favourite Christmas carols/songs/albums?

[Nomilynn]

I was listening to Christmas music in the car today, and I was trying to figure out what my favourite Christmas music is. I realised I don't really have one favourite!!

But I was listening to Trans Siberian Orchestra today, and I also love any Christmas stuff by Manheim Steamroller. For albums, I like Alabama, Dolly and Kenny, Garth Brooks, the Statler Bros, Oak Ridge Boys, and Larry Gaitlin bros. I grew up with country Christmas music so it's my fave. I also really love the Neil Diamond Christmas album (the first one, not the second one so much). I am very much a traditionalist - I don't like the new pop Christmas songs about relationships gone sour on Christmas eve and all that stuff!

My favourite carol is "O Holy Night"

So what are your faves?

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Hmmmm.... the older stuff, like the 40's and 50's swing-type Christmas songs - Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, etc. And I LOVE silly Christmas parody songs. I also don't care too much for the newer pop or hip-hop type Christmas songs. (But I'm an old broad anyway... )

[Soledad]

I like that one really ethereal one that a lot of Catholic choirs do. I don't remember the name, but it's the song on Home Alone where Macauly Culkin is sitting in the church and then starts running out.

It's like...dum dee dee dum, dum dee dee dum....DING DONG, DING, DONG.


Hehe...have fun guessing what the heck I'm talking about.

[Nomilynn]

That's Carol of the Bells

And I didn't get the Home Alone reference.. your dum dee dums were very expressive

[Soledad]

Wow, you're good...

[Nomilynn]

I'm actually a bit of a Christmas nut In high school we had a Christmas trivia game, and my friends and I entered. We called ourselves the snowflakes (how original .. we didnt' know we needed a "team" name until the last minute!!). Anyway, before the game we all came over to my house and studied through my family's extensive collection of Christmas books. And we won!! It was great fun

[wolf_Q]

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by U2! Duh hehehee

I really like that song with Bare Naked Ladies and Sarah Mclaughlan (ok no clue how to spell that...)

Some of my mom's albums that we listen to are Manheim Steamroller (I do enjoy that), Disney and we also have some really corny ones like The Osmonds, Johnny Mathis, Kenny Rogers, etc. bleh

I guess some of my other favorite songs are O Holy Night, Silent Night, and ummm...some others that I don't know what they are called...I like a lot of the Christmas songs better in german, lol. We used to sing them in my german class.

[neko1]

Ok everyone I know completely hates this cd- but my fav is the Jingle Cats!!!

[jenluckenbach]

I can listen to the music from the ballet the Nutcracker FOREVER !!!!!!
I also like the Carol of the Bells (especially when it is done with the bells)

[mugsy]

Oh Holy Night and What Child is This are my 2 favorites.

[iceyshiver21]

I like that one really ethereal one that a lot of Catholic choirs do. I don't remember the name, but it's the song on Home Alone where Macauly Culkin is sitting in the church and then starts running out.

I got it at the ding dong ding dong part. Me and amanda laugh so hard at that part and the worst thing is we don't know why,I love that song
WAIT HERES THE LYRICS!!!!!!!
Hark how the bells,
sweet silver bells,
all seem to say,
throw cares away

Christmas is here,
bringing good cheer,
to young and old,
meek and the bold,

Ding dong ding dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling

One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From ev'ry where
Filling the air

Oh how they pound,
raising the sound,
o'er hill and dale,
telling their tale,

Gaily they ring
while people sing
songs of good cheer,
Christmas is here,

Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas,
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas,
On on they send ,
on without end,
their joyful tone to every home
Dong Ding dong ding, dong Bong
I also like Santa Baby, in that kinda betty boop voice

[TheAntiPam]

My favorite Christmas albums are both with John Denver - one is his Rocky Mountain Christmas and the other is the Muppet Christmas. I'm not a John Denver nut, but I still find it hard to believe he's gone... *sigh*

I like Mannheim Steamroller too - I saw them in concert once - terrific! Now, where are those Christmas CD's????

[Logan]

I simply love them all.........really. Celine Dion's Christmas CD is wonderful (especially love "The Prayer" with Andrea Bocelli), and I also love my Kenny Loggins Christmas CD. We have two local radio stations that are all Christmas music right now and I enjoy listening constantly. I love the old traditional Christmas hymns, the old classics like Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Andy Williams (are any of you old enough to remember his Christmas specials on tv every year.....we loved them), plus Martina McBride's Christmas cd is wonderful too. And Amy Grant has two great Christmas cds! See?? I told you I love them all!!! When Helen was three years old, she knew how to go straight to song #7 on the Amy Grant CD (her first Christmas cd) and play Rockin Around the Christmas Tree, over and over. I think we would start playing it in July!! LOL!!!

[Chinadoll]

My favorite Christmas song is Santa Baby sung by Eartha Kitt
Here are the lyrics:
Santa baby, slip a sable under the tree, for me
I've been an awful good girl
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, an 54 convertible too, light blue
I'll wait up for you dear Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be oh so good
If you'd check off my Christmas list
Boo doo bee doo
Santa honey, I wanna yacht and really that's
Not a lot
I've been an angel all year
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa cutie, there's one thing I really do need, the deed
To a platinum mine
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Santa baby, I'm filling my stocking with a duplex, and checks
Sign your 'X' on the line
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Come and trim my Christmas tree
With some decorations bought at Tiffany's
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in me
Boo doo bee doo
Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring
I don't mean a phone
Santa baby, and hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight

I think the song is hysterical. I also love Christmas/holiday parodies(Adam Sandler comes to mind)...but nothing beats a really good choir singing traditional Christmas carols without any instruments. It just sounds so beautiful.

edited because I had to change some of the lyrics because I just copied and pasted off a website and realized they got parts of the lyrics wrong

[iceyshiver21]

Thats the one thats the one!!! right up there yes yes thats the one!!