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Mine?
Ave Maria by Stevie Wonder.
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Xipe Totec
(44,558 posts)
retrowire
(10,345 posts)Why would you just say what I typed, I have no idea why you would do that. hahahahahahaaa...(i corrected it. lol)
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Hail Mary, full of grace.
but it is not exactly a Christmas song, just a good Roman Catholic song.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)House of Roberts
(6,525 posts)It's an Apple commercial now, but if they don't release a full length version they're blowing an opportunity.
Ilsa
(64,368 posts)Lovely commercial.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)The Chieftains' Christmas cd is the best ever made. Starts w/Bells of Dublin and goes on to greatness from there.
The lyrics to this are HILARIOUS and sum up Christmas in every dysfunctional family there is. LOL
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Honorable mention: A Spaceman came Traveling:
And for Doctor Who (especially the David Tennant version) fans:
artislife
(9,497 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Mariah in her prime.
This song always makes me nostalgic
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)I'm not religious at all but it's a great song with great lyrics. And he really is a fantastic guitarist and storyteller, I know not everyone's a fan but his early stuff is real nice. This is the story of Jesus I like best 
Chiyo-chichi
(3,976 posts)Botany
(77,323 posts)So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas (War is over)
For weak and for strong (If you want it)
For rich and the poor ones (War is over)
The road is so long (Now)
And so Happy Christmas (War is over)
For black and for white (If you want it)
For yellow and red ones (War is over)
Let's stop all the fight (Now)
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
So this is Christmas (War is over)
And what have we done (If you want it)
Another year over (War is over)
And a new one just begun (Now)
And so Happy Christmas (War is over)
We hope you have fun (If you want it)
The near and the dear one (War is over)
The old and the young (Now)
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over if you want it
War is over now
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Has it really been 35 years?
yourout
(8,821 posts)or the Sissel version.
ManiacJoe
(10,138 posts)It can be a challenge to find a live version where the guy running the sound board gets it right.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)...well, you asked, didn't you?
Tom Lehrer – A Christmas Carol:
One very familiar type of song is the Christmas Carol. Although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time. However, I'm informed by my "disk jockey" friends - of whom I have none - that in order to get a song popular by Christmas time, you have to start plugging it well in advance. So here goes.
It has always seemed to me after all that Christmas, with it's spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in. I refer of course, to money. And yet none of the Christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, even attempt to capture the true spirit of Christmas as we celebrate it in the United States. That is to say - the commercial spirit. So I offer a modest example of a Christmas Carol for this year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate.
Lyrics:
Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly,
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say "when."
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the dickens,
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.
On Christmas day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore,
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
Relations, sparing no expense'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
"Just the thing I need! how nice!"
It doesn't matter how sincere it
Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.
Hark the herald tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry, merchants,
May you make the yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and buy!
So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend kris kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
However, when my cynicism dissipates, I turn to Bruce Cockburn's Cry of a Tiny Babe. My favorite lines are
...
For isn't to the palace that the Christ child comes
But to shepherds and street people, hookers and bums.
And the message is clear if you have ears to hear,
That forgiveness is given for your guilt and your fear.
It's a Christmas gift that you don't have to buy
There's a future shining in a baby's eyes.
Like a stone on the surface of a still river
Driving the ripples on forever
Redemption rips through the surface of time
In the cry of a tiny babe.
bvf
(6,604 posts)You'll never hear it played in malls...
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Luminous Animal
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PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)to high school years. Cristina was great.
yourout
(8,821 posts)ripcord
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Revanchist
(1,375 posts)Runner up Eartha Kitt's Santa Baby
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)moondust
(21,286 posts) Logical
(22,457 posts)yourout
(8,821 posts)O holy night. Amazing voice.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)I was married on Dec. 29, Ave Maria was my granny's favorite song. Being Christmas time and all I had it played at my wedding for her. I absolutely love the song. I cannot listen to it without crying.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)Response to retrowire (Original post)
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kentuck
(115,406 posts)
rainbobryte
(43 posts)from the Rudolph show. It can perk me up anytime of the year.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)of ditching all the "traditional standards" and seeking out new interpretations and new songs. Here are a few gems.
