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Jkm

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 05:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
What's your favortie Christmas song? Can you make another song to the tune?

Mine all time favorite is Silent Night....

I'll post an alternate verse after bit

Sia

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 05:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My all-time favorite Christmas song is "Merry Christmas, Darling," sung by Karen Carpenter.

Jkm

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 06:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ohhhhhh! I love that one too! We sang it as part of our show in the show choir in high school

(which of course was in the dark ages....ha-ha)

(but then ago - I still hum on occasion "I'm sitting on top of the world, lookin' down on creation.....) I miss some of the sappy 70's music.....

Sia

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 06:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
There's tons of that great music available on compact discs, Jkm! Go get yourself some. My favorite source for music: Amazon.com. I have bought piano sheet music from them, too; they have just everything from music to toys to books and computer games/software. I bought my son's PlayStation there!

Jkm

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 06:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Sia!

Weenerlobo

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 07:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I picked up a couple great Christmas CD's a couple years ago and one of them, "Cool Yule," has this song, "The Man with the Bag" - I LOVE THAT SONG!!!! It's one of those big band, toe tappin, finger snappin songs - great for getting in the spirit! I gotta find that CD now . . . .

Mamaanja

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 08:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite silly song is Adam Sandler's Turkey/Thanksgiving song. My favorite Holy song is "O Come O come Emmanual". I also love Sting's version of "I saw 3 Ships Come Sailing"

Calamity

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 08:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
(Can't believe I'm admitting this) I have over 75 Christmas music CDs. I finally had to make a database to keep track of which songs by which artists I already have. Sigh. It's awful, I know but I can't help it - they put those colorful store displays up and I'm irresistably drawn to them. But I've bought most of them for only a couple dollars each either through music clubs or at a small local book/music store. There is hope though - I haven't bought any yet this year.

Since there is no way I could name only one carol, I've chosen 12 for the twelve days of Christmas (which didn't make my list, actually):

1)"Carol of the Bells"
2)"Caroling, Caroling" - Harry Belafonte
3)"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" - U2
4)"Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band-Aid
5)"Do You Hear What I Hear?"
6)"The First Noel" - Billy Pilgrim
7)"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"
8)"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" - Andy Williams
9)"Jingle Bells" - Barbra Streisand
10)"Silver Bells" - Johnny Mathis
11)"Skating" - Vince Guaraldi Trio (from 'A Charlie Brown Christmas')
12)"What Christmas Means to Me" - Paul Young

That doesn't even begin to cover it though. There's Arthur Fielder's "Sleigh Ride", and that song that Big Bad Voodoo Daddy did for 'Olive, the Other Reindeer',...

I'll have to think about scribbling a parody version. I've never tried that before.

Sia: My favorite place to buy sheet music when I was a kid now sells cameras, artwork and jewelry. One wall is lined with partitions and instead of sheet music, they store prints there now. And there's a very fuzzy Persian cat who likes nothing more than to curl up inside one of the partitions and wait for an unsuspecting customer to come by so she can reach out and swat at the shopper with her paw.

Wargod

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 09:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My all time Christmas favorite poem is "The Night Before Christmas." Every night from Thanksgiving to Christmas night, that poem is added to the kids story time...I love it!

My song, I can't even think of the name right now (bad morning!!!) but starts out, "Come they told me..." I want to say its called "The Little Drummer Boy," but that does not sound right!

Suitsmefine

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 09:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love ALL of the Christmas music!!!! EXCEPT FOR ONE........IF I HEAR THAT GRAMMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER SONG AGAIN, I'M AFRAID I MIGHT HURT SOMEONE!!!!!!!

Jkm

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 09:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
For funny ones -- I like the twelve days of christmas by the "redneck" guy comedian - something Fox?

12 pack of bud
11 rastlin' tickets, etc...

I love Grandma got ran over -- heard the long, (long) version last year -- somebody added a bunch to it! Sorry Suits....

Suitsmefine

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
That's OK, Jkm....Everyone has their own likes, that is what makes us special!!!! But I still can't stand it.LOL But I do like the 12 days of Christmas by Jeff Foxworthy.

Halfunit

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 10:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like the 12 Days parody with that Archie Bunker type guy. Aw geez....

Have you guys heard the one to the tune of Jingle Bells where the elves revolt and sing bad words?
Ho Ho f-ing Ho, What a crock of sh_t !

Now that's a classic, lol.

Draheid

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 10:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember many years ago a parody of "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" so I did a search for it.
Look here for the Alan Sherman Version (002G) as well as many others that you might chuckle at! :)

Marysafan

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 11:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My daughter's station in Omaha is now playing Christmas music 24/7. I just had to run over to Council Bluffs which is about an hour each way, and I was delighted to hear people calling in requests. I heard Karen Carpenter's "Merry Christmas, Darling" and thought, "OH!!! They are playing Sia's song!

I heard a fabulous rendition of "Do you hear what I hear" by Vanessa Williams...but my favorite would have to me anything by Mannheim Steamroller. I just heard a combination of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman" and "Ring Christmas Bells" that just blew me away.

I am so not ready to even think about Christmas right now due to job and financial stresses...but listening to that music really helped to calm a suffering soul.

Neko

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 12:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I like, "The Night Santa went Crazy" by Weird Al Yankovic.

It's a sad mean song but it's hilarious and I find myself humming it sometimes...

Jkm

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 12:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I still like Weird Al's take on Star wars to the tune of "This'll be the day that I die" (bye, bye miss American pie, drove my chevy....)

Long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, Nabu was under attack....

My, my this here Aniken guy, maybe Vader some day later but for now a small fry......

