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!
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?
Silkworm did a great version of "In the Bleak Midwinter" as well.
There's also a version on
It's a Wonderful Life
by Kerry Getz, which is another decent modern Christmas album. It also has a version of "Maybe this Christmas".
If you like real carols, the Fred Waring album is great with things like "Master in the Hall" and "March of the Kings".
Another of my favorite Christmas albums is a Starbucks compilation called "Winterlude," with everything from Marlene Dietrich singing "Little Drummer Boy" in German to Bing and Bowie doing "Little Drummer Boy" from his last TV special, and lots of other songs.