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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Favorite Christian Christmas Song: "Oh, Holy Night"

Least Favorite Christian Christmas Song: tie: "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" and "The First Noel"

Favorite Whimsical Christmas Song: "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"

Most Over-Redone Whimsical Christmas Song: "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

Least Favorite Whimsical Holiday Song: tie: "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" and "Happy Holidays"

Favorite Chan--

Favorite Hannu--

Favorite ChakaKahn--

Favorite non-Christian Holiday Song: "Light One Candle," by Peter, Paul, and Mary

You guys?

[ November 25, 2004, 11:55 AM: Message edited by: Icarus ]
 

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Posted by babager (Member # 6700) on :
 
Fav. whimsical-- I'm gonna lasso Santa Claus

MOST Fav. hmmmm........ tough one I'll get back to ya.

My son's least fav. is A Christmas Song Probably 'cuz my hubby and I LOVE to sing that song at the top of our lungs ALL Christmas season- we are starting a new tradition this year-- we are going to sing it at the dinner table before Thanksgiving Dinner. (we're SUCH horrible parents )
 

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Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
 
Favorite Secular Song: Darcy the Dragon as sung by Roger Whittaker

Favorite Christmas CD: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Canadian Brass A Christmas Gloria
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Cor and I were just saying to each other that we ought to get the (a?) Manheim Steamroller Christmas Album.
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Oh, there are so many! I can't choose!



I love Christmas music.

[ November 25, 2004, 01:43 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
 

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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Ooh, I just thought of one.

Most despised Christmas song that can't decide if it's Christian or not: "Here Comes Santa Claus"
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Oh, my favourite CD is a Christmas Music Box music. We play it only on Christmas morning so little bell songs go through the house.

It has 'Here Comes Santa Claus' on it but somehow in music box form it's quite listenable.
 

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Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
 
Favorite Christian Christmas song: Oh, Holy Night

Least Favorite Christian Xmas song: We Three Kings

Favorite All-Time Xmas Song: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Least Favorite All-Time Xmas song: Jingle Bell Rock

Favorite "Popular" Christmas song: Silver Bells

Least Fave: Winter Wonderland (he'll say are you married, we'll say NO MAN?!!? Good grief)

Favorite Whimsical Xmas song: I saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus (funny!)

okay, i have to go eat turkey now.
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
Favourite Christmas Song: The Huron Carol (hands down!!)

Favourite Funny: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (Runner up: Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire)

Least Favourite: Here Comes Santa Claus
 

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Posted by IdemosthenesI (Member # 862) on :
 
Absolute favorite christmas sang: In the Bleak Midwinter (preferably a choral arrangement)
Least favorite: Oh, there are just too many! I might have to second Jingle Bell Rock.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Favorite Christmas hymn: O Come, All Ye Faithful (followed closely by Silent Night and Angels We Have Heard on High)

Least favorite Christmas "hymn" (i.e., it's in our hymnal): I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Favorite secular Christmas song: Tie between Christmas Bayou by Beausoleil and Good King Wenceslas

Least favorite secular Christmas song: The Little Drummer Boy (Shoot me now!!! Please!!!)

Favorite non-Christian holiday song: Eight Candles by Malvina Reynolds, especially as performed by Marcia Berman

[ November 25, 2004, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
 

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Posted by digging_holes (Member # 6237) on :
 
Favourite Christmas hymn : O Holy Night

Second-favourite Christmas hymn : O Come, O Come Emmanuel
 

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Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
 
Frosty the snowman. Hands down.
 

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Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
 
Favorite Traditional Christmas Songs:
Silent Night
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Carol of the Bells

Favorite Modern Christmas Songs:
Little Drummer Boy done by Jars Of Clay
I Celebrate The Day by Relient K
Christmas In Hollis by Run DMC
Star Is Born by Paul Brandt
Christmas Day by MxPx
Christmas Eve Sarajevo by The Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Least Favorite Christmas Songs:
Silver Bells
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
Some song that I can't remember the title but is a kid singing about all the things he deserves to get from Santa
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 

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Least favorite secular Christmas song: The Little Drummer Boy (Shoot me now!!! Please!!!)

