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Anyone into Christmas Music?

One of the ones I restored.
Campy as all heck ("Yulesville" is GREAT), but ingrained in my Christmas forever.
Roger Moore, Poncie Ponce, Bob Conrad, Efrem Zimbalist, COnnie Stevens, etc.
I'd love to find a pristine copy...


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A very high end professional audio manufacturer that I used to work for lost one of their best technicians because they insisted on playing non-stop xmas music from Halloween until New Years day on the assembly line. Fortunately, I worked in a Faraday cage or they would have lost me, too. I can take two days of that stuff a year: xmas eve and xmas.
 
I wanna find a couple Bing Crosby/any other crooner records for the holidays...slightly cheesy but Im hooked on older toons like that! :music:

Happy Holidays to all BTW! :D
 
I start breaking it out this time of year, along with the decorations. Some of my favorites are my parents old lps such as the Harry Simeone Choral.

I don't care for most "rock musician" Christmas music. Has no soul, and often misses the real meaning of Christmas.

I do enjoy things like Ann Murray's Christmas Wishes, Mannheim Steamroller, etc.
 
"Christmas Cocktails" Vols. 1 and 2 are great comps for that slightly cheezy/toasted music from the past. Dean Martin's Christmas tunes are fantastic. Frank Sinatra basically mails it in w/ a few exceptions.

The Peanuts Christmas LP or CD is a must have, as is the Phil Spector Christmas album. Elvis can either nail the tune or drown in maudlin sentiments.

Chet Baker's "Winter Wonderland" is my fave solstice tune for you Druids and Beaker people.
 
Sandy G said:
"Wreck The Malls" by the Bob Rivers Comedy Corps from '85 or so is my fave...Altho I absolutely HATED it at the time, I remember being in the children's choir at church & liking "Angels, We Have Heard on High", "There's a Song in the Air", "Good King Wenesclas", & a few others.
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A few bars of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in your basso profundo voice would kick the season off for me, Sandy!! :D
 
We start whenever the local easy-listening station starts playing them....actually today I hear. I have a vintage Boston Pops LP I found with Arthur Fiedler conducting. I am trying to talk may daughter into listening. She likes the "nostalgia" of albums, just not the pops and crackles.
 
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Various ‎– Ultra-Lounge - Christmas Cocktails Part Three
Capitol Records – 72435-78503-2-2​
Tracklist​
1 Carmen McRae & Sammy Davis Jr. – Baby, It's Cold Outside
2 Bing Crosby – Frosty The Snowman
3 Lena Horne – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
4 Johnny Mercer – Jingle Bells
5 Wayne Newton – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
6 Nancy Wilson – That's What I Want For Christmas
7 Dean Martin – Winter Wonderland
8 Billy May – Do You Believe In Santa Claus?
9 Peggy Lee – White Christmas
10 Al Martino – Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
11 Ray Anthony – A Marshmallow World
12 Lou Rawls – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
13 Julie London – I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
14 Nat King Cole – Buon Natale (Means Merry Christmas To You)
15 June Christy – Sorry To See You Go
 
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Absolutely not. I think I may be allergic to it or something. Whenever I hear it it just makes my ears hurt and I get a migrain, seriously. It just sounds like screaming and yelling and weeping and fighting to me with the occasional mortor shell exploding. I avoid it at all and any cost.
 
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Absolutely not. I think I may be allergic to it or something. Whenever I hear it it just makes my ears hurt and I get a migrain, seriously. It just sounds like screaming and yelling and weeping and fighting to me with the occasional mortor shell exploding. I avoid it at all and any cost.
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I'm afraid to ask what rock music would do to you...
 
there was a radio DJ on the east coast in the 90s named Lou Brutis that would play these awesome old school Christmas tunes, not what you would traditionaly think of as Xmas stuff, from like 30s, 40s etc. Kind of like that song thats really slow called Mr Grinch (you're a mean one, Mr Griiiiiinch). I tried to get in touch with him to get some of the band names but he never got back to me. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
 
Dec 1st is just around the corner, literally, and it's the start of Christmas music season in my house...

Got about 100 LPs and 50 or so CDs, so we never listen to XMas music on the radio here...
 
