Holiday Songs

littlemushroom · December 2017

I love the Statler Brothers Christmas Card album. That is the only Christmas music I intentionally listen to every year. The bass singer gives me chills. I love Something You Can't Buy, The Carols Those Kids Used to Sing, and Christmas to Me, but the whole album is great. Funnily enough, I have never heard their non-Christmas music.

As for classics, my favorite is Do You Hear What I Hear? I also like Little Drummer Boy.

kvruns · December 2017

Every night I sing "Silent Night" to baby B. It started because when he was a baby it was Christmastime and all I could think of was Christmas songs to sign to him at bedtime so it carried throughout the year. Its dropped down to just 1 song since he's antsy at night. And the fact that I'm asking for a Silent Night isn't lost on me hahahaha.

short+sassy · December 2017

@kimmiinthemitten and @STARMOON44, Ah-ha! You all dredged up two songs that I dislike more than the others. Drummer Boy...though every once in awhile I'll hear a cool, very different version of it. And the Grandma/Reindeer song.

I also especially can't stand the 12 Days of Christmas song. Because it is a repetitive song for the season that is also repetitive in itself, lol. However, I do enjoy reading lyrics for that song when someone has changed them up to match a theme or place.

banana468 · December 2017

MissKittyDanger said:

banana468 said:

MissKittyDanger said:

banana468 said:

MissKittyDanger said:

banana468 said:

MissKittyDanger said:

Anyone have any faves?

Any they can't stand/handle {for whatever reason - you can state why if you'd like}

Both can be specific version.

I'll start.

Love: "Hallelujah" by Pentatonix

Nope: "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby {Holiday Inn}
- can't do it because my grampa loved that song and he passed around xmas time. Just hurts to hear.

Also love "Ode to Joy" by Beaker from Muppets.
If you aren't a fan of him, you'll hate it :')

HALLELUJAH IS NOT A CHRISTMAS SONG! IT IS A SONG THAT MANY CAN FIND BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY AND SPECIAL BUT IT IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN A CHRISTMAS SONG!

Ode to Joy is great. It's one of my favorite Muppet videos but again, not a Christmas song. It's at least Classical with plenty of versions tied to Christianity.

OK, I'll stop yelling.

Personal peeve: I love music - but I don't like it when non Christmas songs are suddenly played as Christmas songs: Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, My Favorite Things by Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm looking at YOU.

My favorite Christmas songs depend on my mood. An a cappella version of Carol of the Bells is up there. While not a Christmas song, I love the Schubert Ave Maria.

Loop hole, I put Holiday songs For the reason of those songs lol

Have you heard "Carol of the Bells" instrumental? I have zero idea who does it, but one of my friends LOVES that version.

They aren't holiday songs though. Both are great but they're not holiday songs. They're....songs. And Pentatonix has great marketing.

Maybe it's the area, but here "Hallelujah" the radio classifies it as holiday song and pretty much only puts it on regular rotation at this time of year. So I just associate it as a 'holiday song'
"Ode to Joy" was also a song I learned in elementary school as a holiday song. So both might just be the way I was taught them

Yeah - the reason that the radio plays Hallelujah this time of year is because artists add it to their Holiday albums. And then they either release those songs as singles or the radio stations just know what gets good air play. You're right that the stations only play them at this time of the year but I wince that they do that. It's music marketing and the thought that a song with the word Hallelujah = Christmas. We also incorrectly play the Hallelujah chorus as a Christmas song. It celebrates Christ but it's from Handel's Messiah and is part of Part II concluding with the Passion of Christ. It's certainly Christian and you could definitely argue that it's a holiday song.....but it's the holiday associated with bunnies that lay eggs.

Ode To Joy was composed by Beethoven. If you've sung the "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee" it's certainly Christian but not really specifically Christmas related anymore than Panis Angelicus or Ave Maria are holiday songs. They get radio air time during this time of the year and they're beautiful but fall into the Classical category. You could hear them sung in a Church during times that are definitely not Christmas.

