TubeNet

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'.

Silent Night(Stille Nacht)

The Wexford Carol
O Holy Night (in french)

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

Used to be Anderson's "SleighRide"

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

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

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).

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.

Right now? Ding Dong Merrily on High

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

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

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

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'.

Canadian Brass arrangement of Ding Dong Merrily on High

For some reason I just love playing that tuba part!

Feliz Navidad-Jose Feliciano

I could literally listen to this song all day.

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 verkünden from the Magic Flute.
Elderly people here would probably rather say Et barn er født i Betlehem, at least my choir has to go through all ten verses when singing Christmas mass at the hospital.

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

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."

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

To the tune of “Oh Tannenbaumâ€

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'

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

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.