Sia

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 01:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Calamity, there are so few stores (one only, really) in my area selling "real" sheet music any more; the little boutique you mentioned sounds charming. If I were you, I'd go in there with a really big tote bag and take that darling hide-and-seek kitty and take her home with me!!

Is there a way we can swap songs the way people do via those music-swapping sites? I don't trust those sites and know they download spyware into your computer, so I've never used them.

Wargod, there IS a song called "The Little Drummer Boy," and I love "Do You Hear What I Hear What I Hear?", as well. I have the most "impressive" piano arrangement for that one. It's pretty simple, but sounds so complicated--and big and booming!! You cross your hands and everything! Wows'em every time, LOL!

Mary'saFan, I'm with you: I have several albums of Mannheim Steamroller on cassette--which I made before I started buying compact discs! Aren't cds just great?!? Mary, please just alter your focus this Christmas to bring back the joy. Don't feel compelled to spend a lot if finances are tight this year; focus on quality time spent with family and friends. People have had good money-saving ideas up-thread that you might want to read. I know you have to work, but if you take a little project to work on during your lunchtime a couple of times per week, you'll be more relaxed and have something to look forward to during your work day. What if you brought some little craft project to work on Tuesdays and Thursdays? I bought a bag of those loops you make into potholders so my kids can make gifts for their grandmothers. I have an old, old, old loom, and will ask my hubby to bend a wire coat hanger into the long hook we will need for the job. My kids are half-way through their first EVER latch-hook projects. I have had to resist the temptation to finish them myself, which I could do in a flash!! I want them to have the satisfaction of making something with their own hands.

Last night my daughter and I painted dinosaurs (which I drew by tracing around cookie cutters) onto the the plain side of a cut-apart brown paper grocery bag to make special wrapping paper for a going-away gift for the student teacher who has been in my son's classroom for the past eleven weeks. I'm sure she'll love it, and it was free and cost me only my time. My daughter loved doing it. My son wasn't interested. Oh well!

Mary, sorry; it's not in this thread--the other ideas are in the General Discussions thread entitled "Shopping Days till Christmas," or some such! Go look for it and you'll be surprised!!

Whoami

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 01:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My all time favorite Christmas song is "Little Gray Donkey," as done by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Brings tears to my eyes every year. I wish they'd redo the record of it in a CD. Our old record is getting pretty scratched. I'm betting that record would be considered a collector's item by now. But I'd never part with it.

Bigd

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 03:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My favorite is a Barry Manilow song.....yes you heard me right, Barry Manilow, the one and only, he really does write the songs that make the whole world sing. Anyway, the name of the song is "Because It's Christmas". If you've never heard it, you really should.

Sherbabe

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 04:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The one by Paul McCartney is one of my favorites. I also, like the tradional one by Harry Belafonte..Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
Of course the one by Karen Carpenter.

On the light side, there is a Christmas song by someone named Patsy Peavey, I think. They play it every year at a radio station where i used to live in Dearborn MI. WNIC. It's called.
I want a hippopotomus for Christmas. The line about giving him his massage cracks me up. Anybody else hear this song. Its' a classic.
I sing it loud and proud and my son, just runs from me in embarrassement.

Whit4you

Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 05:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was in a play in 4th or 5th grade - The Grinch. We had to memorize that and almost 30 years later, I still remember every word LOL.

I still have the original script that we colored too :)

Jkm

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 07:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This one always makes me cry -- but I can't remember who sings it:

MY NAME IS CHRISTMAS CAROL


I was playing Santa Clause downtown on Christmas Eve,
when a little girl of 3 or 4 climbed up onto my knee,
I could tell she had a Christmas wish behind those eyes of blue,
so I ask her what's your name and what can Santa do for you?

She said my name is Christmas Carol,,I was born on Christmas Day.
I don't know who my daddy is and mommy's gone away.
All I want for Christmas is someone to take me home!
Does anybody want a Christmas Carol of their own?


Well all that I could say was Santa would do the best he could.
Then I sat her down and told her now remember to be to be good.
She said "I will"then walked away,turned to wave good-bye.
And I'm glad she wasn't close enough to see Ole Santa cry!


She said my name is Christmas Carol,,I was born on Christmas Day.
I don't know who my daddy is and mommy's gone away.
All I want for Christmas is someone to take me home!
Does anybody want a Christmas Carol of their own?


Early Christmas morning I got up and dialed the phone.
I made a few arrangements at the County Children's home.
They told me it would be alright to pick her up today.
Now my little Christmas Carol won't ever have to say,


She said my name is Christmas Carol,,I was born on Christmas Day.
I don't know who my daddy is and mommy's gone away.
All I want for Christmas is someone to take me home!
Does anybody want a Christmas Carol of their own?


WELL MERRY CHRISTMAS CAROL,I LOVE YOU, WELCOME HOME


There's another one they play around Christmas with a boy trying to buy slippers for his mom before she goes to Heaven ..... That one gets me, too.

Crazydog

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 09:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"! So does my 60 year old mom. I thought a few years back someone recorded "Grandma's Revenge", where Grandma didn't die but is alive to deal with the reindeer.

Of the traditional songs, I think I like "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" the best.

I also love the Band-Aid song. And I like the Darlene Love song "All Alone on Christmas" that is on the "Home Alone Christmas" CD.

Jkm

Friday, November 22, 2002 - 10:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Found an online station already playing Christmas music full time (save commercials) -- Ha-Ha -- Playing Grandma got ran over by a reindeer -- sorry Suitsmefine!!

http://www.mychristmaschannel.com/

Hey Goddessatlaw it's an Indy station to boot sponsered by the Children's Mus.

(That is the coolest place to take your kids)

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