What is your favorite holiday tune?

[geminibear]

For personal reasons:

Colorado Christmas, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band!

 

 

Paints a different landscape for you Weho types

 

[BabyBoomer]

"Merry Christmas, Darling" by The Carpenters.

 

~ Boomer ~

[+ Funguy]

Santa Baby

[+ azdr0710]

Sorta sappy, but I like Andy Williams's version of "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year".

 

Very upbeat!!...Crank that volume!!....If you need a lift for the season, click here!

 

9.3 million views on youtube!....EDIT: now approaching 10 million views!

 

[bigvalboy]

Thanks GB for the post...My 2 all time favorites are from the same all time favorite Christmas album by Mahalia Jackson.

Go tell it on the Mountain and Silent Night Holy night by Mahalia Jackson

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m689cNt0atg

 

[+ nycman]

Christmas after Christmas as a working student, too poor to go home and dreaming

about heading to the grocery store and running into "that guy I've been chasing all year!"

 

 

"You mean you forgot cranberries too?".....

 

Alas it never really happened.....but I LOVED dreaming about it!

[+ Archer]

Christmas in the Northwest by Brenda White and The Christmas Shoes by NewSong.

[RussJohnson]

There is no better holiday album than Phil Spector's - A Christmas Gift For You, Darlene Love's songs are the highlights but the others are not slouching either.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovspZNWs1Xg

 

On the opposite end of the spectrum Tori Amos' - Midwinter Graces. "Star of Wonder" being the most popular one, but my favorite being "A Silent Night With You". An ultimately happy but subdued holiday song.

 

 

[+ Funguy]

Darlene Love used to be on Letterman every Christmas Season singing her rendition of "Santa Baby." It was outstanding!

[Zman]

I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas (and Only a Hippopotamus Will Do)

[seaboy4hire]

Santa Baby. Ms.Kitt did it best. Madonna was darn good. Taylor Swift sucks cheesey donkey balls.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ quoththeraven]

Depends. I mostly like traditional carols. In approximate chronological order:

 

Riu riu chiu (have sung this), Boston Camerata

Gaudete, Boston Camerata or Steeleye Span

Lo, how a rose e'er blooming, Harry Simeone Chorale

What child is this?, Joan Baez

Oh Holy Night, Joan Baez

In the Bleak Midwinter

Carol of the Bells

Little Drummer Boy, Harry Simeone Chorale

The Christmas Song, Nat King Cole

 

That's without checking my Christmas CDs.

[mike carey]

Gaudete, Boston Camerata or Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span for me. I love Maddy Prior's voice.

Gaudete, Gaudete, Christus est natus Ex Maria Virgine, Gaudete!

 

I really like a version of Minuit, Chrétiens: Cantique de Noël (aka Oh Holy Night) by Australian soprano Yvonne Kenny, with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. It's on a 1999 CD of carols.

[rocky]

Darlene Love used to be on Letterman every Christmas Season singing her rendition of "Santa Baby." It was outstanding!

I second vote for Darlene Love, chokes me up every time..

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

My favorite church hymn is O Little Town of Bethlehem. And I have fond memories of my grandfather singing Stille Nacht in his first language.

[+ bashful]

Martina McBride, O Holy Night

 

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=martina+mcbride+o+holy+night

[TruHart1]

Right now, the following parody is among my faves!!! :D;)

 

TruHart1

[+ WmClarke]

The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl - "Fairytale of New York"

 

[seaboy4hire]

Right now, the following parody is among my faves!!! :D;)

 

TruHart1

 

My second least fave Xmas song. Puke.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[+ WmClarke]

Darlene Love used to be on Letterman every Christmas Season singing her rendition of "Santa Baby." It was outstanding!

It was "Christmas, Baby Please Come Home" - never felt it was Christmastime until I saw it. This year I will have no Christmas.

[+ WilliamM]

 

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone" Joan Baez in Hanoi during Nixon's Christmas bombing Dec. 1972.

 

I understand it is not a Christmas song, but I was in a small town in West Germany during the Christmas bombing and Baez's trip to North Vietnam. She took chances that most people would not have taken. Brave woman to me, in a very cold Christmas, almost alone w/ my boy friend near Frankfurt.

[+ honcho]

It might be worth mentioning that the night Harvey Milk was shot, Joan Baez was at the gathering in front of City Hall.

[geminibear]

Bing Crosby - I'll Be Home For Christmas

 

Bing Crosby - Do You Hear What I Hear

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxO3MvfkKp4

[+ quoththeraven]

Bing Crosby - I'll Be Home For Christmas

 

 

Bing Crosby - Do You Hear What I Hear

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxO3MvfkKp4

 

I knew I was forgetting one. "I'll be Home for Christmas" is very moving and meaningful, but it's "Do You Hear What I Hear" that I particularly like.

 

Joan Baez's album Noel is a classic.

[+ WilliamM]

Joan Baez's album Noel is a classic.

 

I have been so lucky to see Joan Baez perform in person at least once in every decade since the 1960s. The first time was in Boston in 1963. She is a national treasure for her singing and here willingness to support so, so many important political causes.

 

On the day after John Kennedy's assassination, I spent a good part of the day listening to Baez's records.

Even though I lived in Massachuetts I was less upset that most people (perhaps because I was more used to sudden death). But, I still was very upset, Baez helped.