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The Greatest Christmas CD...with one stipulation...

Posted: 11/10/04 at 10:44pm

I want to buy a Christmas CD for the holidays.

Any suggestions for 'one' great CD?

There is one stipulation, however: IT MUST INCLUDE "CAROL OF THE BELLS." My favorite!

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Posted: 11/10/04 at 11:01pm

Ok, I know I'm overlooking your one stipulation, but I would recommend The Chieftains' "Bells of Dublin." I'm not a big fan of Christmas CDs, or the holiday season in general, but I do enjoy this CD...good fun, and a bit of a switch from the traditional holiday fare!

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Posted: 11/10/04 at 11:52pm

ALso ignoring you stipulation Capt...Nancy LaMott -- "Just in Time for Christmas" -- it goes in the CD player on T-Day and is in there through New Year...my FAVORITE of all....

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:02am

The Carpenters. :)

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:10am

the SOUTH PARK Xmas record I made with Trey Parker, "MR. HANKEY'S XMAS CLASSICS" is most definitely the greatest Christmas CD available...and has 'Mr. Garrison's' version of "Carol Of The Bells" to boot!!

I assure you, such modern classics as MR HANKEY THE CHRISTMAS POO, CHRISTMAS TIME IN HELL, DEAD DEAD DEAD, THE LONELY JEW ON CHRISTMAS, the ultimate arrangemnet of MY DREIDEL, and THE WORLD'S MOST OFFENSIVE SONG will brighten ANY Holiday season

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Updated On: 11/11/04 at 12:10 AM

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:13am

The Carpenters AND The Osmond Family Christmas. No holiday is ever complete without the Osmonds!

BUT, if you want to be difficult with your damn bells, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is just peachy.

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:24am

Mr. Shaiman, you beat me to it. The minute i read that it had to include Carol of the Bells, I thought of South Park.

I'm rather fond of the Swiss Colony Beef Log song as well.

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 1:07am

Trans-Siberian Orchestra, sigh

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 1:21am

I second the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. They have several cds and they are ALL faboo!

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#10

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 2:05am

They trip the light fandangle

#11

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:41am

KMF - I knew I liked you for a reason! I love the Nancy Lamott CD - I gave it to several people for christmas one year - its the best blend of different styles of christmas tunes you'll ever hear - and her rendition of I'll be home for Christmas never fails to make me cry.
Second to that, I'd choose one or both of the available Julie Andrews Christmas collections - they are amazing also!

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#12

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:50am

I shall always be partial to The Messiah, but then again, i'm a big fan of Baroque music... Besides that, my favorites are Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as well as The Roches "We Three Kings", Natalie Cole's "Holly & Ivy", and Loreena McKennitt's "To Drive The Cold Winter Away"...

Updated On: 11/11/04 at 08:50 AM

#13

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 8:56am

The Carpenters is my all time favorite Christmas CD...Nancy LaMott's is wonderful too.

If you like the Barenaked Ladies..they do a rendition of "Carol of the Bells" on their CD titled...Barenaked for the Holidays

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#14

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 9:05am

Mr. Shaiman...

All the way down and All the way back from visiting my parents for Thanksgiving and Christmas, my brother plays that South Park Christmas Album. Mr. Hanky and the whole crew... This has been going on the last 3 years and this month it will happen again. It's a 15-hr drive one way...and we do it in one day...

I'm an Osmond, Carpenter, Mormon Tabernacle Choir fan, myself...
Those don't get air time...We hear South Park (and similar types of albums...) Oh no...I can even hear Mr. Hanky singing...

And, I am never able to hear "O Holy Night" without hearing the south park cast...

MAKE IT STOP!
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Updated On: 11/11/04 at 09:05 AM

#15

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:39am

joey,

The Vince Guaraldi cd is my all-time favorite. Nothing captured the melancholy of Xmas.

Also, there is a CD called A CABARET CHRISTMAS that is quite wonderful.

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#16

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:44am

Nancy LaMott fan here too K....but my favorite is the Chipmunk Christmas Album, of course!

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#17

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:47am

"THE LONELY JEW ON CHRISTMAS"
omg i love that song!!

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#18

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:48am

This is a fun Christmas CD too...

http://store.yahoo.com/broadwaycares/brgrgicaforc.html

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#19

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:55am

Also available from Broadway Cares is the delightful CABARET NOEL - recorded way back in 1993 with a couple dozen great Broadway and cabaret stars.

#20

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:29am

Marc - My favorite version of Dreidel was with the three-part harmony at the benefit in Chicago. Do you know what happened with the DVD? I paid for one in advance and I was so looking forward to hearing that arrangement of Dreidel again (as well as Black Don't Crack). I'm gonna have to call Gentry, I guess.

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#21

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:34am

"The Lonely Jew"

*flashes on 15-hr car ride. Begins to weep"

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#22

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Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:48am

I've always liked the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas music. The link is to the CD that includes Carol of the Bells. You can listen to smaples.
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#23

x-mas, baby, swing it!

Posted: 11/11/04 at 11:54am

carol of the bells shmarol of the bells!

the most fabulous christmas ever

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00001OHAL/qid=1100192022/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-0348754-3057749?v=glance&s=music

or equally wonderful

the ventures christmas album

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002Z9K/qid=1100192105/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-0348754-3057749

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#24

x-mas, baby, swing it!

Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:22pm

The Carpenters Christmas Portrait is still my favorite Christmas 'album'. It does have "Carol of the Bells" on it.

#25

x-mas, baby, swing it!

Posted: 11/11/04 at 12:32pm

Point of Grace, "A Christmas Story"

Has a medly of "Carol of the Bells" and "What Child is This."

The cd is a perfect blend of the sacred and the secular.

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