What's Your Favorite Christmas Music? (crying, insurance, parents, deal)
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The Firestone Christmas albums. Yep, the tire company. In the 60’s they put out a new album yearly. We had them all, and my dad had the console stereo additional speakers wired in the game room. At the Christmas party, he’d load up the spindle with several Firestone records, and let them play, and then on the next trip for ice, flip them….
I'm surprised no one mentioned "The Hallejulah Chorus" from Handel. Here's fun rendition from a flash mob in a shopping mall. I'd love to be surprised while shopping some day by all these fine voices.
This always makes me grin. The singers are having such a good time and it looks like it's catching. A holiday gift.
The song also reminds me of when I was a Freshman in a small Lutheran College in Iowa. We had a mass chorus to sing this song and invited an orchestra from Illinois to come help us. It was an ambitious accomplishment.
There is something powerfully satisfying about singing with others in harmony.
But what really put us all in mirth in this strict little college performance was the rotund, red-faced professional trombonist who was obviously full of holiday cheer during morning rehearsal and truly roaring drunk by the evening's presentation. Something a little new to us. Well, unforgettable.
I'm surprised no one mentioned "The Hallejulah Chorus" from Handel. Here's fun rendition from a flash mob in a shopping mall. I'd love to be surprised while shopping some day by all these fine voices.
This always makes me grin. The singers are having such a good time and it looks like it's catching. A holiday gift.
The song also reminds me of when I was a Freshman in a small Lutheran College in Iowa. We had a mass chorus to sing this song and invited an orchestra from Illinois to come help us. It was an ambitious accomplishment.
There is something powerfully satisfying about singing with others in harmony.
But what really put us all in mirth in this strict little college performance was the rotund, red-faced professional trombonist who was obviously full of holiday cheer during morning rehearsal and truly roaring drunk by the evening's presentation. Something a little new to us. Well, unforgettable.
Well, I was just about to mention it, but you beat me to it! Thanks for sharing this flash mob---WOW. I got tears in my eyes just watching/listening to it. Wonder how long these choral folks had to practice. Incredible voices! Even in my agnostic years, I loved Handel's Messiah.
I also like "What Child is This", which is also "Greensleeves" and "How the West was Won". Love them all!!
I really like a lot of Christmas music from the "old days" right up to the 1980's.
My #1 favorite:
Sleigh Ride (instrumental) by Leroy Anderson and his orchestra.
Some of my other fave's:
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Bing Crosby Wonderful Christmastime—Paul McCartney Santa Claus Is Coming to Town—Bruce Springsteen Holly Jolly Christmas—Burl Ives Here Comes Santa Claus—Gene Autry Jingle Bell Rock— Bobby Helms Ring Christmas Bells—Ray Conniff Merry Christmas Baby - Bruce Springsteen
My favorite is the NOW Christmas Classics CD or similar CD which features all the old legends from the 1940s/1950s, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Burl Ives, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, etc. singing mostly secular songs. But looking at their recent CDs, I notice they are replacing some of my favorite artists with newer ones. Josh Groban and Kenny Rogers are now listed. Yuck!
I'm one of those people who doesn't care much for Christmas music. We had "Merry Christmas" by Johnny Mathis when I was a kid. I don't recall what else; we mostly listened to classical radio in the house. I know my dad had a Diana Krall Christmas music CD at one point in recent years.
I used to think that same thing. Then the radio station I listen to while I walk went to all Christmas music just before Thanksgiving. It has made me realize just how much really bad Christmas music there is out there. Unfortunately I can't find another station to tide me over, so I listen to the good songs and hit the off switch when the bad ones come on.
That's why I stream instead. No interest in hearing "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" or that horrible ghastly song about the boy buying shoes for his dead mother.
I'll stream a variety of music from classic to contemporary. It may include Rod Stewart but it won't include Mariah Carey. Or Wham!
Windham Hill Orchestra has beautiful peaceful music I'll stream on a snowy day. If we ever get some snow here.
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