Favorite Yuletide Songs

Let's start it already! There's a "most hated" list and "most loved" songs are seeping into it. We can't let that happen! We must get organized! We should compartmentalize! I love "Fairytale of New York", let's get that one out of the way. I also love Jonathan Coulter's robot apocalypse Xmas tune (at link). What are your favorites?

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• "Oh Holy Night" and "Hanukkah, Hanukkah a Yontif, a Shaner."

• Rufus Thomas, 'I'll Be Your Santa, Baby'...a raunchy Christmas song.

  http://youtu.be/KI-ryQaBNuI

• "Carol of the Bells" has a wonderfully ominous undertone. Love it instrumental or vocal.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JYrOMK1aDA

• Miss Peggy Lee puts a wry spin on everything. Love all her Christmas albums.

• "2000 Miles" - Pretenders

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCoZVxlZWtU&feature=related

• "O Come, All Ye Faithful"

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• "Put the Lights on the Tree" - Sufjan Stevens

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gKzXlqsOeE

• This Christmas by Donny Hathaway...

• This one is good. I also loved yours, R2

• God Dammit

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D1_dIH5CMeJM%26feature%3Drelated

• "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" - Frank Zappa

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE2dq3YD0

• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Jackson 5.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D7H0B__KibfU

• Christmas Baby Please Come Home, Darlene Love.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DUV8x7H3DD8Y

• "Santa Claus is a Black Man"

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DLQkgu9MfQgk

• One of my favorites. And this is priceless, Mona Abboud singing "The Pretty Dolly" on Carson. They used to play this every year in Chicago when I was a kid.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DG0xq2K-ut8U

• My Favorite Things -- The Supremes. I love the arrangement.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DmPncuS0E1yc

• "Who's child is this" by Justin Bieber

• Gaudete

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEDc2FD-vy8M

• "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella" - Liz Story

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMwjL0Qw3QA

• Another Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogelberg

• "Merry Christmas, Darling" by Karen Carpenter

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYR1ujXx2p-I

• Santa Claus Is Back in Town: Elvis Presley

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DECpYAxTjilI

• "For unto us a child is born," from Handel's Messiah.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DMS3vpAWW2Zc

• Christmas Rapping (Wrapping? not sure); 2000 Miles; I Believe in Father Christmas.

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• The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole. The best.

• My mother loved "Christmas in Killarney" by Bing Crosby, which her parents played when she was young. The holly green, the ivy green, the prettiest picture you've ever seen... Miss you, mom. And a link to last year's thread

  http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html%23page:showThread%2C9781372

• R21 needs to eat a little more. It will help her develop taste. I've always thought this was the root of poor Karen's abominable record of - records.

• Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," which when I was young and heard it for the first time revealed to me that Christmas songs didn't have to be schlock. For some reason, nuts for: The Holly and the Ivy An off version of "There Is No Rose" that's hard to find recordings of but is much sweeter than the usual one I Wonder As I Wander - The story of how a version of this song was heard in Appalachia by JJ Niles and written from memory by him is wonderful and strange. Niles was an odd one himself - he sang full out tenor/counter tenor in a great career of folk singing.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wonder_As_I_Wander

• Irving Berlin's 'SNOW' , from White Christmas. Always puts you in the spirit

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• For hymns, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," "Adeste Fidelis," and "Stille Nacht," which is basically a lullaby, which I find touching for the birth of a God. You can't beat the "Alleluia" chorus of Handel's "Messiah" for solemn grandiosity. For secular/winter tunes I like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," and "Sleigh Ride," which has the lyrics, "Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring-ting-tingling too," and "Giddyup, Giddyup, Giddyup, lets go, Lets look at the show."

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• You spell it S-A-N-T-A! C-L-A-U-S! Hooray for SANTY CLAUS! [twist music]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DM-TGnBOZj1U

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• [quote]R21 needs to eat a little more. It will help her develop taste. I've always thought this was the root of poor Karen's abominable record of - records. Except no one asked you.

• I heard his sleigh bells on the ground I thought I caught a glimpse of red But suddenly I turned around And there you were instead

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DDi7P4b6sMK4

• From what I hear He's a-dressed in red He's comin' down my chimney That's what my baby said

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DmB8cgq8Hbw8

• He was kinda mellow, this chubby little fellow So I offered him a drink After three or four, we wound up on the floor Man, he was quick as a wink

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DMFK5Ua7CjlQ

• The Ronettes - "Sleigh Ride"

• One year I saw her kiss him Underneath his curly beard of white I won't say his name, but his suit is red And he came down the chimney that night

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjyIz4WN5J8c

• I know how she feels so I like this song. It's coming on Christmas. They're cutting down trees They're putting out reindeer, singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

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• Best. Christmas. Album. EVAH! "The Christmas Voices of Walter Schumann," originally released on vinyl in 1955. FINALLY made it to CD in 2007. Why do you think it's "temporarily out of stock"? See first sentence above.

  http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Christmas-Walter-Schumann/dp/B000X3SZBU/ref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26qid%3D1322928319%26sr%3D8-1

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• Well, Santa grabbed a reindeer And he bopped across the floor Now Prancer's beat with four sore feet And the other poor deer, little deer, can't rock no more

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DBDAZZwXzuvU

• Have I enough time, have I just some time to revisit, to go back, to return, To open my mouth again And say something different this time

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVS3IeUIQJTI

• Jingle Bell A-Hingle Bell A-Yingle all the way!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DpSBjGbk_6bA

• "Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland" by Grandaddy. "In the meadow, we can build a snowman and pretend that he is Alan Parsons He'll say "have you listened to my new band?" We'll say "no, but we really like that one song that goes "Time..."

