Best Versions of Holiday Songs - What Are Your Favorites?

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Thu Dec-08-05 11:30 PM
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Best Versions of Holiday Songs - What Are Your Favorites?

Some of my all-time favorites are Oh Holy Night by Josh Groban, Silent Night by The Temptations. 12 Days of Christmas by Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole. What are your favorite versions????

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Thu Dec-08-05 11:57 PM
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1. Celine Dion recorded a knockout rendition of "O Holy Night"

And I'm not a Celine Dion fan at all - nothing against her, her music just doesn't appeal to me. But last year I heard her "O Holy Night" while driving and I had to pull over, it was just spellbinding.

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Fri Dec-09-05 09:06 PM
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12. That's my favorite carol....

I'll have to check out Dion's version.

I love the second verse of "O Holy Night" where it connects the message of Christ with
the ending of slavery and oppression. Too bad it's so rarely sung. Sometimes people
skip right to the third verse, as if the second one is too loaded!

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Jade Fox

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Fri Dec-09-05 09:08 PM
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13. Royal David's City-response to original post.

Edited on Fri Dec-09-05 09:09 PM by Jade Fox

Sung by some Irish choir on the Chieftain's Christmas album (a great one).

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Montauk6

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Fri Dec-09-05 12:20 AM
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2. Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley

Silent Night by Simon & Garfunkel
Sleigh Ride by unknown (it's the stock instrumental version you hear in the Muzak/Time Life selection, mostly as background music to radio ads and the like)
This Christmas by Donny Hathaway
The Little Drummer Boy by David Bowie & Bing Crosby
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Andy Williams
Silver & Gold by Burl Ives
My Favorite Things by The Supremes (well it's on their Christmas Album and I like it)
The Mistletoe & Me by Isaac Hayes

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Fri Dec-09-05 05:53 PM
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3. Thank You

I checked out some of the songs you listed....some really good ones!

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redqueen

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Fri Dec-09-05 05:55 PM
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4. You've named my faves!

Elvis, David/Bing, & Andy Williams

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tjdee

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Fri Dec-09-05 06:43 PM
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5. 2000 miles by Coldplay, Baby It's cold outside from the Elf soundtrack...

Neither of those are specifically *Christmas*. More like winter. Those and Blue Christmas by Elvis are my favorites this year.

Does Jewel have a Christmas album? Because usually she gets on my nerves, but I really, really enjoy her versions of Rudolph Reindeer and O Holy Night, which was my favorite last year.

Boyz II Men has a nice version of Silent Night...

Lots more. I am now kind of liking Christmas tunes.

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Fri Dec-09-05 07:09 PM
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6. Carol Of The Bells by Mannheim Steamroller.

I have all their CD's.

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Jamastiene

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Fri Dec-09-05 07:12 PM
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7. Little Drummer Boy by Joan Jett

Anything by Burl Ives or Alvin and the Chipmunks.

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salin

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Fri Dec-09-05 07:16 PM
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8. Peter, Paul and Mary: Christmas Dinner

http://www.lyricsfind.com/p/peter,-paul---mary/peter,-paul-and-mommy/christmas-dinner.php

Can't say it is my "number one favorite" but it is up there... an absolutely beautiful song. Does anyone at all even know or recognize this song?

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SOteric

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Fri Dec-09-05 08:16 PM
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9. I like Veni Veni Emmanuel from the O Antiphons,

and version I like best is the collected voices of the local cathedral, slow and off key though they may be.

I also like Schubert's Ave Maria.

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tjwmason

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Fri Dec-09-05 08:31 PM
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10. I remember once on the radio

it was a "my favourite pieces of music" show, the person chose a hymn and they duly played a perfect choir recording of it. Afterwards in a subtle dig he said "of course hymns only sound good when there's a full congregation of people who can't really sing properly there with the choir".

Veni Veni Emmanuel taken slowly though would be painful - the music though not Gregorian chant is plainchant and needs to flow gently.

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SOteric

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Fri Dec-09-05 08:38 PM
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11. Luckily,

the piece is usually sung amid full regalia, bells and smells. So there's at least a processional beat for the parish to follow.

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Fri Dec-09-05 09:17 PM
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14. Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Bruce Springsteen

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Fri Dec-09-05 09:42 PM
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16. Gotta agree with this one.

It's not Christmas till I here Bruce.

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Fri Dec-09-05 09:33 PM
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15. Hippo for Xmas, Chimpmunk ("Alvin!!!!!!!!!!!!!") song, Redneck Xmas

Edited on Fri Dec-09-05 09:40 PM by rainbow4321

BTW, have you guys ever gone to the webpage www.singingfish.com?

My daughter showed it to me..you type in a song and there are links that play it. You can pick "video and audio" or just "audio". Kind of cool when you have a need to hear a song/see a music video.

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patsimae

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Sat Dec-10-05 12:21 AM
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17. White Christmas

by the Drifters

Hark the Herald Angels Sing by Mahalia Jackson. If you get a chance this season, try and get her Christmas CD. Sung by a woman who was not only a great gospel singer but sang with the truth of her convictions, and you can hear it in her voice when you listen to her music. Not that I know much about her, but i have a feeling that she was a really good person,judging by the feeling she put into her music.

Actually, I think the CD of hers that I have is called White Christmas, but that is not, in my opinion , the best song on the album.

If you get it, you won't be sorry.

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