My Advent Calendar

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 10:12pm

I've decided to play one special Christmas song each day for my Advent Calendar. Here's my list. What's yours?


1 - Jingle Bells - Barbra Streisand
2 - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autrey
3 - Silver Bells - Bing Crosby & Carol Richards
4 - C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S - Del Rubio Triplets
5 - A New York Christmas - Rob Thomas
6 - Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt
7 - Run Rudolph Run - Bryan Adams
8 - The Coventry Carol - Alison Moyet
9 - Frosty the Snowman - Ella Fitzgerald
10 - Christmastime is Here (Charlie Brown Christmas theme)- Vince Guaraldi Trio
11 - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
12 - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting...) Nat King Cole
13 - It Feels Like Christmas - Cyndi Lauper
14 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - John Cougar Mellencamp
15 - Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives
16 - Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters
17 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - The Pointer Sisters
18 - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland
19 - Carol of the Bells - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
20 - O Holy Night - Josh Groban
21 - Christmas Canon - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
22 - O Come All Ye Faithful - Andy Williams
23 - Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Robert Shaw Chorale
24 - Silent Night - Stevie Nicks
25 - Joy to the World - Julie Andrews

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 11:06pm

What?! No "Little Drummer Boy"?!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 11:38pm

That is a truly spectacular list, Goth. Just lovely.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 11:39pm

I wanted to put Bing Crosby's "Little Drummer Boy" but I really like the harmony on "Silver Bells." I only allowed one selection for an artist. It was also hard to pick from Julie Andrews' several songs.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 11:57pm

You mean the "Peace on Earth" duet he did with David Bowie? You could've just credited it to Bowie.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 10:13am

My favorite Christmas song is "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Currently, my favorite version is the one by the Carpenters.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 11:42am

"Bishop Nick Baines of Croydon said "all sorts of fantasies have grown up around Christmas" that leave many people thinking of the celebration as "nothing more than some sort of fairy story."
In his new book, "Why Wish You a Merry Christmas," Baines cites the line in "Away in a Manger" that goes "no crying He makes," and wonders, "How can any adult sing this without embarrassment?"

"It's nonsense," he says, adding that he finds it "slightly bizarre" that parents could sing that carol "as if it actually related to reality."

For good measure, the bishop attacks another well-loved Christmas hymn, "O Come, All Ye Faithful," suggesting that it should more accurately be called "O Come All Ye Faithless."

Baines noted that it was not the "faithful" but the shepherds — "the great unwashed," as he described them — and the "pagan" Wise Men who went to see the baby Jesus.

The bishop describes such Christmas fantasies as "nothing short of tragic, because nothing could be further from the truth.""
Blast you pagans!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 11:47am

"My favorite Christmas song is "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

I love that song too. We sang it in church as children.

Unfortunately Whitney Houston came along and recorded her "11:00 number" version and it was played so much I began to get sick of it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 8:48pm

What about "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"?

[Q]

Posted: 12/5/09 at 9:41pm

So this is really what you consider an appropriate celebration of ADVENT?!?

Pretty songs, yes - but the focus seems to be somewhat skewed as has to do with the religious period of Advent.