Post your favorite Christmas song

[actaeon277]

No mariah carey mentions?

 

[rhamersley]

No mariah carey mentions?

She wouldn't "fit" in the thread...if you get my gist.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Oh, I do like that one too! There's a little riff in there from a classical piece (the name of which escapes me at the moment) too.

I found the riff I was talking about. It's from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije' suite, 4th movement - "Troika". We played this in high school orchestra.

 

[Alpo]

I like this guy. He does a lot of covers playing all the instruments. Out of the Netherlands,

 

[Bartman]

I'm too dumb/lazy to put in links.
As mentioned above, I like the Pentatonix version of Mary, Did You Know
Darius Rucker's version of Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
Holley Maher doing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

I swore off pagan Christmas carols a few years ago.

 

[actaeon277]

 

[BigRed]

I'm too dumb/lazy to put in links.
As mentioned above, I like the Pentatonix version of Mary, Did You Know
Darius Rucker's version of Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
Holley Maher doing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

I swore off pagan Christmas carols a few years ago.

You are aware that the date "selected by the church" for Christmas is that of a pagan holiday.

 

[Bartman]

You are aware that the date "selected by the church" for Christmas is that of a pagan holiday.

"December 25 was arrived at because it was exactly nine months after March 25, when the Annunciation was being celebrated, which is the feast of Christ’s conception in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

Christmas on December 25 isn’t a claim that Jesus was born on that day or even an attempt to claim a pagan holiday and make it Christian. It’s about a feast that was set to be nine months before."

Calculating Christmas by William J. Tighe

on the Story Behind December 25

www.touchstonemag.com

 

[BigRed]

I enjoy Epiphany.

 

[Gabriel]

 

[Lmo1131]

I found the riff I was talking about. It's from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije' suite, 4th movement - "Troika". We played this in high school orchestra.

We played it too in Columbus.

 

[EyeCarry]

My favorite Please Come Home for Christmas...

 

[indyartisan]

Bl Bl Bl Blue Christmas
by Porky pig

 

[rhamersley]

Unless I missed it, surprised to see no "Grandma got run over by a reindeer" by Elmo and Patsy...

 

[Airtevron1]

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

 

[oze]

I taught small group on "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" this past Sunday.

Charles Wesley- 1739, music by Felix Mendelssohn about a hundred years later. I lot of rich theology alluding to verses from the Old Testament all the way to Revelation. It is a spectacular song that I didn't pay attention to for a long time. However, when I really listened, it's an anthem that the coming of Christ not only provides salvation to individuals, but will eventually restore...everything! Even the version you posted omits a couple of verses that were originally in there:


Come, Desire of Nations, come,
Fix in Us thy humble Home,
Rise, the Woman's Conqu'ring Seed,
Bruise in Us the Serpent's Head.

Now display thy saving Pow'r,
Ruin'd Nature now restore,
Now in Mystic Union join
Thine to Ours, and Ours to Thine.

Adam's Likeness, LORD, efface,
Stamp thy Image in its Place,
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy Love.

Let us Thee, tho' lost, regain,
Thee, the Life, the Inner Man:
O! to All Thyself impart,
Form'd in each Believing Heart.

Next week: "O Holy Night"

The best version I have ever heard. This will get a reaction...to the extent that a bunch of people have done reaction videos to it.

Agree with "O Holy Night". But the Josh Groban cover.

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[oze]

"December 25 was arrived at because it was exactly nine months after March 25, when the Annunciation was being celebrated, which is the feast of Christ’s conception in the womb of the Virgin Mary.

Christmas on December 25 isn’t a claim that Jesus was born on that day or even an attempt to claim a pagan holiday and make it Christian. It’s about a feast that was set to be nine months before."

Calculating Christmas by William J. Tighe

on the Story Behind December 25

www.touchstonemag.com

That is fascinating, thanks! 8 years of Catholic grade school and being the son of an uber Catholic mother, and this is the first time I've heard this.

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[tomcat13]

Ray Charles-The Spirit of Christmas:

 

[Magyars]

This is a perfect version!