Well, that's it for this year! Hope you all like it.
To: Ryle; uvular; Mrs. Fletcher
Ping!
To: SamAdams76
Fairy Tale of New York is one of my very favorite Christmas songs. I've seen the Pogues in concert a couple of times. Their long broken up now but it was better when the rest of the band could keep the toothless Shane off the drink for at least a few hours in the studio!
I would also recommend you check out "Punk Rock Xmas". Definitely not for everyone but with your range of interest, you might like it. It's pretty old so you may have some trouble finding it. My favorites on there are "Merry Christmas (I don't wanna fight tonight)" by the Ramones, "Daddy Drank our Xmas Money" by TVTV and "Run Run Rudolph". You wont find it on any CD but Tiny Tim singing "Santa's got the AIDS this year" should find it's way onto your hard drive.
I would also recommend you find David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy.
To: SamAdams76
What a fabulous thread. I will be using it for reference to update what I have. Thank you.
George Winston – Christmas
Excellent suggestion. I own almost all of his work. He is a magnificient pianist. I have yet to find any music that will soothe me quicker than his does.
8 posted on
12/09/2001 9:40:41 AM PST by
riley1992
To: SamAdams76
O Holy Night is my ALL time favorite Christmas song, I tear up, and get chills down my spine even when I think about the song being sung. The weird thing is, I don't believe in a greater being, or Angels, or anything like that. That song just hits me in the deep spot.
My point though ... I've been trying to get the BEST version of that song for the longest time now. I have purchase many CD's hoping that would be the one I've been searching for, but it never is THE ONE. I hear the right one on the radio at least once every year, but they never say who sang (sung) it. Do you know the performers of a few versions, besides the ones you've mentioned already, that I could look for on the file sharing network I use? It would be old, but not THAT old. It would be a chorus, not one person, and it's not the Mormon Tabernacle(?) Choir.
Anyone? ... anyone? ... Bueller?...
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Oh Yeah ...
Merry Christmas to you, and everyone here at the great Free Republic!
11 posted on
12/09/2001 12:12:14 PM PST by
Gumption
To: SamAdams76
Bump for the nighttime crowd.
To: SamAdams76
WHAT? No Jazz offerings? :) I've got my choices but no time to offer input.
16 posted on
12/10/2001 8:05:51 AM PST by
Solson
To: SamAdams76
Good stuff. Bookmarked for reference. Thanks.
To: SamAdams76
Many years ago, for a buck I picked up a CD of the Atlanta Symphony doing Christmas. Patapan, Drummer and O Holy Night...just kicks!
The sound track from the Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye "White Christmas" Movie is also a big tear jerker around here...Hugs and Love to all.
GRRRRR
23 posted on
12/10/2001 3:33:09 PM PST by
GRRRRR
To: SamAdams76
BTTT
25 posted on
12/14/2001 8:00:20 PM PST by
Ryle
To: SamAdams76
Just stumbled across the Pogues & New York Fairytale a few weeks ago and it is now on my favorite list too.
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
Merry Christmas
To: SamAdams76
The combination of gospel music and Christmas music is pretty phenomenal. Kirk Franklin's Christmas is spectacular. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir has a Christmas album too, some of which is very commercial-sounding but there are a few outstanding tracks. Then there is an album called Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration---you will flip out at some of these, even if you think the original couldn't possibly be improved upon.
To: SamAdams76
To: SamAdams76
Christmas Eve Eve bump.
To: SamAdams76
34 posted on
12/24/2005 11:49:08 AM PST by
SamAdams76
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