It Isn’t Christmas Without…
We have talked about Christmas music before, but I thought I’d try a little different tack this time around. My question is, what’s the one performance you just can’t do without at Christmastime?
I say performance, because I’m not talking about your favorite Christmas tune (like, your family might always sing “Jingle Bells” around the tree every year but I’m not interested in that). I’m talking about the one performance that just captures the spirit of the season for you.
It may be a classic like a performance of the Vienna Boys Choir, or Babs singing “O Holy Night,” Karen and Richard doing “Merry Christmas To One and All,” or Bing’s “White Christmas.” Or it may be something of more recent vintage, but there’s usually one number you just can’t put the star on the tree without hearing at least once. Tell us about it and link it if you can.
Posted on December 16, 2009, in Holidays, Pop Culture. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
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Santa Claus is coming to town. by Bruce Springsteen
Sufjan Stevens’ Christmas box set has become required listening at my house.
I would say Weird Al’s Christmas at ground Zero.
Our Cristmas eve tradition is to listen to Sir Lawrence Oliver read A Christmas Carol.
Anything from The Carpenters: Christmas Portrait and the musical movie Scrooge, not to be confused with the Bill Murray movie, Scrooged.
It’d have to be Bing and Bowie doing “Little Drummer Boy.“
Chris Cornell’s Ave Maria
Brandford Marsalis’ Christmas Jazz album and a whole lot of Tony Bennett.
The “Charlie Brown Christmas” soundtrack by Vince Guaraldi.
This whole disc: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Noel-Vol-Various-Artists/dp/B000000BE0
So beautiful I can’t wait to break out the Christmas stuff just so I can hear it.
Here’s a new Christmas favorite.