It isn't Christmas Till you Have Heard This Song!

[Hamilton_Honey]

My Christmas Rose

For me, it's the sound of my daughter's voice singing Gesu Bambino

She's almost 22 now, and I can still hear in my head how she sounded the first time she sang it...

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I get a kick
out of this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQoEwiOttYo

 

[High Pockets]

'Tis become one of my favorites, but for the life of me I can't explain why.

The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York

 

[Brooksie]

For me it is not Christmas until I hear Bing Crosby's I'll be home for Christmas...I always have a vision of a WWII soldier expressing this sentiment to his sweetheart or bride.

Brooksie

 

[clubwitsend]

'Tis become one of my favorites, but for the life of me I can't explain why.

The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York

Okay, that one is on the amazing list as well.

 

["Skeet" McD]

For me it is not Christmas until I hear Bing Crosby's I'll be home for Christmas...I always have a vision of a WWII soldier expressing this sentiment to his sweetheart or bride.

Brooksie

True for you! Without a doubt: the saddest Christmas song ever written, and I mean that in an entirely laudatory way. It always gives me the pip when I hear more modern versions, bouncing along happily--with no seeming thought for the words, and obviously no comprehension of the situation in which the song was written--and for whom.

A good close second is Judy Garland's original version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; it's inserted into the storyline of Meet Me in Saint Louis, a 1904 context...but the sentiment intended to be evoked from the 1944 audiences had little to do with the movie's plot.

Both lovely songs which richly deserve their place in the roster of Yuletide classics.

"Skeet"

 

[Miss Crisplock]

On the non-classical side of the holiday, it isn't Christmas until I hear Duffy Bishop "Christmas in Latte Land" -the whole album with special attention to Latte Land and Hula back to Hana or the Stan Boreson Christmas Albums. How can it be Christmas without making fun of Lutefisk?[huh]

YMMV

 

[scotrace]

Steve Lawrence, Let Me Be The First To Wish You Merry Christmas.

 

[flat-top]

For me, it's the obvious: Nat King Cole's version of "The Christmas Song". If that's not the sound of Christmas Eve, I don't know what is.
Here's the lesser known 1946 version:
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[Miss Golightly]

It has to be either Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Judy Garland or The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole.

I just ordered this 4 CD Christmas album:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Legends-Chr...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1259839899&sr=8-1

I just love all the oldies....

 

[Edward]

If it's Christmas in Australia it must be time for Rolf Harris & Six White Boomers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSsffF2xhA

Ah, ya gotta love old Rolf. One of the most humble, genuine people I've ever encountered in the entertainment business too. And he can still make me cry with 'Two little boys', for some reason... [huh]

'Tis become one of my favorites, but for the life of me I can't explain why.

The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale Of New York

It's one of the finest songs ever written. I will always stand over my categorisation of Shane Magowan as "the Irish Dylan". He's as important a songwriter - or should be, anyhow. It's a beautiful song entirely devoid of cloying sentimentality.... I mean, how many Christmas hits are actually about two old, slowly-dying alcoholics who hate each othr because they love each otehr but they hate each other?? lol Genius on every level. There's also a certain tragic poignancy to it since Kirsty's untimely death back in 2000, just as it was starting to get heavy rotation again for the year. I remember when it was released in December 1987; the Pet Shops Boys butchered Elvis' Always on my mind and beat it to be Christmas number one that year.... but hey, who remembers yer sythesiser rubbish now, eh, lads? lol

Fairytale is the ultimate Christmas pop song for me, and it really is the one that gets me beyond all others. I've started it in the listening rotation for the season as of December first, alongside Elvis Christmas songs, and some Rat Pack bits.... Christmas truly begins for me, though, on 19th December when I make my now annual run down to Brixton Academy to see the re-formed Pogues play live - Fairytale complete with stand-in for Kirsty and artificial snow being launched from the ceiling is a central part of their encore every year. As it should be. Cue mass Irish-community singalong, and bitter, cynical, tragic sentimentality in a way only the Irish (well, okay, and Dylan) can truly master... lol

 

[zendy]

If it's Christmas in Australia it must be time for Rolf Harris & Six White Boomers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlSsffF2xhA

My hangover had gone away, and then I clicked this. If only I had scrolled down the page to see Ephraim Tutt's reaction, if only.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Any song gets me going ......but this one gets my psyched to play at parties, Total fun ....fun .....FUN

The true gift is when people start dancing, clapping and singing!!!!!!!!!! That is my Christmas.......

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[AmateisGal]

I have to listen to Bing Crosby's God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen for it to be Christmas.

 

[Hoosierken]

Dean Martin.
"Winter Wonderland"


I just put his Christmas album "My Kind of Christmas" on my iPhone. Good smooth stuff.

I can't help but sing along with Dean. He has always been a favorite.



Ken

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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To free myself of self-important shoppers run amok amid bored, lifeless mall Santas, I close my eyes and listen to this every December. It brings me back to peace, sanity and compassion. It reminds me that none of this matters.


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[HoosierDaddy]

Angelic.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S53LYI3tcyQ

 

[23SkidooWithYou]

Any song gets me going ......but this one gets my psyched to play at parties, Total fun ....fun .....FUN

Carlisle Blues...never heard this before, but boy, you're right! I'm only feeding the dogs but it felt like a PARTY with Mr. King in the background!

 

[Miss 1929]

Bing Crosby, White Christmas.

I am off to play Xmas carols for the old folks home right now, that'll put me in the mood!

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"A very Max Raabe Christmas"

Max Raabe "I'm Shdanink in Der Shnow" will have you and your Chums "Charlstening" under the Christmas tree, He also does a peculiarly splendid job of Whams "Last Christmas", that would probably have George Michael & Andrew Riddley pulling each others Drug store blonde HiLites out!!, & not forgetting a version of "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas", performed in a tropical "Rhumba" style complete with Parrots calling, and Monkeys "Going Orf"lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwt8LUi49aU&feature=PlayList&p=198439B3