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Best Christmas Albums

By far the best: Emmylou Harris, Light of the Stable, magnificent.

Also, and perhaps unfamiliar to the DL, Roch Voisin's Christmas Album.

google Voisin, Petit Pere Noel, he really has a lovely version of this song.

by Anonymousreply 52October 17, 2019 1:39 AM

Love the Roches "We Three Kings."

"Merry Christmas, Johnny Mathis" is a sentimental favorite from my childhood.

by Anonymousreply 1December 17, 2014 12:24 AM

Roch Voisin was featured on an Anne Murray Christmas special about a dozen years ago. Wonderful voice and hot hunk.

by Anonymousreply 2December 17, 2014 12:49 AM

Wendy Williams and the Plasmatics "Let's Shove Presents Up Santa's Ass!"

by Anonymousreply 3December 17, 2014 12:54 AM

A Very Special Christmas 1

by Anonymousreply 4December 17, 2014 4:08 AM

Boney James - "Boney's Funky Christmas". His headlong solo sprint on Jingle Bells is great.

by Anonymousreply 5December 17, 2014 4:22 AM

I will never do a Christmas album. Thank you very much.

by Anonymousreply 6December 17, 2014 4:32 AM

Track list below:

Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You - Billy Squier

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Hanson

Christmas All Over Again - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Happy Xmas - John Lennon

All I Want for Christmas is You - Vince Vance and the Valiants

Merry Christmas from the Family - Jill Sobule

Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms

Please Come Home for Christmas - Eagles

Chipmunk Song - Alvin & the Chipmunks

Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Amy Grant

Run Run Rudolph - Hanson

Oh Holy Night - Martina McBride

Frosty the Snowman - Ronettes

Snoopy's Christmas - Royal Guardsmen

Step Into Christmas - Elton John

by Anonymousreply 7December 17, 2014 4:37 AM

No Stevie, thank YOU! Stop Draggin My Ears Around with your version of Silent Night from A Very Special Christmas.

by Anonymousreply 8December 17, 2014 1:59 PM

Mahalia Jackson - Sweet Little Jesus Boy

by Anonymousreply 9December 17, 2014 2:33 PM

[quote]Mahalia Jackson - Sweet Little Jesus Boy

I can't find that album. What songs are on it?

by Anonymousreply 10December 17, 2014 2:56 PM

I agree with OP. Emmylou's Christmas album is fantastic.

by Anonymousreply 11December 17, 2014 3:05 PM

Would love to find this somewhere. (I think K-Tel Records released it back in the late 70's). A Dusty Towne Christmas Special

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by Anonymousreply 12December 17, 2014 3:20 PM

I Saw Daddy Fisting Santa Claus

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by Anonymousreply 13December 17, 2014 3:49 PM

*NSYNC -Home For Christmas-

Love the harmonies!

by Anonymousreply 14December 17, 2014 3:53 PM

Dean Martin, Leona Lewis & Gene Autry.

by Anonymousreply 15December 17, 2014 4:09 PM

Forgot. Patti Smith, O' Holy Night. Live at the Vatican.

Josh Groban's O'Holy Night.

Both goosebumpy.

by Anonymousreply 16December 17, 2014 4:14 PM

The Carpenters - Christmas Portrait & Old-Fashioned Christmas

Any Johnny Mathis Christmas album

Gotta love Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," of course.

by Anonymousreply 17December 17, 2014 4:27 PM

LOU:

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by Anonymousreply 18December 17, 2014 4:39 PM

Can't stand what Amy Grant does to perfectly fine Christmas standards.....god, she's got such a dull, lifeless voice!

by Anonymousreply 19December 17, 2014 5:03 PM

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" has some of the nicest jazz arrangements of Christmas favorites you're ever likely to find.

by Anonymousreply 20December 17, 2014 5:05 PM

[quote]Josh Groban's O'Holy Night.

I can't find an album by him titled O Holy Night. Was it a special limited edition album?

by Anonymousreply 21December 17, 2014 5:17 PM

Would be nice to read "Roch Voisine", instead of the misspelt "Roch Voisin"

by Anonymousreply 22December 17, 2014 5:22 PM

[quote]Would be nice to read "Roch Voisine", instead of the misspelt "Roch Voisin"

Jesus, what a pill.

by Anonymousreply 23December 17, 2014 5:31 PM

Mariah Carey's first Christmas album

Clay Aiken - Merry Christmas With Love

by Anonymousreply 24December 17, 2014 6:04 PM

R10 Tracklist

A1 Silent Night, Holy Night A2 No Room At The Inn A3 O Little Town Of Bethlehem A4 The Holy Bible A5 Joy To The World! B1 O Come All Ye Faithful B2 Go Tell It On The Mountain B3 White Christmas B4 I Wonder As I Wander B5 Sweet Little Jesus Boy

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by Anonymousreply 25December 17, 2014 7:53 PM

R8 I'm glad you said it! I can't think of a voice less suited to sing Silent Night than Stevie Nicks. AWFUL!

by Anonymousreply 26December 17, 2014 8:46 PM

I love Annie Lennox's Christmas cd.

by Anonymousreply 27December 17, 2014 8:54 PM

r7 wins this one.

by Anonymousreply 28December 17, 2014 8:59 PM

The whole Phil Spector Christmas Album is a masterpiece.

