VANITY: Your Favorite Christmas Songs/Carols?

[Jamestown1630]

Well, The Season has Begun; and I am 'In The Spirit'!

What are your favorite Christmas songs/carols and renditions?

Here are some of mine:

Oh Come Emmanuel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKo4NmmvRI

What Child Is This?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ndtAPNUhI4

O Holy NIght:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7uiqRCW6I8

Ave Maria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwp1CH5R-w4

Venid Pastores (taught to me by my Jr. High Spanish teacher):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew11VTnWvFs

The Holly and the Ivy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3he6J0Bykz4

And finally, for fun, Baby It's Cold Outside! (there are versions of this that I like better, but this is so cute, I couldn't resist):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bbuBubZ1yE

Seasons Greetings to All!

=JT

[jy8z]

Red Skelton

[fhayek]

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

[Joe 6-pack]

Speaking as somebody who listens to Christmas carols throughout the year, here are a few of my faves:

This performance of, 'Angels We Have Heard on High,' by Andrea Bocelli is about as good as it gets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THg8Yes6zec

For my money, best female vocal goes to Emmylou Harris for her performance of, 'Light of the Stable':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaJ5FnM0Bzo

When it comes to newer, contemporary songs, I've found two recent gems:

Florin Street Band - My Favourite Time of Year

and

Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Old City Bar

[cyclotic]

You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is dead.

[Gamecock]

That.

[hoe_cake]

Diane Krall is a passionate, sexy singer.

[MNDude]

Speaking of that, it has been my life long mission to learn who sang it. I’ve been interviewing a lot of Baby Boomers, and I think I’m closing in on the answer!

[Jamestown1630]

Dude! Don’t harsh my mellow...man...

-JT

[Jet Jaguar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLpzyTA9ik

Dolly Parton-Hard Candy Christmas

[Migraine]

It came upon a midnight clear,.

[TBP]

Songwise, I’m very fond of “The Christmas Song” (Nat King Cole’s version.) When I hear that, I know it’s officially Christmas.

[TBP]

One of the great lyric lines, form “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”:

Strings of street lights, even stoplights
Blink a bright red and green...

[TBP]

One of the great lyric lines, from “Silver Bells”:

Strings of street lights, even stoplights
Blink a bright red and green...

[Jamestown1630]

Gosh! Thanks for reminding me of that. It’s one of the songs I remember singing in Elementary School. A great song, and a great rendition!

-JT

[ansel12]

This doesn’t help?

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&newwindow=1&safe=off&es_sm=93&q=Jingle+bells%2C+Batman+smells%2C+Robin+laid+an+egg+origin&oq=Jingle+bells%2C+Batman+smells%2C+Robin+laid+an+egg+origin&gs_l=serp.3..0.122921.126753.0.127357.7.7.0.0.0.0.382.1700.0j4j1j2.7.0.msedrc...0...1c.1.58.serp..0.7.1699.ViJ_6QV-c4o

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/01/jingle-bells-batman-smells.html

[TaMoDee]

My best funny one is Walt Kelly’s Pogo and crew singing:
“Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie”.

Other Best: Bing’s “White Christmas”.

[Fiji Hill]

One of my favorite Christmas songs, "Star of the East," was written by Amanda Kennedy in 1918. To the world of 1918, beset as it was by war, political and economic turmoil, famine and pestilence, the song expresses the hope of peace, joy, love, salvation and eternal life that inspired those who saw Jesus Christ’s natal star 2,000 years earlier.

Star of the East--The Trinity Choir

[skinkinthegrass]

secular:

Rockin Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee -

http://youtu.be/is4NQkUN3AI

[Clint N. Suhks]

“Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices!”

Moves me every time.

[Jamestown1630]

Oh, Gosh! I have to admit to being old enough to remember that :-)

-JT