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#281820 12/19/07 02:14 PM
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OK gang.... what are your favorite Christmas songs? Being south of the equator now it does not feel quite like Christmas... so I am listening to Christmas songs to help and remind me it is that time of the year.

I have many favorites.... but probably if I had to pick one it would be "O Holy Night". I love Johnny Mathis since it reminds me of Christmas's growing up since my mother always listened to his albums this time of the year, but also love Mannheim Steamroller. So many songs. My mother always cries when she sings Silent Night.

I have a book on the origin of Christmas songs and this is an excerpt regarding "O Holy Night" I thought was interesting....

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Reginald Fessenden a 33 yr old university professor in Pittsburgh and former chief chemist for Thomas Edison did something long thought impossible. Using a new type of generator, he spoke into a microphone and for the first time in history, a man's voice was broadcast over the airwaves: "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed".

Shocked radio operators on ships and astonished wireless owners at newspapers sat slack-jawed as their normal coded impulses heard over tiny speakers were interrupted by a professor reading from the gospel of Luke. To the few who caught the broadcast, it must have seemed like a miracle - hearing a voice somehow turned into electrical waves and transmitted to those far away.

Fessenden was probably unaware of the sensation he was causing on ships and in offices; he couldn't know that men and women were rushing to their wireless units to catch this Christmas Eve miracle. Yet after finishing his recitation of the birth of Christ, Fessenden picked up his violin and played "O Holy Night", the first song ever sent through the air via radio waves. When the carol ended, so did the broadcast - but not before music had found a new medium that would take it around the world.

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I LOVE the little drummer boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie! And for that matter, almost all Little Drummer Boy versions. I definitely like O Holy Night by Mr. Mathis and have you heard Josh Groban's version? That's pretty darn good to. I like all the older stuff, none of this new junk by people who jack it up! Know what I mean??? Definitely like most stuff by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I would say that pretty much covers it!





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Wow Tim,

I can't think of a Christmas song that I don't love, especially anything by the Trans Siberian Orchestra. But one of my favorites is "Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord". You don't often hear it. It has a kind of Caribbean sound and with steel drums it’s great. My son is studying percussion performance and that includes steel drums so I tend to be a little prejudice.

If you are curious you can hear Boney M. sing it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BVtzu59feY

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I'm with you, Tim. I just melt when I hear "O Holy Night".

Karen


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'Oh Holy Night' sung by Nat King Cole is my absolute favorite. Just doesnt feel like Christmas to me without it.
And Do you hear what I hear....... love that one.
Could probably name a hundred of them
One of the local radio stations plays nothing but Christmas music from the evening of Thanksgiving until just after Christmas. Always nice to hear.

Merry Christmas to you and your family Tim. And many blessings in the new year.


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Wh en Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney.

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I'm with Sarah. Little Drummer Boy just makes it seem like Christmas. I also kind of get a kick out of "Grandma got ran over by a Reindeer".

Merry Christmas Everybody!!!!!

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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings... by Barenaked Ladies! Is definitely my fave ..very groovy!


Merry Christmas Tim!


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It's rather hard to get the feel from reading the words but I can tell you it's not possible to get through it without tears of joy rollin' down your cheeks. Never heard it said better

OLD CITY BAR Trans-Siberian Orchestra


In an old city bar
That is never too far
From the places that gather
The dreams that have been

In the safety of night
With its old neon light
It beckons to strangers
And they always come in

And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The music was low
And the night
Christmas Eve

And here was the danger
That even with strangers
Inside of this night
It's easier to believe

Then the door opened wide
And a child came inside
That no one in the bar
Had seen there before

And he asked did we know
That outside in the snow
That someone was lost
Standing outside our door

Then the bartender gazed
Through the smoke and the haze
Through the window and ice
To a corner streetlight

Where standing alone
By a broken pay phone
Was a girl the child said
Could no longer get home

And the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
The bartender turned
And said, not that I care
But how would you know this?
The child said I've noticed
If one could be home
They'd be all ready there

Then the bartender came out from behind the bar
And in all of his life he was never that far
And he did something else that he thought no one saw
When he took all the cash from the register draw

Then he followed the child to the girl cross the street
And we watched from the bar as they started to speak
Then he called for a cab and he said J.F.K.
Put the girl in the cab and the cab drove away
And we saw in his hand
That the cash was all gone
From the light that she had
wished upon

If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last

By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger

And to know who needs help
You need only just ask

Then he looked for the child
But the child wasn't there
Just the wind and the snow
Waltzing dreams through the air

So he walked back inside
Somehow different I think
For the rest of the night
No one paid for a drink

And the cynics will say
That some neighborhood kid
Wandered in on some bums
In the world where they hid

But they weren't there
So they couldn't see
By an old neon star
On that, night, Christmas Eve
When the snow it was falling
The neon was calling
And in case you should wonder
In case you should care

Why we're on our own
Never went home
On that night of all nights
We were already there

Then all at once inside that night
He saw it all so clear
The answer that he sought so long
Had always been so near

It's every gift that someone gives
Expecting nothing back
It's every kindness that we do
Each simple little act.


Pete




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I have to say all christmas songs, but if I had to pick a favorite it would be Silver Bells. I've been hearing a song about the Christmas Shoes and I can't find out who sings it. It's a guy and it's like the Hallmark movie about the boy who wants to buy red slippers for his mother before she dies. Anyone know who sings this?

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