What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?
Christmas tunes are on the airwaves: tell us which songs get you into the holiday spirit.
Whether you love it (like I do), hate it (like Scrooge pre-transformation) or merely accept it as an unavoidable component of the holiday season, we at Patch want to hear your thoughts on Christmas music.
What's on your Christmas playlist? Does Wham's, "Last Christmas," make you break out in song and dance? Do you serenade your special someone with Mariah Carey's, "All I Want for Christmas is You?" Does The Pretenders', "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" get you into the holiday spirit?
Artists have been releasing Christmas albums in recent months: Blake Shelton's Cheers, It's Christmas, has been on my iPod this week.
Last year, we offered readers a poll to weigh in on their favorite songs, and no one tune was the clear winner. This year, we're simply asking:
What's your favorite Christmas song? Tell us in the comments.
Mary MacDonald
7:05 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Santa Claus is Coming to Town, the Springsteen version.
And Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt
And that little song by the Waitresses.... :)
Krista Perry
7:26 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Do You Hear What I Hear - the Whitney Houston version - is my favorite!
Kristen Nason
7:33 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Carol of the Bells is one of my favorites! My kids know that come Dec.1st ,the only music on the car CD player is Christmas music. I love it, but I am not ready for it until then.
Regina Borysenko
8:22 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Sorry if this shows up twice. I typed it once and it disappeared. My kids Favorite is Rudolph. I flip flop between Santa Baby and Winter Wonderland.
UglyHat
8:40 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I hate Christmas music a month before Christmas, but I love it a week before.
Little Drummer Boy is always good - the David Bowie version is my fav.
Karen Raleigh
8:57 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I love them all! Love Christmas music! Louis Armstrong's "Zat you, Santa Claus?" is one of my faves.
Sandy Quadros Bowles
9:00 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Dominic the Donkey, so spiritual, lol. And Faith Hill's A Baby Changes Everything, her powerful voice mixes with a poignant twist on Mary and Joseph.
Susan Manning
9:05 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Mary's Boy Child-It will always remind me of my mother
Liz Nolan
10:56 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I love Josh Groban's voice singing Christmas songs on his album "Noel."
Alissa Letkowski
11:05 am on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I love them all—especially Away in a Manger. It really gets me into the spirit of Christmas
Chip
12:52 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I'm with Sandy- Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey doesn't get enough airtime if you ask me!
Susan Petroni
7:46 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
I agree with Susan. I love Mary's Boy Child, but I also love Heat Miser/Snow Miser.
David Nolta
9:10 pm on Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Favorite Christmas song in film: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, in the 1951 Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol. Favorite tear-jerker holiday song: TIE: Little Drummer Boy from the Greer Garson-narrated animated classic of the same name, and Judy Garland singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, in the 1944 film, Meet Me in Saint Louis. Favorite song to sing in church: Adeste Fidelis (O Come, All Ye Faithful). I also love the Advent song, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. God I'm glad I got those off my chest. I was holding back, but I feel much better now.
Laura Often
7:45 am on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
My favorite Christmas carol is The Little Drummer Boy. Love it. And I always appreciate a good version of Silent Night.
Jimmy Brown
5:22 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
All great choices folks.
My favorite Chrismas song, and perhaps favorite song in general, is "O Holy Night". Many great versions-Nat King Cole, Josh Groban, Celtic Woman, little Rhema Marvanne. Harry Chapin even borrowed a refrain for his song, "Mr. Tanner".
Another favorite is a song that gets very little air time-"The Gift" by Aselin Debison. Check it out if you get a chance.
And for those of you who are still trying to decide what to get me, let me give you a hint. "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas".
Have a warm and safe holiday season.
Peace,
Jimmy
Brenda Crawshaw
6:24 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
It takes me FOREVER to get warmed up to Christmas songs.....when I was a kid, we went caroling to shut-ins a week or so before Christmas and the sweetest old man begged us to stay and sing one more. He tearfully told us that he was all alone and this - a group of little kids singing carols - was his Christmas. It had never occurred to me at that young age that some people spent the holidays alone and I think it scarred me - badly. To this day I can't sing or hear Oh Holy Night without getting choked up.
My grandfather's favorite song was "I'll Be Home for Christmas" which he said he sang to my grandmother when he went overseas while in the service so I get choked up on that one, too.
Maybe I should learn the words to "Dreidel, Dreidel"?
Kristen Nason
7:11 pm on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
I know I said I don't choose listen until Dec.1, but all this talk about Christmas music is making me want to pull out the collection and let the festivities begin!! :)
Brenda, my daughter and I went caroling last year with some of the neighborhood kids. I was very surprised how much everyone enjoyed it. We will be doing it again this year!
Shannon Pataky
1:45 am on Friday, November 18, 2011
its not the "holiday's" until I listen to alices resteraunt on Thanksgiving... then I love John Lennon's Happy Xmas (war is over). I was raised listening to the Beatles, so it reminds me of my family.
Bob MacDonald
10:40 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Christmas always begins, for me, with The Pogues' Fairy Tale of New York.
Mary MacDonald
11:26 am on Thursday, November 29, 2012
An excellent choice. What a great band they were.
Susan Manning
11:04 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
makes me nostalgic for my time living in Galway...Love it!
The Doctor
2:02 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
Who doesn't love Shane and Kirsty belting out a traditional song of Holiday Season. I think I'll play it all Xmas Eve!
Charlene Arsenault
3:33 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
It used to be "Christmas Rapping" by the Waitresses. I was in a band that played it every year. The band had a horrific breakup, and now I don't like listening to any songs we used to play. So I guess it would be a toss-up between "Do They Know It's Christmas" (I never get tired of the drums in that song), "Merry Christmas Baby" (Springsteen version) and anything from the Peanuts special. I do not know how Paul McCartney's song that talks about simply having a wonderful Christmastime ever became a hit.
Andie
7:31 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012
I like "Silent Night" by Stevie Nicks and if I'm singing with my grandaughter we like "Santa Claus is coming to town"