Montrose1100 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 What are your favorite Holiday songs? "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is my numero uno. Check out this glass armonica Ben Franklin playin' fool. http://youtu.be/eQemvyyJ--g Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas" is a close second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryDierker Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 What are your favorite Holiday songs? "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" is my numero uno. Check out this glass armonica Ben Franklin playin' fool. http://youtu.be/eQemvyyJ--g Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas" is a close second. those are two good ones. The mariah carey song is the last good Christmas song ever recorded IMO.I always liked 'Little drummer Boy'.also 'White Christmas' and 'I'll be Home For Christmas' by Bing Crosby. And of course Willie singing Pretty Paper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted December 5, 2014 Author Share Posted December 5, 2014 those are two good ones. The mariah carey song is the last good Christmas song ever recorded IMO.I always liked 'Little drummer Boy'.also 'White Christmas' and 'I'll be Home For Christmas' by Bing Crosby. And of course Willie singing Pretty PaperI agree. Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" is good, only because it's extremely synth-o-spectacular. I disliked it as a child but appreciate now as an adult. I can't stand Jessica Simpson's Christmas album. Especially her remake of "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Nick Lachey. It makes me angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
august948 Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Eartha Kitt - "Santa Baby" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMyF9fDKzE Others have done it but none can compare to the original. Worst of all is Taylor Swift's pop-isized version. It's like a girl doing a woman's job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Adam Sandler doesn't get any mention? For Thanksgiving, there is of course, Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 those are two good ones. The mariah carey song is the last good Christmas song ever recorded IMO.I always liked 'Little drummer Boy'.also 'White Christmas' and 'I'll be Home For Christmas' by Bing Crosby.You mentioned Bing Crosby and also The little drummer boy song.There is a documentary on PBS this month about Bing Crosby- towards the end there is a blurb about he and David Bowie set to sing a duet for Bings Christmas special. But apparently Bowie hated the drummer boy song and refused the duet, confiding that the reason he did the special at all was because his "Mum" loved Bing Crosby. The writer got together to formulate a new set of lyrics for Bowies part in the duet . . . . . InterestingThat duet became very famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Favorite hymn - O Holy Night.Favorite Christmas albums - The sappy Manheim Steamroller stuff or strait new age piano like David Lanz' Christmas album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samagon Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 is it the southpark version of O Holy Night, or just the song itself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 is it the southpark version of O Holy Night, or just the song itself? Cartman's version is especially magical.. but any version will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Most sentimental Christmas song: Nat King Cole's Christmas Song - Most repeat plays of a complete CD during Holiday Season: Vince Guaraldi Trio: A Charlie Brown Christmas - Most popular genres of Christmas music: Jazz/Lounge/Big Band/Choral/Classical/New Age Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Dent May's "I'll Be Stoned For Christmas" is an instant classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trymahjong Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Not sure I can name a favorite but there is a catchy tune that seems to stick in my head whether I want it to or not so it's really the first Christmas song I think of. . . I want a hippopotamus for ChristmasHmmmThe little girl (Gayla Peevy) who originally recorded it is from my hometown ( Okc) it got a lot of airtime on local radio when I was a kid and even now the local TV station go out every Christmas to interview her and ask her to sing a bit of it accapella - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I mainly like the really old ones (not surprisingly ). I think it is because that is what my folks mainly listened to. Ones that come to mind are God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Silver Bells Carol of the Bells Oh Christmas Tree Angels We Have Heard on High Good King Wenceslas We Three Kings It Came Upon a Midnight Clear It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year The First Noel Let it Snow Do You Hear What I Hear? If I had to compose my Christmas in Hell list, the carols Satan would play incessantly would include: Happy Christmas (War is Over) Last Christmas (George Michael) Another Auld Lang Syne (New Years, but close) Do They Know It's Christmas Time at All? ("feed the world!") Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time (sorry, Montrose1100!) Santa Baby (sorry, August948!) Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Blue Christmas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 S'Dude, you forgot Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer for your Christmas in Hell list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 S'Dude, you forgot Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer for your Christmas in Hell list. Ouch. And of course "Last Christmas" by Wham!. The horror, oh the horror.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 "Last Christmas" by Wham!. The horror, oh the horror.. (****shudder......****) That almost makes McCartney's "A Wonderful Christmas Time" bearable. I said almost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted December 11, 2014 Author Share Posted December 11, 2014 What a bunch of Grinch's. Weren't some of you raving over synth-pop a couple threads down? "Santa Baby" is pretty awful, no matter who sings it... "Last Christmas" is over played. Maybe it was pure coincidence, but last year I couldn't escape it. It was EVERYWHERE. Every store, radio station, elevator. I almost went mad. I use to like it. But now it's like the looney tunes theme for that baby sitter from hell (Curb your Enthusiasm). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 OKden... howzabout a fave of mine that brings back all sorts of memories... Hallelujah everybody say "cheese"... Feliz Navidad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 As a child, I remember 102 playing the snot out of this during the Christmas season. Having it beat into your head should make you dislike it, but how can you hate the Temps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed_Tx Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 mine is the last song they play before they switch back to regular programming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted December 20, 2014 Author Share Posted December 20, 2014 Ray Coniff's "frost the snowman" is magic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollusk Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 An article on how much it costs to buy all the stuff in the Christmas songs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 What a bunch of Grinch's. Weren't some of you raving over synth-pop a couple threads down? "Santa Baby" is pretty awful, no matter who sings it... "Last Christmas" is over played. Maybe it was pure coincidence, but last year I couldn't escape it. It was EVERYWHERE. Every store, radio station, elevator. I almost went mad. I use to like it. But now it's like the looney tunes theme for that baby sitter from hell (Curb your Enthusiasm). In 2010, I went to Florida before Christmas, and I must have heard "All I Want for Christmas Is You" at least 2 times and I think a third. The first perp was the Burger King there at Kress and Interstate 10. (Yes, I did bump this thread post-Christmas. My lights are still up) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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