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riversedge
(80,810 posts)Christmas--better than Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer.
Ilsa
(64,368 posts)riversedge
(80,810 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)singing Do You Hear What I Hear?
Actually, this has to be my favorite christmas album...her voice and how she sings the traditional songs...gold.
melman
(7,681 posts)
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)I love White Christmas, and can't wait to see Holiday Inn every year.
struggle4progress
(126,151 posts)WillowTree
(5,350 posts)Particularly the Pentatonix version.
Alternatively, I'm also quite fond of the other touching a cappella carol, "Full of Cheer" by Home Free.
Boomerproud
(9,292 posts)Silver Bells
Joy To the World
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Lo How A Rose 'Er Blooming
Father Christmas by Greg Lake
Happy Christmas (War Is Over) John Lennon
I Saw Three Ships
Deck The Halls
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
My "hate" list is even longer.
JEB
(4,748 posts)
Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) - Heilige Nacht
Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (lo, how a rose) - Praetorius
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Anything after 1900.
Two reasons: the songs have been played to death, and the older religious songs are much more beautiful as music.
Give me songs with a couple hundred years on them. They last because they are good.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)What I dislike about many of these DU threads is the pride taken in musical illiteracy. This is not directed at what you have offered, but what often happens in Christmas music threads ... many boomers don't know any music that isn't rock or rock-related.
and some take pride in music that is both secular and really bad in order to take a dig at Christianity.
But most of the best comes from the religious tradition.
Here is one of my favorites, not that anyone here will listen to it.
Elwood P Dowd
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yuiyoshida
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Glamrock
(12,003 posts)Doing Ave Maria
Glamrock
(12,003 posts)Nutcracker Suite
Glamrock
(12,003 posts)The King
840high
(17,196 posts)
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Throw the yule log on, Uncle John
Throw the yule log on Uncle John
Soprano: Fa la la, fa la la, fa la la, fa la la, fa la la, fa fa mi fa
Alto: Wahza whuza wuhza wuhza wuhza woo woo, wuhza wuhza wuhza woo woo, wuhza wuhza wuhza wuhza woo wah
Tenor: Chick chick chick chick chick chick chick chick-a chick-a chick-a boom bah
Bass: Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ha
Put the pickle down, Uncle John
Put the pickle down Uncle John
Soprano: Fa la la, fa la la, fa la la, fa la la, fa la la, fa fa mi fa
Alto: Wahza whuza wuhza wuhza wuhza woo woo, wuhza wuhza wuhza woo woo, wuhza wuhza wuhza wuhza woo wah
Tenor: Chick chick chick chick chick chick chick chick-a chick-a chick-a boom bah
Bass: Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ha
Ten o’clock on Christmas morn and all the guests are coming to the door;
Ten o’clock on Christmas morn and Uncle John’s already on the floor.
Though the weather’s bitter cold there’s not a frown to mar the festive mood;
Wait ’til they discover that old Uncle John has eaten all the food.
Hear the hall clock strike, Uncle John
Hear the hall clock strike Uncle John
Soprano: Fa la la, fa la la, fa la la, fa la la fa la la, fa fa mi fa
Alto: Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear, fuzzy wuzzy had no hair, fuzzy wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy wuzzy wuzzy wuhza wuhza woo wah
Tenor: Sis sis sis sis sis sis sis sis sis boom bah
Bass: Boom chick boom chick boom chick boom chick boom chick boom chick boom boom boom buhzoowah doowah
Please, will you come to Uncle John?
Gather around poor Uncle John.
Please, will you come to Uncle John (the no-good good-for-nothing),
Oh, when will you come to Uncle John?
