Mine is the traditional Stille Nacht / Silent Night

& 1 of my all time favorite:

The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth

(David Bowie & Bing Crosby)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus

DEAR PURPLE FAMILY

WISH U A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS
& A PEACEFUL 2017

[Edited 12/24/16 4:46am]

[Edited 12/24/16 4:46am]

Marys Boy Child/Oh my Lord - Boney M, referred to as a "Caribbean Christmas Carol" when I was 11 and loved ever since.

"I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" - Gayla Peevey (my grandma babysat the girl who sang it)

"Holly Jolly Christmas" - Burl Ives

The BC Clark jewelers anniversary sale jingle (every Christmas, only back home)

another lonely xmass

because it got nothin to do

with xmass

I hate most Christmas songs but I love most Christmas carols.

My favorite Christmas carol is probably "I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)" or "Greensleeves"

I could never pick a definitive Christmas favourite -- and it's recently dawned on me that most of the contenders aren't truly Christmas songs as such, but rather observe other parts of the nativity season. Some include...

Gabriel's Message (The Annunciation)

The Coventry Carol (The Massacre of the Innocents)

Taladh Chriosta / Christ Child's Lullaby (Christmas)

Angels We Have Heard on High (Christmas)

Good King Wenceslas (St. Stephen's Day)

Silent night

Do You Hear What I Hear

and a German traditional: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

Mr. Garrison's "Merry efing Christmass"

Not really 1 of my fav christmas song .. but

Last Christmas

R.I.P. George Michael

Silent Night by The Temptations of course...

.. to finalize X-Mas 2016 with a smoochy song

Baby, It's Cold Outside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-4aOi3AzQ

Thsi year I dug "Christmas Wrapping" by The Waitresses.

i didn't realize it was considered a xmass song BUT

"linus and lucy" (i call it the snoopy song)

The Band - "This Must Be Christmas Tonight" I thought I knew The Band (Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel, subject of Martin Scorsese's film The Last Waltz) but this great song had slipped by me until this year. Danko's voice with Helm's is joy, super lyrics, simple and direct, a Christian message from the dirty rocknrollers guys like Frank Sinatra thought they were better than. Check it on youtube soon.

This is one of the very few Christmas songs I could listen to year-round:

Saint Etenne - Welcome Home

In fact, Saint Etienne's entire A Glimpse of Stocking album is the one I look forward to playing the most when December comes. Read a glowing review of the album:

EmmaMcG said:

George Michael - December Song

I'm in love with this song

Toyland ~ Perry Como

My Favorite Things ~ the Supremes

Twas the Night Before Christmas ~ Winton Marsailles

Christmas Time Is Here ~ Vince Guaraldi(Charlie Brown Christmas)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ~ Bing Crosby / Diane Reeves

Joyeux Noel ~ Annie Villeneuve

Snowfall ~ Manhattan Transfer

December Song(I Dreamed of Christmas) ~ George Michael

O Holy Night

Sussex Carol

My favorite is Oh Holy Night.

sexton said:

This is one of the very few Christmas songs I could listen to year-round:

Saint Etenne - Welcome Home

In fact, Saint Etienne's entire A Glimpse of Stocking album is the one I look forward to playing the most when December comes. Read a glowing review of the album:

A frisky, marvellous delight from beginning to end.
Ian Wade 2010

It’s Christmas time. There’s usually no need to be afraid. But let’s face it, it’s never really the most inspiring period for popular music. For every gem or two wrestled from each Christmas-themed release, there’s usually a sleigh-load of rubbish to wade through. So it’s a pleasure to report that those good folks Saint Etienne have decided to up the ante with not just an amazing single, but a whole tremendous album of Christmas joy and goodness. But be quick to get it or drop heavy hints, though, as it’s a limited release and likely to get snapped up almost immediately.

Given the bitter weather, it’s nice of Sarah, Bob and Pete to provide something to keep you warm with a set that collects together previous fan club releases along with 1994’s I Was Born on Christmas Day smash, as well as recording a half-dozen new additions to complete proceedings. Alongside well-selected covers of Cliff Richard (21st Century Christmas), Chris Rea (Driving Home for Christmas), Billy Fury (My Christmas Prayer) and The Doors (Wintertime Love), there’s the tinsel techno rave-up of Gonna Have a Party, the sizzling glam of Come on Christmas, the icy OMDness of Through the Winter and the instrumental interludes of Snowbound on the South Bank and Fireside Favourite. They finish off with their version of Harry Nilsson’s Snow, from 2003’s fan club disc. There are no new takes on carols, nor any narky topical dialogues about the commercialisation of Christmas among this lot; instead, it’s a groovin’ assortment of magic and sparkle all the way.

A frisky, marvellous delight from beginning to end, A Glimpse of Stocking finds itself high and firmly in the lineage of quality festive albums, to be filed beside similarly themed releases by the Carpenters, Ella, The Beach Boys, Low and Phil Spector. It is, albeit not quite literally (nobody wants a record exploding in their hands), a cracker.

link

Excellent sexton! David Wisdom of CBC's Nightlines always loved Saint Etienne, that's where I first heard them.

Baby It's Cold Outside by whoever sings it cuz it's nasty

"This Christmas" by Donny Hathaway

To name only a few . . .

"What Child Is This?" -- Vince Guaraldi

"This Christmas" -- Donny Hathaway

"What Christmas Means To Me" -- Stevie Wonder

"White Christmas" -- The Supremes

"Winter Wonderland" -- Shirley Horn

"Sleigh Ride" -- Ella Fitzgerald

"Carol of St. Benjamin The Bearded One" -- Sufjan Stevens

"Purple Snowflakes" -- Marvin Gaye

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" -- The Miracles

"Another Lonely Christmas" -- Prince and the Revolution

OldFriends4Sale said:

My Favorite Things ~ the Supremes

Twas the Night Before Christmas ~ Winton Marsailles

Two of my very favorites.

If you liked the Supremes' cover of "MFT," check out Nancy Wilson's version of "The Christmas Waltz".

purplepolitician said:

Baby It's Cold Outside by whoever sings it cuz it's nasty

And maybe one of the darkest.