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Topgumby

Topgumby

After Thanksgiving the unavoidable deluge of Christmas Music begins.

For years I gritted my teeth and just endured it. Now, for some reason, I'm embracing it.

Probably the biggest factor in this transformation has been the Christmas Cocktails series. You can check out samples at Amazon. Lounge music and Christmas, who knew that they belong together?

I've always been much more tolerant of Crosby, Sinatra, Como and such than the yearly covers of holiday classics by the pop artists du jour. An occasional novelty tune is OK.

What do other B&B members favor? Any guilty pleasures? I confess to liking Leon Redbone's Christmas Island more than I should. I also spin the Nick at Nite Cartoon Christmas discs every year.

Some things I'd place in the fingernails on a chalkboard category - Dogs or cats barking or mewing Christmas songs, Madonna's version of Santa Baby, just because Eartha Kitt did it better, and Grandma getting run over by reindeer.
 
thunderball

thunderball

I always just kind of took Christmas songs for granted until I moved to Japan. Now I make a point of having them going around Xmas to sort of bring back that 'Christmas-y' feeling...amazing how many you actually know the words to! :biggrin1:
 
Confuzius

Confuzius

Everclear (90's alt-rock band) actually has a good cover of santa baby. Santa baby stick a guitar under the tree, for me. It's pretty much the only one other than Eartha Kitt that I respect, it brings something slightly different to the table rather than just a different female vocalist to sell this years Christmas compilation cd.

Also, even though it's not quite a Christmas song I really dig the Ella Fitzgerald Baby, It's cold outside.

There's a bunch more, I've got to bust out the CD's and take a look, one year as Christmas gifts I made 3 Christmas mix cd's, one traditional, one crooner and one modern/rock.

EDIT: Can't forget!!! The frequently voted number one Christmas song of all times! (may offend)
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Ru4scuba?

Ru4scuba?

I have a hodgepodge of Christmas tunes that pretty much stay in the CD changer until after Christmas. Plays hundreds of songs that I never get tired of hearing this time of year. From Bing's greatest to Chris Isaak and others.
 
Alacrity59

Alacrity59

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I was a kid in the 60's and my parents had the Bing Crosby White Christmas album. I am very sentimental about the music and will enjoy seeing the movie once again.
 
Topgumby

Topgumby

Baby, it's Cold Outside is one of those tunes that's been covered so often, it's hard to keep track of. I like Dean Martin's version, the older one with out Martina McBride. You can't dislike Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordon.

Just thought of another tune that I can only take in extremely small doses...I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. Jimmy Boyd and the little kid voice are just grating, but you gotta hand it to anybody who married Yvonne Craig!
 
The Nid Hog

The Nid Hog

We have a ton of different ones that go into heavy rotation. A bunch with Bing, Frank and Dean. A couple of country samplers. One or two collections by local musicians. Jethro Tull's Christmas album (a great one). Quite a few Celtic collections. Every year I try to buy a couple of new ones--something that I do at St. Patrick's Day too.
 
Mycon

Mycon

I've always been fond of the Mannheim Steamroller songs. They are all instrumental (with a few back up singer exceptions) so you don't have to worry about any screechy singers, and they are very musically sound.
Jim Brickman and David Lanz also have good Christmas sets.
 
Miles

Miles

Those Ultra-Lounge Christmas compilations are great!

Another holiday disc that gets a lot of play here is a Louis Armstrong Christmas CD, (maybe Louis Armstrong & Friends?) Christmastime in New Orleans and 'Zat You, Santa Claus? are classics.
If you're feeling funky, James Brown's "Santa's Got a Brand New Bag" CD is great, too. :001_smile
 
82R100

82R100

Sirius XM Satellite radio turns over two or three channels to Christmas programming around this time of year. The classical channel (usually the Pops channel) does an excellent job with an extremely long play list.

- Chris
 
A

A-Man

Good call on the Bob Dylan. Just bought his Christmas album a few weeks ago. A couple songs/versions on there will be added to my holiday favorites.

Bit of a creepy video though.
 
S

SRock

Topgumby said:
After Thanksgiving the unavoidable deluge of Christmas Music begins.
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After Thanksgiving? I only wish it didn't start until after Thanksgiving. The BX (aka Base Exchange) started putting out Christmas trees and decorations before Halloween and the Christmas Music started the day after (again Halloween not Thanksgiving). All the commer......m and hype is a slap in the face to what Christmas is really all about. Every year I get more cynical about Christmas and more upset at seeing all the decorations and hearing the music months before the actual holiday.

That said, despite being only 34 I much prefer the Classics (Bing, Sinatra et al) to any garbage pop cover.
 
WhosYerBob

WhosYerBob

I really like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, but their Christmas album has been banished from our house. Pretty much everything else is okay within reason.
 
Johnny Dale

Johnny Dale

Christmas Jazz has always been my favorite for the season. Probably from hearing Vince Guaraldi Trio on the Charlie Brown Christmas.

GRP Christmas Collections 1,2,3
David Benoit
Vince Guaraldi (of course)
Boney James
Larry Carlton
Fourplay
Kenny G
Windham Hill Collection

also like
Mannheim Steamroller
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Bing Crosby
Nat King Cole
 
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The Nid Hog

The Nid Hog

How could I have forgotten the Vince Guaraldi Trio? I love the Charlie Brown album. Very popular at my house, but it does make for a slightly melancholy holiday mood.
 
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