Just wondering!

Mine is, Peace On Earth, a lovely duet by David Bowie and Bing Crosby.

And this year it means more to me than ever!

Angels We Have Heard On High has always been a favorite of mine. I also like Silent Night.
Louisa

White Christmas, Coventry Carol and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

Sorry, I just couldn't name one. When I hear White Christmas played by the Boston Pops under Arthur Feidler's conduction it brings tears to my eyes.

I guess I'm thinking about when I was a child and family was all around.

O Holy Night is my all time favorite.

I'll be home for Christmas. It always makes me cry.

I have a CD I love, it's a Christmas cd by BeBe and CeCe Winans. They are a brother/sister and sing mostly Christian R&B/gospel music. BeBe is the brother and his voice is silky smooth. Now I just need to find it!

Daisygirl

I'll be Home for Christmas, by Elvis. As Dianne says, it makes me cry.

JJ

My favorite of all time is Silent Night. Last week, we went to Branson and saw Andy Williams' Christmas show. It was wonderful. Just as it does every Christmas, when we joined him in singing Silent Night, my heart overflowed.

Last night we joined friends at a concert by the number one Christian singer in the U.S. I was looking forward to it and to Silent Night. She did a lot of new Christian songs in the 'new Christian music' style (maybe some of you know what I mean). I kept thinking if I could just endure all that cacophony, she would eventually get to the 'real' Christmas music and I would fall in love with Silent Night all over again. At last she said she would sing the carols and she asked the audience to sing along with her. She sang Joy to the World, but no one else sang. We couldn't. The writer of Joy to the World must have been crying in his grave. She destroyed it.
She has great voice and a tremendous range, but she was so intent upon showing it off that she destroyed a wonderful Christmas song.

Walking to the car, we all agreed that we were grateful she didn't get a chance at Silent Night.

Sorry, I needed to vent. It broke my heart to see someone with such a great voice destroy beautiful songs.

Our own church choir is wonderful this year though.
smile

[ December 02, 2005, 11:45 AM: Message edited by: smilinize ]

Is Andy Williams still good looking? I used to have such a crush on him.

He's older of course, but he's still nice looking and he's still got "IT." The show was wonderful. He told funny jokes and sang like a dream.

I always love Branson for the oldies that are there. I once dated one of the performers and went to all the shows. We didn't have much time last weekend, but Andy alone was worth the trip.

smile

Don't you love the restrooms at the Trabucci (spelling?) theater? They are something to behold! I really enjoy his show, too. Mom likes Mickey Gilley. I didn't care for that one. I did like the Lawrence Welk shows and I thought it would be sooo boring. It was anything but! The Oak Ridge boys were there and I really enjoyed them.

JJ

I guess I still prefer the old Christmas songs as they were originally sung. I cringe at some of the new stuff by younger singers who, in my own opinion destroy it.

I like anything sung by Amy Grant. She's been my favourite singer since the early 80's. I've bought just about every album, cassette and CD she ever made (and unfortunately lent many of them out over the years and never saw most of them again!) But my all-time favourite Christmas CDs are her three Christmas albums. Especially "A Christmas to Remember". It's so beautiful that I can't go all year without playing it, and will often "sneak" a listen to it mid-summer!

[ December 02, 2005, 04:32 PM: Message edited by: Eagle Heart ]

For 4 years in a row in the choir of St. Peter & Pauls Catholic Church where I also went to school, I sang a solo of O Holy Night...it has always been a favorite of mine. Not enough wind in these old lungs today to do that...
I have a Christmas CD all songs sung by Andre Bocelli and every single one chokes me up, what a voice this tenor has.

JJ, I thought Mickey Gilley was dead???

[ December 02, 2005, 06:48 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

Smile, I'm with you....."Silent Night" is absolutely my favorite all time Christmas song. I hate to admit this but it ALWAYS brings tears to my eyes....it's just so beautiful!

Angels We Have Heard On High (especially when sung by a children's choir)

My favorite Christmas Carole is "Deck the Halls" I love to sing it and hear this song being sung .

The Christmas song that always makes me cry is, I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. I don't know why but I think it might have something to do with my parent's divorce. It doesn't matter who sings it or what kind of mood I'm in when I hear it, I always get teary.

Any Christmas Carol sung by children...those sweet little voices get to me every time...

I have the sound track from Home Alone. I love the song Candles in the Window. It too makes me cry. I think of that part of the movie where the old man is reunited with his son and they are outside hugging each other with the snow falling around them. A wonderful Christmas movie, guess it belongs in the movie forum though.

Not .. 'It'll be a Blue Christmas Without You ' i dont like it , because it always makes me sad, just thinking about it makes me want to cry....why did they ever write that song?? It should be banned... makes me feel just terrible.
My favorite one is 'i want a hippopotmus for christmas'. Oh, the question was your favorite Christmas Carol.... then that is 'Angels we have heard on high'.

[ December 03, 2005, 02:05 AM: Message edited by: norma ]

My all time favourite is Silent Night. "S-i-i-let Night" is what I sang throught a toothless smile on our Christmas concert so many years ago. I was too young to read the words on paper, so I learned it by watching the older ones and Mom helping me. I mentioned this at a Christmas function a few years back and there was a write up about it in the local paper the next week (no names were mentioned, just the last line that said "I can imagine Her little angelic face singing to the top of her lungs, "Sleep in Heaven-he-pee-eees, Sleep in Heaven he pees.." That's what I sang - in innocence. True story. My friend, the editor never misses a thing. I'll have to dig it out and read it again.
chick

I laughed so hard on that one Chickadee that I almost, um, well you know.

My uncle was the clown of the family and the youngest child of 7. My grandmother had some church ladies over for coffee and pastries and decided it was the perfect time to get little Keith to sing I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas for the ladies. (Can't you just picture them, the ladies with their hats, gloves and clunky shoes, sitting in the parlor?) So Keith stood up and began singing, "I'm dreaming of a white sh-t pot......." As you can imagine, my grandmother was mortified, but it has been a classic family story ever since.

Daisygirl

Those are some funny stories!
Out of the mouths of babes, right...LOL

Oh my God Daisygirl, why did he sing those words instead of the right lyrics?

I use to take a friend's daughter home from grade school with my two children.

One December while riding home in the car she started singing Winter Wonderland. When she got to the part about where you sing, later on we'll conspire as we sit by the fire, she instead sang "later on, we'll expire, as we sit by the fire."

This girl was in eigth grade at the time. My two were in first and fourth grades. I looked in the rear view mirror with a smile as I saw my two kids laughing. The girl never laughed or corrected her use of the word expire so we knew she was honestly ignorant about it. We sing it her way now.

I've always thought "Silent Night" was by far the loveliest of the Christmas Carols. The chaplin at the hospital where I just started volunteering has invited me to join a group that will sing Christmas songs for the hospital patients right before the holidays. I will porbably take her up on that offer.

Jackie, I hope you do take the Chaplain up on her offer...wish I could be there to hear you too...

Christmas hymns move me to tears. I have a few favorites: Once in Royal David's City, Oh Holy Night and Silent Night. We seem to sing these ever Christmas Eve in church. I can't get through them without tears rolling down my cheeks.

Ladybug, I absolutely love that Home Alone CD. That and Kenny and Dolly's Christmas CD have been played over and over in our home for years. In fact, we will listen to them tomorrow while decorating. We love Christmas music and have tons of it. However, a local radio station plays all Christmas music and it's great. They even play the oldies like the Chipmunks.

I wish I had our old Chipmunk album with the Christmas song on it!! It's probably worth some money on ebay!!

Ladybug, I love that part of Home Alone, too. I cry every single time I see that.

We also have a station that plays Christmas music for 24 nours starting on Christmas Eve.

I've got a couple Chipmunk cassettes of their Christmas music. They were so cute. You can't help but sing along.

Silent Night is my husband's favorite. I also love some of the really old hymns sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They make me cry too.

Does anyone remember the snoopy christmas album?

I remember as a young girl playing it over and over again.

I've looked for it but have never been able to find it.

(can't even think of a title of one of the songs right now -- my mind is drawing a blank)lol.

I THINk the chipmunks sang a song on it, and I think there was a song about the "red barron" on it also.

Danita

OMG Danita,
We had that one too!!!!!
I remember Snoopy vs. The Red Barron! I know it was for children probably had Ruduolf and Frosty, can't remember.
OH NO, now I've got it stuck in my head...
Christmas Bells, Oh Christmas Bells, ringing through the land, bringing peace to all the world, and goodwill to man.!

Ahhhhh! I bet if we looked hard enough on the internet we could find it!

I'm glad someone else remembers. How cool is that!

Danita

Maybe Ebay?

Another one I want to look for is Father Christmas by the Kinks. I played that one to death when I got older, but it was a single.

http://search.ebay.com//search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=snoopy%27s+christmas+album

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=kinks+father+christmas

Here you go.
chick

Chick,
You are the best!

Danita, I remember Snoopy and the Red Baron Christmas song. Our oldies station plays it a lot at Christmas.

I'm suddenly remembering my daughter dancing ro "Jingle Bell Rock" at a nursing home at Christmas. They also did part of The Nurcracker, which has always been eynonymous with this season for me. We were always so proud of our kids for taking time from their own busy lives to bring joy to the residents, some of whom had little enough joy in their lives.

My good friend use to take her two children to a nursing home to play Christmas carols on their musical instruments. I'm sure the residents loved it.

I know the residents loved it when the girls came to dance for them every year. Laura still fondly remembers one sweet little lady saying to her friend, "Those girls don't just dance like that. They all have training."

That was about 15 years ago, and she still treasures the memory. So do I. It's wonderful when kids take the time to do things like that for people who don't have a lot of joy in their lives.

"People who don't have a lot of joy in their lives."

This is a great topic for us to focus on at Christmas.

I have a retirement home behind me and I'm ashamed to say I do absolutely nothing there at this point in my life. I read chatty's posts and consider how easy it would be for me to visit, but never do. I need a great big kick in the butt. I know so many of them spend long, lonely days in their without any interaction from the outside world. That may be us one day. Urg...

However, my husband does bring joy to a child who doesn't have a lot of joy in his life. He visits a little guy at a local orphanage every week. We'll have fun shopping for him this Christmas. I just pray that whatever he gets doesn't get broken or stolen as most of his personal belongings usually do. Please pray for all those children living in orphanages this time of year.

I think what your husband is doing is wonderful Dotsie, How old is the little guy? I will pray for all God's children in orphanages.
Remember I posted awhile back about Josh, the young kid who helps us every now and then. He lost his Dad a few weeks ago. I know Christmas will be hard on him this year. We will do all we can for them.
Dotsie, what are you going to do for the retirement folks for Christmas? How's that for a little kick?
chick

Carole of the Bells has been my favorite since I was a small child.

Flo Voy, I like that one too so maybe I really don't have just one favorite after all.

Last night Clayton and I were on our way back from the Newport, KY aquarium and I was singing Christmas carols I thought he would like, like Rudolf, Jingle Bells, etc. He was singing them, but the lyrics were more like a story with many more words than in the song - he cracks me up!

I have a new favorite - anything my 3 yr. old grandson sings.

Daisygirl