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Our Favorite Christmas & Holiday Songs

Daughter and I are enjoying these....


We love the techno Christmas music with dancing Christmas lights :applause:
 
wings4521 said:
I came across this on CBFS, thought I would share it with you guys.

http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1529569286?bctid=5524339001

enjoy

Paul
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Wow. Thanks Paul. That just cracked me up. Here's the embedded version:

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What Breathing Places is all about:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/aboutus/
 
 
Chuck Berry: Run Run Rudolph
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Bryan Adams: Something About Christmas Time
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Tom Cochrane, Paul Hyde & Murray McLauglan: Let The Good Guys Win
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Tom and Jerry Christmas - With real animals!
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Another favorite singer of mine, Andrea Bocelli. This year, for the first time ever, Bocelli made a Christmas album. I bought it last week, at Starbucks. Amazing album!! Here's one of the songs, "What Child is This?", in duet with Mary J. Blige.

Enjoy!

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Wow! We have so many wonderful Christmas & Holiday songs going! You guys are awesome! Thanks for participating!

Snuffy~ I enjoyed the Moody Blues songs, especially "In the quiet of Christmas morning". The flute sound is so pretty.

N4gix~ Oh Boney M.! Hubby LOVES that group, so I'm very familiar with their music. Great choice of song! And I have to tell you Bill, the "Pueri Concinite" performed by the Vienna Boys Choir, brougth tears to my eyes. Quite the pure voice he has that little fellow! Simply beautiful! Thank you for posting it!

Pauke! Pauke!~ You can't beat Charles Brown for some good ole' soulful Christmas music! Great choice!

Willy~ You made me chuckle with your comment: "Ok, I have to admit I like Enya as well". LOL! That was cute!

Wings 4521~ I had never even heard of that "Cute animal Christmas" song. That was funny! Thanks for your pick!

grunau baby~ When I started playing "The Ramones" video, I was upstairs and hubby was downstairs. He thought he was hearing our neighbors fight...LOL! (neighbors have a tendancy to yell at each other), so anyways, that was funny! Thanks for sharing!

6297J~ Oh! Love Paul McCartney! Great choice! Yay!

cajj1~ The "Hanukkah in Santa Monica" was hilarious! First time hearing that song as well. Thanks for sharing it with all of us!

RL_201~ I absolutely loved the "Let the good guys win" song. There's also a very powerful message in the lyrics. I will definitely look for this one online. Awesome pick! Thanks!

 
I would classify myself as a secular person and not religious. That said, I do like history and to explore different cultures through the study of art and music. Christmas is celebrated on every continent in the world, even Antarctica. This is high summer down there and I know there are those that celebrate among the personnel at the research stations. In 1968, Christmas Eve was celebrated during an elliptical orbit from 194 to 70 miles above the lunar surface in Apollo 8. This is not to say that other religious beliefs and holidays are not global and have not or will not be observed in space. Wherever humans go, we will take our beliefs and culture. The world has become smaller since that first Christmas a couple thousand years ago, give or take a year or two. Even the scholars aren’t quite sure of the date or the year. Cultures and religions have become geographically diverse and exist in many areas now very far away from their centers of origin. The need for tolerance is greater today than it has ever been.
Christmas has been celebrated differently in many different cultures and denominations. The English Puritans that settled the Massachusetts Colony in the 1600’s kept Christmas in a very subdued manner. It was a day devoted to prayer and reflection and certainly not a time for merriment and indulgence. But, then with the Puritans when was it ever a time for such things. I have selected some music from the Eastern Orthodox, Chaldean and Syriac Churches that celebrate Christmas. Some are very ancient originating from Byzantine times. I found them beautiful and interesting, in some cases almost mesmerizing and meditative. Perhaps, you’ll fell the same.

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Piglet said:
Other than that, BAH HUMBUG! Get it over with!!!!
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I'm with you on this Piglet!

My wife calls me 'The Scrinch'....a cross between Scrooge and The Grinch.

Xmas....Bah Humbug!

I'd much rather celebrate something with some REAL meaning ...like December the 21/22...the Winter Solstice...at least I know the warmer weather is coming back once we pass that point.
 
Tako_Kichi said:
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I'm with you on this Piglet!

My wife calls me 'The Scrinch'....a cross between Scrooge and The Grinch.

Xmas....Bah Humbug!

I'd much rather celebrate something with some REAL meaning ...like December the 21/22...the Winter Solstice...at least I know the warmer weather is coming back once we pass that point.
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Yarrrrh! I too be wanting just a flagon of mead and the Yule Boar, no offense Piglet, roasting on a spit over the Yule Log and wishing for Spring and some relief from the pain of these chilblains. But alas no, we had to get all civilized and such. Next they'll be asking me to bathe and attend regular services at the kirk.

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Last Christmas, a special friend of mine shared this song with me, and to this day, each time I hear it, the "little girl" inside of me comes out!
I was going to post John Denver's rendition of "The Marvelous Toy", but decided to post the video of this little fella instead...Bless his little heart!
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Christmas to me is very special. I guess it would be, considering that I was born on Christmas. :) However, that is not the real reason I consider it special.

You see, Christmas is the only holiday that I know of that has the ability to change people for the better. There is something magical about the way people seem to become more charitable and loving. Only on Christmas will you see strangers go out of their way to be nice to others. They touch other strangers in a positive way. To me it is beautiful. The term "Christmas Spirit" is more than a cliche. It is a real sense of goodness and beauty that for a short while, brings out the best in us. I love the Season.

As for songs, so many beautiful, cute and funny songs has been linked. I love so many Christmas songs. However, if I had to pick one song that says, "Christmas" to me, it would be O Holy Night.

There are many, many wonderful talented singers who have done this song justice. One of the more contemporary singers who turns this song into angelic singing is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQWXfHzOKUU

May you be caught up in the true Christmas Spirit this year.
 
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