I don’t know where to start with this post – after all, I will listen to Christmas songs at any time of the year!
I think I like Christmas music because it often includes the things I like the most; sentimental lyrics, choirs, sweeping music that builds throughout, passion, social messages, and most of all each one reminds me of Christmas in every note. I was going to put the songs in order, but GAH, it’s impossible! All I do know is that I have a favorite and so I will mention this first so it’s very clear! LOL.
I Believe in Father Christmas – Greg Lake
This is my absolute favorite Christmas song. I love the crescendo, the words, his vocals, in fact, everything about it! (You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkweTyrRTKw)
Then, in no particular order…
- A Spaceman Came Travelling – Chris DeBurgh
- Happy Christmas (War is over) – Lennon
- The Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Christmas Lights – Coldplay
- Do They Know It’s Christmas – Band Aid
- One More Sleep – Leona Lewis
- Hallelujah – Alexandra Burke version
- 2 becomes 1 – Spice Girls
- Stop the Cavalry – Jona Lewie
- All I Want for Christmas Is You – Mariah Carey
- White Christmas – Bing Crosby
- Fairytale of New York – The Pogues
- Mary’s Boy Child – Boney M
- A Winters Tale – David Essex
- Stay Another Day – East 17
- Babe – Take That
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I love the Bowie version of Drummer Boy
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
It’s sad, melancholy, hopeful, bittersweet, filled with lovely memories……..kinda like life
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Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie. I love how they weave the two songs together.
You’ve got mine listed: The Power of Love – Frankie Goes to Hollywood
I’m also a huge fan of most of the others you’ve picked, and I also love the traditional carols, of which my favourite is I Saw Three Ships or possibly It Came Upon The Midnight Clear!
If every day was like Christmas by Elvis Presley. The words just resonate how we should all behave and act other times of the year.
Christmas in Killarney by Bing Crosby
It’s upbeat and fun 🙂
I love ‘Fairytale of New York’ by The Pogues. They give so much punch to that song… And then, it has to be Bowie and Crosby singing together ‘The Little Drummer Boy’. I somehow find really endearing the mix of such different styles ♥
Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth by David Bowie and Bing Crosby
What Child is This has always been a favorite though I’m all for anything by Trans Siberian Orchestra or Mannheim Steamroller.
I just love both Mary Did You Know and Grown-up Christmas List (it pretty much doesn’t matter the artist). I don’t know I can have them play over and over on a playlist while other songs I skip all the time.
I love the upbeatness of Walking in a winter wonderland, but nothing stops me in my tracks everytime like I’ll be Home for Christmas. All I have to do is picture our soldiers overseas and my heart breaks.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas…. the original by Judy Garland in the film Meet Me in St Louis is my favorite….
I love Feliz Navidad! The music is uplifting and just makes me feel the magic of Christmas.
I love Feliz Navidad since it was the main song we would sing every year at school
i always loved Dominick the donkey..makes me smile all the time
I have 2 favorite Christmas songs. The first is Davie Bowie and Bing Crosby singing The Little Drummer Boy because I love the way they sing it and the video for it is entertaining. The other one is Winter Wonderland by Stryper because it’s upbeat and funny.
I love The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire). The first time I remember hearing it was Greg Evigan performing it on BJ and the Bear. I had such a crush on him as a kid. I even wanted to be a truck driver at one point, lol.
It’s difficult to pick a favorite – my Christmas playlist is hours and hours long! I love this time of year and I love the music that comes with it. Two favorites are Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and Winter Wonderland.
Love Joy the World , it’s epic and uplifting.
It makes me feel like you can get a fresh start always.
I love Mary Did You Know. It’s become my favorite holiday song
Mary Did You Know, it gives me goosebumps any time I hear it.
My favorite is “Christmas” by Blues Traveler. I listen to it repeatedly this time of year. I love how the idea is just a wish for everyone to be happy, no matter what their religion is. “If it’s Hanukkah, or Kwanza, Solstice or December 25th, peace on Earth to everyone and everyone you’re with.”
