Your favorite rendition of Christmas songs.

[the ringo kid]

Been thinking on this for awhile and was wondering what version of your favorite Christmas songs were.

Mine are:

White Christmas by Bing Crosby.
Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Gene Autry.
Christmas Dream by Perry Como.
Oh Tannenbaum by Nat King Cole.

And more by some of the above as well as some by Roy Rogers and Burl Ives.
There are others of course, but these are mandatory. I will say, I ABSOLUTELY detest--any Christmas song sung by John Lennon. Reason being-he is TOO depressing!!!!!

 

[Talldog]

I love the first two Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums: Christmas and A Fresh Aire Christmas. Silent Night, O Holy Night and Greensleeves are some of the most beautiful versions of those songs I've ever heard.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Santa Baby by Madonna. She does it better than Eartha Kitt.

 

[Gulfecho]

Bob Seager's Little Drummer Boy

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HunMWscVwJU[/ame]

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I do love the Elvis Christmas album!
But I like some others too!


Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - YouTube

 

[vytoland]

some of my favorite christmas tunes.....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCTeXUkTFwQ&index=5&list=PL08AD93097F196033[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKXZN36aEmY&index=6&list=PL08AD93097F196033[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TUWU_yg4s&index=8&list=PL08AD93097F196033[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sEP5_7DMu0[/ame]

 

[walkin jack]

Im more a traditionalist. I prefer versions by Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Robert Goulet, Rose Mary Clooney, Johnny Mathis, etc. I also like orchestral arrangements with no singers.

 

[Bill Raby]

I hate Christmas music. Only thing worse it rap music and that hippity hoppity stuff.

 

[Engineer1911]

I hate Christmas music. Only thing worse it rap music and that hippity hoppity stuff.

Well, aren't you just big ol' mug of Christmas Joy and Happiness !

 

[Rustyt1953]

Christmas in Sarajevo: Trans Siberian Orchestra

Father Christmas: ELP

The Christmas Song: Mel Torme

War is Over: John Lennon

All I want for Christmas is you: Mariah Carey

Santa Claus is coming to town: Springsteen

Have yourself a merry little Christmas: Bennett, Buble or Sinatra

Rudolph: Burl Ives

A bunch of others

 

[Rustyt1953]

I hate Christmas music. Only thing worse it rap music and that hippity hoppity stuff.

Merry Christmas anyway, sunshine.

 

[carpriver]

not a fan of Christmas, it has gotten to be all about the gifts, how much to spend, who deserves what, who parents house do you visit. I like Advent, lighting a candle each week in church wait for the arrival of the child. Music does not cheer me up. I am Just A old guy that misses the simple joy of Xmas.

 

[tlawler]

I hate Christmas music. Only thing worse it rap music and that hippity hoppity stuff.

Bah Humbug to you too, sir.

The one song I have to hear every year to put me in the Christmas spirit is Bruce Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” The sooner in the year I hear it, the sooner I’m fully in the spirit. I don’t go out of my way to play it or anything, just when it comes up on the radio or in a store’s background holiday music. Some years I’ve gone up to the week before Christmas before I hear it, some years near the beginning of December. This year I heard it the day after Thanksgiving while my daughters and I put up the tree and got all the decorations out of the attic, a yearly Black Friday tradition for us. I took it as an omen that’s it’s going to be a very Merry Christmas.

I know...weird, huh?

I really like all Christmas music. The traditional stuff makes me wax nostalgic for the Christmases of my boyhood when as soon as it was light enough out, we brought our new bicycles and toys out and played with them and all the neighborhood kids and their new stuff. The newer music including the myriad of remakes of traditional songs is more upbeat and lively and keeps me in the Christmas mood... but not until I first hear the Boss!

 

[hsguy]

I really like this one.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29xmRpdIzPQ[/ame]

 

[FifthWheel]

David Bowie and Bing doing Little Drummer Boy together. There is a Youtube video and my wife loves it, I do too.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbJLo4x-tk[/ame]

 

[Beemerguy53]

not a fan of Christmas, it has gotten to be all about the gifts, how much to spend, who deserves what, who parents house do you visit. I like Advent, lighting a candle each week in church wait for the arrival of the child. Music does not cheer me up. I am Just A old guy that misses the simple joy of Xmas.

I'm a fan of what Christmas should be, not what it has become. I think it's truly sad that an important religious holiday has become a secular event devoted to materialism.

I don't decorate my home beyond setting out a Nativity scene, and I don't put up a tree, or lights, or candles in the window. I do give gifts to family and close friends, but I ask them to donate to a charity instead of giving me gifts.

I keep it simple, and I try to stay within the true spirit of this season....

 

[oneounceload]

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer...............

 

[Beemerguy53]

Now then...since this thread is about Christmas music...

James Keelaghan is one of my favorite musicians, and recorded this gem with his friends for last Christmas.

I love the blending of cultures here: A French tune, with lyrics written by an Englishman, sung in a Caribbean beat by Canadians, using Irish bagpipes and African drums...enjoy!

Angels We Have Heard On High – Keeloweb

 

[Squarebutt]

Kathy Mattea singing "Mary Did You Know" and this one: https://video.search.yahoo.com/sear...f53edcf17b6af9e7477d63727b7bae4e&action=click
And an old favorite: [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVwceVBY-HE[/ame]

 

[ContinentalOp]

Generally not a fan of Christmas music, but there are some I like. Most of them are original, alternative songs, though. I do like this cover of a more "traditional" Christmas song. The ending is cute.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsat4e8jgHA[/ame]