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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet (Post 2450571)

Post your favorite Christmas Songs!

here is mine!

None of us in present company are strangers to what the world was going through in the Winter of 1944-45. Some of our nations had been at war for 6+ long and difficult years.

Though the Allies had made many advances in the Pacific and Europe, the cost, the toll of the war, was staggering for all sides. People were tired, disheartened, every facet of daily life revolved around the war effort.

A movie premiered in St. Louis, Missouri entitled "Meet Me in St. Louis" featuring the legendary Judy Garland, in one scene, comforting her character's younger sister before the upcoming Christmas holiday, Judy sang what would become an instant classic. it became such an enduring song in part, because it encouraged people to not worry, that someday everything would be better and all of the strife would be a distant memory and we would be reunited with our loved ones wherever they might be... her song was exactly what the people of the U.S. and probably the world over needed to hear. It is my favorite Christmas Song, and i hope in listening to it you could see how important the song would be for the morale of the viewers going to the theater to escape reality of a world at war with itself for a second time in a generation, even if for a fleeting moment.

Enjoy, i look forward to hearing about why you have a favorite christmas song, and hearing it!

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

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen (Post 2450577)

That's probably the most poignant Christmas song of all, GR, and it would've been my first choice too.

Second would have to be this, of course:

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

And why? Well my parents were the war generation, so we grew up with these Hollywood movies.

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby (Post 2450580)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5R9cb-r8E :yeah: :Kaleun_Cheers:

White Christmas..check
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas...Check
Chimpmunks anything songs....nuke.

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Originally Posted by em2nought (Post 2450641)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtoW4aV-CIc

Baby it's cold outside. :D

I enjoy this version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFJ7ie_yGU

It simply is not Christmas without Glenn Miller. I love Glenn Miller and all of his performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w18d0H9uhXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3y_tXRSYw

It's really hard to pick a favorite as our members above have posted some great songs. It's hard to go wrong with big band favorites Glenn Miller or music performed by an orchestra or choir. One of my favorites has always been " the Christmas song " performed by the incomparable Nat king Cole. His silky smooth baritone voice has always ushered in the season for me and I'm sure, many others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwacxSnc4tI

There is also Adeste Fideles ... O Holy Night - Andrea Bocelli and David Foster on Piano. Andrea Bocelli is excellent in everything he does with singing and his arrangements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jx96xpbho

Another is We wish you a merry Christmas on pipe organ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7bbk-meNE

Oh Holy Night is another but there are so many excellent songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfWF0UW8z5g

My favourite christmas song is from Bing Crosby/David Bowie: Peace on Earth/Little Drummer-Boy.

The second is Mahalia Jackson: Silent Night!

(I don't know how to link to a video, but maybe someone con help me out)

Nat King Cole for sure. Many good Christmas remembered listening to Nat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSPGIHjak8

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Originally Posted by Lucky Starr (Post 2450710)

My daughter loves the Bowie/Crosby version!

This is another that I have heard performed during Christmas but none better than this rendition. It is from André Rieu and The Johann Strauss Orchestra- Panis Angelicus. The video is HD as well. Fantastic doesn't even begin to describe this song or performance. Mirusia is the featured singer and this was performed in Amsterdam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIsTmUOODo

Another is the first Noel perfomed By Celtic Woman. Featured singers are Chloe Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Meav and Orla Fallon, none of whom are still with Celtic Woman. Máiréad Nebitt joins them on Violin. I believe this was performed at the Helix in Dublin, Ireland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDtv...CF07A9DCF79BBD

May everyone know the peace and joy of the season.

Tom Lehrer's Christmas Carol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffO8nZThwmM

Ramones' Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y5GtaTrPHM
never fails to set the mood.

There are one or two other but they might not fly well on family oriented sites.

This thread is going fast ... this is my all time favorite, but I have more:
Her mother had cancer and died when she was like four years old ... she is only seven years old in this video.

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This song is dedicated to my mommy in heaven Wendi Marvanne. Rhema Marvanne takes on Elvis Presley to record her mothers favorite Christmas song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pD7hwPG-7g

Well, my post about the subject:
Many of the Xmas american songs are already here, White Christmas (with I remembering seeing the movie one Xmas, so long ago, with my parents), jingle bells, jingle bell rock and so on.
Also the classical ones like O Tannenbaum and Little Drummer Boy and others; my father normally in Christmas day put the vinyls playings, but there where always some negative voices about it.
Now a great parenthesis: (many of the songs I mention and others, like "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" or something like that, sung by a female voice and others I learned because I play return to castle wolfstein - Enemy Territory. After a few years I returned to the game and had to play in foreign servers and landed in kernwaffe and now in AoS. They have the Xmas maps, during the holliday seasons, with many changes [for fun] and many of the Xmas songs can be played in the server by writing some commands. That now is also a Christmas fun and felling for the time).

About the white xmas, well never had one, my home town only snows 20 to 20 years. The coldest winter is 6 years (+/-) ago with 2º C degrees and now I had 19º C of maximum and possibly 8 or 7 of minimal, with 70% humidity...:shifty: never snow!

^ Another favorite of mine :cool:

Ahh... moonlight you beat me to it, read through the thread to the end thinking I'll post pogues and kirsty macoll and there it was right at the end.
One of my favourites and always reminds of the sad early death of kirsty macoll

You can listen to this one and surf the web at the same time for a long long time :o

Best Christmas Songs of All Time ~ 2016 Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPW5nfoIYf8

Another one never to be forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM_H4CAAYxc