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Old 12-11-2019, 03:02 AM
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Okay, I'll start this thread with the hope I'm going to discover some new Christmas music I can actually listen to.

I'm 67 and my earliest memories have been music. My first real record at 4, my first record player at 7 and my mother throwing a stack of Christmas records on the the changer. And then she'd turn them over. And over. And over.

I'm sorry. I don't really like Christmas music. I love the holidays, I love the happiness, the parties and all the fun times. I just don't love the, (what I experience) the simple, and sometimes dippy Christmas songs.

Please don't take offense if you're a lover of the classics. That's not my intention. But really, there's gotta be some more happening music, right?

Here's Charles Brown, singing Merry Christmas Baby.

Please add your favorites so I can build a playlist and not be accused of "you never play Christmas music."

Thank you!

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Old 12-11-2019, 01:02 PM
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Here are a few that are a little off the beaten path:

Leon Redbone: Christmas Island - Dr. John joins in on “Frosty”
Don Lanphere: Year ‘Round Christmas (jazz)
Mark O’Connor: An Appalachian Christmas (bluegrass/Appalachian folk)
Canadian Brass: A Canadian Brass Christmas (traditional but just gorgeous horn harmonies, no singing)
John Fahey: The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album (an oldie but great solo guitar playing)
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Old 12-11-2019, 05:52 PM
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George Winston

The Holly and the Ivy



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Old 12-11-2019, 06:05 PM
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Phillip Aaberg

Wassail Song



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Old 12-12-2019, 11:38 PM
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My preferences differ year to year, but Dave Brubeck's and Oscar Peterson's are standbys. Other favorites include traditional Christmas carols on a couple albums from Cambridge University college choirs, and White Christmas by Oscar's Motet Choir.

A fairly amusing holiday show with great music is the Netflix "A Very Murray Christmas", part of which was shot in one of my favorite bars.
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I have a favorite Christmas song - just one.

“Mele Kalikimaka” by Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters.

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Bing Crosby and David Bowie... Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth.

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Bing Crosby and David Bowie... Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kfdEyV3RQ

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Dean Martin. Baby it's Cold Outside. The song has come under attack recently because I guess 1949 values don't mesh with today's norms.




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Lightbulb I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake - Ian Anderson

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