I would love to hear everyone's favorite Christmas songs and the reasons why. It could be a great memory with a loved one, your favorite gift received, your first memory of Christmas as a kid, etc... They could be serious songs or novelty songs it's all your choice! Either way - Buon Natale and let's have some fun with this! Who wants to go first?

When I was a kid my favorite was O Come All Ye Faithful -- I think because of the melody (and the fact I learned it on the organ).

Now my favorite is O Holy Night because the singer at church would always send shivers down my spine with her rendition -- besides, it's a beautiful song!

For a change of pace, here's Weezer rockin' them both:

Elvis ~ Blue Christmas

Jose Feliciano ~ Felice Navidar

Bing Crosby ~ White Christmas

Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
Christmas in Hollis
The Christmas Song

And my absolute favorite is I'll Be Home For Christmas. When I was little, The King Family used to do holiday specials on TV. On the Christmas special, one of the King women sang that song to her son's photo. He was stationed in Viet Nam at the time, and they surprised her by having him walk onto the set during her number.

I was pretty little, so I didn't understand the concept of reruns, and for several years, I would rush to the TV set to see if they allowed him to come home again.

I'm not sure which is my favorite; there are so many. White Christmas, I guess. Along with that, All I Want for Christmas is You by the Valiants.

This is a pretty interesting article about Christmas songs that were written by people of Jewish background:

http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and...ongs_2010.shtml

It's an impressive list -- everything from White Christmas to Rudolph. This is by Johnny Marks:

Holly Jolly Christmas - One of my faves! I also like Lou Monte's; "Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey".

O Holy Night. I am a baritone in the choir, and baritones don't get solos (Thank God!). At midnight mass there was a fellow in our choir - a tenor - who would sing the opening of each verse and then the choir would come in on "fall on your knees...etc" for each verse. We would sing three verses. He had a very pure tenor voice and would be right on every time. The first time I sang in the choir for midnight mass(30 years ago), when the choir part came, I couldn't sing, I was too choked up with emotion. So "O Holy Night" will always be my favorite.

edit: PS and it was written by a Jewish guy.

MC,

O Holy Night is my favorite religious Christmas song. It's so beautiful.


Non religious songs Blue Christmas and Happy Christmas/War Is Over to name a couple.


TIS

Heard a song of "Silent night " as I was driven into town, by a female artist that was so different and I loved it.

TIS , yes Blue Christmas, by The King , EP is outstanding.

That time of year again. Here's a favorite of mine. It's from Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, and it's sure to offend Olivant's delicate sensibilities .

Andy Williams

Silent Night

Rage against the machine - Killing in the name of

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/20/rage-against-machine-christmas-number-1

Merry Christmas, I don't want to fight tonight...

Great song, pb! Pesci drops the F-Bomb more times in 3 minutes than he did in 3 hours of Casino!

DeNiro, you might enjoy this clip from The Colbert Report:
Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples & Sean Lennon - "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)"

Seeing that performance made me realize/remember that this is one of my favorite seasonal tunes.

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My other favorites (some copied from a post years back, since I still like them all!):

Please Come Home for Christmas - The Eagles

Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry

Christmas Waltz - Frank Sinatra

Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee

Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley

White Christmas - The Drifters

Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - Brian Setzer Orchestra

Nutcracker Suite - Brian Setzer Orchestra

gina is spinning the Christmas wax!!

Here's my favorite. Sung by Judy Garland, the original words were much "darker" and changed to a more "upbeat" song. Written during WWII this always reminds me of the greatest generation and the lines "Someday soon, we all will be together, If the fates allow, Until then, well have to muddle through somehow, So have yourself a merry little Christmas now", represents to me the families being split apart when loved ones went to war. Beautifully poignant and terrifically sung by Garland.

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O Holy Night ~ My all time fav.

Blue Christmas

Redneck Christmas

Let It Be Christmas

Oh yeah!

Your pick is a truly beautiful one, and the darker lyrics make it all the more stirring.

I think The Carpenters' "Merry Christmas, Darling" should be retitled "Music to Cut Your Own Throat by."

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LOL I don't know that I'd go as far as "throat cutting" BUT I get your drift. I never cared for the Carpenters at all.

My favorite spiritual is "Oh Holy Night". Otherwise, I gotta say, Elvis' "Blue Christmas" and John Lennons' Happy Christmas/War Is over.

Maybe it takes years to consider a song a real traditional Christmas classic, BUT I am really really getting to like Miriah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" and it's fast becoming on my Christmas favorite list. I even liked the version she did with Justin Beiber last year.

TIS

That song is twenty years old, Grandma .

You know I love ya, Tis!!

Really? 20 years? I guess I have to hear it a few times before it becomes a TIS classic cause I am just this year concluding it's on my favorite list.


TIS

Who sings that song that goes like "rocking around the christmas tree..."

thats my fav xmas song, i randomly hum it throughout the yr lol

i also like mariah carey all i want for christmas is you

Well, honestly, not quite twenty years. But close enough. It was recorded from December of 1993 through August of 1994, and the cd was released for the 1994 holiday season.

Mariah Christmas

Brenda Lee.

That's Brenda Lee and I like that song too. Oh, and what about "Santa Baby." Love it.


TIS

thats it



thank u