Favourite Xmas Songs - do you all know Snoopy???

Yes, I know the Snoopy and the Red Baron song very well. Nancy is correct. It's very popular here in the USA.  Of course since I collect Snoopy / Peanuts stuff,  this makes me an even bigger fan. O Holy Night is another favorite.  I love all the traditional carols.  I must have over 50 Christmas CDs.  Mary, Did You Know is so pretty.  I also love White Christmas - two different versions by Bing and The Drifters.   Some Children See Him by Andy Williams,  Christmas is Meant for Children by Fred Waring, Merry Christmas, Darling by the Carpenters and All I Want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey.  And many versions of Go Tell It on the Mountain, Carol of the Bells,  I Wonder as I Wander, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and Silent Night.

I'm up in the dozens of christmas CDs and I still have around 30 LPs--you know those huge CD shaped discs that spin on a -- gasp -- record player. LOL

I can't give them up, so many of them have not been re-released in CD format.

Penn--even if I limited myself to naming favorite Christmas recordings I would have several dozen. Like you, I have a wide range of styles. One is a Calypso Christmas recording from my childhood that I just found on CD format (amazon) last year. In fact, I placed 30 christmas cds in my wishlist on amazon and purchased at least half of them last year alone.

Please don't ask about my christmas villages. (Yes, plural.) We put villages up in every room of the house. We have over 70 houses. It is not my fault. My dh kept going into our local owned hardware store and they would sell these gorgeous houses for $10 a house, and then they would go on half price sale. I got a lot of them as christmas presents. LOL Decorating day is black Friday.  

LOL  Well, you just took my DH on a little trip down memory lane with the Snoopy vid.  My favorite Christmas songs are:

Carol of the Bells by Mannheim Steamroller

Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid

Song for a Winter's Night by Sarah McLachlan

I probably have more faves, but haven't dug the CDs out yet.  Delilah has been playing Christmas music for the past week or two on her radio show every evening.

I do the Hippopotamus song at karaoke night.  LOL

My ultimate favorite is "Oh Holy Night" sung by Nat King Cole.  There's something about the quality of his voice singing it that just gives me chills.  But I love soooooooo many Christmas carols, including, of course, "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron".  (JV sings "10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more...")  I also love the Alvin and the Chipmunks "Christmas Don't Be Late", "Carol of the Bells", "Silver Bells", "The Christmas Song", and about a trillion others.  I love not only the song "White Christmas" but also watching the video of the same name.  I could watch "A Christmas Carol" every year and never get tired of it.  And, in the spirit of equal opportunity, I really like Adam Sandler's "Hanukkah" song.  It's pretty funny.  One I can't say I really like but that qualifies as way quirky is "Grandma Got Run Over by a Raindeer."

Nancy, I have a bunch of songs on vinyl also.  My DH got a cool converter last year that came from the Sharper Image.  It's a turntable.  You play your albums on the turntable, and it converts them to MP3 digital format to burn to CD.  We're sporadically converting our vinyl just to make sure we always have it.

Oh wow, you just touched on something very personal for me.  Snoopy and the Red Baron (in all its seasonal forms) has been a family friend for years.

My younger brother used to torment me by playing his 45's of the original song and the Christmas version over and over and over and...   Now that we're grown up and he's stationed overseas it has become a running joke.  Just last month I sent him a birthday email that was appropriately teasing and fun for a big sister, and lo and behold, he sent me back a message that, as soon as I opened it, started playing Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.  AGGH!  But what a fun memory to share.

I love Christmas music in almost any form.  Some of my faves are Mannheim Steamroller.  Their "Still, Still, Still" makes me tear up almost every time I hear it.

Julie Miller

Yes, 'Snoopy' is alive and well in Canada.

So is the Rovers' singing 'Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer' although some stations had to pull it off the air due to an uprising fromt he elderly population.

There's no way I can list all my fav Christmas songs but my fav albums/CD's are by:

- Elvis

- Roger Whittaker

- Kenny Rogers

- Alabama

- Boney M

- anything Western

- awh...there's just too many

Natalie I love Snoopy and the Red Baron.  Its already been played this Christmas season on the radio here in Canada.  Another one I like is Linus and Lucy, it's not really Christmas but I hear it more often during this time of year.

Other favourites are I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm; Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!; Baby, It's Cold Outside; Popsicle Toes and, of course, White Christmas.

This is hard....there are the more traditional:

O Holy Night

Litttle Drummer Boy

There is the more modern:

Merry Christmas Dariling  - The Carpenters

One Day at Christmas - Stevie Wonder

Do they know its Christmas - Band Aid

Merry Christmas: The War is over - Jon Lennon

And lastly the novelty songs:

Grandma got run over by a rein deer

and non Christmas song:

Channukah Song - Adam Sandler

Well, that is all I can think of on the fly at 5;12  in the morning.

My DD was thrilled because last weekend she heard Christmas carols in the stores for the first time this season.

By the way, I haven't heard the hippo Christmas song.  Guess I'll have to look that one up and one other one someone mentioned.

Oh, and in terms of the quirky ones, I like "Santa Baby" by either Eartha Kitt or Madonna.

Thanks Kaelee, I think I'll buy the Aretha Franklin CD.  I love blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, etc.  Have you heard The Judds' Christmas CD - it's beautiful.  I wonder if Diana Krall has a Christmas CD