I heard this today on the radio, and I’ve never heard it before, so it’s new to me!
It was in 3/4 time, in either Renaissance style or an imitation of it. (It might be from the 1500s…or it might be modern.) It was in ballad format, telling the Christmas story. The only line I remember is… “And because Joseph was a just man…” (I don’t remember the rest, but it was how he married Mary.)
Not a lot to go on, I guess…but anyone?
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An attractive media executive quit her job few years ago and now writes only Christmas music. One of her songs I really like, it’s fun and catchy.
Here is an article about her from Billboard.
Here is the video link to my favorite song of hers.
Fa La La
“December Song”-George Michael
[/QUOTE]I should have mentioned the artist: Elizabeth Chan- "Fa La La :smack:
Another new one:
Colbie Caillat: "Christmas in the Sand"
I’ll take a stab at it, is it "Forgiveness is A Miracle(A Song For Joseph) or “Mary’s Boy Child”?
Oh yes because “try to make a new, if not, the new standard” is an inherently bad thing to do. God forbid if any singer or songwriter composes their own Christmas music, that would be bad. Heck if they came out and said that they hoped their new Christmas tune would be a classic in twenty years time, I would not have an issue with it.
Look I’m not trying to pick on you, and I get where you are coming from. But I view your opinion odd, why is Christmas songs any worse and suspect than regular songs?
I personally am sick and tired of people, especially long established has been artists like Rod Stewart, releasing a CD of Christmas covers. Way too easy, boring, and if I were very suspicious, would think it was a weak attempt to make easy money and or a comeback.
If I were a music artist, damn right I would release my own original Christmas song, rather than another cover of old standards. I am all for covers of Christmas tunes, it further establishes that song as a Christmas classic. But there is a limit to it.
Come up with your own Christmas song and hope to make it a classic! Kudos to Mariah Carey and George Michael! Hope Adele releases a new Christmas tune next year, an original.
I’d never heard either of those before! They’re both quite nice!
They aren’t the one I’m looking for, alas. It was more renaissance-era (either actually or neo-ren) and more “ballad-like” in the lyrics.
But thank you anyway: my horizons are broader now I’ve heard those two!
It also sounds like it could be “The Cherry Tree Carol” (Renaissance-era, 3/4 time, “Now Joseph was an old man and an old man was he, he courted Virgin Mary, the maid of Galilee…”)
I am so with you on that. My wife and I call it a Christmas cash grab.
I generally don’t like Christmas music at all as most of it is a style that I wouldn’t listen to any other time of year, so why would I listen to for a specific one month period of the year? The only Christmas music I can take are the jazz versions.
I like both of these very much. Probably my favorite recent Christmas songs.
There are hundred of new Christmas songs released each year.
They become “classic” when they start to be covered by other artists because of their popularity, and you start hearing the covers on rotation at Christmastime on the radio and in stores.
“Last Christmas” by WHAM! has been covered by Jimmy Eat World, Taylor Swift, and the cast of Glee, among others, so I would say it is a new classic.