NFT: Favorite Christmas Music

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Nat King Cole's 'The Christmas Song'.

Snoopy's Christmas

Cant beat "Silent Night" by a good choir

Baby it's cold outside is frequently known as the "date rape song." I don't happen to agree, but I see the viewpoint in a modern context, about how ideas about sex have changed.

"The neighbors might think. And what's in this drink?"

My favorite is an almost-Christmas song, "River" from Joni Mitchell.

And an overly religious (for me) and obscure song by Faith Hill, "A Baby Changes Everything," that I think is lovely. (Link)
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In comment 15458815 SFGFNCGiantsFan said:

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Nat King Cole's 'The Christmas Song'.

My favorite, too.

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

Humbug.

Billy Squire

Wait until after Thanksgiving

by The Pogues

But the answer is Christmas in America, Kenny Rodgers. The whole album.

is all I need to get me in the spirit. Silent Night also has been a lifetime favorite, later enhanced when I found out that the composer is a long lost relative of my wife.

and The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

and Sleigh Ride...

2 CD set of youthful choirs beautifully performed.
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4th of July menu thread?

"My mother will start to worry
Beautiful what's your hurry?
My father will be pacing the floor
Listen to the fireplace roar
So really I'd better scurry
Beautiful please don't hurry
Well maybe just a half a drink more
I'll put some records on while I pour
The neighbors might think
Baby it's bad out there
Say what's in this drink?
No cabs to be had out there
I wish I knew how
Your eyes are like starlight now
To break this spell
I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell
Why thank you
I ought to say no, no, no sir
Mind if move in closer?
At least I'm gonna say that I tried
What's the sense of hurting my pride?
I really can't stay
Baby don't hold out"

That reminds me more of harassment than Christmas.

Blue Christmas

In comment 15459055 DonQuixote said:

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"My mother will start to worry Beautiful what's your hurry? My father will be pacing the floor Listen to the fireplace roar So really I'd better scurry Beautiful please don't hurry Well maybe just a half a drink more I'll put some records on while I pour The neighbors might think Baby it's bad out there Say what's in this drink? No cabs to be had out there I wish I knew how Your eyes are like starlight now To break this spell I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell Why thank you I ought to say no, no, no sir Mind if move in closer? At least I'm gonna say that I tried What's the sense of hurting my pride? I really can't stay Baby don't hold out" That reminds me more of harassment than Christmas.

What looks like romance to some, in the context in which it was written, looks like harassment to others. Fortunately, I don't live in a world where I have to worry about it. I honestly feel sorry for those who do.

In comment 15459055 DonQuixote said:

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"My mother will start to worry Beautiful what's your hurry? My father will be pacing the floor Listen to the fireplace roar So really I'd better scurry Beautiful please don't hurry Well maybe just a half a drink more I'll put some records on while I pour The neighbors might think Baby it's bad out there Say what's in this drink? No cabs to be had out there I wish I knew how Your eyes are like starlight now To break this spell I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell Why thank you I ought to say no, no, no sir Mind if move in closer? At least I'm gonna say that I tried What's the sense of hurting my pride? I really can't stay Baby don't hold out" That reminds me more of harassment than Christmas.

It's definitely creepy as hell

"Hark the Herald Angels Sing". "Have Yourself a Merry..." In Meet Me in St. Louis. I love the Spector Christmas album. I have a Gene Autry Christmas record that is surprisingly good. "Hey Santa" by the Wilson sisters for a more contemporary Pop hit.

Josh Groban- O Holy Night

Bing Crosby- White Christmas

Springsteen- Merry Christmas Baby and Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Great album and Little Saint Nick is a classic.

And Christmas vacation…..Chevy at his pinnacle.

(Some is terrible-Im looking at you Paul McCartney) but nothing puts me in the perfect Christmas spirit like the Vince Guaraldi Trio's Charlie Brown Christmas album. It's perfect.

My son sang that when he was 4 years old. He knew every word. He also had the cutest accent.
I fell in love with that song and still ask him to sing it today. He refuses though. Cutest thing I have ever heard in my life.

Unconventional song, but brilliant. Chris DeBurg and A Spaceman Came Traveling. One of my contemporary favorites.


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Father Christmas by the Kinks.
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Run…… D M C

Nice. Forgot that in my post

Do you Hear what I hear Whitney Houston
All I want for Christmas is you Mariah Carey
Oh Holy Night by almost anyone by Nat King Cole and Lea Michelle from Glee are fantastic
Holly Jolly Christmas Burl Ives
Hark the Herald Angels Sing Nat King Cole
Christmas in Dixie Alabama
Do They Know it's Christmas
The Christmas Shoes Newsong
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Casting Crows
First Noel Josh Groban
Put a Little Holiday in your Heart LeAnn Rhimes
Santa Claus is coming to Town Bruce
Winter Wonderland Darlene Love & The Eurythmics
Christmas in Killarney The Irish Rovers
Believe Josh Groban
Merry Christmas Alabama Jimmy Buffett
White Christmas Bing Crosby
I'll be Home for Christmas Dean Martin

These are just a few.

by the original Phantom of the Opera star, Michael Crawford. Not to be missed!!

O Holy Night

Pentatonix - O Come All Ye Faithful
Greg Lake (of ELP) - (I believe in) Father Christmas
Amy Grant - Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Bare Naked Ladies - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Josh Grobin - O Holy Night
Handel's Messiah
Boney M - Mary's Boy Child

Was originally sung at a private party as a novelty. In that context the lyrics are entirely appropriate. People who see it as exploitive are likely unaware of it's origin.

Followed very closely by the New Christy Minstrels, ‘MerryChristmas, the complete album’. It’s not Christmas until we hear’Parson Brown’.

His silky voice just tells me it's the holidays. Some great tracks.