Post your favorite holiday songs

[Ava]

the funny ones, the sad ones, the happy ones.. all of 'em!

i'll start us off with a funny one, and one of my favorites -

The Chanukah Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrd9p47MPHg

[yellowdogintexas]

1. I love 'Sleigh Ride" as performed by the Boston Pops!

and 'Troika" by Shostakovich, two pieces of music which should not be just considered 'Christmas Music' but winter music.

[Genevieve]

2. Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon

[Archae]

3. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, "Carol Of The Bells."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0IwpRzWL_4

Close behind, same tune by Mannheim Steamroller.

[fizzgig]

4. o holy night, celtic woman/chloe agnew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-8jYpa1-o

this song just kills me, it's so beautiful

i was just going to start one of these :)

[grannylib]

5. The Pogues - Fairy Tale of New York...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjEIP6otc4Y

[ogneopasno]

12. Ah! You beat me to it.

[grannylib]

13. Have you seen the version on YouTube with the lyrics? There's one

that actually says "that rare old MOUNTAIN DEW" instead of mountain TUNE...
Talk about poor product placement or whatever *lol*

[Dangerously Amused]

6. Barenaked Ladies - Elf's Lament:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qixiv080feg

UNION! UNION! UNION!

:rofl:

[Crazy Dave]

7. Greensleeves instrumental

And lots of others

[Zorra]

8. "New Years Day" by U2. nt

[marzipanni]

9. Tom Lehrer- A Christmas Carol... a funny one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSlpCBek1_M

[tigereye]

10. anything by Anonymous 4 related to Christmas...

The Wassail song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COTAlT8jFr8&feature=related


Boar's Head carol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oJAfHatmyE&feature=related

and Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas jazz CD- lovely after all this time.



on edit to add Piffaro - if you love Renaissance woodwinds, they are stellar! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGmS2GoqqQ4

[ogneopasno]

11. Fairytale of NY (Pogues), Christmas Spirit and Solstice Bells (Jethro Tull), Holly and the Ivy,

and pardon fracking me, but the first Mannheim Steamroller album.

[grannylib]

14. I love Solstice Bells...Hadn't thought of that one in yonks!

:hi:

[grannylib]

15. Oh! The entire Vince Guaraldi soundtrack from the Charlie Brown

Christmas, and George Winston's "December" album.

[ghostsofgiants]

16. The Darkness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eslNwGXrI

[My Good Babushka]

17. Because Fairytale of NY is already taken I'll say..

Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight) The Ramones.