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Favorite Christmas Tunes
« on: December 18, 2008, 11:12:29 AM »
Ok, the antithesis of the bad Christmas tunes thread. Which are your favorites?

I really love Bing Crosby stuff and Burl Ives singing Holly Jolly Christmas. As far as hymns go, "We Three Kings", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman", "Angels We Have Heard on High".

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2008, 11:14:29 AM »
Ok, the antithesis of the bad Christmas tunes thread. Which are your favorites?

I really love Bing Crosby stuff and Burl Ives singing Holly Jolly Christmas. As far as hymns go, "We Three Kings", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman", "Angels We Have Heard on High".
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2008, 11:15:32 AM »
Come all ye faithful! :-)

Are you being a perv or serious?  :thatsright: :-)

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2008, 11:16:51 AM »
Are you being a perv or serious?  :thatsright: :-)
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #5 on: December 18, 2008, 01:48:17 PM »
Colin Raye's "O Holy Night" is my all time fave.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #6 on: December 18, 2008, 04:02:51 PM »
There are simply so many to choose from, but the kind of music that puts the Christmas spirit in me is a simple carol, any carol, sung by an a cappella boys' choir.

There is nothing more pure and innocent than a boy's soprano voice.

Moving on to instrumental music, one of my faves is stuff done by the Canadian Brass, like these:

*Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming
*O Come Emmanuel (love the minor key)
*Ding Dong, Merrily on High (no laughing on this one!)

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #7 on: December 18, 2008, 06:19:47 PM »
Colin Raye's "O Holy Night" is my all time fave.


Josh Groban does a beautiful "O Holy Night".  That's one of my favorites.

Also Handel's "Messiah"
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #8 on: December 18, 2008, 06:28:02 PM »
Every single cut on all the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums.

Also every cut on The Carpenters' Christmas.

The Living Voices Christmas album  (which I can't find) -- far and away the best rendition of "Little Drummer Boy" ever.

Mario Lanza's "Guardian Angels"

Il Divo's "Oh Holy Night."
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #9 on: December 18, 2008, 07:16:20 PM »
Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives
Do You Hear What I Hear as sung by Bing Crosby
Fum Fum Fum by Mannheim Steamroller
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2008, 07:22:35 PM »
Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives
Do You Hear What I Hear as sung by Bing Crosby
Fum Fum Fum by Mannheim Steamroller

One of the most bizarre, yet touching Christmas songs ever:

[youtube=425,350]c9KpNznVLlY[/youtube]
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2008, 07:26:03 PM »
One of the most bizarre, yet touching Christmas songs ever:

[youtube=425,350]c9KpNznVLlY[/youtube]

Wow Free, what a crazy find!!  Haven't seen this in a long time.  Love some David Bowie :)

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2008, 07:28:29 PM »
Wow Free, what a crazy find!!  Haven't seen this in a long time.  Love some David Bowie :)

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(FWIIW, I saw that when it aired "live.")
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2008, 07:31:46 PM »
One of the most bizarre, yet touching Christmas songs ever:

[youtube=425,350]c9KpNznVLlY[/youtube]
Oh yes, that is a very good one too.  I didn't see it live but I heard it just last weekend when decorating a tree at a friends place.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2008, 07:32:25 PM »
I live to serve :)

(FWIIW, I saw that when it aired "live.")


lol  Really?  Now that's cool!!  :)   I saw Adam Sandler do the Hanukkah Song live.  That's right.  Adam Sandler   :thatsright:  lol  sad.

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2008, 07:33:00 PM »
lol  Really?  Now that's cool!!  :)   I saw Adam Sandler do the Hanukkah Song live.  That's right.  Adam Sandler   :thatsright:  lol  sad.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2008, 07:34:17 PM »
Condolences.

lol  that, was funny ;) 

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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2008, 10:35:58 AM »
My Favorite is Cantique De Noel....... Eupher knows the common title to that one......  :-)
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2008, 04:43:49 PM »
Jingle Bell Rock -

Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys

Merry Christmas Baby - The Beach Boys

So This Is Christmas - John Lennon

Chipmunk Christmas Song - Alvin and the Chimpmumks

Its Christmas At Ground Zero - Weird Al



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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2008, 05:15:20 PM »
There are simply so many to choose from, but the kind of music that puts the Christmas spirit in me is a simple carol, any carol, sung by an a cappella boys' choir.

There is nothing more pure and innocent than a boy's soprano voice.

Moving on to instrumental music, one of my faves is stuff done by the Canadian Brass, like these:

*Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming
*O Come Emmanuel (love the minor key)
*Ding Dong, Merrily on High (no laughing on this one!)

