Christmas Songs.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Though I have to confess, I'm not a major Holiday person, there's some songs I do like.


Here's a couple. First this Stevie Wonder Classic. Other have remade it but it doesn't compare to the original.

Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me (1967) - YouTube



Stevie Wonder - Someday At Christmas - YouTube
This is a new one I just discoverd.

Colbie Caillat - Christmas In The Sand - YouTube

I know Christmas In The Sand probably doesn't sound right but what do you expect from a California girl.

Love Colbie.

Here's a interview with Colbie and about writing the song.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2012/11/30/colbie-caillet-christmas-in-the-sand-exclusive-video/1733691/

[T.G.]

This is an amazing arrangement of the old classic. Carrie's voice brings it on home ...

Do You Hear What I Hear? - Carrie Underwood - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Here's a song by an obscure artist. Do check out her YT site. She's a very lovely lady and singer and has some pretty good material.


"christmas spirit" -jess delgado original - YouTube

[jj]

i guess this is now also a christmas song

i wonder how loud the lawn speakers are...and if it loops endlessly??:eek:

Gangnam Style PSY 2012 - YouTube

[formerlylavender]

Omg, what if that was your neighbor???

[charlene]

shoot me now.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Please Come Home For Christmas by The Eagles, cover Savannah Berry - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

A rather funny paroday of the Rolling Stones Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQujz5zqis

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Here's another Motown Christmas song.

Children's Christmas Song- The Supremes.wmv - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-BXh8Btq1w)

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Probably can't call it Christmas music since it's been used in many Charlie Brown specials but it was first heard on the Christmas special so here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06DFATE7lBM

[Jim Nasium]

Two fine christmas songs

Chris Rea : Driving Home For Christmas - YouTube



The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video)) - YouTube

[charlene]

LOVE Driving Home For Christmas...
and my FAVE - Darlene Love on Letterman every year.....
1993 -
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) -- Live - YouTube
and 2009 -
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - YouTube

[charlene]

2011 - Live On Letterman - Darlene Love 'Christmas' 2011 - YouTube awesome..can't wait for this years performance...

[formerlylavender]

Probably can't call it Christmas music since it's been used in many Charlie Brown specials but it was first heard on the Christmas special so here it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06DFATE7lBM



I love this one...and always meet out for the Christmas trio, a threesome who play locally.

http://www.cartoonchristmastrio.com/

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Anyone recall this Bobby Sherman song?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFmzlXun5A

[Jim Nasium]

12 Days of Christmas, a slightly different take.

The Twelve Days of Christmas - Frank Kelly - With Lyrics - YouTube

[formerlylavender]

Omg Jim Nasium this is SO funny! I just sent the link to my irish relatives. They'll love it!

[charlene]

Christmas season has arrived! 71 year old Darlene Love blows the roof off the Ed Sullivan Theatre...2011 inductee into the R&R Hall of Fame. awesome! http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_show/video/2320240546/live-on-letterman-darlene-love-s-christmas-2012

[jj]

12 Days of Christmas, a slightly different take.



another take....

Norm MacDonald - The Twelve Days Of Christmas - YouTube

[Dave, Melbourne,Australia]

And an Australian take on the same song (this video unfortunately has 2 recordings of it overlapping):

http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/austblonde/xmasfive.html

There's also a longer version of the song, which includes a final verse as follows:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Twelve goannas going, Eleven snakes a-sliding,
Ten dingoes dashing, Nine wombats waddling,
Eight koalas clinging, Seven emus running,
Six ‘roos a-jumping, Five opals black,
Four great galahs, Three parakeets,
Two cockatoos, And a kookaburra up a gum tree

[charlene]

the cost of The Twelve Days of Christmas: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/22/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-song-should-not-be-undertaken-lightly/

[charlene]

Bryan Adams sends his Christmas wishes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdVLcIA9p9g&feature=youtu.be

[charlene]

Frank Sinatra- rare 1991 version of Silent Night (with Frank Jr.) Frank Sinatra RARE 1991 Silent Night - YouTube

[joveski]

Jingle Cats perform meow version of Silent Night in HD - YouTube

[johnfowles]

