Christmas Songs

by **JRNYMAN** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:16 am

Was blowing the dust off my Christmas song MP3 folder and stopped dead in my tracks when I saw the title of this one....
Silent Night 9/11 Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyQyH4RoDbw

I had forgotten all about that one but I'll never remember the first time I heard it. My wife, daughters, and I were heading home after an evening of driving around looking at Christmas light displays and it came on the radio. I wasn't even aware of its existence prior to hearing it that night. I've never seen my then 10 and 7 year old daughters sit so still and so mesmerized before - or since.

Anyway, that's really not the purpose of this thread but I wanted to see if anyone else remembered it and what they thought of it back then.

2 songs that have become a huge part of the Christmas tradition here at Casa Steve (thanks to my daughters latching onto them when they were very young) are:

The Eyes of a Child by Air Supply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI5kV69UxKg

and

Angels Among Us by Alabama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgtSVXi63I

by **SF-Dano** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:57 am

My bro-in-law reminded me of this one the other day
Enuff Z Nuff - Happy Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bc5ud6BVFU

:lol:

Ozzy & Jessica - Winter Wonderland :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv-LddNDjP0&feature

Billy Squier and the OG MTV folk (Always and old fave)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3WcFNQ1hns

Lynyrd Skynyrd (New stuff to me but not bad at all.)
Mama's Song ( :cry:

) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo-_p3I7r0I&feature
Christmas Time Again - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... fKnzM&NR=1
Greensleeves (RIP Billy) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viww51wQbTA&feature
Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62dvwe5itNg&feature

by **ebake02** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:05 am

SF-Dano wrote:
Ozzy & Jessica - Winter Wonderland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv-LddNDjP0&feature

There is so much Auto-Tune going on there. :lol:

by **JRNYMAN** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:28 am

I've always sorta considered Foolish Heart to be kind of a Christmas song even though it's clearly not. When it came out, Perry's video of the song ended with him walking off stage-left where the rest of the guys were waiting for him (no..... not to kick his lilly ass! :lol:

) and once he meets up with them, they all turn and face the camera and wish all the fans a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and inform the viewers to watch for their new album due out "early next year". Then they all walk away from the camera with their arms around each other dressed in winter jackets, etc. So from that perspective, and due to the fact that, as far as I know, it's the only Christmas message they've ever specifically recorded and addressed to their fans, I've always thought of it as their "pseudo-Christmas song."

by **JRNYMAN** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:32 am

Bing and Bowie "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus

by **tammy** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:06 pm

JRNYMAN wrote:Bing and Bowie "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus

I remember watching this when it first aired and loving it. I sure miss the "old days" when they had these Christmas family programs...Bing's family, Pat Boone family, King family, Lennon sisters, etc. All those great variety shows...it's such a different world now.

by **yulog** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:20 pm

By far the best redo of a christmas song i have ever heard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-hlLK387w0 This guy is just fantastic

by **JRNYMAN** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:41 pm

tammy wrote:
JRNYMAN wrote:Bing and Bowie "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiXjbI3kRus

I remember watching this when it first aired and loving it. I sure miss the "old days" when they had these Christmas family programs...Bing's family, Pat Boone family, King family, Lennon sisters, etc. All those great variety shows...it's such a different world now.

Oh they still have "family" shows. It's just that the definition of family has been severely skewed. The existence of traditional family which features a mom, a dad, their children and perhaps even a secondary relative thrown in just for drill who is quirky yet loveable at the same time has become too mundane and stale for the individuals who are charged with deciding what we should and will be watching. Everything presented has to have some sort of edge and must be, even if so slightly, left of center so as not to be mistaken for promoting that vile and tired "traditional" model.

I hear what you're saying and I agree completely. Unfortunately, we live in a society where creating drama and distributing personal sex tapes, and having lush, extravagant wedding ceremonies as publicity stunts, and following the minute-to-minute events in the lives of network created "celebrities" who have no talent nor any real reason for their celebrity to begin with, has taken over primetime television while the very things we as a country valued and held dear: family and privacy have been replaced all because that way of life had somehow become boring and unfulfilling.

I too remember seeing the video when it was first released (for some reason 1977 is coming to mind but I'm probably wrong.) At that time, anyone over the age of 40 had completely lost any hope for the salvation of the USA. They were certain the nation had fallen further than it could ever recover from. Disco and disco-themed apparel had taken over the pop culture scene, everyone under the age of 30 was questioning authority, there was seemingly no way we would survive. The country's youth had become Godless and the institution of marriage had become unnecessary and viewed as just one more thing the "state" could control. "We don't need a piece of paper signed by the state to say it's okay for us to do what we're already doing!" Fuck the establishment was the mindset.