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As Christmas rolls around I'll post my Boromir version of this song. You'll see it in a whole new light.

In fact, I'll post my whole LOTR Christmas song cycle again. Completed.
 

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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
Favorite holiday songs: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Gloria (In Excelsis Deo). I can't choose between these two.
Least Favorite Holiday Song: If you could even count this one, it's the Thanksgiving Song by Adam Sandler. I finally figured out how to escape this one this year...I kept the radio off.

Oh, another one I hate is this one: I can't remember the name but it goes something like, "This Christmas I gave you my heart, the very next day, you threw it away. This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special."

Favorite non-Christian holiday song: "Santa's Comin' in a Whirlybird" by Gene Autry

[ November 25, 2004, 08:24 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
 

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Posted by Samuel Bush (Member # 460) on :
 
Favorites:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Ave Maria (Back/Gounod - sung by Karen Carpenter)
The Gift (Linda Eder - vocal & Jung Kwak - harp)

Least favorites:
Anything with Santa Claus, elves, reindeer, and/or snowmen. (especially reindeer!)
<bah humbug >

[ November 25, 2004, 08:57 PM: Message edited by: Samuel Bush ]
 

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Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
 
Favorites:
Silent Night
Oh Holy Night
We Three Kings
Little Town of Bethlehem
Come all ye Faithfull

Least Favorite:
Jingle bell rock (even with dingle variation)

Ni!

[ November 25, 2004, 11:23 PM: Message edited by: kwsni ]
 

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Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
 
Late November I love them all. Come Christmas Day, I will hate them all due to being forced to listen to each about eight times a day at work.
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 

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"This Christmas I gave you my heart, the very next day, you threw it away. This year, to save me from tears, I'll give it to someone special."

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Last Christmas...

And I like this one. Or at least the version that as played in my childhood memories.
 

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Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
 
I'm shocked and appalled that more people haven't listed The Huron Carol/Twas In the Moon of Wintertime and The Ukranian Bell Carol/Carol of the Bells as their favorites.

Incidentally, you can here The Huron Carol in the language that Saint Jean de Brebeuf wrote it in here . Although I happen to think it sounds particularly awesome with a good, low bass in control.
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
I did, Bob.

My favourite version comes from a choral CD that Chapters/Indigo/Coles was selling a bunch of years back. I gave it to my dad, who eventually gave it to my brother, who has lost it at least twice. And I CANNOT find that dratted version anywhere else. This Christmas, if it surfaces, I am KEEPING it.

Oh, and I really like O Come O Come Emmanuel (the older version), and O Holy Night.
 

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Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
 
Samuel Bush,

I would have chosen Karen Carpenter's rendition of Ave Maria as one of my favorites as well, but my wife always insists on singing along. She sings it opera-style sans the brass brassiere.
 

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Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
 
Last year my sister confessed to me that "Little Drummer Boy" makes her cry every time. When asked why, she said it's the line that goes..."then he smiled at me..." I'm a smart-a@@, so I told her that it was probably just gas.

space opera
 

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Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
 
Least fav: "Grandma got run over by a reindeer"

[ November 26, 2004, 09:13 AM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
 

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Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
 
Eaquae Legit,

I think I have that version. Or at least I have a CD that Coles was selling a few years ago for $2.99 that has the Huron Carol on it. Let me know if you want a copy of the song.

You can email me at ransolo AT gmail DOT com or the address in my profile.

[ November 26, 2004, 11:17 AM: Message edited by: solo ]
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 
Not even going to try and categorize....

Favorites:
David Bowie & Bing Crosby "Little Drummer Boy"
Elmo & Patsy "Gramma Got Run Over"
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - lots, especially "Carol of the Bells", "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" and "Mad Russian's Christmas"
And how could I forget the "Hallelujiah Chorus"? I was one of four first sopranos in the entire school my sophomore year, they miked me for that song... scary and awesome at the same time.