I went to a public school, so that might be why I associate it with Christmas also. Someone who visits church regularly probably doesn't.

Ahh the joys of different things during the holidays. Like the classic "Is Die Hard a Christmas movie"

That may be it. I went to public school (even college) but by being in the choir we were exposed to more classical music that was sung at other times of the year.

Cool story: because my HS was about 80 minutes from NYC, we were invited to be a filler choir in Carnegie Hall. It basically meant that when there was an event that had a choir and all choir bodies weren't filled, our group could be invited at no cost (other choirs paid for the privilege). One beautiful piece that we performed was the Beethoven Choral Fantasy and it happened to be in late November. A year and a half later we were there performing the Mozart Vespers. Both experiences were incredible.

There are two kinds of people. Those who consider Die Hard to be a Christmas movie and those who are wrong.

MRDCle · December 2017

@banana468 we watch Die Hard every year at my parents. We have matching sweaters and created a killer drinking game out of it.

MissKittyDanger · December 2017

@banana468 that is an amazing opportunity! I did choir all through elementary school, and did vocal class in hs and we did classic christmas songs but our teachers tried to veer away from anything that was directly religious because we had a lot of mixed religions. If we did something Christian, we'd throw in something for the Jewish and another for another religion - I can't remember what now - but I think that was went a lot of people were being weird about religion in public schools.

MissKittyDanger · December 2017

MRDCle said:

@banana468 we watch Die Hard every year at my parents. We have matching sweaters and created a killer drinking game out of it.

My favourite part about this entire post is you have a drinking game with your parents :')

STARMOON44 · December 2017

MissKittyDanger said:

@STARMOON44 Do you mean the updated version, or any version of "do they know it's christmas" ? Because I like the song, but I prefer '84 version vs updated one.

Any version! Who cares if they know it’s Christmas???? Not everyone has to celebrate Christmas.

kvruns · December 2017

O Holy night - There’s a country singer version I love but I forget who.

Mary Did You Know If sung well - best rendition was a Christmas Eve service at my parents old church years ago

fun newer song: Christmas Can-Can

banana468 · December 2017

@MissKittyDanger, we definitely sang a mix of songs. Because so many Classical (I'm going to put that in as the genre and not necessarily the time period) composers were also hired by the church, a lot of great music may be Christian but IMO, it's a disservice to omit Mozart and Beethoven or Schubert.

short+sassy · December 2017

@banana468, you can count me in as one of the "wrong" ones, lol. When people talk about Die Hard being a Christmas movie, I have a few seconds of, "Huh? What?...Oh yeah, I vaguely remember it takes place at Christmas." Just not something that ever stuck in my mind about that movie.

There's a commercial right now, I think Verizon, where Santa says that Die Hard is his favorite Christmas movie.

ILoveBeachMusic · December 2017

@MissKittyDanger, I love White Christmas because it was my Dad's favorite Christmas song and it reminds me of him every year! It was one of the first songs I learned to play on the piano ( a simplified version).

I adore Christmas music - mostly the old school singers - Bing, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra. I do love Micheal Buble, Harry Connick Jr and am loving the Carpenters this year. I tear up whenever I hear Mary Did You Know.

charlotte989875 · December 2017

H got us great seats to see Trans Siberian Orchestra this Saturday!

Other favorites: Oh Holy Night, Carol of the Bells, Good King Wenceslas.

Charlie Brown Christmas and The Muppet Family Christmas are the best Christmas movies and the soundtracks are amazing.

flantastic · December 2017

charlotte989875 said:

H got us great seats to see Trans Siberian Orchestra this Saturday!

Other favorites: Oh Holy Night, Carol of the Bells, Good King Wenceslas.

Charlie Brown Christmas and The Muppet Family Christmas are the best Christmas movies and the soundtracks are amazing.

I like your taste in [Christmas] music.

ernursej · December 2017

Hands down is 6 White Boomers by Rolf Harris. I could listen to that on repeat all day long.

MobKaz · December 2017

True and potentially embarrassing confessions....

