performance with the Paul Schaffer band and her own exquisite backup singers. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/85 "2017-12-29T05:20:16Z")
The aforementioned “O Magnum Mysterium” by Victoria. “O Magnum Mysterium” by Poulenc. Here performed by the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. Wonderful rendition. [Francis Poulenc - O Magnum Mysterium - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VShyqHcWjPY) “A Spotless Rose” by Herbert Howells. I’ve listened to a number of performances, and this is the best. In my opinion, the soloist is just perfect. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUMNucHrE28) “Truth From Above”, arranged by Vaughan Williams. [The Truth From Above - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUfcUreoZPw) “Virga Jesse Floruit” by Anton Bruckner. [Bruckner,Virga Jesse floruit - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCdwfObFDAU) “Carol of the Birds”, performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale. [Carol of the Birds ("El cant dels ocells") - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JxAinCY6Eg) Of course, I have copies of all these and I can play them at any time (and I do). ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/86 "2017-12-29T05:23:56Z")
There is one I haven’t heard for many years: “D’où viens-tu bergère?” in a simple arrangement performed by a children’s choir. They used to play it on WFMT, but I’m no longer a regular listener. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/87 "2017-12-29T15:22:28Z")
Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant O Holy Night by anyone Mary Did You Know by anyone All of those songs bring me to tears. The Angel Gabriel by Sting Christmas Blues by Dino Joseph’s Lullaby by MercyMe Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel by anyone The Friendly Beasts by Burl Ives Riu Chiu by the Monkees ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/88 "2017-12-29T17:19:28Z")
I like the minor key folk-songish Christmas carols, the old ones. We Three Kings, Good King Wencelas, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Three songs I adore: Mary’s Boy Child by Boney M - so beautiful, it brings tears to my eyes. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemn by Annie Lenox (though the accompanying video with hurdy-gurdy and a parade of pagans is awe-inspiring) and O Holy Night by Mr. Michael Crawford (or Celine Dionne)…when either of them sings it and hits that second high note at the end…chills down my spine! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/89 "2017-12-29T19:17:54Z")
[quote=“furryman, post:80, topic:774090”] Why don’t they ever play this song during christmas? Good King Wenceslas [/QUOTE] Loreena McKennitt, mentioned earlier, does my favorite version of [Good King Wenceslas](https://youtu.be/cYLuA9xHcsQ). Another one I like: [Little Drummer Boy by Low](https://youtu.be/Ai-5tDAuYWU). I like the distortion, and how slow and deliberate it is. Somehow those few little key changes that happen seem to give it more gravity. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/90 "2017-12-30T15:47:51Z")
There was one we sang in high school, “No Golden Carriage.” As I recall it was really beautiful, but I’ve never heard it since. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/91 "2017-12-31T06:12:46Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I like the minor key folk-songish Christmas carols, the old ones. We Three Kings, Good King Wencelas GKW is in a major key. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/92 "2017-12-31T08:00:47Z")
The Holly and the Ivy Oak, Ash, and Thorn I Saw Three Ships The Boar’s Head Coventry Carol I used to have a group of musician friends who would carol together. ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/93 "2017-12-31T10:35:14Z")
Bruce Springsteen “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (no video available)(sorry) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090.md?page=4)