And guess what? We didn't implode. We made it through to see another generation. It would be just 7 short years after that video and all the mayhem and discord my generation (teens at that time) would begin our ascension into "Yuppie-hood" and starting families and before the 80's were barely over, we somehow had become the generation with the largest disposable income and highest earnings potential in US history and things like better schools, a cleaner environment, and model families became all the rage - go figure. What I'm saying is as bad as it had gotten, we came back around and realized that the morals and the importance family and friends plays in our lives is much higher as well as much more sought after that originally thought.

The family shows and values you're currently missing are still there. They're just disguised at the moment albeit, an ugly, unflattering and perhaps even an unacceptable disguise, but they're there all the same. The good news is (I hope...) the current status quo of "family values" will become just as stale as its predecessor and before it's replaced by the next objectionable way of life, it'll come back around to the familiar and comfortable and recognizable way it once was and my God, I have to believe it will be again.

/rant

by **Michigan Girl** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:09 am

O Holy Night ...my most favorite Christmas song in the world!!
Sung by the right person, it will send chills down my spine, bring tears to my
eyes and make the hairs on my arms braidable.
Our own Bobby (fromTN) has just such a version that has become my
favorite ...unfortunately, I can never locate it.
Bobby Milford, O Holy Night ...You Tube search ...doesn't seem impossible,
does it?!?
Bobby, are you listening?!?

by **AlteredDNA** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:17 am

Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_Cdw4Zres

by **JRNYMAN** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:34 am

AlteredDNA wrote:
Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_Cdw4Zres

LOL! You beat me to it by just a few mins. I found the same recording but on a different site.

To the OP: Great stuff right there! Such a soothing, pure and sincere delivery of the lyrics and love the tone of his voice. Thanks for sharing this!

by **Michigan Girl** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:43 am

AlteredDNA wrote:
Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_Cdw4Zres

Thank you, my friend! :wink:

by **Michigan Girl** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:46 am

JRNYMAN wrote:
AlteredDNA wrote:
Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_Cdw4Zres

LOL! You beat me to it by just a few mins. I found the same recording but on a different site.

To the OP: Great stuff right there! Such a soothing, pure and sincere delivery of the lyrics and love the tone of his voice. Thanks for sharing this!

Indeed ...I LOVE IT~~ :wink:

by **JRNYMAN** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:52 am

Michigan Girl wrote:
JRNYMAN wrote:
AlteredDNA wrote:
Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_Cdw4Zres

LOL! You beat me to it by just a few mins. I found the same recording but on a different site.

To the OP: Great stuff right there! Such a soothing, pure and sincere delivery of the lyrics and love the tone of his voice. Thanks for sharing this!
Indeed ...I LOVE IT~~

I feel your pain and frustration with regard to locating something that just seems to have evaporated mysteriously. In my case, it's the same song but performed by Yo Yo Ma live somewhere - New York or Boston I think... anyway, I've never been able to find it again since seeing that vid of his great, great performance of O Holy Night. Just imagine[b] HIM[/b] perhaps the greatest cello player ever performing that song with the passion he exudes when he plays..... Goose Bumps! Alas.... it doesn't seem to exist anywhere but in my head. :lol:

by **StevePerryHair** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:57 am

Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night ...my most favorite Christmas song in the world!!
Sung by the right person, it will send chills down my spine, bring tears to my
eyes and make the hairs on my arms braidable.
Our own Bobby (fromTN) has just such a version that has become my
favorite ...unfortunately, I can never locate it.
Bobby Milford, O Holy Night ...You Tube search ...doesn't seem impossible,
does it?!?
Bobby, are you listening?!?

That is my favorite of them all also! Probably my favorite of the most commonly played is the Josh Groban version, but there are other versions I've loved too. Bobby does do a nice job. I prefer when men sing it, over women for some reason!

by **JRNYMAN** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:58 am

I'm really kinda surprised Perry never threw his hat in the ring of artists who recorded a Christmas album. Would have loved to have heard his unique and signature Perryesque versions of some of the standards and am willing to bet anything original he would have done would have been added to the collective tapestry of Christmas songs written by already famous artists.

