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04 Dec 2011, 8:06 pm

What are your favorite Christmas songs?

Mine are:

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (especially the Dean Martin and Jewel versions)
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
All songs from the Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas album
Sleigh Ride
Believe (from the Polar Express)
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bell Rock
You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch



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04 Dec 2011, 8:07 pm

Also, Has anyone noticed in the song "Sleigh Ride", in the line "There's a Christmas party at the home of Farmer Gray", some versions replace "Christmas" with "birthday"? And in the line "when they pass around the coffee and the pumpkin pie", "coffee" is sometimes replaced with "chocolate"?

And with the names of the reindeer, Donner is sometimes called Donder? For that matter, what exactly was the Donner Party? Plus Donder kinda sounds like dander.



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04 Dec 2011, 8:14 pm

For that matter, why did they kick Richard Donner off Superman II?



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04 Dec 2011, 8:17 pm

Good one, Jory! :thumleft:



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04 Dec 2011, 9:02 pm

Little drummer boy.



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05 Dec 2011, 1:23 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9kwJ2pV4yc[/youtube]



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09 Dec 2011, 11:27 am

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer has its own spoof...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qdb6wC0Iz4[/youtube]



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09 Dec 2011, 1:32 pm

Jory wrote:
For that matter, why did they kick Richard Donner off Superman II?


Have you seen Donner's cut of Superman II? :roll:

A bit of trivia...

Did you know all the children in the Donner Party were the same age?*





















































*They were all ate.


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10 Dec 2011, 1:16 am

then there is this parody of "grandma got run over by a reindeer"-
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I1CfiIRz6Y&feature=related[/youtube]



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10 Dec 2011, 3:24 am

NONE of them!

The music is the worst part about this time of year, it makes me want to vomit.


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10 Dec 2011, 3:28 am

i listen to xmas music throughout the year. i'd be happy if xmas was every damned day. :)



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10 Dec 2011, 6:51 pm

auntblabby wrote:
i listen to xmas music throughout the year. i'd be happy if xmas was every damned day. :)


LOL, so do I.
Some favorites

Mel Torme:
Christmas Song
Christmas was made for children
Christmas Feeling
Christmas Medley

Jimmy Buffet - Christmas Island

Vince Guaraldi Trio - Tannenbaum

Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas

Dixieland Rudolph

Louis Armstrong - White Christmas

Sounds of Blackness - Children Go, Soul Holiday

Probably more but that's what I remember right now.



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10 Dec 2011, 6:56 pm

Hearing Christmas music is tends to be really depressing for me, but I do like "O Holy Night."



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11 Dec 2011, 3:10 pm

a Proprius CD issue of Oscars Motettkör,"Cantate Domino" is like a little piece of heaven on earth. a wonderful CD, well worth adding to any xmas music collection.



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11 Dec 2011, 3:58 pm

This one because this describes my feelings about the holidays

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0HVmBUNYgU[/youtube]


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24 Dec 2011, 6:23 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d9X8CJkklI[/youtube]