(vanity) Marty's Christmas Music Playlist is lagging. WON'T YOU HELP...?

12/2/10 | marty_f

[martin_fierro]

Hi all --

Looking for suggestions to add to my Christmas Music playlist.

[justlurking]

Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovic

Forgot all about that one. It's chilling to people that grew up in the 50's and 60's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU

(The original music video)

[KarlInOhio]

Lots of stuff by The Roches on their We Three Kings album. Some of their modern songs are a little goofy, but they really have some amazing a cappella versions of classic Christmas songs. [Beware of iTunes though. It looks like they have the wrong song for Adeste Fideles, which may be the best song on the album. :-( ]

[mikrofon]

Hey, ya can’t forget “Snoopy & the Red Baron” ;)

- “Ave Maria”, by the tenor of your choice.

- And how would it be complete w/o “White Christmas” by Der Bingle...

[TheCipher]

Heres the link for Celtic Woman- O Come All Ye Faithful

Link

[Dr. Thorne]

Some of my favorites:

Still, Still, Still - Christmas with the Academy (Neville Mariner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields)
Wexford Carol - The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter cond.
What Sweeter Music - The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, cond.
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy cond.

The most fun Christmas album ever: Holiday Sing Along with Mitch - Mitch Miller and the Gang

[mountn man]

The Prayer- Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli
Ava Maria- Celine Dion
Ava Maria- Sarah Brightman
Ava Maria- Andrea Bocelli
O Holy Night- Celine Dion
Mary, Did You Know- Mark Lowery
O Holy Night- Celtic Women
Breath Of Heaven-Amy Grant
Tennessee Christmas-Amy Grant
The Gift- (the album) Jim Brickman
These Are Special Times-(the album) Celine Dion
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas- Mannheim Steamroller

[Bigh4u2]

O Holy Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWcq6JCL1cQ

[hoagy62]

Holy Cow...where did you find that one?

It’s not too often music videos give me ‘blurry screen syndrome’, but that one SURE did. This is most certainly getting shared with friends.

[Jack Wilson]

Government Santa by Meadowman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAuw67BwCLY

[60Gunner]

The entire Charlie Brown Christmas album. My family plays it when we put up the tree. It’s wonderful.

[cyclotic]

I put about ten different versions of Sleigh Ride on a disk and played it on a loop for a Christmas party. FOr several hours, no one noticed that it was the same song over and over.

[FourPeas]

I now have a new definition of creepy.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

You'll need some suitably holiday-alicious reading material to go with that, most likely:

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I now have a new definition of creepy.

So that would be a resounding "NO!" to the notion of a Metallica Christmas LP next year, then...? ;)

[martin_fierro]

Pomplamoose Deck the Halls

Apart from the Sweet Young Thing gazing soulfully at the camera during the car commercial -- and apparently in every single one of their YouTube vids -- I can't get into it...

[mrsmith]

The Christmas Carol (as told by Vincent Price) (1949)

http://www.archive.org/details/TheChristmasCarolastoldbyVincentPrice

(His voice is a sort of music!)

[FourPeas]

One of our favourites is the Gaither’s Christmas A Time for Joy.

Thanks for the reminder. It’s going in the CD now.

[MayflowerMadam]

Jubilant Sykes - “Mary Did You Know?
Jon Anderson - “3 Ships” album
Susan Boyle - “O Holy Night”

[FourPeas]

It could keep the Willie Nelson & Beach Boys CDs company. :0

They’d made a great trio...

[FourPeas]

For some instrumental in the mix, I like Chris Rice’s Living Room Sessions.