Bing Crosby's "Merry Christmas" is probably the best track order of his Christmas songs.

Agree on the Roches. Wonderful album.

A decent Andy Williams Christmas album is worth a listen. He gets a bit self-indulgent at times.

Others: Ella Fitzgerald (Best "Midnight Clear" I know of), Barenaked Ladies, Sinatra, Mel Torme (he owns "The Christmas Song"), Joan Baez (!) and Sufjan Stevens (but damn his Xmas stuff is so prolific you really have to curate it out)

by Anonymousreply 29December 17, 2014 9:16 PM

I second the "Christmas Gift for You" Phil Spector album. Wonderful! "The Little Drummer Boy" earlier released as "Sing We Now of Christmas" by the Harry Simeone Chorale is a favorite from childhood.

by Anonymousreply 30December 17, 2014 10:09 PM

"Sing We Now of Christmas" sounds like a title that was translated from Czech to English in Google Translate.

by Anonymousreply 31December 17, 2014 10:39 PM

The Andrew Sisters sang on several tracks of this Bing Crosby's Christmas album. We had the LP on Decca when I was a kid.

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by Anonymousreply 32December 17, 2014 10:45 PM

Nat Cole owns The Christmas Song, R29. Torme co-wrote it and Cole was his first choice to sing it. Torme's own version was bland-perfunctory.

by Anonymousreply 33December 17, 2014 10:47 PM

Is it true that cole slaw was named after Nat King Cole?

by Anonymousreply 34December 17, 2014 10:54 PM

[quote] I can't think of a voice less suited to sing Silent Night than Stevie Nicks. AWFUL!

You must not have heard "Silent Night" by Taylor Swift. I saw one comment that said she sounds like a sheep giving birth to triplets.

It was one of her early releases from a few years ago, so it may have been recorded before she invested in Autotune. She totally wrecks the melody of the carol.

by Anonymousreply 35December 17, 2014 10:56 PM

Ha ha, R34. His real name was Coles.

by Anonymousreply 36December 17, 2014 11:22 PM

Noel - Joan Baez

by Anonymousreply 37December 17, 2014 11:30 PM

I grew up listening to The Supremes and the Jackson Five's Christmas albums - I still love them.

I also love Phil Spector's classic Christmas Album and Frank Sinatra's.

by Anonymousreply 38December 17, 2014 11:32 PM

Laurence Hobgood, Christmas. Jazz, but thoughtful, not fake cheery at all costs jazz. Warm and reflective. A must for grown ups.

by Anonymousreply 39December 17, 2014 11:36 PM

Shockingly, I found that I truly adore Josh Groban's Noel.

by Anonymousreply 40December 17, 2014 11:39 PM

The best albums of carols are the ones by Leontyne Price, Ella Fitzgerald and Annie Lennox.

by Anonymousreply 41December 17, 2014 11:41 PM

R34 No. But those tiny flying insects were discovered by Gnat King Cole.

by Anonymousreply 42December 17, 2014 11:44 PM

Holiday Pops - Boston Pops Orchestra

Merry Christmas - The Brothers Four

Christmas With the New Christy Minstrels

by Anonymousreply 43December 17, 2014 11:45 PM

RuPaul's "Ho Ho Ho" and the gay classic "Christmas Nite"

by Anonymousreply 44December 18, 2014 12:17 AM

I'm with you R40. I can't stand Josh Groban's music but his Christmas album is really good.

On the other hand, I LOVE Annie Lennox but her Christmas CD stinks!

by Anonymousreply 45December 18, 2014 2:16 AM

We had the Ray Conniff Christmas album when I was a kid and I still put it on once a year!

by Anonymousreply 46December 18, 2014 7:08 AM

James Brown's 'Funky Christmas' & Aimee Mann's 'One More Drifter in the Snow'

by Anonymousreply 47December 18, 2014 8:08 AM

Another vote for Leontyne Price. And Peggy Lee's. And Streisand's.

by Anonymousreply 48December 18, 2014 9:24 AM

All Things Wonderful, a Starbucks album from about 18,000 years ago. I love it.

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by Anonymousreply 49October 16, 2019 9:51 PM

JD McPherson-"Socks"- the best Christmas album, after the Muppets and John Denver-you won't regret this listen.

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by Anonymousreply 50October 16, 2019 10:05 PM

Groovy! Solid!

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by Anonymousreply 51October 16, 2019 10:09 PM

Not the biggest Christmas music fan, but I love Kacey Musgraves' "A Very Kacey Christmas." It's a great mix of traditional songs, new songs and humor.

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by Anonymousreply 52October 17, 2019 1:39 AM
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