# What's your favorite holiday music and performer? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 30, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602 "2002-11-30T05:35:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freyr/32/5763_2.png) [@Freyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freyr)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/1 "2002-11-30T05:35:10Z")
What’s your favorite piece of Holiday music? Who’s your favorite performer? My all-time favorite is the classic, _Deck the Halls_, tho a good runner-up would be _Carol the Bells_. I especially love it when performed by _Manneheim Steamroller_ What about the rest of you? What are your favorites? Who do you like them performed by? ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/2 "2002-11-30T11:03:35Z")
I love the entire Christmas CD by The Temptations, can’t remember the name. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/3 "2002-11-30T11:11:21Z")
My favorite piece is also “Carol of the Bells.” My favorite Christmas album of the moment is the Charlie Brown Christmas album. We listened to it during Thanksgiving dinner. Mighty fine… ---
**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 30, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/4 "2002-11-30T13:56:47Z")
My favorite album is “A Broadway Christmas.” It is outstanding. My favorite song is “When Children Rule the World.” My favorite funny song use to be “I Don’t Remember Christmas” on the above mentioned CD. Then I heard Carols for A Cure 2001 with the cast of Urinetown singing “Little Davey Dinkle.” It does not get any better than that. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/5 "2002-11-30T16:07:10Z")
I hate that skank Mariah Carey, but her rendition of “O Holy Night” completely blows me away. For the last few years it’s been my favorite carol. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/6 "2002-11-30T18:00:49Z")
Tuck Andress’ (of Tuck and Patti) Hymns, Carols, and Songs About Snow. His guitar playing is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/7 "2002-11-30T19:30:42Z")
Anything by Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Although I sometimes find the arrangements annoying, I do appreciate the abilities of Mannheim Steamroller. ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/8 "2002-11-30T19:35:59Z")
My favorite is also _O Holy Night_. I like The Trans-Siberian Orchastra a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/9 "2002-11-30T19:45:42Z")
My fave would have to be Little Drummer Boy, I don’t really have a fave version of it though. Any recommendations? Oh and just for kicks I love the Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas Carols (Carol of the Drunks, Police Stop My Car, Grandpa Got Run Over By A Beertruck…) ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/10 "2002-11-30T19:51:49Z")
My favorite Christmas Carol is O Holy Night as well. This year, my favorite album as been “A Charlie Brown Christmas” soundtrack by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/11 "2002-11-30T19:53:17Z")
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, as performed by John Denver and Rowlf the Dog. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/12 "2002-11-30T23:50:53Z")
_Do You Hear What I Hear?_ Anything by Manheim Steamroller. In fact, I think I’m off to start an appreciation thread… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/13 "2002-12-01T00:01:11Z")
The only two Christmas albums I have are Johnny Mathis’ 1959 _Merry Christmas_ and John Denver’s Christmas album he did with the Muppets. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-holiday-music-and-performer/139602/14 "2002-12-01T22:12:26Z")
Trans-Siberian Orchastra and Mannheim Steamroller are good in any of their Christmas albums (and good in non-Christmas albums too, come to think of it), but my favorite is from when I was pretty young, and would dance around with my stuffed animals to Amy Grant’s _Emanuel_.