I enjoy Christmas music very much. I have my own little collection of CDs and albums. But I also like hearing pieces that I have never heard before or different arrangements of traditional music. I also like MusicChoice and internet stations that play holiday music as well.

Listening to it gets me into the holiday spirit, the true meaning of Christmas, and also makes me think of Christmas times that folks had long before I existed. And the magic and memories of Christmas time as a child.
 
I have about 15 LPs and 20 CDs of Christmas, including a lot of "various artists" compilations, soundtrack from Elf, etc.
My favorites: Johnny Cash's "The Christmas Sprit", Ernest Tubb "Blue Christmas", and "Christmas with Chet Atkins".
 
Saw the Brian Setzer Orchestra's Christmas show last night at Foxwoods. It was a lot of fun--what a player.
 
Still sorta am... Was a time when I would buy a mix-tape each year from the same store, of xmas music done in extremely different ways. Cajun, Rock, Jazz, Blues, each year something new. The store has gone, but I still have the tapes. Drag them out each year, along with the goofy xmas cards I used to get from the same place. Nice memories.
 
Yep, I like Christmas music. AFTER Thanksgiving, please. And no more after Christmas Day. I grew up on them, and I remember them so well. As stated, I remember every click and pop of the old record player.

These are mine that I've managed to put into Discogs so far. Lots more CDs that I have not yet entered.

Code: 
Nat King Cole	The Christmas Song	Capitol Records	1962
Various	The Christmas Album: 20 Great Christmas Favorites By 20 Great Artists	Columbia	1972
Wynton Marsalis	Crescent City Christmas Card	Columbia	1989
Ken Griffin (2)	The Organ Plays At Christmas	Columbia, Columbia	
Various	Merry Christmas	Columbia House	1975
Various	Great Songs Of Christmas (By The Great Artists Of Our TIme) Album Four	Columbia Special Products, Columbia Special Products	1964
London Symphony Orchestra And Chorus, The*	Hallmark Presents: The Best Loved Christmas Carols	Hallmark Cards, Inc.	1985
Kenny Rogers	Christmas	Liberty	1981
Welch Chorale Directed By James Welch*	The Welch Chorale Sings Motets For Christmas	Lyrichord	1960
Perry Como	The Perry Como Christmas Album	RCA	1968
Various	Christmas Eve With Colonel Sanders	RCA Victor	1967

Here's a few of CDs I've managed to put on my streaming music server so far:

Code: 
Music/mp3/Various Artists - The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas Vol 1 Disc 2
Music/mp3/Various - A GRP Christmas Collection, Disc 1
Music/mp3/Various - Windham Hill - Celtic Christmas
Music/mp3/GRP Christmas - GRP Christmas Collection Vol II 1991
Music/mp3/Various - The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas (Vol1 - Disc 1)
Music/mp3/New York's Ensemble For Early Music - A Medieval Christmas
Music/mp3/Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas in the Aire
Music/mp3/Ken Navarro - Christmas Cheer
Music/mp3/The Night Heron Consort - A Celtic Celebration (Christmas Favorites)
Music/mp3/Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas (Remastered)
Music/mp3/Various Artists - A GRPChristmasCollection,Vol3;GRD9728
Music/mp3/Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Music/mp3/New York's Ensemble for Early Music - A Baroque Christmas
Music/mp3/Emerson, Lake & Palmer - I Believe in Father Christmas EP
Music/mp3/Various - Time-Life Treasury of Christmas, Vol 2 [Disc A]
Music/mp3/Various Artists - Christmas Sounds of Today
Music/mp3/Windham Hill - The Carols of Christmas
Music/mp3/Various - The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas (Vol2 - Disc 2)
Music/mp3/Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas Live
Music/mp3/Bing Crosby - Merry Christmas
Music/mp3/Manhattan Transfer - Christmas Album 1992
Music/mp3/Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas
Music/mp3/New York Ensemble For Early Music - A Renaissance Christmas
Music/mp3/Mannheim Steamroller - A Fresh Aire Christmas
Music/Various Artists - Christmas With The Rat Pack
Music/The Night Heron Consort - A Celtic Celebration (Christmas Favorites)
Music/Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas
Music/A GRP Christmas Collection - Volume 2
 
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