X-mass, Your favs....new and old

[PDR 1,194]

So, I'm sitting in my hotel room listening to music on the TV......yep, what a life.....

when they start playing Christmass music.

 

A bunch of stuff I've heard a million times come on.....some I really like.....some not so much,

when "God rest ye merry gentlemen" comes on....this time a version I have never heard before.

I am not really a Annie Lennox fan......but she really nailed this song.

 

I'm thinking .....maybe theres more traditional X-mass songs by artists I havnt heard.....that I should.

 

You guys have favs....or something new we should be checking out?

 

Please post.....maybe theres some gems that we could check out.......

 

Thanxs.....

 

 

[zumbini 6,147]

I've loved the Carol Of The Bells since I sang it with my grammar school choir.

 

 

If you prefer instrumentals you can't beat Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.

I love how the The Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy conjures up Christmas eve.

 

[peck555 366]

Leon Redbone...Christmas Island

Al Dimeola...Winter Nights

Trans-Siberian Orchestra...Christmas Eve and other stories

Bela Fleck and the Flectones...Jingle all the way

Diana Krall...Christmas Songs

Jorma Kaukonen...Christmas

A Jazz Piano Christmas...on NPR classics

Vince Guaraldi Trio...A Charlie Brown Christmas

Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas

and my favorite...Mel Torme...Christmas Songs

I have a Large Christmas CD collection, I'm just starting to play them now.

[DavidR 32]

[kve777 6,888]

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[zumbini 6,147]

Judy Garland from the 1944 movie musical Meet Me In St. Louis

If this doesn't get you misty-eyed you better check your pulse.

 

[zumbini 6,147]

[zumbini 6,147]

And let's not forget our Jewish friends during the holidays

 

[zumbini 6,147]

Now THIS is an interesting pairing

 

[peck555 366]

I just thought of another one...Sandler and Young...I used to listen to when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's

[maskinisten 59]

The one and only X-mas song i'll ever need

 

[zumbini 6,147]

Here are two versions of Santa Baby. Which one do you like best?

 

Eartha Kitt with Henri René and his Orchestra (1954)

 

 

Nicole Scherzinger and the Pussycat Dolls (2006)

[maddmaxxx 39]

-chris squire [yes's bassist] 'swiss choir'

 

 

-believe its oop...

[jldeni 439]

My all time favorite - redux - BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

 

[zumbini 6,147]

The original version of Please Come Home for Christmas written by Charles Brown

 

 

A couple of real good covers