Favorite Christmas tune?

[58kites]

Jethro Tull- Living in the Past album has played in our home every Christmas since before both my children were born.
My kids are now 35 and 32 and they are both big fans of Jethro Tull and they both have all their music on their laptop hard drives.




In memory of Greg Lake

 

[CatSquare]

The Christmas Song, the Ella Fitzgerald rendition is my favorite. I actually really love her whole Christmas album (Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas) and listen to it throughout the year, my wife always gives me looks when I put it on.

 

[theevilplankton]

'When A Child Is Born' by Johnny Mathis.

Christmas perfection.

 

[AztecViking]

We Three Kings - the rubber cigar version.

 

[robbroncs]

where are the ramones? where is rudolph? where is blitzen, baby??

 

[robbroncs]

but wham!, waitresses, & kinks are some faves.

my all time fav however.....



a great doc to boot!

 

[Zooberwerx]

No favorite but this is certainly the most perplexing (lyrics below):

"...There'll be parties for hosting
Marshmallows for toasting
And caroling out in the snow
There'll be scary ghost stories
And tales of the glories of the
Christmases long, long ago"

Who the **** is telling ghost stories to their kids as a prelude to Christmas?!? No wonder the little darlings can't sleep.

Riis

 

[pedroims]

My all time favorites:

 

[Dana R Gregory]

Hanukka Song by Adam Sandler
Cheech And Chong's Santa Claus and His Old Lady.

 

[The Deep End]

Andy Williams - "Do You Hear What I Hear", Barbra Streisand - "Ave Maria", John Denver - "Christmas for Cowboys". A shoutout to an album my parents had on for my earliest conscious years - Last Month of the Year by the Kingston Trio. Echoing past posts ...anything from Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack, The Waitresses - "Christmas Rapping".

Christmas music is THE soundtrack of our young lives (for those growing up in Christian households). I grew up with the annual Firestone and Goodyear Tire Christmas albums (Why did tire companies release Christmas albums??!!! - competing albums no less!) Was a great intro to the Great American Songbook featuring Bing, Robert Goulet, Steve Lawrence & Edie Gourmet, Ella,

 

[SturmUndDrang]

Chuck Berry, Run Run Rudolph
I also like Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

 

[JimK]

"A GRP Christmas" is also a favorite of mine, particularly this song:

Can you believe that album is almost 30 years old?!?
That was the album that introduced me to "This Christmas".

The Elektric Band kick it up a notch with their version of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen".
Love Valentin's "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". Goines & Ammeen doin' it!

 

[Slinger]

 

[JimK]

...Clarence Carter's version is nice, too.

 

[JimK]

Jethro Tull- Living in the Past album has played in our home every Christmas since before both my children were born.

I'm curious...why?
I received that album for Christmas in 1972 (same Christmas I received my 1st bass)...I have that very same album prominently featured in my music room as we speak. For me, that album always reminds me of that morning in '72.
Tull does have a "Christmas" album out there (free stream for Amazon Prime junkies).
A very cool version of "We Three Kings" in 5...

 

[Shuggy73]

Brenda Lee, Papa Noel

 

[twocargar]

 

[58kites]

I'm curious...why?
I received that album for Christmas in 1972 (same Christmas I received my 1st bass)...I have that very same album prominently featured in my music room as we speak. For me, that album always reminds me of that morning in '72.
Tull does have a "Christmas" album out there (free stream for Amazon Prime junkies).
A very cool version of "We Three Kings" in 5...

Jethro Tull has always been one of my top favorite bands.
Jethro Tull had Rochester on their tour schedule every November, and I saw their shows every year from the time I was 12 until I was 18 or 19 and then a few times here and there in the decades since.
So I have always associated them to Thanksgiving and Christmas time, when I think of snowy winters back in Rochester, they are the band playing in the soundtrack in my head.
Music very much can put me in a time and place, certain records snap me right into a memory, for me music is the place-card of my life, movies and books are great but only music can evoke instant emotions and memories for me.

 

[JimK]

Music very much can put me in a time and place, certain records snap me right into a memory, for me music is the place-card of my life, movies and books are great but only music can evoke instant emotions and memories for me.

...thank you.
Same goes for me.

 

[the general]

Just thought of one more. I still try to watch this every Christmas.