Cordelia ,'Chosen'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
The only Xmas music I can tolerate is Charlie Brown Xmas. Frankly, during the Xmas season, there is so much Xmas music elsewhere I don't listen at home.
My family used to have a compilation album from the 1950's that had Les Paul and Mary Ford, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra that I used to like to listen to. (We still have it somewhere.) It was called Merry Christmas to You.
My favourite carol is In the Deep Midwinter, which I had never heard until I went to an Anglican university.
What's your favorite Christmas album?
I've really lost my taste for Christmas music over the past few years. But I remember an Andy Williams album very fondly from my childhood. Especially "My Favorite Things," which, okay, isn't a Christmas song, but I think of it as one because it's on that album.
My favourite carol is In the Deep Midwinter, which I had never heard until I went to an Anglican university.
In the Bleak Midwinter?
Ed Harcourt does that on the Mojo mix and it is now one of my favorite christmas songs too!
Yeah, Bleak!
Silkworm did a great version of "In the Bleak Midwinter" as well.
I love that song, too, as long as I don't think about it literally.
I love that song, too, as long as I don't think about it literally.
Heh.
I love how many Jewish singers do Christmas albums.
Jewsrock.org has a piece on the phenomenon. I love that site. [link]
Oh, and I think my favorite Christmas album might be some 50s compilation I bought at a store like Banana Republic or something.
The most popular version of "In the Bleak Midwinter", as far as I know, is the setting by Gustav Holst. The text is a Rosetti poem, isn't it?