numbnuts
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Christmas songs
- Thread starter Chris1972
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Ben Reeve
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Ben Reeve
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- Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, UK
GM
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MossCommuter
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- Salford
Point of order: that's an advent hymn
HertzvanRental
Veteran
A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer .
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
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Top drawer as always 3BM, I'm gonna welcome everyone on 25th wearing a grass skirt and shouting "Mele Kalilimaka"
Here's my guilty Xmas pleasure
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
....and before folk start complaining about that one, Shakey was my number 2 choice
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subaqua
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Not a Christmas carol or hymn . It's an advent hymn . ( or maybe a carol) but definitely an advent one. TMN to somebody!
It is my favourite one and heralds the start of advent at Chez subaqua when it is heard on the Beeb on advent Sunday.
Similar for Once in Royal Davids City on Christmas Eve with " Carols from Kings" on BBC2 being the start of Christmas. And hearing John 1: 1 (KJV not the NIV garbage( yes it comes from a big book of fantasy stories)) with a mince pie and a large sherry meaning Christmas has properly arrived .
I hated Christmas as a kid , as it meant a lot of arguments between parents and families and days of silence where nobody would speak to anybody. Really didn't help keeping the fecking Labrador away!! My wife introduced me to some of her families traditions and I started to enjoy Christmas.
Anyway enough rambling on
numbnuts
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threebikesmcginty
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I also love the way that she became involved in this. She was married to Trevor Horn of ZTT fame at the time and he produced the record at the studio at their house. He asked Kirsty to come into the studio to do the vocal just to help work on the balance of the music, with the intention of replacing her with someone younger and more credible on the final cut. Shane was so blown away by her vocal performance he refused point-blank to have her replaced despite repeated entreaties from his management.
Richard A Thackeray
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Hurrah!!
Man after my own heart
That said, the Phil Spector Chr**tmas Album is a blinder, mainly due to the production
Crystals, Ronnettes, etc......
However, as a show, to go with it
The Brian Setzer Orchestra???
Love the hot-rod flamed Bass, & drum-set (cocktail set??) - quite apart from his gorgeous Gretsch
If you want something that could be adopted as a modern Carol, & wonderfully written
Top of the Tree goes to.................
