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I really dig Tony Bennett, Bing, and the classic singers. This year I found Diana Krall to be right on the money also. Last year I bought the soundtrack for Rick Steves European Christmas documentary and find it particularly delightful.
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Like many of you here, as I get older, I lean more on the traditional Christmas music, in small doses. Bing Crosby, John Gary and Glenn Miller usually top my playlists. Also always have to have "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" or it just ain't Christmas. A shiny nickel to anyone who can tell me what famous animated character the guy who sings that song voiced for many, many years.
I also always pull out my vinyl copy of "Do They Know It's Christmastime." It's a virtual time capsule of the eighties all in one song.
Also have to have my John Denver and Muppets Christmas album, too. There's a song on there that, to me, actually captures what Christmas is supposed to be all about better than any other Christmas tune I've heard. It's "Track 11. Medley: Alfie: The Christmas Tree; Carol For A Christmas Tree; It's In Everyone." Darn thing puts a lump in my throat and brings a tear to my cynical, old eye despite myself...sigpic Oh then, what's this? Big flashy lighty thing, that's what brought me here! Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. But give me time. And a crayon.Comment
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You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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Thurl Ravenscroft also sang Grim Grinning Ghosts. Another of my favorites.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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I love Christmas music! I've been playing it since after Thanksgiving. I always pull out the family favorites:
1) Little Drummer Boy/O Bambino by Harry Simeone's Chorale
2) Roger Williams Christmas Time
3) Nat King Cole
4) Peace On Earth (A Capitol Records compilation)
5) The Jackson 5 Christmas Album
6) Snoopy's Christmas
I also like playing some of the not quite so traditional stuff like The Partridge Family, Rick Springfield, Kevin Cronin, Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack (OK, that's kinda traditional, but I didn't own it as a kid), and The Beach Boys, (but one of their songs is on Peace On Earth)."Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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I get into it every few years, but this isn't one of those years. Some of the radio stations around here start it in early Nov (I think) and play the same 10 songs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (or maybe it just seems that way). Anyway, I do enjoy a good Hallelujah flash mob. It kind of reminds me that people aren't all bad and are capable of doing amazing things, at least briefly.
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Love Christmas music. There is a radio station here that plays Christmas music 24/7 starting the day after Thanksgiving until Dec 26.sigpic WANTED: Boxed, Carded and Kresge Carded WGSHComment
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For me it depends on the song. Two examples;they turned 'Joy To the World' and 'When You Wish Upon a Star' into Christmas songs. To them I say no. If it's something that's originally meant to be a Christmas song,then yeah.Comment
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I dig Deano's take on Marshmallow World, which was written right here, where i live.
For the most part, I still remember having worked retail. For every good and memorable Christmas song, there are so many abominations. I hope the Neville brothers are never walking across the street while I'm driving, I still don't trust myself.....Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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WAY too much Christmassy stuff at work,so no,no songs for me. The only one I really like these days is Faith Hill's Where Are You Christmas,from the Jim Carrey Grinch movie,which I also like. I think there's one in the Jack Frost movie I like as well. The Michael Keaton one,not the fun horror ones,lol! I like those movies too though. But that schmaltzy Jack Frost movie makes me cry so I don't watch it as often as I would like. I just identify too much with the kid.....and so on. Christmas really isn't my favorite time of year,to be honest. Don't mean to be a downer of course,it's nice an'all.....just not my fave time of the year.
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No.Christmas Music..Yes or No?
PUNY HUMANS!Comment
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The stations that play 24/7 Christmas are all programmed and play the same bland songs over and over....I truly hate that Mariah Carey song, after it's played a zillion times.
Nobody plays the oddball Christmas songs anymore...when's the last time you heard The Yoopers' Rusty Chevrolet? Or Dominic the Italian Christmas Donkey?Comment
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^ I think the only place you hear "Dominic the Christmas Donkey" anymore is on WCBS 101 here in NYC.
I love Christmas music. I just don't want to listen to it for weeks on end. I like to begin listening to it, on a regular basis, about a week before Christmas (though not 24 hours a day...just a few per day).
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