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[patsylabrador]

I love Christmassy music, unless it's sung by Kylie or 'the cast of Glee'. Fingernails and blackboard time for those. I decided on these three as my favourites:

 

Driving home for Christmas - Chris Rea

I believe in Father Christmas - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Gaudete - Steeleye Span (wasn't it?)

 

I could go on and think I should add :

Santa Baby - has to be sung by Eartha Kitt

Baby its cold outside - Tom Jones & the singer from Catatonia ( Cerys Williams?)

 

Any beautifully sung carols and Christmassy music performed by brass bands especially army ones.

 

Christmas music brings back so many memories so I won't go down that path, that would be a stupidly long post.

I've got a mahoosive Christmas playlist on my iPod which is on all day, quietly in the background. It includes excerpts from The Night Before Christmas and The Nativity.

[Olly]

Oh yes! I have some Christmas CDs, they live with the decorations and come out on 1 December. As well as some classical stuff and carols, yesterday I was playing Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band singing Vaughan Williams Christmas songs (yes, it was Steeleye Span and this is very similar), and my Phil Specter Christmas album.

 

Favourite 'pop' Christmas - it just has to be Kirsty McColl and The Pogues singing 'Fairytale of New York'. Favourite carol at the moment is 'Oh Holy Night' but there is a lovely one - I don't have a recording - called The Stork, written by the Swann in Flanders & Swann.

[chuckmum6]

I prefer carols, but do play pop Christmas sometimes, I like folk carols and enjoy Sting, Kate Rusby etc.

[snowberry]

I've only just discovered the boys choir (or alternative boyband as they like to see themselves called Libera. This song is my favourite at the moment:

[patsylabrador]

Oh, that is just lovely.

That's going on my playlist.

[sage]

I love Enya singing " Silent Night" in gaelic. It's so haunting.

 

Sage

[Egluntyne]

Oh, that is just lovely.

That's going on my playlist.

 

And mine.

[Cinnamon]

I do love a good crooner, & they sing Christmas music so well.

so its Sinatra, Connick jr & Buble for Christmas in my house

[Margaret]

Oh chuckmum6.... Another huge Kate Rusby fan here, love her, and am lucky to go and see her in concert every year.

Love all things Christmas, we have our Carol concert this afternoon although I don't sound quite like Kate and we don't have a lovely brass band, we are the folk choir at our church ,( very old folk choir )

Love singing. Do drive the family mad though.

[chuckmum6]

Oh chuckmum6.... Another huge Kate Rusby fan here, love her, and am lucky to go and see her in concert every year.

 

We saw last week in Nottingham for the first time, it was a super Christmassy evening!

[craftyhunnypie]

I love a Spaceman came a travelling, Wham Last Christmas, Band Aid, Winter Wonderland & Frankie Goes to Hollywood The Power of love, Santa Claus is coming to Town ( Bruce Springsteen), Here comes Santa Claus & Up on the rooftops.

Carols - I love Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, We Three Kings, I Saw Three Ships.

Emma.x

[Charlottechicken]

Love the old Christmas pop songs! My favourite has to be Greg Lake's 'I believe in Father Christmas', love it!

 

I also love the Ukranian bell carol and the Coventry carol.

[Alis girls]

Carols, jona lewi's wish I could be home for Christmas, and Whams "last christmas " make me blub. Slade, widzard , wombles and Human leagues "doncha want me" remind me of night duty over Christmas. aaaah memeories