favorite Christmas songs

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The camera battery was about to die, so here are 2 songs that we recorded in one take acoustic.

O come Emmanuel

and

O Holy Night (only 1/2 a song…sorry…batteries…hehehe)

Hope ya like–tell me what ya think
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Cantique de Noël \ Minuit, Chrétien, as sung by Fr. Jerry ( a friend of our family)
 
As I write this, I am listening on the radio to Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge. All else pales in comparison!

Thanks be to God!
 
So no one likes the Christmas Shoes song?

Chorus:
Sir I want to buy this shoes fro my moma please, it’s Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size… Could you hurry Sir? Daddy says there’s not much time. You see, she’s been sick for quite a while and I know these shoes will make her smile. I want her to look beautiful if moma meets Jesus tonight…
Nice but sad(if you see the movie too)
I also like “Mary Did you know” 'Oh Come all ye faithful" and many more(it would take a while for me to write them all down)
Podo:D
 
chicago said:
The Twelve Days of Brass (Canadian Brass?)

Yay! I just heard it on the radio. Was hoping I wouldn’t miss it this year.

Really, any brass lovers ought to have this:

The Twelve Days of Christmas–Elmer Iseler Singers & Canadian Brass. Phi 426835-2. [8’]
 
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Edwin1961:
Every year I seem to gravitate towards a particular Christmas song as the season draws near to Christmas.

My past favorites were:
2003 Do You Hear What I Hear
2002 We Three Kings
2001 O Come O Come Emmanuel
2000 Silent Night
1999 O Holy Night

My all time favorite Is O Holy Night.

Secular
You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch
Heat Miser, Snow Miser song…“Year WIthout a Santa Claus”
Twelve Days of Christmas with John Denver and the Muppets
Frosty the Snowman by Red Foley
Mary Did You Know by Kathy Mattea
Carol of the Bells by Manheim Steamroller

Merry Christmas!
Edwin
Christ is Born! Glorify Him!
I just returned from out Byzantine Catholic Vigil of Christmas. (For us it is NOW Christmas!) Anyway, my favorite Relgioug song for 2004 is O Come All Ye Faithful.
We sang it tonight and I seemed to be at peace when it was sung. Traditional and yet beautiful!

God IS with Us!
Edwin
 
Whoo hoo! Mannheim Steamroller! The absolute BEST instrumental version of “O Holy Night”… and have you heard their version of “Veni, Veni Emmanuel”? Gregorian chant and handbells… Father played it every Sunday of Advent before Mass started. Also love their “Greensleeves/What Child is This”.

Vocals… eek! Have to say I love John Berry’s version of “O Holy Night” and “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”. Also love Collin Raye’s “O Holy Night” and “It Could Happen Again” (about the unofficial cease fire during WWI between British and German troops in 1914)

And yes, definitely, Snoopy’s Christmas!

BlueRose
 
Now that Christmas is over, I have to say that Vince Gill’s Let There Be Peace on Earth has had my mother and I crying these past three years. One of the stations here plays the six weeks-all-Christmas music gimmick and that one is in heavy rotation. (along with John Tesh’s We Fall Down and Kenny Rodger’s Mary, Did You Know…no taking Christ out of Christmas on this public radio station happily)

Every Catholic school kid knew that song in the 60’s and 70’s. My brother learned it in first grade and then got a virus and became brain damaged. His class sung it almost five years later at his funeral and my mother told me last week as she was crying (again) that she wants it sung at her funeral. The part that gets us is the child who sings at the end, especially the lines about “let me walk with my brother” and “with every step I take” because my brother couldn’t walk and we thrill to think of him walking again in heaven.

I have to say that everytime I hear a religious Christmas carol on the public airwaves (we have two all Christmas stations here in the Philadelphia area) I pray that those who are lonely and in despair will hear the words and call out to Jesus to come into their lives. I hope some lives were changed this Christmas season by this music.
 
Hymns:

Silent Night
What Child is This?


Songs w/religious content:

The Little Drummer Boy, especially the original by the Harry Simeone Chorale
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Mary’s Boy Child
by Boney M

Secular:

Silver Bells
White Christmas
both by Bing Crosby and by the Drifters
The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole
 
{sheepish grin…}

Favorite Christmas Song = Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel. (yeah, it’s for Advent, but I LOVE IT)
Christmas song - Secular?
The Maine Christmas song - don’t think it’s popular outside of Maine…
 
next Christmas we will do a thread on regional Christmas songs, i had no idea there were so many. Love the story about the song that reminds you of your beloved little brother, and the mix of religious Christmas songs played on your NPR station. Leads me to wonder for how many people is a Christmas carol, or song with a religious theme (usually C&W) on a commercial station the only religious message they ever hear?

there is a gregorian chant antiphon for Christmas, I just heard it on TV, but part of a secular concert program, puer natus est I think is the Latin, can anybody help me out here or refer me to a chant CD that has it., thanks
 
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