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Top FIVE Christmas tunes from black artists PRINCE - Another lonely Christmas
Sounds of Blackness - Soul holiday Patti LaBelle - Twas Christmas Donny Hathaway - This Christmas B2K - why'd u leave on Christmas | |
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What Christmas Means To Me: Stevie Wonder
Go Power at Christmas: James Brown Sighs of Christmas: James Browm PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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"This Christmas" by Donny Hathaway
"Happy Holidays To You" by the Whispers "The Christmas Song" by Nat 'King' Cole "Silent Night" by the Temptations "Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt | |
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do you mean personal top 5s?
anyway - this CD plays every day at my home throughout the Yule season 
it's one of my top 5 holiday Cds by a black artist | |
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Say A Prayer For Christmas - The Jackson Southernaires
Jingle Bells - Booker T and The MGs I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - The Impressions Dear Santa (Bring Me A Man For Christmas) - The Weather Girls Sleigh Ride - Alexander O'Neal My top favorites change from year to year though. I still love all the Christmas jams. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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besides soul holiday by sounds of blackness
the only one i can think of is "christmas won't b the same" by the jackson 5 man, he has such an amazing body of music that it's sad to see him constrict it down to the basics. he's too talented for the lineup he's doing. estelle 81 | |
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SoulAlive said:
"The Christmas Song" by Nat 'King' Cole "Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt I never heard these two songs until the late 90s when I heard them on a Clear Channel R&B station geared towards white people. The black stations in my area never played those two when I was growing up (I don't know why because they are great songs) and I don't think I've heard them to this day on the black stations in my area. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Frank McComb: Christmas
Prince: Another Lonely Christmas Donny Hathaway: This Christmas James Brown: Santa Claus Go Straight 2 the Ghetto Boys II Men: Silent Night (acapella) | |
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vainandy said: SoulAlive said:
"The Christmas Song" by Nat 'King' Cole "Santa Baby" by Eartha Kitt I never heard these two songs until the late 90s when I heard them on a Clear Channel R&B station geared towards white people. The black stations in my area never played those two when I was growing up (I don't know why because they are great songs) and I don't think I've heard them to this day on the black stations in my area. Seriously? Our local R&B stations wear those songs out every year! | |
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I like the two Christmas songs SW wrote for Smokey Robinson! | |
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Marvin - I Want to Come Home for Christmas
The Temptations - Silent Night Donny - This Christmas Stevie - Someday at Christmas Charles Brown - Please Come Home for Christmas The Emotions - What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas Boyz II Men/Brian McKnight - Let It Snow TLC - Sleigh Ride JB - Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto Alexander O'Neal - My Gift to You ---- Yeah, so what if I cheated...  | |
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As for original tunes from black artists.
What Christmas Means To Me -- Stevie Wonder (beloved for decades, finding a wider audience every year, a modern-day classic) This Christmas -- Donny Hathaway (like WCMTM, one of the best modern original Christmas tunes) Another Lonely Christmas -- Prince and the Revolution Blue Christmas (To Whom It May Concern) -- Miles Davis Spirits Past -- Gil Scott-Heron As for renditions by black artists: The Christmas Song -- Nat "King" Cole Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town -- The Jackson Five (the definitive version) Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer -- The Temptations (often imitated and appropriated, never duplicated) Winter Wonderland -- Shirley Horn (lovely, merry, sublime) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen -- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles/What Child Is This -- Vanessa Williams (tie) Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
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U guys really need 2 check out the Frank McComb Christmas joint.....very nice. | |
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Mach said: do you mean personal top 5s?
anyway - this CD plays every day at my home throughout the Yule season
it's one of my top 5 holiday Cds by a black artist I was just listening to this CD. Even the original songs are awesome. Love his rendition of My Favorite Things. I miss Lutha!
Oh and Joe Williams jazzy Xmas album is another fave! As for top 5 songs #1 Mariah Carey (yeah, she black and she proved it with this song!) Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child Temptations Silent Night Nat King Cole The Xmas Song Aretha Franklin Joy to the World Babyface Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Honorable mention: Ella Fitzgerald Frosy the Snowman/What are you doing on New Year's Eve [Edited 12/16/08 14:34pm] | |
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Definitely- Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto | |
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Timmy84 said: Charles Brown - Please Come Home for Christmas
I forgot about that one  I also love the Eagles version. | |
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