# What Christmas songs do you look forward to?/Your favorite renditions of Christmas songs \[merged\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667 "2011-11-21T18:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/1 "2011-11-21T18:13:26Z")
Being the flip side of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=632042), what Christmas songs/carols do you look forward to every year? Some of mine are: The Roche’s [_Winter Wonderland_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLK_fwMkjoQ) The Waitresses’ [_Christmas Wrapping_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARq6uYSsUq0&feature=related) Meg Davis’ _Other People’s Children_ ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/2 "2011-11-21T19:14:42Z")
White Christmas. Bing. Of course. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/3 "2011-11-21T19:18:45Z")
> [@Barrett\_Bonden](#): > > White Christmas. Bing. Of course. Bing and Bowie-_Little Drummer Boy_. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/4 "2011-11-21T19:26:20Z")
Handel’s Messiah, sung by the local university’s chorale. Bonus this year: my niece will be part of the ensemble. I’m as agnostic as anything, but that piece of music is as inspirational as anything! I also love various renditions of other religious Christmas songs, especially “Oh Holy Night.” And seconding Bing + Bowie. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@Levolor\_the\_Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Levolor_the_Blind)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/5 "2011-11-21T19:31:45Z")
[Fairytale of New York](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q) [Merry Christmas from the Family](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg) [The River](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPCJxVCcWtk) [Christmas in Prison](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1uIFs-pNdc) ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/6 "2011-11-21T19:45:45Z")
No fair. You guys are making me sentimental when I wanted to say “Santa Was Stoned On Christmas” or “Grandpa Got Run Over By a Beer Truck.” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/7 "2011-11-21T19:49:09Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > No fair. You guys are making me sentimental when I wanted to say “Santa Was Stoned On Christmas” or “Grandpa Got Run Over By a Beer Truck.” You haven’t listened to my “Winter Wonderland” link, have you? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/8 "2011-11-21T19:49:25Z")
My two favorites: Johnny Mathis’ [Sleigh Ride](http://youtu.be/LR_V15uXloE). When he shouts “YOOOO Hoo!” at ~1:57 I do too. Assuming I haven’t already been singing along doing a Johnny Mathis impression. Bing Crosby’s [Mele Kalikimaka](http://youtu.be/hEvGKUXW0iI). My wife and I usually go to Hawaii for Christmas these days, as it’s cheaper from the West Coast to fly there than it is to visit our families. (And waaaaaaay more relaxing. :)) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/9 "2011-11-21T20:26:42Z")
I do enjoy Charo’s version of “Silent Night,” just so I can hear her sing, “\*slip in heavenly piss . \*. .” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/10 "2011-11-21T20:30:45Z")
I will never pass up a chance to plug Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS CD series [Carols for a Cure](http://broadwaycares.stores.yahoo.net/caforcucds.html). Broadway casts singing both traditional and newly written holiday songs. EXCELLENT! ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/11 "2011-11-21T20:31:15Z")
Darlene Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” is, in my mind, one of the few Christmas songs that actually stands on its own as a great, great song. The singing, the production, the emotion - it’s all there, right up there with the best of Phil Spector’s many pop hits. The album it’s on, A Christmas Gift For You, features other songs from Spector’s stable of artists that are all great. I could really just put it on repeat for tree decorating and be just fine. ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/12 "2011-11-21T20:40:41Z")
Happy Xmas. Hands down. Love it. Guilty pleasure: All I want for Christmas is You, by Mariah Carey. I make no apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/13 "2011-11-21T20:51:13Z")
Another vote for Bing and Bowie. Not having loaded my Christmas/New Year playlist onto my iPhone yet, I’m going by memory, but the ones that come to mind are: Eurythmics - “Winter Wonderland” Sting - “Gabriel’s Message” Barenaked Ladies - about half of the songs on their “Barenaked for the Holidays” release, but especially “Elf’s Lament” (Santa’s elves want to unionize), “Footprints” (a guy feeling alone on Christmas), and their medley of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” and “We Three Kings” with Sarah McLachlan ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/14 "2011-11-21T20:52:45Z")
[Fairytale of New York](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q) (Pogues) and [O Holy Night](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4J40bG2TYo) (especially if Christina Augilera’s belting it out). And I don’t even celebrate. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/15 "2011-11-21T20:54:07Z")
What, no votes for _Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer_? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/16 "2011-11-21T20:54:49Z")
I forgot - the only “Joy to the World” on my holiday playlist, that I recall, is the one from Three Dog Night. 😉 I’d be lax in not mentioning the entire Vince Guaraldi Trio soundtrack for “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/17 "2011-11-21T21:08:30Z")
[Father Christmas, the Kinks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKTj02cmHI) Santa Claus And His Old Lady, Cheech and Chong ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/18 "2011-11-21T21:16:50Z")
Carol of the Bells - is strangely sinister, and that pleases me. Little Drummer Boy - a children’s tattoo, I find it ironic. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/19 "2011-11-21T21:24:14Z")
I look forward to quite a lot of carols (In Dulci Jubilo, Coventry Carol, Angelus ad Virginem, We Three Kings, O Come All Ye Faithful). No songs though. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667/20 "2011-11-21T21:26:33Z")
The song about nutmeg by John Legend and Stephen Colbert. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-songs-do-you-look-forward-to-your-favorite-renditions-of-christmas-songs-merged/603667.md?page=2)