Christmas isn't Christmas without brass. Period.  :cheersmate:

I have to thank you--I think--Eupher, sir.

As you know, I don't hear, no eardrums, no ears.

Actually I "can," through bone-conduction, where sounds reverberate through the skeletal structure.  But it's very difficult and a markedly inefficient way to "hear."

When I was a little lad, my father, an ear physician, and some guy with Popular Mechanics know-how contrived something that instead of blasting sound through the air, would blast sound directly into my orthopedic system.

It's about the size of a shoe-box.

It's very clumsy to use, and requires connections on both sides of my head (where ears would be if there were ears), the forehead, the throat, and the two elbows.  And then of course one has to go through the time and trouble of connecting it to a stereo (LP; not usable for CDs or cassette tapes, being w-a-a-a-a-a-y too old for that).  It's just a lot of hassle, a lot of trouble.

So as you could imagine, I don't do it a whole lot.  Perhaps about an hour a year.

Well, your selections inspired me to do it anyway.

It takes a lot of really intense concentration.

So.....

Von Himmel Hoch (Trapp Family Singers)

Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen (Trapp Family Singers)

Deine Wangelen (Trapp Family Singers)

I know this isn't your standard Christmas music, but it works for me; there's a whole lot of different stuff more amenable to bone-conduction than other stuff, and generally most of the time usually secular happy-happy jolly-jolly Christmas music doesn't "travel" well, while medieval English carols and deep voices doing ancient Latin do.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #22 on: December 19, 2008, 06:48:15 PM »
I have to thank you--I think--Eupher, sir.

As you know, I don't hear, no eardrums, no ears.

Actually I "can," through bone-conduction, where sounds reverberate through the skeletal structure.  But it's very difficult and a markedly inefficient way to "hear."

When I was a little lad, my father, an ear physician, and some guy with Popular Mechanics know-how contrived something that instead of blasting sound through the air, would blast sound directly into my orthopedic system.

It's about the size of a shoe-box.

It's very clumsy to use, and requires connections on both sides of my head (where ears would be if there were ears), the forehead, the throat, and the two elbows.  And then of course one has to go through the time and trouble of connecting it to a stereo (LP; not usable for CDs or cassette tapes, being w-a-a-a-a-a-y too old for that).  It's just a lot of hassle, a lot of trouble.

So as you could imagine, I don't do it a whole lot.  Perhaps about an hour a year.

Well, your selections inspired me to do it anyway.

It takes a lot of really intense concentration.

So.....

Von Himmel Hoch (Trapp Family Singers)

Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen (Trapp Family Singers)

Deine Wangelen (Trapp Family Singers)

I know this isn't your standard Christmas music, but it works for me; there's a whole lot of different stuff more amenable to bone-conduction than other stuff, and generally most of the time usually secular happy-happy jolly-jolly Christmas music doesn't "travel" well, while medieval English carols and deep voices doing ancient Latin do.


Well, I gotta say, Frank, that you've done more with your disability than a lot of rap singers have with no disability! And I really didn't know that you had a disability at all -- but clearly you've managed quite well.

I'm convinced that you'd love brass done via bone conduction -- with or without Christmas.

I wish I had the LP -- I'd just somehow get it to you -- of some of jazz rock's more intense volumetric studies. Bill Chase, a trumpeter, managed to overcome a lot of his own difficulties by dedication and obsession with his art. He studied with a few greats while on the set and later became Woody Herman's lead trumpet player back in the early-mid Sixties.

Chase was the kind of trumpet player that would just grab you by the throat, sink in his fangs, and not let loose until your blood was drained.

Later, in the early Seventies, he formed his own band which was an eclectic mix of jazz and rock -- but don't even think about anything but a gravel-voiced male singer belting out the lyrics. No room for women in that band. It was a solid rhythm section -- organ/keys, guitar, electric bass, and drums. And four shit-kicking trumpet players that simply screamed. And Chase rode over them all. Awesome stuff.

Chase didn't do any Christmas music. He didn't live long enough, dying in a plane crash in August, 1974, just before the group's third album was released.

I have all 3 albums on CD. And when I really wanna piss off Mrs. E, I put Bill on and grow just a little more deaf myself.

I truly think that Bill Chase could put some clarity in the bone conduction box. We'll have to give that some thought.   :cheersmate:
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #23 on: December 19, 2008, 07:05:59 PM »
Blue Christmas- Elvis ("Eh-hulla havva huh baluuuuuue kariss muss")  :p
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Silver Bells- Dean Martin
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Among a few already listed.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tunes
« Reply #24 on: December 19, 2008, 07:20:20 PM »
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2
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