Your favorite Christmas carols?

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:24 pm

Go find them and post them here!

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:25 pm

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:31 pm

This isn't a Carol, but one of our favorite Christmas songs.....

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:33 pm

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:34 pm

Mary did you know..:-6

koan · Post by **koan** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:36 pm

Fairytale of New York

The only Christmas song I actually like

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:38 pm

guppy;730633 wrote:

Mary did you know..:-6

I LOVE Mary did you know...Mark Lowry wrote it...I love to hear him sing it.....

I'm off to find my other fave...well I have many...but this one is a tear jerker!!

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:40 pm

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:42 pm

I had never heard that song Koan.

watermark · Post by **watermark** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:52 pm

Silent Night

(Gruber/Mohr)

Silent night, Holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon Virgin Mother and Child

Holy Infant so tender and mild

Sleep in Heavenly peace

Sleep in Heavenly peace

Silent night, Holy night

Shepherds quake at the sight

Glories stream from Heaven afar

Heavenly hosts sing Hallelujah

Christ, the Savior is born

Christ, the Savior is born

Silent night, Holy night

Son of God, loveâ€™s pure light

Radiant beams from thy Holy face

With the dawn of redeeming grace

Jesus, Lord, at thy birth

Jesus, Lord, at thy birth

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:19 pm

Bing's version of Silver Bells....

Elvis' Blue Christmas....

Hanson...Merry Christmas Baby

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:28 pm

Nice

Nice

Hanson

:yh_rotfl

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:40 pm

Hey now Sheryl....I flew to Seattle WA summer of 98? 97? one of those...to see them. It was great! They put on a great show. Go ahead and abuse me, but I still love Hanson.

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:56 pm

I love this thread!! I could listen to them one by one and have my own little Christmas song collection....I love the three that you posted RG, yes EVEN Hanson:rolleyes::wah:...actually I LOVE that song....and love Bing Crosby and Elvis since I *cough-cough* kinda grew up on them....

Koan, I've never heard the song you posted either....new one to me...

I love this song, and I was waiting to see if anyone else was gonna post it... I was going to post it instead of my fave hippo song....was a toss up!

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:59 pm

Haha!! I knew someone was going to post that! :wah:

WW? what hippo song?? There's a hippo Christmas song??

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:08 pm

Very classy choice, AE.

911 · Post by **911** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:27 am

I love this clip. The reindeer make me giggle!

http://aroundmd.com/whitechristmas/

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:34 am

koan;730638 wrote: Fairytale of New York

The only Christmas song I actually like

thats one of my favs too Koan.

Bit of a hoohar here over it the last few days

BBC Radio 1 has said it will stand by its ban on the word "faggot" from the Pogues' 1987 Christmas hit Fairytale of New York to avoid offence.

The word, sung by the late Kirsty MacColl as she trades insults with Shane MacGowan, has been dubbed out.

But MacColl's mother, Jean, called the ban "too ridiculous", while the Pogues said they found it "amusing".

The BBC said: "We are playing an edited version because some members of the audience might find it offensive."

'Gratuitous vulgarity'

A Radio 1 spokeswoman said the station's management had met on Tuesday morning to discuss the issue.

The song is a duet between MacColl and Shane MacGowan

She said they "had made their decision" and would not be going back on it.

But the ban does not apply across the BBC. Radio 2 said it would be playing the full version of the track.

MacColl, who was killed by a speedboat off the coast of Mexico in 2000, brands Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan "you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot" in the song, which reached number two when it was first released.

She continues: "Happy Christmas your arse, I pray God it's our last."

Another line, where MacGowan calls MacColl "an old slut on junk", has also been edited.

Jean MacColl told BBC Radio 5 Live's Breakfast: "These are a couple of characters - not in the first flush of youth, I would have thought.

"This is the way they spoke. Today we have a lot of a gratuitous vulgarity and whatever from people all over which I think is quite unnecessary.

"They are what they are. These are characters and they speak like that."

HAVE YOUR SAY

No! It's a cracking tune about two people having a blazing row at Christmas. They're meant to be offending each other!

Sophie Shinigami, Belfast

Send us your comments

A spokesman for the Pogues, who first formed in 1982 and reunited in 2001 after a five-year break, said they "found it amusing that a song that has been one of the best-loved Christmas tunes should suddenly have been deemed offensive".

'Complete over-reaction'

Listeners have also been criticising the ban on the Radio 1 Newsbeat website.

Denise Venn said it was "a complete over-reaction" and Simon from Southampton called it "political correctness gone mad".

Dean in Southampton added: "I'm gay and it certainly doesn't offend me.

"I find it more offensive that the BBC has tampered with this track which hopefully will be number one this Christmas."

However, veteran gay rights activist Peter Tatchell said Radio 1's actions were right.

"The word faggot is being sung as an insult, alongside scumbag and maggot. In this abusive context it is unacceptable," he said.

"It is shameful that BBC Radio 2 and other radio and TV stations are continuing to play the full version with the word faggot included. It shows that they don't take homophobic language as seriously as racist language."

911 · Post by **911** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:38 am

Here, Red, the Christmas Hippo song. I love it! Hope you do, too!

KarmaDoodle · Post by **KarmaDoodle** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:59 pm

i'm a big cheesy fan of mariah careys christmas album and frank sinatra for the oldies but goodies..

wow i can't believe christmas is here!