What is your favorite Christmas song/songs? My favorites are Ave Maria sung or instrumental

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[CrispyQ]

1. "Christmas Time Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi.

I like the instrumental version better than the singing version, even if it is Charlie Brown & friends.

I like minor key Christmas songs. "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is a fave.

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2. thank you CrispyQ. It was great in Charlie Brown Cristmas.

[anciano]

3. "All I Want For Christmas Is You"....

the original version by Vince Vance & the Valiants with the vocal by Lisa Layne

Merry Christmas to all DUers! 🎄

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5. Thank you anciano. Merry Christmast to you too.

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6. Thank you anciano. Merry Christmast to you too.

[DURHAM D]

4. Cher

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7. Thank you very much DURHAM D

[WhiteTara]

8. The Little Drummer Boy

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14. Thank you WhiteTara

[hauckeye]

9. Good King Wenceslas

But I almost never hear it on the radio, sadly.

[Tetrachloride]

11. I believe it is in the movie Love Actually

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12. Thank you very much, hauckeye

[MMBeilis]

77. Also my favorite. The imagry that his footsteps in the snow are warmed by his kindness.

[Chipper Chat]

10. O come oh come Emanuel

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13. Thank you Chipper Chat I love that song

[ailsagirl]

15. As follows (in no particular order)

Silent Night
O, Holy Night
Joy to the World
The First Noel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Little Drummer Boy
What Child is This?
Angels We Have Heard on High
O Come, All Ye Faithful
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

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18. Thank you very much ailsagirl Beautiful songs/carols.

[TommieMommy]

16. Jingle Bell Rock 👍😁💙

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19. Thank you TommieMonny.

[SheltieLover]

17. Someday at Christmas by Stevie Wonder

Someday at Christmas men won't be boys
Playing with bombs like kids play with toys
One warm December our hearts will see
A world where men are free
Someday at Christmas there'll be no wars
When we have learned what Christmas is for
When we have found what life's really worth
There'll be peace on earth
Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmas we'll see a land
With no hungry children, no empty hand
One happy morning people will share
Our world where people care
Whoa, someday at Christmas there'll be no tears
When all men are equal and no man has fears
One shinning moment one prayer away
From our world today
Someday all our dreams will come to be
Someday in a world where men are free
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmas man will not fail
Hate will be gone and love will prevail
Someday a new world that we can start
With hope in every heart, yeah
whoa, yeah
(Someday in a world where men are free)
Maybe not in time for you and me
But someday at Christmastime
Someday at Christmastime
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20. Beautiful song. Thank you SheltieLover.

[catbyte]

21. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

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23. Thank you very much catbyte. Beautiful.

[lark]

84. Absolutely gorgeous song, so rich and textured!

Love love love

[justaprogressive]

22. Bing's White Christmas

the winner...

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24. Thank you very much justaprogressive. Lovely song.

[Different Drummer]

25. Here We Come a-Wassailing (more below)...

Sleigh Ride
Carol of the Bells
Silver Bells
Holly Jolly Christmas

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29. Different Drummer I love your selection of songs. Especially Carol of the Bells

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26. I do like the Bowie/Crosby song.

[Clouds Passing]

27. Angels We Have Heard On High

Ode To Joy

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32. Thank you Clouds Passing. Both songs are beautiful especially Ode To Joy

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33. Duplicate

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[Permanut]

28. Oh Holy Night..

This old caroler still loves the harmonies in this one.

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30. Thank you Permanut. I sand in 8th grade chorus and I loved this one. Thank you.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Probably "Up On The House Top"

It's a bouncy, happy song.
Also like "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas". I like the jazzy quality some versions have.

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34. Thank you ProfessorGAC I like both . There are some good goods that are not carols. but that isn't what you heat on the

radio or in stores. You hear the corny songs.

[The Wandering Harper]

35. Silent Night

and the Wexford Carol

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36. Thank you The Wandering Harper. I have never heard of it before . It is beautiful.

[The Wandering Harper]

41. glad you like it

[LoisB]

37. Little Drummer Boy

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38. Thank you LoisB.

[MaryMagdaline]

39. Oh Holy Night

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40. thank you very much MaryMagdaline.

[KitFox]

42. A few of my favorites

The Peace Carol (written by John Denver) First heard it in 80’s on John Denver and Muppets Christmas special.

I Saw Three Ships (especially like Blackmore’s Night or. The Chieftans versions)

Christmas Canon (Trans-Siberian Orchestra version)

Beautiful Star of Bethlehem (love hearing any Mennonite choir sing this)

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
In the Bleak Midwinter
Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
The Boar’s Head Carol.
I Need A Little Christmas
Agree with you , Deb on Ave Maria

Hard to stick to a few favorites. I like so many, both religious and secular. Happy Holidays!

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45. Thank you KitFox on your wonderful list of songs. Happy Holidays to you also.

[Brother Buzz]

43. Dan Hicks' Carol of the Bells - Yodeling and scat singing, Baby!

The late great Dan Hicks was crazy about Christmas and formed a star studded Christmas Jug Band. It still gets together, sans Hicks, and does a coupe of wonderful gigs in December. If they come to your town, don’t miss it.

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46. Brother Buzz. I love that it is funny but not corny. I am a fan. Thank you very much.

[Brother Buzz]

48. Irreverence is subjective, no?

Here’s the quintessential irreverent Christmas Jug Band song - Santa Lost A Ho - Enjoy

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50. Thank you Brother Buzz

[Cirsium]

44. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

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47. Thank you Cirsium. When I was young I thought the mommy was really kissing Santa. later it hit me it was her husband

[Lunabell]

54. Me too!

😆 🤣 😂

[Paladin]

49. The Wexford Carol, from 12th-century Ireland.

More specifically, the version with Alison Krauss singing and Yo-Yo-Ma's cello, with a healthy dose of Irish pipes at the end. Stunning in its beauty; readily available online.

