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It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!

So I know I have been slacking on the playlist pledge. I wanted to write a “top Christmas songs” blog back on Thanksgiving, so I guess be glad that I didn’t start it too early! ha ha! This is going to be a tough top 10-ish. I say -ish because I absolutely adore Christmas and everything associated with it. So to narrow my favorite Christmas tunes down to just 10 would be pretty impossible. I have my go-to standards that I listen to every year, but then I always find new ones to add to the list! I have very specific versions of songs that I like too. Most of my favorites are actually songs form Christmas movies, because, of course, I love Christmas movies as well! So I guess this will be a top “until I’m done” list! 😉 I’ll try not to go crazy…I have a playlist with a reasonable number of songs and I will try to stick to that! Ok…ready to get started?? 😀

In no particular order…

  • Carol of the Bells- Mormon Tabernacle Choir. I have loved this song so long. In high school I even convinced our music teacher to let us sing it in our Christmas Concert! This version, with very little instrumental, and the power of the combined voices is my favorite! 
  • O Holy Night- The “Home Alone” version conducted by John Williams. I love home alone, and most my favorite Christmas songs come from the movie. I love the beautiful tone of all the children’s voices in this song. So sweet and innocent…absolutely beautiful! 

  • Silent Night- Stevie Nicks. Who doesn’t know and love Silent Night? I just love the rasp of Stevie’s voice, and the way she sings this song is so powerful!

  • Silver Bells- Perry Como. Not sure where I got this song from, but I have always loved it! We sang this one at our high school choir concert too! ha ha!

  • The Angels Cried- Alan Jackson and Allison Krauss. This song is so very beautiful! It nearly makes me cry every time I hear it. Allison has such a sweet pure angelic voice…gives me goosebumps!

  • My Favorite Things- Lorrie Morgan. I have loved this song since I first heard it on The Sound of Music! Then when I heard Lorrie Morgan sing it, I fell in love with it all over again. This song is the reason I love brown paper packages tied up with string! 🙂

  • Rockin Around the Christmas Tree- Brenda Lee. Another Home Alone favorite! Makes me want to dance with a Michael Jordan cardboard cutout! Ha ha! 

  • Baby It’s Cold Outside- Al Hirt and Anne Margret. This is one of my very favorite Christmas songs, but I have a hard time finding a version that I love. The part on Elf when they sing it in the bathroom is the version I love…the version on the Elf Soundtrack–not so much! I like the seduction in this version with her sweet high voice. Lady Antebellum has a good one for following the tune. Willie Nelson couples with Norah Jones for a good version as well, and the Glee version with Kurt and Blaine is a good one too. 

  • Believe- Josh Groban. This one is from the Polar Express. I really love this song! It reminds me of being a child and believing in magic! 

  • When Christmas Comes to Town- The Polar Express Soundtrack. This is the sweetest and saddest song. I always tear up at this point in the movie. This song touches that part of me where my Christmas spirit resides. 🙂

  • Christmas Cannon- Tarns-Siberian Orchestra. It’s pretty safe to say that I like all the songs from Trans-Siberian Orchestra, but this song with the pretty strings and choir is just really beautiful. 

  • I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas- Gayla Peevey. I heard this song for the first time a few years ago on the Christmas radio channel here in the valley. I was instantly in love with it! It’s so fun!! 

  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas- Judy Garland. I love this version of this song. Judy’s voice is so sweet and distinctive!

  • Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!- Dean Martin. I always seem to be singing the beginning line of this song when the Christmas season starts. I really like this version, but I do tend to like the old fashioned versions of most songs! 

  • The Christmas Song- Nat King Cole. You can’t have Christmas without the Christmas song, and no one does it better than Nat King Cole! So beautiful!

  • Santa Baby- Eartha Kitt. I just love singing this song, and her’s is the best version!

  • Blue Christmas- Elvis Presley. This version of Blue Christmas is by far the best, and I just love singing it! 
That winds down my list of absolute must haves! There are still many more on my playlist, but it would take forever to list them all, and most of them are the common ones we hear all the time anyway. I did hear two new ones this year that I fell in love with! One of them is a remake of Home on Blake Shelton’s new Christmas album (Cheers, its Christmas!) featuring Michael Bublé. I love the original of this song, and the Christmas remake is just as good! The other new add is not new at all, just new to me. I heard it for the first time on our Christmas radio station on my drive in to clinical. It’s called the Gift by Aselin Debison. It’s the sweetest song…I was in tears the first time I heard it! 

So there is my offering to you! Oh, one more thing. I ran across this video in my searches….3 strait hours of classic christmas music courtesy of a YouTube video! Hope you enjoy! Merry Christmas!! 🙂 

 

4 thoughts on “It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!”

  1. I can't believe you only recently heard the hippo song. I remember it from growing up. Listen to Rocking Around the Christmas Tree again-there's a part where it sounds like she says “f*ckin pie”instead of punkin pie. Lol. I can never hear it the same again. Great list!

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  2. How did I NOT see this blog when it was done?! I'm just going to blame it on the hustling and bustling of the Christmas season! In my opinion, Christmas music doesn't need to be listened to only at Christmas, so here I sit, listening to the songs on your blog. 🙂 As soon as I saw the name of this blog, I knew that Lorrie Morgan's “My favorite things” would be on here, as well as some of the songs form Home Alone. 🙂 I am happy to see Blake Shelton's “Home” on here too. I ♥ that version! 🙂 Oh and Pachelbels Canon in D Christmas version. The instrumentals of that one make me tear up every time! Oh and that link…3 hour Medley of Christmas would've of come in handy Christmas morning while opening gifts…or the hours I spent wrapping gifts!Aahhhh! 🙂

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  3. I can't believe you only recently heard the hippo song. I remember it from growing up. Listen to Rocking Around the Christmas Tree again-there's a part where it sounds like she says “f*ckin pie”instead of punkin pie. Lol. I can never hear it the same again. Great list!

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  4. How did I NOT see this blog when it was done?! I'm just going to blame it on the hustling and bustling of the Christmas season! In my opinion, Christmas music doesn't need to be listened to only at Christmas, so here I sit, listening to the songs on your blog. 🙂 As soon as I saw the name of this blog, I knew that Lorrie Morgan's “My favorite things” would be on here, as well as some of the songs form Home Alone. 🙂 I am happy to see Blake Shelton's “Home” on here too. I ♥ that version! 🙂 Oh and Pachelbels Canon in D Christmas version. The instrumentals of that one make me tear up every time! Oh and that link…3 hour Medley of Christmas would've of come in handy Christmas morning while opening gifts…or the hours I spent wrapping gifts!Aahhhh! 🙂

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