What is 'your' Christmas song?

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:45 pm

Just curious what songs you feel that it just cannot be Christmas without. As for me, once I was listening to Frederike von Stade doing 'Gesu Bambino' on the way home from work, and I just about had to pull the car over because I couldn't see straight. I also dig 'O Holy Night' and 'The Boar's Head' As far as secular songs, Nat King Cole's aptly named 'The Christmas Song' does it. On the flip side, I am always pleased when I can make it to January without hearing 'Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer'.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:04 pm

Silent Night(Stille Nacht)

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:55 pm

The Wexford Carol
O Holy Night (in french)

Speaking of this...has anyone else noticed that http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com is down?

DonShirer · Post by **DonShirer** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:39 pm

Used to be Anderson's "SleighRide"

But new champion is: Clarion Brass's "12 days of Christmas"

http://www.figarotunes.com/12brassatooning.htm

bearphonium · Post by **bearphonium** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:45 pm

Adeste Fideles, acapella, in Latin. Preferably with no soprano (I was going to say by a male group, but Anne Murray does a great job with it on her Christmas CD).

lgb&dtuba · Post by **lgb&dtuba** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:02 pm

knuxie wrote:Do You Hear What I Hear
O Holy Night

and lately....

Wizards of Winter....Trans-Siberian Orchestra will be in Austin December 26. I might have to check that out.

Ken F.

They're going to be here on the 20th. Haven't been able to get 2 adjacent tickets for quite some time.

bort · Post by **bort** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:21 pm

Right now? Ding Dong Merrily on High

Why? Who knows! It's short, catchy, and not completely played out! I like it!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:36 pm

Having lived in New Jersey, you can't have Chrstmas without The Boss's Ya Better Watch Out

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:54 pm

"Christmas Time is Here" (instrumental) - Vince Guaraldi Trio

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:06 am

Two Christmas pieces that my community band likes to play this year:

- 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' has a fun bassoon solo that we usually play on tuba or bass trombone.

- 'Dance of the Slippery Slide Trombones' is only a grade 2 piece but is a heckofalotta fun. It's a knockoff of 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies'.

sc_curtis · Post by **sc_curtis** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:26 am

Canadian Brass arrangement of Ding Dong Merrily on High

For some reason I just love playing that tuba part!

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:31 am

Feliz Navidad-Jose Feliciano

I could literally listen to this song all day.

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:34 am

For me, Christmas really begins during mass on Christmas Eve when we have sung two hymns that are invariably on the programme. One is an Icelandic translation of Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen and the other is a Christmas hymn to Mozart's Prangt bald, den Morgen zu verkÃ¼ndenÂ from the Magic Flute.
Elderly people here would probably rather say Et barn er fÃ¸dt i Betlehem, at least my choir has to go through all ten verses when singing Christmas mass at the hospital.

Uncle Buck · Post by **Uncle Buck** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:19 am

Just one for me: Do You Hear What I Hear?

Mojo workin' · Post by **Mojo workin'** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:05 pm

I'd have to go with The Kinks' Father Christmas.

"Father Christmas, give us some money
Don't mess around with those silly toys.
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed
Give all the toys to the little rich boys."

Teubonium · Post by **Teubonium** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:26 pm

Ding Dong Merrily On High arranged for concert band by Strand/Helge/Dawson. Nice euph obble-gobble!

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:23 pm

To the tune of â€œOh Tannenbaumâ€

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:47 pm

bort wrote:Right now? Ding Dong Merrily on High

Why? Who knows! It's short, catchy, and not completely played out! I like it!

I love the version done by the King's College (Cambridge) choir. That, and 'Once in Royal David's City'

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:59 pm

Anything, ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING, from "Oy To The World"

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 6:40 pm

Nobody voted for Elvis' "Blue Christmas". I won't either.
Robert Earl Keen's "Christmas with the Family" is an awful song but I love it.