A couple I would have liked to have heard him sing are:

Please Come Home For Christmas
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Christmas Time is Here (I think that's what it's called... It's the one made famous by Peanuts)

by **JRNYMAN** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:02 am

StevePerryHair wrote:
Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night ...my most favorite Christmas song in the world!!
Sung by the right person, it will send chills down my spine, bring tears to my
eyes and make the hairs on my arms braidable.
Our own Bobby (fromTN) has just such a version that has become my
favorite ...unfortunately, I can never locate it.
Bobby Milford, O Holy Night ...You Tube search ...doesn't seem impossible,
does it?!?
Bobby, are you listening?!?
That is my favorite of them all also! Probably my favorite of the most commonly played is the Josh Groban version, but there are other versions I've loved too. Bobby does do a nice job. I prefer when men sing it, over women for some reason!

Me too. Not being sexist... not at all. Delivery of that song requires a gusto and projection that men just seem to be able to do better. I've always loved that one but there have been versions of it and performers who should have never gone there. And even though the song is fairly operatic, I don't care for it sung by any of the great opera singers.... Domingo, etc. Their renditions of it always seem forced and their super loud, projecting voices always bury the music.
A few years back at the old Journey Forum there was a Filippino guy who is a fulltime conductor whose choir did an acapella performance of it at some gorgeous cathedral in Spain which he posted on YT and that performance was mesmerizing. First and only time I liked the song done by a choir. They were exceptional.

by **AlteredDNA** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:22 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

by **StevePerryHair** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 3:59 am

AlteredDNA wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

Okay, I'd rather hear a woman sing it than hear that ever again! :lol:

by **Ehwmatt** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:01 am

StevePerryHair wrote:
AlteredDNA wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

Okay, I'd rather hear a woman sing it than hear that ever again!

Lynn, how you been? Never see you posting here anymore

by **StevePerryHair** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:06 am

Ehwmatt wrote:
StevePerryHair wrote:
AlteredDNA wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

Okay, I'd rather hear a woman sing it than hear that ever again!

Lynn, how you been? Never see you posting here anymore

I'm good thanks! I probably posted something a couple weeks ago maybe I think? :lol:

Guess I needed a fun topic like Christmas music to chime in here!

by **yulog** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:16 am

AlteredDNA wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

I could swear thats bob dylan :shock:

by **Michigan Girl** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:33 am

StevePerryHair wrote:
Michigan Girl wrote:O Holy Night ...my most favorite Christmas song in the world!!
Sung by the right person, it will send chills down my spine, bring tears to my
eyes and make the hairs on my arms braidable.
Our own Bobby (fromTN) has just such a version that has become my
favorite ...unfortunately, I can never locate it.
Bobby Milford, O Holy Night ...You Tube search ...doesn't seem impossible,
does it?!?
Bobby, are you listening?!?
That is my favorite of them all also! Probably my favorite of the most commonly played is the Josh Groban version, but there are other versions I've loved too. Bobby does do a nice job. I prefer when men sing it, over women for some reason!

Absolutely agree!!
women tend to jump on the vocal rollercoaster for this song and I can do without
the high frequency!! It has got to be just the right delivery to touch my soul!! :wink:

AlteredDNA wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

Oh dear ...this is me!!

by **Moon Beam** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:38 am

I love this one largely!
http://youtu.be/HhBGC_X09Fg

Nice seeing you here Lynn.

by **StevePerryHair** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:40 am

Moon Beam wrote:I love this one largely!
http://youtu.be/HhBGC_X09Fg

Nice seeing you here Lynn.

Thanks Gerene!

by **JRNYMAN** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:52 am

AlteredDNA wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ

That was freakin' awesome! I d-loaded it and ripped the audio to my iPod. That made my day! :lol:

by **Deb** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:54 am

Moon Beam wrote:I love this one largely!
http://youtu.be/HhBGC_X09Fg

Nice seeing you here Lynn.

Moonie, I heard this one on the way into work today and couldn't help but laugh out loud..........haven't heard it in years. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypd76zNJ5Xs

by **JRNYMAN** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:55 am

Moon Beam wrote:I love this one largely!
http://youtu.be/HhBGC_X09Fg

Nice seeing you here Lynn.

OMG! Thank you, thank you for posting this! I forgot all about that song and I've liked it largely, as you put it, too since the first time I heard it. Very cool![/b]

by **JRNYMAN** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:57 am

Deb wrote:
Moon Beam wrote:I love this one largely!
http://youtu.be/HhBGC_X09Fg

Nice seeing you here Lynn.

Moonie, I heard this one on the way into work today and couldn't help but laugh out loud..........haven't heard it in years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypd76zNJ5Xs

Most definitely one of the best holiday-themed audio bits to come out of the eighties! And it came from Canadians go figure!

by **YoungJRNY** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:01 am

Christmas Shoes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS4_b2LbLW4

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