Post the Christmas music you grew up with!

[Joe90]

What? No love for Brenda?!? Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

Bing -- White Christmas

Andy -- It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

I came across this on CD a couple of years back. I remember haring these as a child back in the 1960's...

Phil Spector Christmas Side 1

Phil Spector Christmas Side 3

[Hector]

Frosty the Snowman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdiEEzAtJwE


Sammy

Yeah...that's the one I loved the most as a kid as well...followed by Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer and the Little Drummer Boy...

[TheDoLittle]

Okay, this is a more recent christmas carol instead of one I heard as a kid, but it's one that routinely get's played in my house:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZyJCV_dyug

[Earth 2 Chris]

No youtube links from me, thanks to dreaded dial-up, but...

My mom had a HUGE collection of Christmas Albums that we'd play every year starting November 1st (right after Halloween)! Some of our family standards included albums by:

Andy Williams (his, and only his version of "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" matters)

Perry Como (the best "Home for the Holidays")

Peggy Lee (a really odd, but infectious version of Jingle Bells on that one)

Elvis (Blue Chrstimas!)

A Time-Life compilation of every Christmas song ever, recorded by famous artists. Some really cool odd ones were on there. Merle Haggard sang "Silver Bells"!

Chipmunks - I loved those as a kid

John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together - This was my Mom's favorite Christmas album, and because of that mine too. For an album featuring a bunch of felt puppets, it's a very mature album. The original songs are very well done. I still think about her when I listen to that CD every Christmas.

That song always makes me smile, Lonnie!

Gayla Peevey was about 10 years old when she performed on WKY-TV here in OKC. The president of WKY sent a tape of her performances to Columbia Records and she wound up getting a contract and recording that song with The Mitch Miller Orchestra.

That song was featured in a campaign to raise money to buy a Hippo for the Oklahoma City Zoo. The nearly $3000 was raised by school children across the state (mostly in nickels and dimes!!). On Christmas Eve 1953, the children of Oklahoma City got a Hippopotamus for Christmas when Matilda arrived. Gayla Peevey was on hand to present Matilda as the "Hippopotamus for Christmas".

Matilda spent the next 45 years of her life at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

Thanks for posting that! That is my wife's favorite Christmas Song. She does a pretty good Peevy impersonation on it too.

Chris

[stevenlore]

It wouldn't be Christmas without Mitch Miller and his Gang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42_vCV2_gf0