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Now that it's appropriate to play Christmas music, what is your all time favorite album?

I've got 2, pretty disparate fav's, Rosemary Clooney''s White Christmas from a few years ago, and Jewel's Christmas album. Rosie was at the end of her career and her voice is a bit rough, but it sounds real. Jewel's is fun, a cross section of various genres. A close runner up is the Windam Hill Winter Solstice series.

I've been collection Christmas CDs for 25 years and I've ripped them to one of my computers. I also got a lot of stuff from various online sources all told I have close to 40 hours of Christmas music on my computer. I just start up winamp and let it play through the holidays.
 
What a great idea, i like upbeat stuff like "All i want for Christmas is uuuuuuuuuu". Somber Christmas music makes me melancholy. alr2903
 
My favorite has a solid red album cover, embossed with highly scripted lettering. It's at my folks' house and I don't remember the name offhand. Very traditional.
 
My favorite is...

a 3 record set put out by Columbia House in 1972. It has a wide range of artists such as, Tammy Wynette, Burl Ives, Joan Sutherland, Mahalia Jackson, Bing Crosby, Mantovani, Tony Bennett, Leonard Bernstein & the New York Philharmonic. A nice range of songs and styles.
 
A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector

Hands down, my favorite holiday album--the lush and brash Spector "wall of sound" and his best vocalists putting their own spin on well-known Christmas favorites. In this case, I'm willing to put Mr. Spector's personal problems aside and marvel at what he achieved. If the album hadn't been released on the same day JFK was shot and killed (11/22/1963), it would have been a smash hit.
For fun in my holiday collection, I have a CD entitled "NBC Celebrity Christmas." It was released in 2000, and it featured such NBC stars of the time as Sean Hayes ("Will & Grace") doing "The Christmas Song;" a duet of "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Bebe Neuwirth and John Lithgow; "Just Shoot Me's" Wendie Maick doing "Santa Baby;" a version of "Winter Wonderland" by "Frasier's" Jane Leeves; and others. I found the CD by accident at the 99 Cent Store and I bought about two dozen to hand out as gifts several years ago. Good thing I kept one hidden for myself.
 
my fav

Its not Christmas unless I play my 78 of Ethel Smith and her happy organ version of jingle bells and the flip side white christmas
 
Bing Crosby Christmas

My favorite is Bing Crosbys album with the Andrews sisters and Holiday Inn.Ethel Smiths 78s are great also.Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
The Phil Spector Christmas Album is my absolute fave. Lush, brash and upbeat - it just swings. But if you don't particularly like the Ronettes, Darlene Love, Bobb B. Sox and the Blue Jeans and the Crystals to begin with, you won't like this. I have both the LP and the CD and my only disappointment is that in translating to the CD, some of the individual sounds are somewhat "muddied" on the CD - you almost feel like you are only hearing half the music. Too bad there isn't a better CD version.
I was surprisingly impressed with the Carpenters' Christmas Portrait. I am always amazed with the quality of Karen Carpenter's voice.

Christmas with Dino (Martin, not the Flintstones' dinosaur)is actually a fine CD. I bought it as a joke and the joke was that once I heard it, I had to have it!!

Another one you might not think about at first is "That Holiday Feeling" with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. Very Vegas, but very fun.

And yes, I love Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas - great fun all the way, and of course the original Johnny Mathis and Andy Williams Christmas Albums - classics!!!.

But which one song gets me every time? Silly, but "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". Just pulls every loss you ever had out of you.

Oh, well...there is always Alvin and the Chipmunks...
 
Or, if we're mentioning individual songs,

Gayla Peevey's immortal classic "I Wish I Had A Hippopotamus for Christmas."

It's all over YouTube.com

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
another song

"Blue Christmas" sung by Mel Blanc as Porky Pig. The funniest version of this Chrismas song I have ever heard. You can even hear the engineer in the background just cracking up. I remember standing in a dollar store a few years ago, and this song came on. Me and another woman just stopped dead in our tracks to listen, and laughed so hard we cried. Got some funny looks but who cares.

Lisa
 
Magnavox Presents: A Console Stereo Christmas

I had the 45 of Blue Christmas by Seymour Swine.

I'd say my fav albume so far is the Time-Life Treasury of Christmas. I got the 3 LP set off of Ebay and I will definitely spin it on the console Christmas eve and day.
 
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my newest fave...

the brian setzer orchestra....dig that crazy christmas.

tight forties type big band sounds mixed with some unruly jazz
intresting re makes of the old with some new.

personal fave..Zat you santa clause?
nice remake of youre a mean one mR grinch
 
Seymour Swine and the Squealers

MattL,

That's the song, it just cracks me up. I did not know it was not Mel Blanc. The DJ who played the song the first time I heard it, said it was Mel Blanc. After some searching I found out the Seymour Swine is Mark McCollum, who also did "Ozzy Fudd". Heavy metal parody, Elmer is the rabbit slayer, really funny stuff. Here's a link to it.

http://www.devilbunnies.org/sounds/
 
Straight No Chaser

I think I might go out and pick up Straight no Chaser's Christmas CD if I can find one. Saw them on Christmas in Washington and stopped by their web page and these guys are good!
 
Christmas with Conniff

...playing on my parent's 1966 Motorola X-300 console stereo (SK652BF), along with the Firestone collection of Christmas albums. I don't even remember what year Christmas with Conniff came out (maybe someone out there knows), all I know is my sister and I even remember where the record skips (it saw a lot of action). I still have the vinyl, and I was lucky enough to find it on CD. My dad died this past October, and when I played that CD, I started bawling because the flood of wonderful Christmas memories that came back. It actually helped me get in the spirit, which I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do this year.

Merry Christmas to all my friends out there, have a happy, healthy, safe and prosperous 2009. and to Toggleswitch "Kala Christougena, Kai to Chrono"

Dave
 

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