Oh, when will you come to, Uncle John?
(P.D.Q.Bach: A Consort of Choral Christmas Carols)
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)For a traditional one, "Carol of the Bells"...
icymist
(15,888 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I kid, I kid! it's actually hagalaz' Runedance "Das Fest Der Wintersonne"
Chemisse
(31,344 posts)Funny and corny, but we've played this album every year.
merrily
(45,251 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)and King's College Choir.
tazkcmo
(7,419 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)
egduj
(881 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)Given how old this holiday is, it's amazing that there was no adult "Hanukkah carol" until Sandler wrote one.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/271363 (SNL version)
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=adam+sandler+hanukkah+song+part+2&view=detail&mid=A6ED56D149ACA9BB13DCA6ED56D149ACA9BB13DC&FORM=VIRE3 (Part 2)
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=adam+sandler+hanukkah+song&view=detail&mid=D440671FF0F2CB442093D440671FF0F2CB442093&FORM=VIRE9 (Part 3)
He added to it this year.
AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)I don't know why I sat through it, since I was squirming in discomfort during it. I really think he is not a clever songwriter, nor do I like his voice. It would be nice if there were other Hanukkah songs around as well, in a contemporary vein.
merrily
(45,251 posts)song, which is mainly aimed for children. Sandler is, of course, neither a singer nor a songwriter, but a comic actor. I don't especially enjoy his comedy, though he makes a ton of money at it, but I do laugh at points in this song.
AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)Simple lyrics but sophisticated music. Give it a listen.
merrily
(45,251 posts)
Hepburn
(21,054 posts)Actually: Silent Night
H2O Man
(79,051 posts)John & Yoko
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I love her! She is the child version of Billie Holliday. You should check out some of her songs.
IllinoisBrenel
(51 posts)"What Child Is This?" or "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth!" (an actual song from the 50"s) I just love the music of the season!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)enjoy!
Lonusca
(202 posts)
TlalocW
(15,675 posts)A few years ago, I was snowed in and couldn't make it to the family celebration on the 25th, and I have to say it was a really nice Christmas. I stayed off the computer and read books and looked at the snow and went for a walk in it.
Other than that, I like this one just cuz it's Christians and some Pagan lesbians having Christmas dinner together.
TlalocW
bullwinkle428
(20,662 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)Here's a favorite from Sinatra:
The Manhattan Transfer:
And this one:
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Along with the Tom Lehrer carol linked above, I'll add "Suddenly It's Christmas" by Loudon Wainwright III:
bedazzled
(1,885 posts)second place, "santa baby." reflects the true spirit of acquisition, which i see every day being stuck in retail
RiverLover
(7,830 posts) 
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Thanks for posting that one as well. They're both amazing. Love that song.
phylny
(8,818 posts)and these two:
The old Charlie Brown "Christmastime is Here" by Vince Guaraldi Trio. Something about the simple piano and drums, with the children singing gets to me.
Also, Some Children See Him by James Taylor. It's not new, but a recent find (within the last five years) for me.
El Supremo
(20,436 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I love that song.
Ilsa
(64,368 posts)whatever choir he's working with.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)JanMichael
(25,725 posts)Ilsa
(64,368 posts)
Mendocino
(8,492 posts)
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)
CBHagman
(17,493 posts)...of all time, The Bells of Dublin.
AndreaCG
(2,331 posts)Nothing beats The Twelve Daze of Christmas.
Otherwise Christmas Wrapping, Merry Christmas Darling and I'm liking the new Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings version of Little Drummer Boy. I'll probably buy the album soon.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)
ladyVet
(1,587 posts)Don't like religious songs at all. Will listen to Burl Ives sing anything, though.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)I can stand.
librechik
(30,957 posts)tetedur
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Release The Hounds
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tblue37
(68,436 posts)Faithful."
Here is the great Pentatonix video of "Drummer Boy."