Christmas Carols/Songs that aren’t heard enough anymore

[OrangeTsar]

I will start us off with a couple. Please share your forgotten favourites below.

 

[KoachKrab127]

Oh, man. I could list about a hundred, as I love Christmas music, but have lost so much of it over the years, due to losing the tapes/CD's and not knowing the names of songs I used to hear on the radio. I remember when I was in high school and college, the radio station 88.3 in Knoxville (EZ 88, it was called), played Christmas music non-stop every season. One of the songs they frequently played was an orchestral version of "Jingle Bell Rock," that I really enjoyed. It had lots of personality. Every year I try to find it on Youtube and fail.

Here's one that I was able to find. I had an album called "Christmas Brass," and it's on Youtube. My favorite song from it was "Angels from the Realms of Glory." It starts at 11:56.

 

[Firebirdparts]

We use streaming services to play music mostly, and I have a channel on there that's primarily blues/Jazz artists called the 'Zat you Santa Claus?' channel. Love the rhymes in that song. Anyway, there's more cool stuff like that. You can imagine that Eartha Kitt singing "Santa Baby" rolls around pretty often in the rotation. And the drifters with their iconic version of white christmas.

I made a christmas song name-that-tune bingo game out of a bunch of them, and so I looked for more obscure stuff for that. I don't know however that I like any of it.

Just talking about this made me google "mills brothers Christmas" and I was not disappointed.

 

[Firebirdparts]

Something I think we don't hear enough is carol of the bells. My favorite version is by the Nashville Mandolin ensemble

 

[MAD]

 

[KoachKrab127]

I will start us off with a couple. Please share your forgotten favourites below.

There was an instrumental version of "Once in Royal David City" that I found on Napster in the year 2000. It was very slow paced and featured a harp and a recorder. I really liked it. It was very relaxing. I put it on a CD with other relaxing Christmas instrumentals to fall asleep to, but that CD is long gone (and so is the mp3 file I downloaded from Napster, of course).

 

[OrangeTsar]

Oh, man. I could list about a hundred, as I love Christmas music, but have lost so much of it over the years, due to losing the tapes/CD's and not knowing the names of songs I used to hear on the radio. I remember when I was in high school and college, the radio station 88.3 in Knoxville (EZ 88, it was called), played Christmas music non-stop every season. One of the songs they frequently played was an orchestral version of "Jingle Bell Rock," that I really enjoyed. It had lots of personality. Every year I try to find it on Youtube and fail.

Here's one that I was able to find. I had an album called "Christmas Brass," and it's on Youtube. My favorite song from it was "Angels from the Realms of Glory." It starts at 11:56.

With us, there were Firestone Christmas Albums that you actually bought at the Firestone shop

Glad most of them are on YouTube now

 

[McDad]

We use streaming services to play music mostly, and I have a channel on there that's primarily blues/Jazz artists called the 'Zat you Santa Claus?' channel. Love the rhymes in that song. Anyway, there's more cool stuff like that. You can imagine that Eartha Kitt singing "Santa Baby" rolls around pretty often in the rotation. And the drifters with their iconic version of white christmas.

I made a christmas song name-that-tune bingo game out of a bunch of them, and so I looked for more obscure stuff for that. I don't know however that I like any of it.

Just talking about this made me google "mills brothers Christmas" and I was not disappointed.

Yeah man. Love the "Zat you, Santa Claus". Nice post.

 

[Jeff Clark]