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVXrzgqR0T1w%26feature%3Drelated

• Aside from the classics, I like the original composition, STAR OF WONDER by Terre Roche from WE THREE KINGS/ The Roches. A classic holiday compilation.

  http://www.last.fm/music/The Roches/_/Star Of Wonder

• In the Bleak Midwinter

• "Snowfall" by Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRw-1Rfgtr0

• What could possibly be better than this? Andy Williams!!!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DgFtb3EtjEic%26feature%3Drelated

• Geraldine McQueen's 'Once Upon a Christmas Song'. It's an anti-Christmas song and if you don't know the context its probably not very funny but I do genuinely like the tune. It was co-written by Gary Barlow.

  http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D8kmPz5IbU90

• Whitney Houston's "Do You Hear What I Hear".

• An' right now Chrismudh is hyear 'N hevreh-wheah 'N hevreh-wheah

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DCX3-6eMF3Yw

• Let me wake you up on Christmas morning Let me be the one to trim your Christmas tree And if you plan to leave me because of someone new Wait till after Christmas before you do

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0byimrRcRq0

• If you're far away on this holiday eve And you're dreamin' of bein' at home If you're worried at all that you may be forgotten You should know that you aren't alone

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Duu-7VyFiKq8

• You'll probably get sweaters Underwear and socks But what you'd really like for Christmas Is a nice hard cock

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D_Spiqpvpuas

• Have yourself a merry merry christmas have yourself a good time But remember the kids who got nothing while your drinking down your wine. BEST XMAS SONG EVER.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DVm9J_p2Rw5I%26feature%3Drelated

• We hung all the stockings on the palm trees with care Stayed up all night; still nothin' there So we snorted some incense and shot up some myrrh Stayed up two more days just to make sure

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dq6W7o9MzUv8

• "Let Me Stick the Tip of My Tree in Your Angel Hole," a catchy little ditty by Perry Como released in 1961

• "Alone At Christmastime" - Rosie Thomas

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFiJ_0ioIYc

• We three kings of Orient are Trying to smoke a rubber cigar. It was loaded and exploded, Now we're on yonder star. Second favorite, "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Greg Lake.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHI6EIL06jSU

• I've always loved "Lo How A Rose 'Ere Blooming". It makes me cry when it is done well.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjyuOIYCERc4

• Oh YEAH, R46. Tony Bennett does a great version also.

• Best Christmas album: "This Christmas I Spend with You" by Robert Goulet. Recorded in mid-60s and say what you will about him, his voice is amazing.

• Winter Wonderland by Steve and Eydie.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DlHKqt65ydWw

• I'm gonna bring along my hatchet My beautiful Christmas balls I'll sprinkle my snow up on your tree Hang the mistletoe on your walls

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Ds-6nBT27Bbo

• Fuck you if you don't like workin' for a living Fuck you if you don't like the spirit of giving Fuck you if you don't like yams from a can And fuck you if you don't like Honeybaked Ham

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5ysfQjKKi70

• Santa Claus is smokin' reefers Santa Claus is smokin' tea

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D3HXAXRtBUu8

• When you hear his sleigh bells Don't look front or back He'll be comin' down the chimney With a sack upon his back

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D9y4A0asnB80

• Mama Mary by Roger Whittaker

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkN0ThoRCww

• The U.S. Navy Band performs "Go Tell It On The Mountain" at DAR Constitution Hall. The arrangement is by jazz great Russell Ferrante.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uo4Ad3oqXA

• Instead of filling up this year's version of this thread, I'm bumping the thread I filled up with my favorites last year. Here are replacements for the videos deleted since last year: From R52:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DfS7R6mHwYkk

• From R63:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DZtVY1jfaU58

• I like The Holly and The Ivy because it's from pagan times (they threw in the mention of Jesus and Mary in Christian times). I like "I Saw Three Ships" played on fiddle and flute.

• I like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen played slowly by cello

• Here's God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen on Celtic harp

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DACJM5BDxJhc%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player

• The only one I can stand (and I do so love it): Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and the late Kirsty McColl. It is one of the few songs I know all the words to.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHwHyuraau4Q

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• I like "Yuletide" better than "Christmas time." I was so happy they put the Yule Log back on Channel 11 in NY. My grandmother always had the Yule Log on TV, and when I hear those Mitch Miller Christmas songs it reminds me of the long gone old people. They were so lucky in a way because their families stayed nearby. Their grown children and their grandchildren all lived in the same town. You could have a big Yuletide gathering or 4th of July picnic. But my generation had to move away in order to get jobs. I grew up very close to my cousins, but those cousins have children I've never met. As the older generations died off, I realized I'd never again see the kids I grew up with. I could never have a big family party. Everyone is scattered and busy.

• Yogi Yorgeson's "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas" and the Spike Jones version of "All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth"