Christmas Songs - S&D!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpcrBioETw

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

Johnny O. Bazz ‎– Xmas Eve

― kites aren't fun (NickB), Monday, 14 December 2020 20:58 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is great! Had never heard it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVgRsWBb2l4

just heard the bad religion christmas album from 2013. I’m sure the novelty will wear thin fast but in my current fragile state its synthesis of superficially opposed nostalgias seems to reconcile some sort of deep seated turmoil in my psyche and it moves me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB2l6UESSyo

Here’s a new one

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— Blow Up Records (@BlowUpRecords) December 16, 2020

had slept on this: https://santasabbath.bandcamp.com/album/children-of-the-sleigh

Listening to the Soulful Strings recommended way upthread, this is great! Hits the perfect spot for me between jazz and kitschy easy listening.

i am going to get my hands on this, it sounds perfect

Annual post of my favourite-Christmas-songs playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1c1STHtL9vh4ZDHgvwYNoc

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPm0o04lGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7PcYtKPhA

Discovered a Johnny Horton christmas song & it is a goddamn treat

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHRINgBk3YA

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

mary margret o hara - silent night

always pull this e.p. up, this time of year, happy xmas, everyone

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE3185A180A218F2D

count your blessings - a selection of seasonal songs with ace vocalists including mary margret o hara

S: James Brown - “let’s make Christmas mean something this year”

I have that album! beat to shit with some skips on side 1 but it's hard to find

I've just put out a mix / compilation of very old Xmas recordings

https://centuriesofsound.com/2020/12/21/centuries-of-sound-presents-deep-magic-christmas-recordings-1902-1924/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbL9Vsobx8I

not xmas per se, but extremely seasonal and guaranteed to lift the spirits of all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdJ0FcjMGD8
Samthing Soweto ft. Mzansi Youth Choir • The Danko! Medley

Here's a playlist of new xmas songs from this year that I enjoyed. Only 4 out of 47 are "Last Christmas" covers.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6g0NuGUoyTyqXmIHnKM2D6?si=U-v86VgdQry3pWs7zY8Gpg

My all-time favorite Xmas song. Cary Grant's "Here's to You" - the smooth "a votre santé", the sincere "shalom, sha - lom!", the rushed "kung hee fat choy" - is the gift that has kept on giving to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGPKnVHL1yY

Here's my heavy 2020 list-https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6s88CJdMQ9Wbudqe5DcY5i
Belated discovery of the year-I'd been aware of the Arbor Records Christmas comps (https://www.npr.org/2016/12/20/506152779/songs-we-love-the-classic-brown-christmas-sweaters) but had never really dug in before. Man was I missing out. Great original Christmas albums are pretty rare, but this one sure made 2020 a little more tolerable.
https://theclassicbrown.bandcamp.com/

I've been enjoying The Angry Snowmans this year. Christmas punk parodies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ji9K3sz56A

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

They even did a Nomeansno parody this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6YjlTMg-Vk

Only so many gifts can be slung with eight deer, one sleigh, on one run.

Oh, I posted this in another thread but I guess this is the one that is popping

Thom Gill has a gift for us all:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJEXDhqgtcw/?igshid=1po3b1tjo8nt7

For me it's the Eurythmics' version of "Winter Wonderland" as one of the most iconic Christmas songs.

I remember it being huge as a kid on the radio, in department stores (seemed like everyone had that "A Very Special Christmas" album), so I was shocked to see how low its play counts were in the digital world these days. None of the multiple decade-old uploads on Youtube have yet to crack a million; it has about 3.5 million plays on Spotify (roughly the same as some of the tracks on the Sufjan Stevens Christmas album). Apparently only made the Billboard Holiday chart at #41 in 2011 and not since then... Both the Phil Spector/Darlene Love & Tony Bennett versions have charted from airplay and streaming in more recent years.

I never forget to come back to the Mountain Goats' rendition of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5I7y4xvPoU

Through the years we all will be together...

In the grave. That's where we'll all actually be together is in the grave.

...if the fates allow

I bought the Soulful Strings’ ‘Magical Christmas’ album (recommended itt) & it is delightful. Love!

^yep, one of the very best

Here is my Spotify Christmas playlist for this year. The usual mix of new and not so new. At 45 songs, it’s a bit longer than usual. There seem to be a LOT more new seasonal recordings this year compared with the norm. Also, there were quite a few finds from the People’s Pop polls on Twitter (just finished) that I had to squeeze in.

Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4054OsQgPWQejHoBtxJsOa?si=JwfloeTsSLWWjSXItV2MzQ

Mi Burrito Sabanero - originally from Venezuela - is very popular in latinamerican countries and has the plus of being a christmas song that you can dance to.

Get to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B36074Q1G7U

Also if you’d rather dance to it “banda” style:

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

Thanks, that one's new to me! I haven't really dug into Spanish-language Christmas apart from all the Fania Christmas albums and some Celia Cruz.

I see Calexico cover Mi Burrito Sabanero on their new Christmas album/I see Calexico have a new Christmas album/it's kind of boring

Speaking of Spanish language Christmas, just came to say ¡Feliz Vanidad!

Or even ¡Felisa me muero!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jueRg0H1_Jo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvWwJ6sh5s

this is the one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgtgDE253s

The Specials - a message to you rudy

are you confusing that with Do Nothing? (check the jumpers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhGDdXg1o-Q

hmm....different context same name. it's Rudy 24/7, especially on christmas.

I heard this lovely little song on this year's holiday episode of Sound Opinions. The artist is Allan Hull, who was in 70s folk-rock band called Lindisfarne that I'd never heard of, though this song was from a posthumous 1996 solo album (Hull died in '95).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOSQEMmWh9E

S: François-Auguste Gevaert harmonisation of "Les anges dans nos campagnes"/"Angels We Have Heard on High"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGYcz5oSFQ

There are a couple of the Starbucks Christmas comps that get a lot of play in our house this time of year. Some of the more enjoyable tracks:

Louis Armstrong with Benny Carter and his Orchestra - Christmas Night in Harlem
The Roches - Good King Wenceslas
Cyndi Lauper & Norah Jones - Home for the Holidays

Christmas songs are terrible dreck for the most part.
I did make a Spotify Playlist of Christmas Songs that Don't Suck that highlights the exceptions.

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Yikes, thank didn't work!

This should: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11F05Gtve6aUtyRlczdA1v?si=a46f84052874454c

Nice one two punch at the beginning!

Smithsonian Folkways playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YG4eIRIiZRrzhMA0fZq6j?si=03ba7c4aad6a49b0&nd=1

:D

Does anyone have a link to, I guess, a “blues/jazz” playlist… like what I would hear growing up on the radio in Washington DC? The kind of thing when you hear five great versions of “Merry Christmas Baby” in the course of a few hours, interspersed with jazz Xmas tunes, etc.