It is now Christmas Day on the US East Cast and a bit earlier we had a nice light snowfall
As my main contribution to this timely thread I wish my friends and fellow fans including Sydney hooligans my warmest greetings of the season,and make the observation that when one thinks of Christrmas songs one naturally thinks in terms of traditional carols, but there are of course a large number of other Christmas related songs that are not usually included in a list of carols, one of the best in my opinion came out of the 1950's craze for calypso music as personified by Harry Belafonte an acquaintanvcde o a young Gordon Lightfoot a few years later in New York, and who in 1956 recorded a lovely song that deserves to be a full fledged carol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfdx2V5sAic
In wishing one and all a merry Christmas a tad late I can do no beetter than quote one of the comments on that "video":-
"This is and always has been the song that gets me into the Christmas spirit"
Actually in years past we have often got into the spirit thanks to the non stop airing of Christmas songs by
New York FM radio station 106.7 a.k.a LiteFM
http://www.1067litefm.com/cc-common/mlib/1873/10/1873_1351002482.png?t=1
see their playlist at:-
http://www.1067litefm.com/iplaylist/playlist.html
for the record as it were here is the playlist on Lite FM yesterday
Overture (Beethoven's Last Night)
A Star to Follow (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
The Ghosts of Christmas Eve (The Christmas Attic)
The March of the Kings / Hark the Herald Angel (The Christmas Attic)
The Snow Came Down (The Christmas Attic) -
The Lost Christmas Eve (The Lost Christmas Eve)
Christmas Nights in Blue (The Lost Christmas Eve)
The Dark (Beethoven's Last Night)
Beethoven (Beethoven's Last Night)
Wizards in Winter (The Lost Christmas Eve)
Night Castle (Night Castle)
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 (Christmas Eve and Other Stories, Dead Winter Dead)
A Mas Russian's Christmas (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
Midnight/Fate (Beethoven's Last Night)
Toccata-Carpimus Noctem (Night Castle)
What Good This Deafness (Beethoven's Last Night)
Requiem (The Fifth) (Beethoven's Last Night)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
The Lion's Roar (Night Castle)
Embers (Night Castle)
Christmas Canon Rock (The Lost Christmas Eve)

However This year Susan has created a long playlist using the Windows Media Player on her computer to rip the selection of Christmas CDs we have.
In previous years over the weeks leading up to Christmas as well as hearing Bing droning on about yet another White Christmas occasionally a Christmas song would grab my attention
For many years it was A Christmas Canon Rock by The Trans Siberian Express out of Canon in D Major written by Pachelbel in the 17th century
per the wiki "The circumstances of the piece's composition are wholly unknown. One writer hypothesized that the Canon may have been composed for Johann Christoph Bach's wedding, on 23 October 1694, which Pachelbel attended Johann Ambrosius Bach Pachelbel, and other friends and family provided music for the occasion. Johann Christoph Bach, the oldest brother of Johnann Sebastian Bach was a former pupil of Pachelbel"
There are any number of YouTube videos of this modern version and I have chosen a live performance (it is almost cetainly not the best one available but it was "Recorded on December 26, 2008, at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIyc6TfqGs
But more recently my favourite seasonal air has been "The Christmas Shoes"
For some reason I was sure it was sung by Dan Fogelberg but I drew a blank on YouTube
After a quick google later I found the correct answer is a "Christian group" called Newsong
WARNING. if you have not heard this before go and fetch a box of tissues!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJcPVB-we7g
Newsong's recording may be played or downloaded or the embed code copied on this website
http://mp3skull.com/mp3/christmas_shoes.html
a good quality mp3 sampled at 256KBPS a file of 8.88MB may be downloaded from the
download link which is
http://warptubes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/merry-christmas.mp3
All the very best to you and yours in 2013
(Sir) John

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Thought It's time to revive this again.

Here's on by Ray Parker Jr.

Ray Parker, Jr. - Christmas Time Is Here - YouTube

[charlene]

http://darleneloveworld.com/

Darlene Love will be on Letterman for the 27th time singing Christmas Baby! She was 72 in July!
LOVE this song - youtube has many of the renditions over the years-always fun to see how the choir/band are dressed and the sax solo is always fun! Her first time in 1986 and last year-2012 at this link: -
Darlene Love sings "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) FOR THE FIRST TIME on Letterman, 1986 - YouTube

Darlene Love 2012 HQ - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) The Late Show David Letterman - YouTube








Darlene Love on David Letterman Christmas 2010 (HD) - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Here's an original by a lady who I posted previously here.

This is an original and she in the beginning she explains the story behind the song.


Silent Night Without You EPK - Short Version - YouTube

It may seem strange to post a video of the same song that was already posted but the it's pretty touching since the previous posting has info on the background of it, I thought I'd still keep that one up.


Silent Night Without You - YouTube

[Patti]

JOHNNY CASH THAT CHRISTMASY FEELING - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

If there's any version of the Rudolph song that I like, it's this one.


Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Temptations - YouTube

[Patti]

The Moody Blues - What Child Is This - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Though I have to confess, I'm not a major Holiday person, there's some songs I do like.


Here's a couple. First this Stevie Wonder Classic. Other have remade it but it doesn't compare to the original.

Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me (1967) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgGBgpNcIo)



Stevie Wonder - Someday At Christmas - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3YxvNQgq3M)
This is a new one I just discoverd.

Colbie Caillat - Christmas In The Sand - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnvzsZCJjZ0)

I know Christmas In The Sand probably doesn't sound right but what do you expect from a California girl.

Love Colbie.

