# What not-famous Christmas albums do you listen to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 24, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653 "2023-11-24T22:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/1 "2023-11-24T22:18:24Z")
I really don’t have any attachment or love of traditional Christmas music, especially performances that go back a long way. My wife and I have tried a few newer ones and are wondering what people like. I will make one recommendation. Tommee Profitt - Birth of a King It’s a great album and even better, he just uploaded a full live concert of it to Youtube. A very nice thing to put on in the house. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/urmooOy_78c/maxresdefault.jpg "THE BIRTH OF A KING: LIVE IN CONCERT - Tommee Profitt") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urmooOy_78c&t=1) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/2 "2023-11-24T22:24:38Z")
The very few Xmas songs (not album) I have in my collection are tolerable when they come up on iPod shuffle, but I don’t seek them out. [Here’s an album](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lux-interior-the-cramps-christmas-playlist/) I wouldn’t mind having. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/3 "2023-11-24T22:26:27Z")
My wife has a couple of old Christmas albums by the big band Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, and those get taken out every year. I have a Christmas CD by Kristin Chenoweth, from 2008, which I enjoy listening to every year, as well. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/4 "2023-11-24T22:56:13Z")
[Merry Axemas - A Guitar Christmas](https://youtu.be/FYtUufFyPiA?feature=shared) [Rattle And Humbug](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m5Ufe3XAUBz2xhWvfJ2MNAcl65L_tzDDM&feature=shared) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/5 "2023-11-25T00:20:26Z")
Years ago I bought my SIL a Putumayo CD of world music Christmas songs. She plays it all the time over the holidays. I went to look it up and, although I didn’t spot the album I bought decades ago, it seems that you can just stream all their stuff in multiple formats: [https://www.putumayo.com/playlists](https://www.putumayo.com/playlists) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/6 "2023-11-25T00:42:20Z")
**Mistletoe Jam** the Christmas Jug Band (Dan Hicks and others) including my favorite Xmas Carol: “Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit” [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARX463itqf4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARX463itqf4)] ---
**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:** [November 25, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/7 "2023-11-25T00:47:31Z")
An American Christmas. It was put together by a professor of American music who lamented that so much of our country’s musical tradition has been forgotten, and decided that a Christmas album was a good way to raise awareness. There are a few old classics on there that anyone will recognize, but a lot of songs (good ones, too), that I’d never heard anywhere else. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/8 "2023-11-25T01:29:38Z")
@Chronos I’m intrigued, so I tried to Google this. Do you have a little more info about this? There are a lot of albums (and sheet music) with that name, and adding stuff like “professor of American music” isnt helping. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/9 "2023-11-25T01:40:45Z")
I don’t know if you’d consider it “non- famous,” but it’s relatively recent and has no traditional Christmas songs on it: Sia’s "[Everyday is Christmas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_Is_Christmas_(album)). ’ I’ve grown quite fond of it over the past few years. I have it on in my truck quite often this time of year. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/10 "2023-11-25T01:44:55Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > [Here’s an album](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lux-interior-the-cramps-christmas-playlist/) I wouldn’t mind having. Here are all 33 songs: https://www.youtube.com/embed/GK9IVBpOwXE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLryB2tzh1bQWfgb0J7bZaTxSqzRo_IUyf ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/11 "2023-11-25T01:51:39Z")
Barenaked for the Holidays. Most of the songs are covers of traditional music, but this counts, right? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/12 "2023-11-25T03:16:57Z")
Why thank you. It turns out I already have “Christmas In Jail”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/13 "2023-11-25T03:18:59Z")
> **[A Scottish Christmas: Maggie Sansone, Bonnie Rideout, John Quigg, Eric Rigler,...](https://www.amazon.ca/Scottish-Christmas-Bonnie-Rideout/dp/B000003JMH)** > > A Scottish Christmas: Maggie Sansone, Bonnie Rideout, John Quigg, Eric Rigler, Al Petteway, Abby Newton, Maggie Sansone, Robert Burns, John Francis Wade, Traditional, Abby Newton, Charlie Pilzer: Amazon.ca: Music There are bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/14 "2023-11-25T03:26:37Z")
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ “Christmas Caravan”. I absolutely love it. Made a Pandora station based on this album and the music that comes on is equally hot! ---
**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:** [November 25, 2023, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/15 "2023-11-25T03:43:17Z")
[An American Christmas, by Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata](https://bostoncamerata.org/originalSite/cd/titles/amerxmas.htm?replaced%5B0%5D=%5E%2F) ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/16 "2023-11-25T03:58:23Z")
This album is great! So many cool original songs and unique twists on old ones. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/17 "2023-11-25T06:04:06Z")
Came here to mention the Squirrel Nut Zippers — glad to see I’m not the only fan ---
**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 25, 2023, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/18 "2023-11-25T06:06:44Z")
> [@Balthisar](#): > > Barenaked for the Holidays. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”/“We Three Kings” is quite popular on Canadian radio stations this time of year. I remember hearing on the radio a guy singing a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “River” that I thought was pretty good. Turns out it was Robert Downey Jr! (From the album “Ally McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas”) ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653/19 "2023-11-25T17:10:41Z")
Sarah MacLachlan’s Christmas album “Wintersong” is very very good, in my opinion. ---
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Jazz Louis Armstrong and Friends, ‘The Best of Christmas Songs Blues Ella Fitzgerald, ‘Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas’ (1960) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-not-famous-christmas-albums-do-you-listen-to/993653.md?page=2)