Yuck yuck yuck:
"What Child is This?"
"Do You Hear What I Hear?"
"Feliz Navidad"

[ November 26, 2004, 11:45 AM: Message edited by: Goody Scrivener ]
 

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Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 
Favorite contemporary Christmas CD is Clint Black's "Looking For Christmas". Go out and buy NOW. It is FABULOUS. All songs are original, with a nice mix of secular and religious.

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Yuck yuck yuck:
"What Child is This?"

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Okay, I would probably get tired of "What Child Is This?" by itself, but my old parish's choir did a version of this that was a kind of a duet with an original lyric and melody intersperred with the traditional hymn. Unforuntately, the name of it is escaping me, but the song was absolutely lovely, and was one of my favorite pieces that we did at our pre-Midnight Mass christmas concert. The Hallelujah was the best, though. We always sang it after communion at Midnight Mass. Didn't always do the best job, but we sang from our hearts, and the energy and joy would leave me feeling like I would burst with happiness. I really need to see if I can go to a Do-It-Yourself-Messiah this year. If not the big one downtown, then maybe a smaller one somewhere.

[ November 26, 2004, 11:33 AM: Message edited by: xnera ]
 

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Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
 

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I really need to see if I can go to a Do-It-Yourself-Messiah this year. If not the big one downtown, then maybe a smaller one somewhere.

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You mean the one at the Civic Opera House ? I always want to go and I always forget until the day of, which by then is too late to arrange for childcare. Won't be this year for me, though, I have conflicts on both dates (Mon. 12/20 and Tues 12/21)
 

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Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 
Yeah, that's the one. I went several years back. It was fun, but if I go again, I want to get there EARLY to get a seat on the main floor. We were up in one of the balconies, and it was kind of squishy. I'd really like to go again this year, because I no longer attend my old parish, which means I will miss out on hearing it.
 

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Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
I love most Christmas music. Two traditional French carols that've recently become favorites =
"Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella" and "Sing We Now of Christmas"

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/r/bringtor.htm

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Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Bring a torch, come swiftly and run.
Christ is born, tell the folk of the village,
Jesus is sleeping in His cradle,
Ah, ah, beautiful is the mother,
Ah, ah, beautiful is her Son.

(the original French)
Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle
Un flambeau, courons au berceau.
C’est Jésus, bonnes gens du hameau,
Le Christ est né, Marie appelle
Ah! Ah! Que la mère est belle
Ah! Ah! Que l’Enfant est beau.

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1. Sing we now of Christmas,
Noel sing we here.
Sing our grateful praises
To the maid so dear.

Chorus
Sing we Noel!
The King is born, Noel!
Sing we now of Christmas.
Sing we here, Noel!

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. . . my old parish's choir did a version of this that was a kind of a duet with an original lyric and melody intersperred with the traditional hymn.

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Could you be referring to "Greensleeves," the traditional song whose melody was used for the hymn?
 

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Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :
 
Fav song.....any christmas song by John Berry. Especially Oh Holy Night.

Fav album.....Trans Siberian Orchestra albums

Least fav.....there are so many!
 

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Posted by Lost Ashes (Member # 6745) on :
 
How to make gravy by Paul Kelly.


 

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Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
 

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Could you be referring to "Greensleeves," the traditional song whose melody was used for the hymn?

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"Child of the Poor" - Scott Soper composition which contrasts "What Child Is This" with his haunting text and melody.

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The Huron Carol/Twas In the Moon of Wintertime

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I love this carol, but I have a feeling it's one of those things that's spcific to the area in which you live. i.e. North-Eastern America and Quebec and Ontario.

But I'm glad someone else knows it.

I also like the bell carol but only if I'm singing over and over .

EDIT: I love the melody of Greensleeves but dislike the "What child is this?" lyrics.

[ November 26, 2004, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
 

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Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
 
I know, Teshster. You and The Reading Lady have got my back on the Christmas carol thing. Canadian solidarity and all.

Woah. I only have 400 more posts than you now. Weren't you some sort of self proclaimed lurker until shortly before school started? Not enjoying res that much, eh?
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
I definately have posted more since I arrived at university. Mostly it's because I have more to say now... and I'm on the computer more... funny how that works. Better watch out, I'll be overtaking you soon .

