Name your favorite Christmas Albums

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jeremymarcinko
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My favorite time of year, and I love my dusting off my holiday vinyl collection. So I'm curios what are your all time favorites?

For me it's Ella & Louis, Brenda Lee, Conway Twitty...
Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • [Deleted User]
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    The Beatles flexi-discs for fans
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  • motorhead43026
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,049
    edited December 2016
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    Bruce Cockburn Christmas.

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    No "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" but imaginative and gorgeous/gorgeously played arrangements of a bevy of Christian Christmas music, some a bit out of the ordinary.

    Even if one is a confirmed atheist and/or just generally hates "Christmas Music", I'd encourage one to take a chance on a little listen to this album.
    It sounds great, too!

    Here's a taste, YT-style:




    We have a nigh-on obscene amount of "Holiday Music" at the Hardy household; we love it all.

    I have some other big favorite albums, they tend towards the obscure.
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  • jeremymarcinko
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    I like it!
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • Nightfall
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    edited December 2016
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    Christopher Lee "A Heavy Metal Christmas" Yeah, the guy that played Sauron in Lord of the Rings. Very cool to see metal fans of all ages.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVzOve8T39w
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  • mhardy6647
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    three other faves:

    pretty much the whole history of Christmas music on one disc (the vinyl kind); simple but very nice arrangements and performances. Everyone needs some chant for Christmas; this album has a couple of 'em, and semi-obscure Christmas carols such as The Boar's Head Carol.

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    A promotional record from my father's radio days (ca.1957); a bunch of tracks from a group of holiday recordings from Capitol Records with short spoken introductions by Fred Waring.

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    Waring was a well-known chorus conductor and arranger; he is also the "Waring" of the "Waring blendor" :)

    And finally (for this triumvirate), Canadian Gisele Mackenzie; oh-so-fifties.

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    It' ain't Christmas 'til you hear Too Fat for the Chimney, yes-siree-bob!

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  • westmassguy
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    Grew up with this album, and still my favorite:
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  • mhardy6647
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    That is a good one.

    FWIW, I found an earlier Perry Como Christmas album with a more antique arrangement of "Home for the Holidays" some years back.

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  • voltz
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    Does Tchaikovsky * Nut Cracker * count?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,049
    edited December 2016
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    voltz wrote: »
    Does Tchaikovsky * Nut Cracker * count?

    yes. :)
    Any particular recording/performance?
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  • lightman1
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    voltz wrote: »
    Does Tchaikovsky * Nut Cracker * count?

    yes. :)
    Any particular recording/performance?

    Simon Rattle..Berlin Philharmonic
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    Ozawa in front of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.......
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  • mhardy6647
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    heh, we used to go see the Boston Ballet perform Nutcracker every December at the Wang Theatre when the kids were young. Not with the BSO, though :)

    The first act is much fun; the full-on ballet part gets a little sleepy for a cultural Philistine like me.

    Pretty good tuneage, though.
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    heh, we used to go see the Boston Ballet perform Nutcracker every December at the Wang Theatre when the kids were young. Not with the BSO, though :)

    The first act is much fun; the full-on ballet part gets a little sleepy for a cultural Philistine like me.

    Pretty good tuneage, though.

    Turn in your snobbery card, Doc.
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  • mhardy6647
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    yeah, I know. what're you gonna do, though, you know?

    Time to break out the Tiny Tim Christmas album -- or something along those lines.
    Did Tiny Tim ever make a Christmas album? I'll bet he did.
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    lightman1 wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    voltz wrote: »
    Does Tchaikovsky * Nut Cracker * count?

    yes. :)
    Any particular recording/performance?

    Simon Rattle..Berlin Philharmonic

    what Russ said and I've heard some Andre Previn too, which brings up some Arthur Fiedler Christmas music.. not a big classical fan except for some Christmas music or movie soundtracks ;)
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    yeah, I know. what're you gonna do, though, you know?

    Time to break out the Tiny Tim Christmas album -- or something along those lines.
    Did Tiny Tim ever make a Christmas album? I'll bet he did.

    Tip Toe Through the Poinsettia?????
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    voltz wrote: »
    lightman1 wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    voltz wrote: »
    Does Tchaikovsky * Nut Cracker * count?

    yes. :)
    Any particular recording/performance?

    Simon Rattle..Berlin Philharmonic

    what Russ said and I've heard some Andre Previn too, which brings up some Arthur Fiedler Christmas music.. not a big classical fan except for some Christmas music or movie soundtracks ;)

    Good call Darryl. Previn wore out the second and third movements. Tchaikovsky head banging! 19th century metal!
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  • aprazer402
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    One of my many Christmas faves! Also like several blues and jazz Christmas albums.9t63awboqp9e.jpg
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    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    That is a good one.

    FWIW, I found an earlier Perry Como Christmas album with a more antique arrangement of "Home for the Holidays" some years back.
    I just realized, although I have that album, the one I grew up with is "Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music".
    I could tell by the track list. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, was spoken word.
    Track List:
    'Twas The Night Before Christmas
    The Twelve Days Of Christmas
    God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
    C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s
    Joy To The World
    Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
    Frosty The Snowman
    The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)
    That Christmas Feeling
    I’ll Be Home For Christmas
    Silent Night
    O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
    Jingle Bells
    White Christmas
    Winter Wonderland

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  • jeremymarcinko
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    As a kid I couldn't wait till the Christmas season to listen to this album. I have been given my parents copy but it's quite beat up.v2psnodnp0t4.jpg

    I purchased what I thought was the same album a couple of years ago

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    But this one had been remastered with Conway's granddaughter do the twitty birds voice. Sorry to say this little change just ruined the album. It's not that she did a bad job just not how I remembered it.
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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    Never to be confused with Charlie Brown.3qdzmfo7ot3n.jpg
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    Dean Martin Christmas
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  • jeremymarcinko
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    Another great Christmas album. Although it's on CD.
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    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • mhardy6647
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    A CD can be an album.

    It's when the "album's" only existence is in the form of bit values floating around in some semiconductor cloud somewhere in the wastes of southwestern America that I find the use of the term a stretch.

    -- and, of course (needless to say), it is my opinion in such matters that counts the most; it is the 21st Century.

    ;)


    -- but I digress.
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  • Moose68Bash
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    Not pure Christmas music, perhaps, but it is definitely Christmas season music.
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  • Moose68Bash
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    A close second to the above:

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