What is Your Favortie Christmas Song?

[sally1112]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 5:19pm

As I have been house cleaning today I have been enjoying all my favorite Christmas cds. This has me wondering, what is your favorite Christmas song and who do you think performs it best?

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 5:32pm

Little St. Nick, by the Beach Boys. I never fail to turn up the radio when it comes on.

Christmas Wrapping, by the Waitresses, and good ol' White Christmas, Bing Crosby-style, are close seconds.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 5:33pm

Try this
The Greatest Christmas Song Ever

[sally1112]

Posted: 12/13/08 at 5:47pm

I really love the Bing Crosby/David Bowie "Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth song, but the version on the Broadway Cares Album, "Home for the Holidays" with Anthony Rapp and Everett Bradely may be a better version. It is what inspired this thread.

[kec]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:37am

"I Wonder as I Wander" is one of my top choices, but I love all Christmas songs.

[tommyboy]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 9:51am

"Have a Holly-Jolly Christmas"

What the H-E-double hockey-sticks is a Holly Jolly Christmas anyway????

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 5:12pm

I'm a really big fan of The Coventry Carol. (And I've never heard another person call it their favorite... in my head, it's very specifically MINE). I also really love O Holy Night.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 5:35pm

Silent Night

And a Christmas song that always makes me laugh: Santa Lost a Ho

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 5:45pm

Merry Christmas Darling and Ave Maria both recorded by the Carpenters.

[kover22]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:15pm

My favorite Christmas songs are "Christmas Is The Time to say I Love You" by Billy Squire and "Do You Know Hear what I Hear".

My favorite Christmas album though is Michael Balls christmas cd.

Updated On: 12/14/08 at 11:15 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:28pm

Anything sung by Karen Carpenter.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/14/08 at 11:29pm

Kinda shocked no one said this:

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" as sung by Judy.

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:23am

"O Holy Night"--my old minister's version

[vbplayer]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:37am

Ah, I love all of your choices. Also..."Grown-Up Christmas List" - Natalie Cole. And I second anything by the Carpenters.

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:56am

Kay Starr singing Everybody's Waiting For The Man With The Bag.

[jenna2]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 1:04am

Robert Downey Jr. singing a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River".

As far as entire Christmas albums though, Rockapella's "Christmas" and the Barenaked Ladies' "Barenaked for the Holidays" are definite favourites.

[EVIE]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 11:23am

Tie btwn O Holy Night and The Little Drummer Boy.

[humbugfoto]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 11:30am

My new favorite version of O Holy Night:
O Holy Night/Noche Sagrada

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:13pm

The entire John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album
"Christmas Baby (Please Come Home)" U2's version
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee

[Dollypop]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:32pm

"Carol of the Bells"

I attended a Boston Pops concert on Saturday night and they performed a new arrangement of "12 Days of Christmas" which had different musical quotations and parodies for each new gift. There was a reference to Beethoven's Fifth for 5 gold rings and music from THE MAGIC FLUTE for the pipers piping. The swans-a-swimming had music from SWAN LAKE and it went on and on. It was absolutely brilliant and the audience stood anc cheered at the end.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 12/17/08 at 3:30am

The entire John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album

I agree.

That's been one of my favorite Christmas albums for ages now. I still have the cassette tape floating somewhere around my house.

And while I do love traditional Christmas songs, I also love ones that are not typically carols:

"A Thankful Heart"
https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1arHlfbdy8A

"It Feels Like Christmas"
https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rYoO3xmmyqk
This song just warms my heart.

[Jack King]

Posted: 12/17/08 at 5:44am

I was surprise to find out that "Do You Hear What I Hear" was composed in October 1962 in hopes of turning away the possible war very close to U.S. soil from the Cuban Missile Crisis. The melody was composed by Noel Regney with words by his wife Gloria Shayne Baker. The Harry Simeone Chorale had the first recording.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/17/08 at 6:59am

O, Holy Night
Carol Of The Bells
Grown Up Christmas List
Baby Got Back

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 12/17/08 at 7:02am

My First Christmas As a Woman by The Vandals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxo-DJ6d7c for the unclean and ignorant.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/17/08 at 7:02am

Oh, and I love that song by the Pogues. I think it's called Christmas In New York.


ETA: It's called Fairytale Of New York

Take a listen

Updated On: 12/17/08 at 07:02 AM