Your Favorite Christmas Songs

If there's a thread for this, I apologize for missing it. I'll start with the one that continues to top my personal list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwqknq7nuI

Merry Christmas From the Family - Montgomery Gentry

Heard it just this morning on the way to work!

I was just getting ready to post a Christmas Music thread. I'm looking to go with more traditional Christmas music for our show next year.

Things like:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Frosty the Snowman

You're a mean one Mr. Grinch

What are some other traditional Christmas songs would you recommend?

Oh Holy Night & Silent Night (of course!). But I have to admit I heard a version of the Little Drummer Boy that brought me to tears (the one with Idina Menzel, it was the brief but powerful drum solo that got me).

Traditional: To name a few:

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin

White Christmas - Bing Crosby

The Little Drummer Boy - The Harry Simeone Chorale

Silent Night - Frank Sinatra

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - The Carpenters

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry

Frosty The Snowman - Jimmy Durante

The Christmas Song - Mel Torme

The First Noel - Nat King Cole

There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays - Perry Como

Holly Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives

Baby, It's Cold Outside - Dean Martin

Non-Traditional:

Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi Trio

Father Christmas - The Kinks

Santa Clause is Coming to Town - Bruce Sprinsteen

Please Come Home for Christmas - The Eagles

Run Run Rudolph - Foghat

Merry Christmas Baby - B.B. King

So This Is Christmas - John Lennon

Thank God Its Christmas - Queen

Christmas Blues - Canned Heat

Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft

Porky Pig version of Blue Christmas

I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas - Yogi Yorgesson

The Twelve Pains Of Christmas - Bob Rivers

A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer

O Holy Night always tops the list for me.

Little drummer boy/peace on Earth

Bowie and Bing

Little drummer boy/peace on Earth

Bowie and Bing

I’m with you. That is my favorite as well

O Holy Night always tops the list for me.

This is mine, too. No other comes close.

Let it be christmas - Alan Jackson

White Christmas

O Holy Night

Silent Night

Don't get me wrong... there are Christmas tunes that I really like, and typically year after year just as the holiday season is upon us I'm like "Ah, how nice"....

....but every year without fail somewhere around mid-December I'm like "Enough Already"!!!...:eek:

.... and through over exposure where ever I go, or every commercial on TV trying to be cute and clever (such as this Cincinnati Bell ad that I'm up to here with)...:eek:

... just to survive it without going out of my mind, I begin to cynically and almost psychotically, out loud even when I'm alone, parodize every Christmas song to the point of shameful sophomoric disrespect rearranging and improvising the words to the point that maybe only a 13 year old boy might find them humorous.

If I'm out in a store and you'd listen close enough you'd hear me singing under my breath my rude and nasty newborn lyrics right over top of the original.

No song is sacred, and no matter how originally beautiful it is will escape my destruction of it.

In truth It's not a sign of me surviving the season, it's truly of sign of me going nuts, and I'm almost certain that it could be determined borderline, if not full blown clinical. :eek:

"Symphony No. 9 ('Ode to Joy')" - Ludwig van Beethoven (Poem by Friedrich Schiller)

I hear this every year in church even though wasn't written as a Christmas song.

"... Seek him in the heavens

Above the stars he must dwell."

Flash mob symphony. I love it when a piece of music comes together.

And just for funsies, this ones for you @Run To State.

The song is great, but it's the folks in the background that :lol: me up.

"Symphony No. 9 ('Ode to Joy')" - Ludwig van Beethoven (Poem by Friedrich Schiller)

 

I hear this every year in church even though wasn't written as a Christmas song.

"... Seek him in the heavens

Above the stars he must dwell."

 

Flash mob symphony. I love it when a piece of music comes together.

Haven't seen that one before, but that's pretty awesome! :thumb:

Reminded me of this flash mob at some mall that I'd forgotten about: