Christmas Listening 2014

Embrace the schmaltz! I enjoy this Christmas album immensely every year.

 

It's definitely a Christmas music listening weekend. Starting off with Tinsel and Lights from Tracey Thorn. A truly nice Xmas LP.

 

Mary Hopkin- Mary Had A Baby

 

Every year I listen to 2 country Christmas programs on the Internet:

"Eagle Country Hall of Fame (with Dick Storm)" out of Hancock, Michigan in the good ol' Upper Peninsula/Copper Country (listening to it right now, and it repeats again tomorrow morning at 9 am ET)
http://www.keepitintheup.com/eagle-country.html

and "Good 'n' Country (with Ken Hippler)" at 4 pm ET out of Minneapolis, Minnesota (and is archived on the KFAI website for 2 weeks)
http://www.kfai.org

 

Latest addition to my holiday music collection. Mellow, quiet, beautiful.

 

But the choir is not to blame.

 

jinglebellsjinglebellsjinglebellsjinglealltheway...

I am of course jesting. I had to listen to this once to see what the fuss was about

 

I love the version of "Someday at Christmas" on this album. I also have an original pressing. It's Michael at his "I'll Be There" prime peak.

 

Any doo-wop lovers out there? I saw this group (Little Isidore & The Inquisitors) many times in the 1990's and they put a big smile on my face every time. They had 4 singers that could sing lead and their background singing amazing. Little Isidore was actually David Forman, who recorded a solo album in the 70's. He wrote the tune "A-Train Lady" for Mink DeVille. I could go on and on about this guy and this group. Here's their Christmas song. It was featured in the Jim Carrey 'Grinch' movie.

 

This is what the beloved and I have been bellowing along to in the car today.

 

I have The Grinch CD, just played it the other day. Love that song and love the CD! Thanks for the information about the group, I will check them out. Doo Wop never gets old to me...

 

Some songs are never heard on the radio, but should be! I never get tired of this upbeat song which just feels like winter with its killer arrangement...melodic bass, guitar and piano intertwining with the vocal. Great lyrics also.

The title track from Bobby Vee's 2003 CD Up North December. Very hard to find but great CD.

 

Posted this on the HDTracks thread. Nice and tasty new Christmas music! Beautiful NOLA sounds!!

 

I just got the two Ultra Lounge Christmas albums released on vinyl, and am enjoying those a lot.

 

I just heard the worst Christmas song ever. Barbra Streisand's jingle bells where she takes it annoyingly fast and drops in a hardehar reference to fanny Brice. Ugh

 

Heh that's the one! Wow.

 

I love pearl jams version of that including mimicking the cover

 

It does not get any better than this.

 

Kenny Burrell - Have Yourself A Soulful Little Christmas

 

I started off by playing Carols 2 from Andrew Parrot and the Taverner Consort, Choir & Players. Later I spun the Rat Pack Christmas, Merle Haggard's Hag's Christmas which I was not enjoying and pulled before it ended. Presently the Beach Boys Christmas Harmonies is in the payer. Before all is said and done I'll get to Christmas discs by The Players (Phil Manzanera, et al), Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and Christmas mix discs made by friends.

 

In the recent issue of Classic Rock Magazine, they did the buyers guide to HEART; and guess which album got the AVOID?

The above 1998 album was called a turkey, and that it sounded like they've had too many eggnog's.

 

A cheeseball classic from the '60s.

 

Mine is an original Motown pressiing too and I still have a sealed original copy.

 

I'm looking for a great female rendition of I'll Be Home for Christmas. Any recommendations? Sorry, but Bing and Perry don't cut it for me on this one. I need a woman.