Posted on 12/03/2017 10:56:19 AM PST by Simon Green
I can’t complain about later written songs without displaying a great one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiJyQ5hU80k
This one was written in the early 1800’s. But updated just a few years ago by Chip Davis. An amazing piece of music.
rwood
The list is of Christmas songs, not Christmas carols. Christmas carols are a subset of the broader category of Christmas music.
All of the songs listed are, by any reasonable definition, Christmas songs. "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" is a Christmas song.
Calling it a carol would be a stretch, I'll give you that. :-)
The moral of Rudolph is that power trumps haters.
I guess our problem is that we expect more from the “things” attached to our most important holiday. You are right, I mislead myself concerning the difference between the two. But Christmas songs like these, in my mind, are just for making money and not celebrating the greatest of days in our earth’s history, the birth of the Lord. I might be a wee bit stubborn on any other approach other than true love of the event and not the residual that can be scraped off of it. My apologies. I guess I’m a little selfish.
rwood
Thanks for the reminder.
How on earth did “Santa Baby” not make the list?
I am contrary here but I think we should sing “Joy To The World” all year long.
I LOVE Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!
It is so fun. It always perks me up. Like Jingle Bell Rock. I just ordered today a Moose toy for myself that sings Jingle Bell Rock so I can feel Christmassy. I don’t have much in Christmas deco around me. Thought that might help.
watch the video at the link. SOOOOOOOOO cute!!!
The "Three Dog Night" version?
Joy to the World not written as a Christmas carol
Interesting.
Yes, that is a classic and just as relevant every year.
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