Favorite Holiday tunes. please list...

[Macfanforever]

HoHoHo little kiddie's.With the Stevie/FM Christmas threads are going on here.I was thinking of my other favorite holiday tunes and favorite artists doing them.Now around in the State's and other countries have radio stations playing holiday music 24/7 non-stop until December 26th.I will start the list with some of my favorite tunes and artists doing them.Plus videos too,They are 100s of them.but heres some to get started with.I'll add more as time goes by.

Stevie Nicks-Silent Night This is my all time fave and it makes me cry.

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Arthur Fiedler and the boston Pop's- Sleigh Ride any artist version

Mannheim Steamroller - Deck The Halls. Love all of their xmas tunes.

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Gosh Groban-Oh Holy Night what a voice he has.

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon light version They are alittle to edgy to me but this tune sticks out and sold me.

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The Carpenters all of their holiday works.

Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Gene Autry- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer I got the original 78 rpm somewhere

Band Aid " Do They Know It's Christmas" 1984 version Does anybody know why Stevie never got invited for this recording. Or she was invited .What happen. I like the 1989 version .but the 2004 version was not that great due to the artist selection.

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The Eagles-Please Come Home for Christmas This is a classic.


The Judds- Christmas Time With The Judds cd

This video I think its from the same tv special as Stevie's Silent Night.

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Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass -Winter Wonderland Country/bluegrass

I'll add more later.

[Fireflies]

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[PolishStevieFan]

Every year I listen to the same Christmas albums and these are:

1. Amy Grant-Home For Christmas (I think her voice is perfect for these Christmas tunes)
2. Diana Ross-A Very Special Season (classic diva sings classic Christmas songs and does it in a very elegant manner)
3. Gloria Estefan-Christmas Through Your Eyes (have you heard a latin/big band rendition of "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow"? Great album)
4. Cyndi Lauper-Merry Christmas... Have a Nice Life (it's such a funny Christmas album, especially "Christmas Conga" and "Minnie & Santa", let me cite a bit: "bonga, bonga, bonga, do the christmas conga...":laugh:)

[iamnotafraid]

Now who sings Christmas songs better than Elvis?

Too many to list.

[Silver Springs]

David Bowie And Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy
Jethro Tull -Ring Out Solstice Bells
Stevie Nicks- Silent Night
Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
David Essex - A Winter's Tale
Sarah McLachlan - Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem
Sarah McLachlan - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Sarah McLachlan - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Dean Martin - Winter Wonderland
Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
Perry Como - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
Most Christmas Carols sung by professional Choirs, particularly Kings College, Cambridge
Mike Oldfield - In Dulci Jubilo
Joni Mitchell - River (It mentions Christmas, so it's a Christmas song :p)
Elton John - Step Into Christmas
Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick
Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
Louis Armstrong - Zat You, Santa Clause?


One song I absolutely cannot bloody stand is "When A Child Is Born" by Johnny Mathis. It is a song that fills me with so much hate that I literally want to burn things.Schmalzy, overly honied, diabetes inducing Bullplop.

[McTrouble]

Absolutely ALL OF THEM! I am a real sucker for Christmas songs! :rolleyes::D

[Macfanforever]

I forgot to add my not so like xmas tunes .Santa Baby comes to mind .All versions stink.

[Artemis]

I'll be honest, any other time of the year, I absolutely loathe the song with a passion, but for the two weeks before Christmas, Mariah Carey's version of All I Want For Christmas Is You is like heaven. :laugh:

[Macfanforever]

Heres some more.


Salsoul Orchestra - Christmas Jollies 1976 fave from my disco era.


David Bowie And Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy classic as mentioned.



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Elton John - Step Into Christmas


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Hall & Oates - Jingle Bell Rock 1983



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Snow Miser Song - The Year Without a Santa Claus 1974 Rankin / Bass special


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Snow & Heat Miser song from A Miser Brothers' Christmas 2008

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more later.........

[HomerMcvie]

Eagles- Please Come Home For Christmas. My band does it, and people love it. We've even had to repeat it in January, because people like it that much.

[jannieC]

Great choices so far. Oh Stevie and her Silent Night chokes me up too. I also love Celine Dion's O Holy Night :o

And this one by The Waitresses has really grown on me over the years:

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And Father Christmas by The Kinks:

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Not a Christmas song, but boy does it ever tug at my heartstrings. I really do cry over this song:

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[chiliD]

Linus & Lucy - Vince Guaraldi Trio
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Run Rudolph Run - Keith Richards
Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney & Wings
Coventry Carol - Christine McVie
Sleigh Ride - The Ventures
Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
The 1967 Beatles Christmas Message (with Christmas Time Is Here Again)
O Holy Night - Nat King Cole
The Christmas Song - Mel Torme
I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake (solo; NOT the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version)
Silent Night - Stevie Nicks
It's Christmas All Over Again - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Merry Christmas Baby - BB King
I Am Santa Claus - Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas (the entire album)

[skcin]

Eagles- Please Come Home For Christmas. My band does it, and people love it. We've even had to repeat it in January, because people like it that much.