Christmas music as a genre is my favorite. For a ‘favorite song’, I can only narrow it down as far as three. One seems to be extremely common; Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth as a duet with Bing Crosby and David Bowie. Everything about that is just perfection; the combination of the traditional and the contemporary in multiple ways, the combination of vocal stylings… just everything. The second is Oh Holy Night, which has been covered by just about everyone in the world. If I have to pick a favorite version, it has to be Celine Dion’s brilliantly done take on this song that just stirs every part of what I adore about this beautiful song that is both tender carol and seasonal anthem. I’m not religious, but this version can make me believe in true gifts from a higher power. And finally, if you love to have a little fun with your Christmas music, check out Straight No Chaser’s The 12 Days of Christmas. If you’ve never heard of or seen SNC, do yourself a favor and YouTube that one… it’s just the best!
My husband and I saw SNC in concert for the first time last month. They did The 12 Days of Christmas and it was wonderful – as was the whole concert.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas- because to me it has such spirit of Christmas feels, makes me just feel good!! I also love the fun Christmas Vacation soundtrack song lol. Now that is fun!!
I don’t listen to music much anymore, but growing up, it was probably Little Drummer Boy. Probably the version on the record we had, and the drums.
I’m not really a fan of Christmas music. In spanish, most carols are religious, and if not they’re translations of selected english songs. And even then, be it translated or the original, it’s an endless loop of the same 10 selected songs by different people from September to near january, and incredibly exhausting.
Still like grandma getting run over by a reindeer. Still waiting for someone to record a version with daddy kissing Santa Claus.
All I Want for Christmas is You.
I love hallelujah by Pentatonix!
I LOVE shake up christmas by train! I’ve listened to it every december since 2010 🙂
Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton’s live version of Baby, It’s Cold Outside.
I love White Christmas by Bing Crosby. Both the movie and the song. I watch the movie every year in December, when I bring out the Christmas decorations.
I love anything by Burl Ives. Lately though, I’ve been listening to Enya. O Come, O Come Emmanuel is one of my favorites by her.
I enjoy the older songs, like White Christmas by Bing Crosby.
I love many Christmas songs but if I had to choose one it would be little Drummer Boy. It is partly the sentiment, partly hte pace of the song.
Give me Tennessee Ernie Ford singing so many different Christmas songs.
The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Firstly, because … Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Secondly, because it’s so exquisitely unlike any other Christmas song that I don’t think I realized it was one!
It’s hard to narrow down to just one. I love all the sad ones. But I guess the one I would stop and listen to in the mall would be ‘Grown-Up Christmas List’ by Any Grant. The lyrics make me cry sometimes. I love her whole Christmas album. I can and do listen to it on repeat (even in the summer).
I also love all the old carol/hymns from many years singing them in church when I was a girl. My favorite is ‘Angels We Have heard On High’. A close second is ‘What Child Is This’.
Carol of the Bells by Pentatonix. I love that group and this is my favorite Christmas song. When it’s sung a capella, it’s amazing!
I love Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth with Crosby and Bowie. The voices are great together and the words of each just mesh into something very feeling. I also love Happy Christmas/War is over by John Lennon because the message is and always will be so relevant.
Jingle Bell Rock.
I love the words to Trisha Yearwood’s It Wasn’t His Child
Silent Night by the Temptations, it always brings back memories of my mom.
For me, it’s the classic Christmas songs of Burl Ives… They’re catchy and fun, and as a kid, I loved the shows he narrated and sang in as well. So, good memories! I listen to (and enjoy) many songs by other artists as well.