Silent Night Medley by Hanson
Drummer Boy-Bing Crosby/David Bowie

Hark the Herald when played live with an incredible horn section.

Die Hard IS a Christmas movie! Merry freaking Christmas!

LadyCatherineDB · December 2017

I hate depressing holiday music, so the shoes song and the one song about the exes who meet in the parking lot and even Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer are not favorites of mine.

Despite disliking depressing music, I do like the slow, pretty carols, so a lot of the villancicos feel too fast for me, including Farolitos En El Cielo.

ILoveBeachMusic · December 2017

MobKaz said:

True and potentially embarrassing confessions....

Silent Night Medley by Hanson
Drummer Boy-Bing Crosby/David Bowie

Hark the Herald when played live with an incredible horn section.

Die Hard IS a Christmas movie! Merry freaking Christmas!

Love that rendition of Drummer Boy! I remember seeing the Bing Crosby Christmas special when it was originally aired (dating myself once again!)

MRDCle · December 2017

ILoveBeachMusic said:

MobKaz said:

True and potentially embarrassing confessions....

Silent Night Medley by Hanson
Drummer Boy-Bing Crosby/David Bowie

Hark the Herald when played live with an incredible horn section.

Die Hard IS a Christmas movie! Merry freaking Christmas!

Love that rendition of Drummer Boy! I remember seeing the Bing Crosby Christmas special when it was originally aired (dating myself once again!)

Adding that to my Spotify - totally forgot!

and @LadyCatherineDB the parking lot one is the Same Old Lang Syne I mentioned. Ugh. So not Christmasy for me.

NOLABridesmaid · December 2017

I love Oh Holy Night. It always makes me want to cry.
We Three Kings- We used to sing it at my elementary school.
Silent Night- By The Temptations
What Do the Lonely Do At Christmas- My fav ol' school song.

MissKittyDanger · December 2017

I seriously am loving the variety of tunes everyone likes!

A lot of commonality {ie; classics} but some variations of classics

Also shout out to @mrsconn23 for adding to my winter-y mix

Love that song you suggested.

VarunaTT · December 2017

#disme

Like Barbie, too many years in retail and specifically in music stores. At Blockbuster Music, for the 5 CD spinner (ah, old school tech), 3 CDs had to be Christmas and 2 CDs had to be out of the top 20. Oh, but couldn't be parental advisory, which really put it down to about 10ish choices. And of those 10, TransSiberian Orchestra and Mariah Carey always made a showing around Christmas. It was pretty miserable at times.

MobKaz · December 2017

MRDCle said:

ILoveBeachMusic said:

MobKaz said:

True and potentially embarrassing confessions....

Silent Night Medley by Hanson
Drummer Boy-Bing Crosby/David Bowie

Hark the Herald when played live with an incredible horn section.

Die Hard IS a Christmas movie! Merry freaking Christmas!

Love that rendition of Drummer Boy! I remember seeing the Bing Crosby Christmas special when it was originally aired (dating myself once again!)

Adding that to my Spotify - totally forgot!

and @LadyCatherineDB the parking lot one is the Same Old Lang Syne I mentioned. Ugh. So not Christmasy for me.

One that I love that I can NEVER remember the title is Christmas Canon by TSO!

MNNEBride · December 2017

UGH - I had never heard "Cat's Carol" so I googled. Please add that to my do not play list!

short+sassy · December 2017

MNNEBride said:

UGH - I had never heard "Cat's Carol" so I googled. Please add that to my do not play list!

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was pretty sure I hadn't heard it either. I don't even want to Google it, lol.

MissKittyDanger · December 2017

short+sassy said:

MNNEBride said:

UGH - I had never heard "Cat's Carol" so I googled. Please add that to my do not play list!

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was pretty sure I hadn't heard it either. I don't even want to Google it, lol.

It's heart wrenching with a vague mix of heart warming.

downtondiva · December 2017

O Holy Night is definitely my favorite. I love to sing, and I enjoy the challenge of singing that one!

Least favorite would have to be Last Christmas. I can't stand that song. Nothing gets me to change the radio station faster.

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