My favourite Christmas songs

Advantages: Songs I love to hear at Christmas
Disadvantages: None

...-evoking lyrics, always brings back one or two happy memories for me. "December will be magic again. Take a husky to the ice While Bing Crosby sings White Christmas. He makes you feel nice. December will be magic again. Old Saint Nicholas up the chimney, Just a-popping up in my memory." 2. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? I can vividly recall this song being put together by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, and everyone I knew went out and bought it to raise money for famine relief in 1984. I love the song and it features some of my favourite artists of that time. There have been a couple of updated versions released since this one, they simply just don't compare in my opinion. Who can forget Bono's poignant line :- "Well tonight thank God it's them, instead of you!" 3. Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody Who doesn't like this one? It features in all...

JEFFJEN 01.01.1970 · Read review
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My Own Christmas "Carols"

Advantages: My favourite Christmas songs
Disadvantages: None really

...let's face it, tends not to mix too well with pop. Dropping in references to Laurel & Hardy and Morecambe & Wise dated the song too, but I still love it, 30 years because the lyrics are actually rather beautiful, the melody is strong and Glenn Tilbook sings it beautifully. Seek it out if you can! 4 Santa Claus is Coming to Town - The Crystals Phil Spector's 1963 album "A Christmas Gift For You" became one of his very first flops - overshadowed no doubt by the assassination of President Kennedy, leaving a nation not really wishing to celebrate Christmas. It wasn't until the late seventies that this album was reassessed and the public took it to their hearts, and I became aware of it when I was 17 and in the school choir as we sang this song, and "Sleigh Ride" based on the Phil Spector versions. There is something utterly charming...

rosebud2001 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Christmas Songs of Praise

Advantages: Great christmas music
Disadvantages: Some tracks arent as good as others - ruin CD in some ways

...Tracks include: Fanfare - Joy to the World/Ding Dong Merrily on High The First Nowell It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Gabriel's Message (Old Basque Noel) Once IN Royal David's City Medley - Have yourself a merry little Christmas/Winter Wonderland/Let it Snow/White Christmas/Jingle Bells The Virgin Mary had baby boy Sweet Little Jesus Child When a child is born Still, still, still This is the truth sent from above Sessex Carol O Little town of Bethlehem Joy to the World O Come all ye faithful Hark! the Herald angels sing This CD includes most of the best known Christmas carols and some Christmas songs. Sung by Winchester Cathedral choir, Huddersfield Choral Society, Exeter Cathedral choir and congregation, as well as others. It sounds like a normal epsiode of Songs of Praise would - with hymns (or carols in this case...

SScott764 01.01.1970 · Read review
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Review of Songs Of Praise (The Christmas Album) - Various Artists