Christmas songs that you love and are classics and really show the christmas spirit.

[JPGhost]

"Holy Night" always put me in Christmas spirit

and recently I cant stop singing "Hark the Herald Angel's sing" with falsetto

Classics always best, I think

 

[maxpowr9]

Redundantly sad, I like my Christmas songs: "Christian".

I can't find a youtube vid with the proper vocal lyrics to "Angels We have Heard on High" which is shameful.





Of course, many carols sound so much better in their native tongue. Angels We Have Heard on High in French [ Les Anges dans nos campagnes, Silent Night in German [Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht] and O Come All Ye Faithful in Latin [Adeste Fideles ]

 

[mikey3000]

 

[piano1]

Anything that Karen Carpenter sings regarding Christmas. Also, Nat King Cole singing, "The Christmas Song".

 

[The Fly]

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

 

[kallipolis]

The delicacy of Mario Lanza's rendition of The Virgin's Slumber Song overwhelms me:

 

[Thad1527]

Everyone knows Anne Murray's version of this, and it's lovely. But here's a different version by Steve Bryant. I love it too.

 

[Thad1527]

Speaking of Anne...this is appropriate for the season.

 

[maxpowr9]

Speaking of Anne Murray...



At least for "Angels We Have Heard on High". it wasn't even the children's choir issue, it was the fact that they were using butchered English lyrics. I find that the biggest problem with Christmas Carols is that they "modernize" them: o'er vs over and travel vs traverse are the two biggest changes.

A perfect example of my gripe is this rendition of "We Three Kings"...



The actual lyrics in my hymnal [I have one, what of it?] are...

Verse 1
We three kings of Orient are;
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.

Chorus:
O, Star o' wonder, star o' night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide to thy perfect light.

Verse 2
Born a king on Bethlehem's plain,
Gold I bring to crown him a'gain.
King forever, ceasing never,
O'er us all to reign.

Chorus

Verse 3
Frankincense to offer have I,
Incense owns a deity neigh.
Pray'r and praising, all men raising,
Worship him God most high.

Chorus

Verse 4
Myrrh is mine tis bitter perfume,
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrow'n, sigh'n, bleed'n, dying,
Seal'din the stone cold tomb.

Chorus

Verse 5
Glorious now behold him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice,
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Earth to heav'n replies.

Chorus

 

[maxpowr9]

^The amusing part is that on the last day of school of the year, we would have a caroling at school after Mass. We would sing Silent Night in German, Angels We Have Heard on High in French and Jingle Bells in Spanish with other "holiday" songs [it was a staple to have the headmaster sing: "seven swans a'swimmin"].

I remember that the German teacher would tells us the story of Silent Night during WWI and that there was a mini-armistice during Christmas. The lyrics may be different but the melody is the same.

 

[gsdx]

What do you think of this rendition of the song?

Or this one?

 

[ronboy]

Sir Ron's favourite Carpenters Christmas song...
Dedicated to PeTe.....

 

[maxpowr9]

Or this one?

No vocals.

@Kien
Jimmy Paige did that shiz long before it was "cool" and I wouldn't doubt that he was the first one to do so.

 

[gsdx]

Anne Murray again:

 

[eastofeden]

This is not technically a Christmas Song but it is one of my favorite Christmas songs anyway..Al Green and Annie Lennox...I love the video too....

 

[Special K]

All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey is a modern classic Christmas song; it always cheers me up when I hear it and puts me in a festive mood.

 

[G-Lexington]

Of all the rap-metal Christmas songs for children sung in Finnish by dinosaurs, this one remains my favorite.

Lex

 

[hermanding]

As stated above, Judy's version of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' from the movie, 'Meet Me in Saint Louis', and Peggy Lee's version of 'The Christmas Waltz' are great. And. I find I also really like Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You'.

 

[Thad1527]

Beware. I get all sentimental over any version of this song. This particular one is quite nice, simple and homespun...the way I love Christmas.