Anyone else love the gamut of seasonal music?

I do. It has been a treat to hear so much of it this year. I have heard songs that I never heard before!

But enough about me. What are your faves? Least faves? Recommendations? Happy/sad memories?

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

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Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is you" warms my heart every time. Also makes me laugh because before we got married, we went out for our first dinner date (and our last before getting married, our courtship period was really short) and the song was playing. My husband commented, "This is going to change so fast once they are married."

Elmo and Patsy, ‘Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer’...okay, okay it's got to be the WORST x-mas song. Here are other bad ones; [www.rollingstone.com]

Silent Night in French is as lovely as in German and English!

If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas Day could be the anthem of desert rats everywhere. It is so practical! Put Santa on a bus (bwahaha!). I began life as a desert rat and have no wistful memories of snowy holidays. How can I dream of them, as Irving Berlin immortalized?! I often wondered about such important matters.

Do you prefer Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck version of The Twelve Days of Christmas or Jerry Jeff Walker's parody of The Twelve Days of Christmas?

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

I love "The Little Drummer Boy!"
I like Christmas versions, rock versions, country versions, R&B versions, classical versions, you name it.
As long as they have a drum solo, I'm listening!

"I told myself to quit you; but I don't listen to drunks." -Chris Stapleton

My first love is gorgeous versions of traditional holiday songs and the classical selections.

My absurdly silly self would remind everyone to listen to Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft singing to/about the Grinch at least once per season.

. And my tender side is touched by the Paul McCartney song that was just on the radio. Ahem. Did I do anything this year for the precious young or old people? Did I use this year in any form of service to anyone?

Hah! Feliz Navidad is playing now. I could listen to this forever, nonstop. !

Am I the only person who is enjoying 'Christmas Dragnet' for the first time this year?

Who remembers The Working Elf Blues? And be careful if you could ever, in any way, be construed as a leprechaun or elf. Celtic Christmas Elf Conscription Song tells the cautionary tale....

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/02/2022 05:07AM by Shop-et-al.

Re: Rolling Stone list

What would the commentator who hated the repetition of four notes in Hark, How the Bells say about Pachabel's Canon? That enduring favorite has its fair share of repetition, and we who love it don't care.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

So I cordially invite everyone to a concert at Carnegie Hall. It is free on youtube and gives us holiday music performed by Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, and chorus. All is well in my world when I hear these voices blend and soar and delight.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

I have one question for you. Do you believe in Toledo?

@Shop-et-al wrote:

Am I the only person who is enjoying 'Christmas Dragnet' for the first time this year?

Ok, so you know I like personal finance topics, right? Well, Motley Fool Money hosts declare that they will NOT play the top 50 holiday tunes that every radio station and streaming service plays this time of year. So on their podcast, they will play non-mainstream songs like this:

Holiday Music: Silent Night by Ska-J, Hey Skinny Santa by JD McPherson
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[www.fool.com]

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2022 09:33PM by maverick1.

I just saw JD McPherson in Nashville on Thursday!

They didn't do Hey Skinny Santa, but they did play "Socks" and "Bad Kid"

Good stuff.

@maverick1 wrote:

Ok, so you know I like personal finance topics, right? Well, Motley Fool Money hosts declare that they will NOT play the top 50 holiday tunes that every radio station and streaming service plays this time of year. So on their podcast, they will play non-mainstream songs like this:

Holiday Music: Silent Night by Ska-J, Hey Skinny Santa by JD McPherson
[www.google.com]

@HonnyBrown wrote:

I love "The Little Drummer Boy!"
I like Christmas versions, rock versions, country versions, R&B versions, classical versions, you name it.
As long as they have a drum solo, I'm listening!

Ever since you posted this, I have been trying to remember what my mom said about the little drummer boy in general. Something like, at least the kid has rhythm. Imagine him off beat with my big bass drum! (She was a drummer in high school or college.) I giggle when I think of him with him being dragged around by the big bass drum...

Anyway, I like this song. We all have a unique gift that we can use in service to others. The little drummer boy realized his musical gift that could delight someone.

In the Bleak Midwinter informs us that someone could only give their heart. Only! They could do it. They could probably reason together with him. Not so easy for some die-hard smarty pants.

Drums played with heart and yielded hearts are good things.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/05/2022 01:20PM by Shop-et-al.

Most of the volunteer disc jockeys at the community radio station I listen to put together a shop featuring holiday songs of their genre of music...multiple iterations of rock, classic country, and folk, but also Cajun, hillbilly, Deadhead, jazz, and too many more to mention. It's always fun to hear the variety (which changes every two hours)

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

In the middle of an Elvis Christmas set on local radio. Is he non-traditional? I like the variety in these arrangements. Soft and tender is Silent Night, etc. Anyway, he was just crooning about thinking of white Christmas"with every Christmas card" he writes.

Writing Christmas cards is definitely non-traditional now!

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao-Tzu

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