Here's a interview with Colbie and about writing the song.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2012/11/30/colbie-caillet-christmas-in-the-sand-exclusive-video/1733691/

Maybe it's a bit too soon but why not.

Don't know too many Christmas song that are more warm weathered like Colbie's song but here's another.


Joey + Rory - Let it Snow (Somewhere Else) - YouTube

[charlene]

BLUE RODEO covers SFAWN on new XMAS album : http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=27530&highlight=blue+rodeo
listen: http://www.bluerodeo.com/

[fezo]

I've always been a sucker for the Roches Christmas album We Three Kings. Especially Do You Hear What I Hear?

The Roches Do You Hear What I Hear - YouTube

[Jim Nasium]

Hopefully this is "Slade" with the great Noddy Holder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzczoqLBWAY

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

This girl really is an angel.

Alex G - It's You That I'll Miss This Christmas (Pop-Up Santa) - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Maybe it's a bit too soon but why not.

Don't know too many Christmas song that are more warm weathered like Colbie's song but here's another.


Joey + Rory - Let it Snow (Somewhere Else) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieRcfzWaN8M)



Maybe some of you noticed that both Joey & Rory were referring to this Jimmy Buffet song "Let It Snow Somewhere Else." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCDWt7aVMVI



I just found out about this tune by Christina Perri.
She's actually a great modern day artist.

Christina Perri - Something About December [Official Video] - YouTube Tell me if this get you.

[joveski]

Bob Dylan - It Must Be Santa - YouTube

[charlene]

geeze - I can't un-see and un-hear that.. yikers.

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Here's someone I follow regularly on Youtube which I posted about sometime ago.

She just uploaded in and have listened to it several times tonight.

http://soundcloud.com/sabrinalentini

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

This is funny.

Canned Heat with The Chipmunks doing a song for the holiday.


YouTube

[Jim Nasium]

Something from King George,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDCmeKs8Zpk

[Jim Nasium]

Leroy The Redneck Reindeer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdnYAkqSes

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Funny thing this isn't the original version of this song, though The Herald Simeone Chorale was the first to popularize it.


Harry Simeone Chorale - The Little Drummer Boy (MCA Records 1958) - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

This was from Bob's early years.


Bob Seger and The Last Heard - Sock It To Me Santa - YouTube




Step Into Christmas [HQ audio] - YouTube

[charlene]

DARLENE LOVE on The View (no more Letterman show!) http://abc.go.com/shows/the-view/video/pl5554876/vdka0_6utsivme

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Detroit Junior - Christmas Day - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Here's one I just discovered.


Us The Duo - Feels Like Christmas - YouTube

There's a thread on them I started sometime ago.

http://www.corfid.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=27718

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Here's a new one. Christmas in Paradise - Us The Duo - YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Here's one from Bob Seger.



YouTube

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Just found this upload from Us The Duo.



"December" by Us The Duo - YouTube

[Borderstone]

Hi all. :) I know I'm late in getting in on this talk of Christmas songs but ,
an amazing Billboard Hot 100 Phenomenon that started last year has doubled this year!

Older (maybe even those no longer with us) artists are making the
Billboard Hot 100 (and top 40 / top 10) with their never before charted tunes!

Some have peaked and some a re still climbing trhe chart. Including Elcis's return to the top 40 over 37 years later. :)

Starting with Mariah Carey's first top 5 hit in 11 years!

3 - Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You
8 - Bobby Helms Jingle Bell Rock
9 - Brenda Lee Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
10 - Burl Ives A Holly Jolly Christmas
11 - Nat King Cole The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
13 - (Andy had already reached #10 last week)
16 - Gene Autry Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
20 - Dean Martin Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

25 - Wham! Last Christmas (I was VERY happy to see this)
26 - The Ronettes Sleigh Ride
28 - Gene Autry Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)
29 - Jose Feliciano Feliz Navidad (Jsoe hit top 40 last week. His forst hit since "Hi Heel Sneakers" .)
32 - Perry Como (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
34 - Bing Crosby White Christmas (Last hit with this in 1962!)
35 - Perry Como And The Fontane Sisters With Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
40 - Elvis Presley Blue Christmas (Debuting at #40! Yaaay!!
42 - John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir Happy Xmas (War Is Over) ** Still climbing chart **
43 - Darlene Love Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
45 - Chuck Berry Run Rudolph Run
49 - Frank Sinatra Jingle Bells * Debut*

There you have it folks. :) Ho Ho Ho!

[Affair on Touhy Ave.]

Been a while since I've posted anything on the topic.


I learned of this remake of Joni Michell's River by Ellie Goulding.


Originally I thought she was just some modern day autotone pop artist but she's not just limited to that.

She also plays guitar and I think piano also.


YouTube


Sounds similar to "White Christmas" in the beginning where the person's now living in a warmer climate where they don't get snow.