O Holy Night – Mariah Carey’s version is my favorite. I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – BNL/Sarah McLachlan version. Grownup Christmas List. And Bing Crosby/David Bowie version of Little Drummer Boy
I love Kelly Clarkson. It’s an upbeat christmas song. Kelly Clarkson – Underneath the Tree https://youtu.be/YfF10ow4YEo
Josh Groban gives me goosebumps everytime he sings and his song Believe from the movie Polar Express is one of my fav ever Christmas songs. So heartfelt and his voice… [sighs]
There are several of the Olde English carols which I like, but current fave. has to be Carol of the Bells, particularly the Pentatonix recording. Mind you I recently tripped over a Christmas Album by Welsh male choirs which I plan to download.
Carol of the Bells as sung by a choir.
I have two favourites, the first is Do You Hear What I Hear? I have always loved this song. I remember singing at our elementary school Christmas concert.
And a more recent, but actually pretty traditional song is Come and I Will Sing You, which is very similar to the Twelve Days of Christmas. Only i find it so much prettier, and this is sung by my favourite band, Great Big Sea.
Mary, Did You Know is a favorite of mine. It is a song that not only celebrates Christmas but a mother’s love
I don’t know that I can choose a favorite song. My favorite Christmas albums are A Festival of Carols by The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble and The John Rutter Christmas Album with the Cambridge Singers and the London Sinfonia.
I love the Bing Crosby, David Blair Little Drummer Boy medley.
I have a quirky taste in music, and my holiday favorites are usually melancholy, medieval, sacred or instrumental. I can’t choose a favorite:
1) Snowbound!, Seattle Men’s Chorus
Carol From an Irish Cabin
Hard Candy Christmas
2) A Little Christmas Music, The King’s Singers
I Wonder as I Wander
Gaudete
Three Spanish carols: Riu, Riu, Chiu; El Nino Querido; Villancico Catalan
The Gift (Simple Gifts)
Patapan and Farandole
3) Christmas in the Northwest 6
Waiting for Saint Nick – Larry Murante
Christmas in the Northwest – Brenda Kutz White
4) Christmas Goes Baroque – CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Breiner (1989)
One of my favorite albums
I have a hard time this time of year, because I don’t like Christmas music at all. When I listen to music, I listen to country.
I really love Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas by HomeFree and Jewel and All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. They put so much feeling behind their singing.
hands down, no question about it, CAROL OF THE BELLS as performed by Pentatonix is my all-time favorite Christmas song.
A VERY close second would be their powerful rendition of MARY, DID YOU KNOW?
Silent night just love it
I like Holly Jolly Christmas.
I LOVE the Little Drummer boy duet with Bing Crosby & David Bowie. No idea why I have loved it from the first time
I heard it! I always know it’s christmas when I listen to it..
What Child Is This?
It’s always resonated with me from the first time I ever heard it
I loved singing Hallelujah or The.re Is a Rose any choir songs they were a way to send prayers and joy.
Mary, Did you Know? And Favoroite Things are mine!
I always loved the Little Drummer Boy , most recently by Pentatonix – or the Elf’s Lament by Bare Naked Ladies and the incomparable Michael Buble
Difficult choice. Me as an adult loves Last Christmas.
The kid in me still loves Happy Christmas to you by Peter Coombe- totally brings me back to my childhood. (https://youtu.be/ttrPJx9K0GY)
I love all the old Burl Ives Christmas songs from the old movies and although not “strictly” a Christmas song, Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas”is one i love – its a little bit country so when you look into it, the words are sad, but there’s a touch of hope in there as well.
I have a whole playlist of my favorite Christmas songs. This Christmas by Yutaka (from a GRP Christmas), Hold out for Christmas by Rockapella, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by Ella Fitzgerald come to mind. It’s a pretty long list.
O HOLLY NIGHT is my favorite .every time I hear it, I think back to my childhood and remember all the times we sang around the piano at my grandparents. It’s especially important
now because it reminds of my mom who has passed away.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, O Holy Night, Santa Baby, Baby It’s Cold Outside are my top favorites.