Posted on 11/27/2014 7:17:39 PM PST by 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
Please ping me, when you do!
Best,
JT
Thank you for both those links, great reditions of wonderful music.
I too had to learn and sing Latin carols. Beautiful songs. The words were timeless.
Life is different without Latin in the center of song and worship.
A few years ago someone who was raised Protestant told me how Catholics endured a dead faith listening to words they didn’t understand in meaningless ritual.
I said no, of course, that is not true, every Latin Missal had English translations on the opposing page.
And every halfway intelligent Catholic had a working knowledge of Latin. She was flabbergasted.
Maybe we should try to write a new one?
In my very young days, I was a singer and songwriter; that didn’t go very far, because serious family issues intervened, and I decided that taking care of my folks was more important.
But I’ve always thought that we need a new Christmas song/carol..................
-JT
Oh Holy Night, easily. While it’s great to hear the pop stars belt it out,my favorite rendition on you tube is by Libera,
an English boy’s choir. Sissel also has a great rendition,
except it is sung in Norweigian.
Also love TSOs Christmas canon, but partly for
sentimental reasons-met my wife of 33 years in a college
Baroque music history class and the prof called it “that
God awful canon” I always enjoyed it.
I love the one that tells us “Aye, and therefore be merrie, set sorrow aside.”
There is a magnificent stamp this year that depicts the wise men and the star. It’s mysterious and beautiful.
Oh Holy Night, sung by John Berry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq9c4C2573o
I Wonder as I Wander.
Oh Holy Night.
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.
I hear you LOL. Have a candy cane.
Philippians 4:6:
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
-JT
Thank you.
Santa Clsus Meets the Purple People Eater--Sheb Wooley (1958)
That song always brings tears to my eyes. Beautiful. One of my favorites.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen sung by Nat King Cole.
Thanks mom,
O Holy Night is so beautiful that this little Jeiwsh girl loves it! It’s my favorite and I love many Christmas songs.
My last - typo on the word Jewish.
I also adore “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.”
The finest version of “Good King Wenceslas” these ears have ever heard:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l4MWOpEXe5w
A song about the over commercialization of Christmas;
Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm6CheT6rs
Adeste Fideles ( Oh Come All Ye Faithful ) - in Latin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne09LaJ_fMQ
Silent Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWCCX8Dt8I8
- the from the late great Gerry Rafferty’s last album “Life Goes On” released in 2009. He died in 2011.
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