I
especially love that no matter the type of music you are interested in rap,
soul/r&b, country, classical, pop, cartoon, funny, sentimental, no matter
what gets your grove on there is a Christmas CD for you. Plus this time of year
sites, artists, and record labels give away free music which as you all know is
my all time favorite thing on earth … FREE MUSIC is AWESOME!!!!
So
I shared with you my Halloween playlist so now I’ll share with you some of my
favorite Christmas songs and must have CDs:
Bryan White @bryan_White has 4
Christmas albums, each one better than the last. His most recent offer A Bryan White Christmas has an acoustic
version of Linus
and Lucy which is my holiday ringtone by the way, and a song
called Finding
Christmas which is about an adult rediscovering Christmas
through their children’s eyes. It makes me cry …. Every…darn…time. The year
before he released an EP of the same name that had two songs featuring his
children, Jackson and Justin. I listen to Jackson’s Version of Jingle Bells in
May, cause it makes me that happy. Justin’s version of Wish You a Merry
Christmas is a perfectly captured moment in time that also makes me smile.
However it’s One
Bright Star and Holiday Inn on Dreaming
of Christmas playing in my ears that really means it’s Christmas
season. As I have said before Bryan could read the phone book and I’d buy it
and love it. I’ve met his wife, met his children, met him, and have been a fan
for many years. I love everything about him, from the way he carries himself to
the fact that he literally gets better with each track he creates. I always say
my favorite Bryan White song is his next one. Check out this artist then check
out his other CDs especially his new CD Shine you will not be disappointed.
Alabama Christmas from the group Alabama @TheAlabamaBand is another must have during the holiday season. Listening
to Tonight is
Christmas gives me goosebumps, Santa Clause (I Still Believe in
You), and A Candle in the Window are always on
my MP3 player. Christmas
in Dixie is my mom’s favorite, then again I’m deep in the south
so that could have something to do with it. Alabama also has some of the tear
jerker songs like Christmas
Shoes for Mama, which leave the listener a blubbering mess by
the end of the track. There’s also a really good Christmas Movie by the same
name which is another good tear jerker.
Christmas with the Rat Pack featuring Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean
Martin leave me yearning for a different time, a time when men wore suits,
women wore dresses and everyone had a drink in their hand. This CD is filled
with classics like Jingle
Bells, White Christmas, I’ll Be Home
for Christmas as well as fun tracks like I Believe and Misletoe and
Holly. Plus it has Frank Sinatra’s live version of Auld Lang Syne
on it, that track alone makes this CD worth the purchase.
Cyndi Lauper’s @Cyndilauper Feels Like Christmas is your peppy happy
music that just puts a spring in your step. If you are trying to finish off a
project before vacation, or out doing some Christmas shopping this is the CD
for you. She has classics like Silent Night and Rocking Around
the Christmas Tree in the way that only Cyndi Lauper can but
also has December
Child, Christmas Conga and Heading for the
Moon which will work hard to boost your Christmas spirit.
Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD is good for a laugh
on your drive to the in-laws or Auntie’s house. Granted some of these songs are
not very “kid friendly” but Christmas Dragnet featuring Stan Freberg and Daws Butler is a fun one, and I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas and
Nuttin’ For
Christmas are fun songs both you and the kids will love. Plus
the CD has Christmas
at Ground Zero from Weird
AL and you gotta love some Weird Al at Christmas.
Additional
Classics that always make my holiday playlist include:
§ A Christmas Carol –
as read by Frank Petingell
§ A Sailor’s Christmas
- Jimmy Buffett
§ Blue Christmas –
Jessie Payo
§ Burl Ives Presents –
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer Any and All tracks
§ Carol of the Bells
- by any choir, sit back and marvel at
the talent it takes to get this one right
§ Christmas Day – Dido
§ Christmas for every
boy and girl - Clint Black
§ Happy Birthday Jesus
- Reba McEntire
§ Have Yourself a
Merry Little Christmas - James Taylor
§ How the Grinch Stole
Christmas - Boris Karloff
§ I hate Christmas -
Sesame Street – Oscar the Grouch
§ I Never Knew the
Meaning of Christmas - Nsync
§ I Still Believe In
Santa Claus - New Kids On The Block –--- Cause I do!
§ Jolly Ole St.
Nicholas – Chet Atkins
§ Little Drummer Boy -
New Kids On The Block –--- what can I say boy bands were built for Holiday
harmonies and I eat it up!
§ Mele Kalikimaka - Jimmy
Buffett
§ Merry Christmas,
Alabama (Never Far From Home) - Jimmy Buffett –– however it’s Jimmy reading
Twas the Night Before Christmas as a hidden track which is what really makes
this track special.
§ Mr. Bailey – Eric
Bay
§ My First Snow – Matt
Morris
§ My Son – Oak Ridge
Boys
§ Night Before
Christmas On Sesame Street - Sesame
Street – David
§ Oh Holy Night - Martina
McBride –--- quite possibly the most amazing version of this song ever recorded
§ Oh Holy Night -
Nsync
§ Rocking Around the
Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
§ Santa’s On His Way -
George Strait
§ Slow as Christmas - Clint
Black
§ So This is Christmas
– John Lennon
§ Some Children See
Him - James Taylor
§ Talk a Walk Through
Bethlehem - Ray Vega
§ The Birth of the
King - Clint Black
§ The Christmas Song -
Nsync –--- again boy bands were built for Holiday harmonies and no one … I mean
no one did it better than Nsync
§ The Christmas Song
(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)- James Taylor
§ The First Noel - Nsync
§ The Secret of Giving
- Reba McEntire
§ This Christmas
Prayer – Steve Wariner
§ This One’s For the
Children - New Kids On The Block –– a track created and used by the band to
raise money back in the day for a children’s charity but which still speaks
volumes today.
§ Til’ Santa’s Gone
(Milk and Cookies)- Clint Black
§ Trans-Siberian
Orchestra – their entire playlist
§ Twas the Night
Before Christmas – Snoop Doggy Dog and Nate Dogg
§ Vince Guaraldi Trio –
Christmas Time is Here
§ We three Kings - Blackhawk
–– their harmony is beautiful
So
that’s more or less my Christmas playlist I have a ton more and may share a few
more throughout the holiday season, and will also share a few that I hate and
wish to NEVER hear again. What’s on your holiday playlist?!
-marcy
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