That's probably my favorite "modern" Christmas song. :nod:

I also love Celine Dion's O Holy Night :o


I do too. Martina McBride's version is very good too, but nothing beats Celine's in my book.


Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town[/B] - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band


I love Happy Xmas too - Melissa Etheridge has an awesome live version that is the only other version I like besides the original.

I also like Bruce's Merry Christmas Baby.


My fave of the past few years is Barenaked Ladies w/Sarah McLachlan "God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings." Fantastic.

[GypsySorcerer]

Many of the ones already mentioned, especially Crosby & Bowie's "Peace on Earth," and "Happy Xmas." I don't care that much for Stevie's "Silent Night." :sorry:

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers - Harry Connick, Jr.
Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters :o:o
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland
Do You Hear What I Hear? - Whitney Houston
Most of the classics by Sinatra and especially Dean Martin

[skcin]

I don't care that much for Stevie's "Silent Night." :sorry:


Me neither. :wavey: it's OK, but def. not one of my favorites.

[Blueletter18]

Many of these have been mentioned already, but here are some I always listen to:

-Eurythmics, Winter Wonderland
-Springsteen, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town and Merry Christmas Baby
-U2, Baby Please Come Home
-Beach Boys, Little Saint Nick
-Kinks, Father Christmas
-Stevie Nicks, Silent Night
-Sting, Gabriel's Message
-Bing Crosby w/the Andrews Sisters, Jingle Bells
-Bing Crosby, White Christmas and Adeste Fideles
-Bob Dylan, anything from Christmas in the Heart- hilarious
-Ray Charles and Betty Carter, Baby It's Cold Outside
-Wynton Marsalis Septet, We Three Kings of Orient Are

[skcin]

Any least favorites? I personally can't stand It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. :wavey: And Christmas Shoes can go away now.

[mylittledemon]

The Band - Christmas Must Be Tonight
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
The Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas
Vince Guaraldi - Christmastime is Here
Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong
Over The Rhine - All I Ever Get From Christmas is Blue
The Pretenders (or coldplay)- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
U2 (or Darlene Love) - Baby Please Come Home
Wham! - Last Christmas
The Weepies - All That I Want
Tom Petty - Christmas All Over Again
Queen - Thank God It's Christmas

:)

[Dodfather]

No-one has mentioned anything from The Muppet Christmas Carol. What about the song from the Ghost of Christmas Present?

"It's in the singing of a street corner choir..." (Does the arm shuffling dance around the room... ) or "We're Marley and Marley...wwhhhoaaaa" by Staedtler and Waldorf??

By the way Brandon, great choice on Sarah McLachlan, Wintersong. I'd also add these three:

Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling
Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again
Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry
Kate Winslet - What If... (seriously, it's lovely)

[GypsySorcerer]

Any least favorites? I personally can't stand It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. :wavey: And Christmas Shoes can go away now.

Oh, that wretched Christmas Shoes song. :distress:

I also dislike "Wonderful Christmastime" (Why, Paul, why?) and Barbra Streisand's version of "Jingle Bells."

[skcin]

Oh, that wretched Christmas Shoes song. :distress:

I also dislike ... Barbra Streisand's version of "Jingle Bells."

Oooooh, good call. Yuck!

[KarmaContestant]

I love Fiona Apple's version of Frosty The Snowman.

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[ButterCookie]

1. Yuletown Throwdown - Blondie & Fab 5 Freddie. If you haven't heard this, you're in for a slightly shocking treat.
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2. The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
3. We Three Kings - Blondie
4. Happy New Year - ABBA
5. Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight) - The Ramones
6. We Wish You A Merry Christmas - The Springfields.
7. Little Drummer Boy - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
8. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty Maccoll

[chiliD]

Oh...another fave...

Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed The World)"

[mylittledemon]

I also dislike "Wonderful Christmastime" (Why, Paul, why?)

I h a t e that song.

[Nico]

I h a t e that song.

It has to be amongst my least favorite holiday songs as well. I can't put my finger on what it is I hate most about it, but it truly makes me nauseous. In my list of the very nadir of holiday songs.

[skcin]

I love Fiona Apple's version of Frosty The Snowman.

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This whole CD is fantastic. :nod: Even the non-traditional songs are really well done & fit in nicely. But I do hate this version of Silver Bells. HATE. :laugh:


I thought of another holiday tune I don't care for: Mary Did You Know? And I never liked Pretty Paper til I heard Chris Isaak's version.

[iamnotafraid]

Besides Elvis' Christmas songs,
Clint Black's The Birth Of The King
is a great song.

[WildHearted]

Hard Candy Christmas - Dolly Parton

[KarmaContestant]

Hard Candy Christmas - Dolly Parton

I know it's not the same song, but this brought to mind Dolly singing "My sugar is raw..." :laugh:

[Macfanforever]

My dads favorite tune.

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