Christmas music

what are you favorite songs or albums?

I remember, as a kid, listening to christmas music on RECORDS. I am sure my parents cautioned us to be careful with them, cuz they were fragile, or could be scratched easily as we tried to reset the needle to play them over and over and over again.
I think I will have to go to Newton and raid my dads albums, just so I can record what the albums were that I used to listen to, and maybe I can find them on cd now.
I do remember one with the nutcracker music, and dancing all around our huge living room in Trier.

I don't remember having too many christmas albums on tapes, except for one German one that had the Kling, Glöckchen, klinglelingeling. I learned how to sing that song in one of my german classes, that is why it's special to me.

Most people get irritated when the radio station starts playing the holiday songs too early. But I LOVE it. Sometimes I can start listening around halloween ;)
I also love seeing the christmas stuff arrive in store early too - I know that is strange, but that is my perogitive. LOL

Since being married to Tyson, though, we wait until after Thanksgiving to start anything christmasy. Because he doesn't believe in "skipping holidays".
So the first music I can play around the house on Thanksgiving Day is an album by Liona Boyd - A guitar for Christmas. I don't know what it is about this album, but when I listen to it, I feel so peaceful and festive.
Another album that I could never live without at christmas time is the Carpenters - A Christmas collection.
all other stuff is secondary to these two albums. They are MY christmas music.
One other album I recommend is The Gibbons "come Let us Adore Him".


I used to sing in the choir when I was younger. That made every song even more meaningful. I don't sing anymore, because I lost my soprano singing voice several years ago, with a bad case of acid reflux. I can do alto sometimes, but I was never trained with it. And I can only really sing one octive now.
Anyway, several titles of songs I loved that you won't hear most anywhere were: Shine for me again/Star of Bethlehem, From Swaddling Wrap to Crimson Robe, Were you there on that Christmas night, Candlelight Carol and of course singing Silent Night in German (Stille Nacht).