And I like "Teshster"
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
I can't believe I forgot this one: "And So This is Christmas/War is Over" by John Lennon! A favorite in my family.
 

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Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
 
We've got Roger Whittaker cranked right now.

When my wife brought the first CD home I complained that Roger Whittaker was one of those guys who shows up along with Mantovani's Orchestra on those anthology CDs, sold on late-nite TV.

Now he's the first one we listen to when we break out the Christmas CDs. He's also been know to pop up in July when I start getting antsy for Christmas.
 

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Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
 
I -love- the Huron Carol
 

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Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
 
Represent, girl. You know it. Rep. Re. Sent.

Lesee, my father loved Good King Wenceslas and so it has a special place in my heart as well. All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth irks me as do some of those other Christmas songs written to be sung by children so their parents think they're cute.
 

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Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
 
My favorite Christmas carol is 'O Holy Night', then 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' and 'O Come Emmanuel'

The one song that aggravates my father to no end is the Alvin and the Chipmunks song... You know, "Christmas, Christmas time is here, time for joy and time for cheer..." My brother and I have mastered the high pitched voices and sing it when we're unwrapping Christmas presents. It ALWAYS makes him roll his eyes.
 

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Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
 
I just want to say that Solo is an awesome person. That's all.

*wanders off to listen to The Huron Carol 20 or 30 times in a row*
 

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Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
 

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Favorite secular Christmas song: Tie between Christmas Bayou by Beausoleil and Good King Wenceslas

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"Good King Wenceslas" is a religious song and is not a Christmas song.

[ November 27, 2004, 03:18 PM: Message edited by: Dobbie ]
 

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Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
 
How is "The Little Drummer Boy" a *secular* Christmas song?


 

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Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
 
Glad to hear that it got to you okay Eaquae. Enjoy!
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Dobbie: okay, I misclassified that one.

Leo: Show me where in the Bible it talks about the annoying little drummer boy.
 

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Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
 
Favorite Christmas Hymn: It's called 'Canto di Betlehem' in Italian; I haven't been able to find it in English, though that's where it started out. Go figure.

I love the song, 'Little Drummer Boy,' and 'First Noel.'

Least Favorite: Mmmmm. . . any of the Shrek christmas songs.
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 

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Show me where in the Bible it talks about the annoying little drummer boy

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The Gospel According to The Annoying Little Drummer Boy, of course.

You mean there isn't one in your Bible?

[ November 29, 2004, 02:06 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
"Not in the Bible" <> "Secular"
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Really Dagonee? If it's not in the bible specifically but if it talks largely about religious characters and themes it's still secular?

*goes off to rummage around for songs that fit into that category*

Wait.... is that a does not equal or does equal sign?

[ November 29, 2004, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
 

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Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
It's a "does not equal" sign. Leftover from my programmer days.

Dagonee
 

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Posted by Space Opera (Member # 6504) on :
 


So my sister has obviously handed her stupid crying thing with "The Little Drummer Boy" over to me. I heard it in the car on the way into town this morning. Hit the line "...I played my best for him..." and started sniffling. I will never forgive her for this.

space opera

edit: Now that I think about it though, I did get teary this weekend while watching "The Santa Clause" and "Father of the Bride part 2." Maybe it's not her fault.

[ November 29, 2004, 02:47 PM: Message edited by: Space Opera ]
 

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Posted by Fyfe (Member # 937) on :
 
I love "Hayo, Haya", which Peter, Paul, and Mary sang. That's my favorite non-Christian-holiday song.

Jen
 

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Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
 
Oh, okay, Dagonee. Therefore I agree with you. A lot of very religious things aren't actually included in the Bible.
 

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Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
 
Favorites: Riu, Riu, Chiu (I can listen to that one all year long...the Chantacleer versions are wonderful), I Wonder As I Wander, and Patapan.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 

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Okay, I would probably get tired of "What Child Is This?" by itself, but my old parish's choir did a version of this that was a kind of a duet with an original lyric and melody intersperred with the traditional hymn. Unforuntately, the name of it is escaping me, but the song was absolutely lovely, and was one of my favorite pieces that we did at our pre-Midnight Mass christmas concert.

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