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"There are pop versions of everything and I think they've ruined a lot of the Christmas songs. I switch it off. I prefer the traditional carols."

My thoughts exactly! My favorite Christmas records are the ones my parents own and I grew up listening to over the Christmas holiday. There's just no comparing those renditions to the saccharine stuff that's produced today.

5 posted on 12/09/2003 11:30:58 AM PST by Prime Choice (Leftist opinions may be free, but I still feel like I'm getting ripped off every time I receive one.)

Last night we put Handel's Messiah on the DVD, and listened to the first two parts...

Awesome. Healing, uplifting. Brought back many memories for Hub and I, he did the baritone solos in his college production, and knows just about every note in the whole 3-hour Messiah from conducting choirs of his own, and doing the organ/harpsichord/piano accompaniments at church (before he was Catholic).

I traditional religious Christmas Carols, and Hub plays them for the whole family to sing as we have our Christmas eve celebration...we haven't had everyone here for a few years, this is going to be a grand time...

As far as pop songs go, my favorite is still "I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas."

Rudoph is okay, but ho hum, compared to the great religous Christmas music, which REALLY puts me in the spirit...