<p>Okay, I’ll admit it: I tear up for “Snoopy’s Christmas” too. (Just hearing the Red Baron saying “Merry Christmas, my friend” will do it.)</p>
<p>That one with the mawkish melody and cloying 70’s voice that ends with the “snow turned into rain” makes me wretch.</p>
<p>Garland, it’s “Another Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg. My husband loves that song, but I feel as you do. I also despise the shoes song. I must be heartless or something.</p>
<p>Hey, we like Snoopy’s Christmas; we can’t be that bad!:)</p>
<p>bunsen—Have you seen Bob Dylan’s video for Must Be Santa? And if you can…order the CD off his web site and you will score a free cool collectible 45.</p>
<p>The Amy Grant first Christmas Album and the Johnny Mathis one that starts with Winter Wonderland- my mother played it when I was a kid and I never get tired of it as I remember the kid joy of Christmas when I hear it play.</p>
<p>musica - thanks! I will do that :)</p>
<p>My all-time favorite Christmas song is Stop the Cavalry:</p>
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<p>My favorite Christmas song is “Oh, Holy Night”. Whenever I hear it, I wish I could sing.</p>
<p>I also like some of the “fun” songs- Rockin Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee version),Jingle Bell Rock , Step into Christmas.</p>
<p>Christmas Shoes (depressing) and Grandma Got Run Over…make me cringe.</p>
<p>I get a kick out of Dominic the Donkey for two reasons. First, my brother-in-law, who died much too young last month, was from Italy and always got very excited when it came on the radio, and secondly, because I have a neighbor (very Italian neighborhood) who decorates with an almost life-sized donkey pulling a cart with all flowers and stuff in it. We’ve always called that donkey Dominic with great affection.</p>
<p>just for fun…Here is a link to an interview with Bob Dylan re Christmas music
[Home</a> Page | Bob Dylan](<a href=“The Official Bob Dylan Site”>The Official Bob Dylan Site)</p>
<p>FallGirl–Oh, Holy Night is by far my favorite classic Christmas carol. Beautiful music, and beautiful words, too.</p>
<p>And speaking of classic, the troika from Prokofiev’s Lt. Kije is another favorite of mine which has been connected to Christmas (maybe because ELP used it in “I Believed in Father christmas”.</p>
<p>I know that I can’t be the only one who dances around the kitchen Christmas eve while the Nutcracker Suite is playing.</p>
<p>Favorite tune: Keep Christmas With You from Sesame Street Christmas. </p>
<p>Favorite CDs: Canadian Brass Christmas and Christmas Angelicus (a CD of Christmas tunes by the children’s choir Chorus Angelicus)</p>
<p>Discovered Celtic Woman about this time last year; love their Christmas CD.</p>
<p>Despise all those dumb songs so many have previously mentioned – Hippopotamus, Grandma & the reindeer, Donkey, Shoes, etc.</p>
<p>The radio station I listen to most of the time plays Christmas/holiday music 24/7. The 2nd year we were here they started this in October! It was horrible. Since then they’ve moved the “start” date closer to Christmas, probably due to all the protests. This year they started the day before Thanksgiving. Since they also play all the tacky songs, I can only take so much.</p>
<p>My H is a huge jazz fan so our collection of Christmas music includes CDs by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Bill Evans, etc. Our kids bought H a Norah Jones Christmas CD to bring him into the new century</p>
<p>We have lots of different CDs; like listening to them all, from jazz to country and to rock and especially like the Windham Hill discs.</p>
<p>All time guilty pleasure: the Roches singing Frosty the Snowman </p>
<p>Touches my childhood memories deeply: Une Flambeau, Jeannette Isabella</p>
<p>Modern classic, because it puts Jesus in the present day: The Rebel Jesus by Jackson Browne</p>
<p>Disc I never get tired of: The Chieftains Bells of Christmas </p>
<p>Putrid: Mannheim Steamroller: sound track for being in a brain dead coma</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>Saw a piece on the news yesterday about how Barry Manilow has released yet another Christmas album. Ewwww.
BTW, he looks like he’s had more plastic surgery than Joan Rivers…</p>
<p>The references to “Same Old Lang Syne” somehow reminded me of an eccentric record by the Everly Brothers from long after their commercial salad days called “Christmas Eve Can Kill You.” It’s a tearjerker about a homeless drifter caught in a snowstorm. The arrangement and performance are completely over the top as only an early 70s Nashville production can be. You can’t really call it a good record, but I love it anyway.</p>
<p>Emmylou Harris…the entire Light of the Stable cd…esp. Angel Eyes,Beautiful Star of Bethlehem and Christmas Time’s a’comin’.</p>
<p>Winersong by Sara McLachlan is a beautiful album.</p>