It's not Christmas season for me until I: (1.) hear The Wexford Carol a few times; and (2.) see Alistair Sims' "Scrooge" movie (1951).

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51. Thank you Paladin. two greats. .

[Easterncedar]

62. Alistair Sim was our Christmas Eve tradition

I am going to look for that carol.

[BOSSHOG]

52. Christmas to Remember - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

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53. Thank you BOSSHOG. I loved tthose two singing a duet.

[Lunabell]

55. Nat King Cole The Christmas Song.

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57. Perfect song.mellow and relaxing. thank you very much Lunabell.

[Easterncedar]

56. Jethro Tull Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow

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58. Thank you very much, Easterncedar.

[keithbvadu2]

59. I email this one out every year. Simply Three

The Christmas Song,,, She makes that violin sing
You put the words in your mind.

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67. Beautiful, Thank you Keithvadu2

[sorcrow]

60. I have two

Oh, Tannenbaum. And

Silent Night.

In German, no less. We learned them in HS German class and the words have stuck with me for 50 years, so far.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

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68. Thank you very much sorcrow. When I was in 8th grade we sang Silent Night in German to a Church full of German

immigrants. I remember some but not all.

[DinahMoeHum]

61. "Do You Hear What I Hear"

Originally written in 1962 by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.

It was first recorded in November 1962 by the Harry Simeone Chorale, followed by Bing Crosby in 1963.

So many versions of this song exist, but my personal favorite is by country singer Carrie Underwood:

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69. Thank you very much DinahMoeHum, Carrie did a beautiful version of the song. And thank you for the history of the song.

I didn't know it was written during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[Shermann]

63. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo

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65. Beautiful . Thank you so much Shermann.

[Mike 03]

64. I'm a pushover for Christmas music. Start playing it

right after Halloween.

Probably "O' Holy Night" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
But I really like the Eydie Gormet/Steve Lawrence Christmas duets
The peculiar but fun "It's a Marshmallow World" by Dean Martin
"Toyland" (because I never left it) and "March of the Toys"
"Holly Jolly Christmas" and other songs from "Rudolph"
All the music from the Charlie Brown Christmas Special!!!!
The Glen Miller Band "Jingle Bells"
"Silent Night" can be pretty great--depends upon the artist
"Christmas Don't Be Late" by the Chipmunks (I know this is unpopular here--sorry)

And the music from the Nutcracker ballet.

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates, and Happy Hanukah to our fantastic Jewish DUers, and Happy Holidays to everyone!

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66. Thank you very much for your wonderful and delightful selection of holiday music.. Mike 03

[VGNonly]

70. Oh Holy Night-Jussi Bjorling

[rurallib]

71. Secular Christmas: We Need A Little Christmas and Perry Como's "Christmas Dream"

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Religious: I like some of the old Latin Carols

- O Santissima
- Adeste Fideles

English:
Jeanette Isabella
Holly and the Ivy
Good King Wenceslaus
O Come Emanuel

[OldBaldy1701E]

72. Well, my list is diverse...

Good King Wenceslas

I Don't Know What Christmas Is (But Christmas Time Is Here) - from 'Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume III'

Deck The Halls

F**k Christmas - Eric Idle

I Believe In Father Christmas - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Merry F**kin' Christmas - Mr. Garrison and Mr Hat from South Park

Little Drummer Boy

A Charlie Brown Christmas - (Any and all!)

The Nutcracker Suite (Yes the entire thing! 'Arabian Coffee' is my favorite!)

[struggle4progress]

73. The cherry tree carol

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95. Oh my were to begin, the carols are great and unique in the own ways. Thank you stuggle4progress.

[struggle4progress]

74. Coventry carol

... O sisters too
how may we do
for to preserve this day
this pore yongling
for whom we do singe
By, by, lully, lullay?

Herod the king
in his raging,
chargid he hath this day
his men of might
in his owne sight
all yonge children to slay ...

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94. thank you struggle4progress. I have never heard this before . Thank you for sharing.

[electric_blue68]

75. O Holy Night, O Come All Ye Faithful....

Even while being an ex-Catholic/Christian I still.love the singing, music, and Spirituality.

And for Secular Xmas Springsteen & E Street's:
Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

Which I was lucky enough to hear live(!) at least once! 😄🥰

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93. Thank you very much electric_blue68 All great songs.

[brush]

76. Winter Wonderland.

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92. Thank you brush. Great song.

[Mad_Dem_X]

78. I've always loved "Sleigh Ride"

Especially the Ronettes' version.

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91. Thank you very much Mad_Dem_X Loved The Ronettes and their version of Sleigh Ride.

[woodsprite]

79. A tie between

Crosby/Bowie’s duet of Little Drummer Boy and Peace on Earth or The Wexford Carol.

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90. Thank you very much. woodsprite. Two beautiful songs.

[Figarosmom]

80. The HALLELUJAH CHORUS

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And The Christmas Song

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88. Beautiful songs and singers thank you so much Figarosmom.

[Figarosmom]

89. You are welcome

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

81. Joan Baez, Cantique de Noel, and the rest of the album is great

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87. Thank you JustABozoOnThisBus. Beautiful.

[Emile]

82. Jingle Bells

Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight.

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh, O
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way,
Oh what fun it is to ride

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86. Thank you Emile. Great song.

[lark]

83. Carole of the Bells and Hallejuliah by Transiberian Orchestra.

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85. Thank you very much , lark. two excellete songs.