# Winter Holiday Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732 "2008-12-04T20:22:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/21 "2008-12-05T16:42:38Z")
How about [Hot Buttered Rum](http://originalredclayramblers.com/tributes2.htm) by the Red Clay Ramblers? Christmas is mentioned, but winter is the subject. Or maybe love. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/22 "2008-12-05T16:44:52Z")
> [@](#): > > “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve” by Mindy Smith What, and nobody’s mentioned Auld Lang Syne yet? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/23 "2008-12-05T22:53:22Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > The traditional carol [Good King Wenceslas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41rmb_dhqmM), while definitely a _Christian_ song, has nothing specifically to do with _Christmas_. (The Feast of Stephen is Dec. 26.) But the feast of Saint Stephen falls during the Christmas octave, and so it’s certainly a carol of the Christmas liturgical season. A similar example is the [Coventry Carol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Carol), which relates to the massacre of the Holy Innocents (feast day 28 December). ---
**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/24 "2008-12-13T19:44:52Z")
Any suggestions of CDs for an anti-ipod luddite? I have about 20 XMas CDs of which I like about 10 of them, the latest being Adventions: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/CdUjFYd8J78/hqdefault.jpg "Still - Manu Delago, Klaus Falschlunger & Alex Mayer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdUjFYd8J78) To give you an idea of what’s in rotation, we have a two Windam Hills Winter Solstice (V and IV), Music to drive the cold winter away, Christmas Island, Crosby Sinatra Cole, Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Charlie Brown,. Any good/eclectic/classic suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/25 "2008-12-13T20:02:30Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [Valley Winter Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctu406Wa2Ik) by Fountains of Wayne (also heard on the new LL Bean commercials) Fountains’s Adam Schlesinger also co-wrote a funny Hanukkah for the Stephen Colbert Christmas special called _Can I Interest You In Hannukah?_ (“THEY ARE CANDLES!” makes me laugh every time.") ---
**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:** [December 13, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/26 "2008-12-13T20:26:15Z")
I like “Hannukah Blessings” by the Barenaked Ladies, off their _Barenaked for the Holidays_ album; it’s rather melodic and moving. On that album, they also do “Hannukah, Oh Hannukah” and “I Have a Little Dreidel”, plus a rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” for New Year’s. The song “Snowman” off that album is a melancholy look at a snowman’s life. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/27 "2008-12-13T20:29:38Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > Fountains’s Adam Schlesinger also co-wrote a funny Hanukkah for the Stephen Colbert Christmas special called _Can I Interest You In Hannukah?_ (“THEY ARE CANDLES!” makes me laugh every time.") On that thought, I added Elvis Costello’s “(What’s So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding” to my Christmas playlist. Three Dog Night’s “Joy to the World” is a fun alternate “version” of the song to substitute. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/28 "2008-12-13T23:12:33Z")
**I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm** (Irving Berlin), sung by Sinatra and others. **[A Winter’s Solstice](http://www.amazon.com/Winters-Solstice-Silver-Anniversary/dp/B00005NNDN/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1229209389&sr=1-5)**, in all of its various incarnations. **The Long Long Winter Night** , Edvard Grieg **In Gabriel’s Garden** , Wynton Marsalis: this isn’t Christmas (or even winter music, for that matter), but it makes you think of the season anyway. It’s all brilliant trumpet work on baroque classics. **The Four Seasons** (winter portion), Vivaldi ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732/29 "2008-12-14T05:48:39Z")
There’s Linda Rondstadt’s [Winter Light](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA_NHJL8EmE) Sandy Denney’s [Winter Winds](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTL-YMkvEZ4) Peter Mayer’s “Winter Woods” > [@](#): > > In excelsis to the cold/hosannas to the sky [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-holiday-songs/475732.md?page=1)