Poll: What's Your Favorite Holiday Song?
Certain December music makes us pause, sing along and feel nostalgic.
Holiday voices sing, are you listening?
Songs of the season are inescapable this week – whether they bring comfort and joy or lyrics and beats that annoy. Amid the jingling and roasting, most people cherish at least a few Christmas songs – perhaps because they've been sung many times, many ways since we were young.
Though it may be tough to single out a favorite, here's a chance to click on one that invariably makes you pause, turn up the volume and feel nostalgic.
So come and vote, faithful celebrants, and let's see which is triumphant. Write-in votes for unlisted tunes can go in the comments.
Billy
7:07 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
Dominick the Donkey
Alan Stamm
8:21 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
Va bene! Good semi-obscure one from 1960, Billy! Way to play. Grazie.
Chuck Anesi
4:59 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Agreed. For those not familiar with this work, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok5rOO2v2dU
Rebecca Jaskot
10:53 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
It's not a Christmas song, but I love "The Chanukah Song" by Adam Sandler!
John Hetzler
10:56 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
Love "The Chanukah Song," Rebecca. Also like Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." But when I'm in a Scrooge mood, I admit I like "Father Christmas" by the Kinks. Does that make me a bad person?
Alan Stamm
11:03 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
No way rockin' around the Christmas time could every be bad, lad.
"Remember the kids who got nothin'
While you're drinkin' down your wine." -- Ray Davies, 1977
Nicole Krawcke
11:21 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
I love "Please Come Home for Christmas" - Charles Brown!
Colleen
11:21 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
Traditional: The First Noel and O Come All Ye Faithful - Uplifting and powerful
Contemporary: I'll Be Home for Christmas - Written about WWII soldiers, it brings tears to my eyes.
Joni Hubred-Golden
11:30 am on Monday, December 19, 2011
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer always makes me laugh. But Andy Williams' version of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is at the top of my list.
Guy Fawkes
12:07 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Any song that removes the religious impositions on this Winter Holiday that was never intended to be more than a time to lift the spirits of those in the colder, darker portions of the hemispheres that the long nights are over and daylight and Spring returns.
Deck the Halls.
We Wish You...
Joni's Williams choice (excellent).
All uplifting, uncomplicated, happy and genuine.
Charlie Garvin
12:48 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Jason Alexander
12:52 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
I have to go totally non-traditional. I love Blink 182's I Won't be Home For Christmas and Smashing Pumpkins Christmastime.
Jason Alexander
12:54 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
How bout the worst Christmas song ever? I nominate Justin Bieber's Little Drummer Boy featuring Busta Rhymes.
Nicole Krawcke
1:54 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
I didn't even know that was a song. Just from the two artists, the song sounds terrible!
Rebecca Wright
1:28 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Oh Holy Night
Christofer Machniak
2:49 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
that's one of my favorite's … I heard it sung live in Flint at the Whiting a few years ago by a man in French and it was incredible.
Al Trudeau
9:32 am on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
I'll second that!
And I also agree with the comment by Christopher Machniak that the French version, "Cantique Noël," is very special.
Al Trudeau, Oakland Twp.
Mike
1:45 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Bob Dylan - Must be Santa
Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo
Xmas Time is Here Again - The Beatles
Nicole Krawcke
1:53 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Another favorite of mine is Mele Kalikimaka!
salemslot
2:07 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
A Marshmallow World
The Secret Of Christmas
both by Johnny Mathis
Trisha Lulu Ryan
2:34 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
O Holy Night is my 'favoritist' Christmas song, but it wasn't on the list. Someone else said It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and that's tied in at first for me.
Linda Baker
2:45 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Burl Ives singing "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas"
Mary Pritchard
4:09 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Last Christmas by Wham! is a personal favorite. I also LOVE Grown Up Christmas List sung by Amy Grant, and the entire Theresa Brewer Christmas album which no one else but my family ever seems to have heard of. But it's fabulous.
Jill Darlene Knox
4:09 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Gloria! (in excelsis deo). Always loved this song. Second fave is I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas :o)
Katie D
4:10 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Jason - couldn't agree with you more! (sorry girls lol)
My personal fav I don't see on the list, not sure if it's the real name, but I love In Excelsis Gloria. :)
Poksanna
4:11 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Santa Lucia's Processional & O come, O come, Emmanuel are my favorites :o)
Sheryl Shaker
4:42 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Either the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah....or Baby, It's Cold Outside. Any version.
SpartyPants
8:42 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
Baby, It's Cold Outside, Dean Martin and Martina McBride. Hands down my all-time favorite. No other holiday song even comes close!
Behkey Morrell
10:18 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011
I love "Last Christmas" by Wham! and "Hard Candy Christmas" by Dolly Parton.
Michelle Foster
12:58 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
"The Christmas Song" - Nat King Cole - All time fav
My new favorite is "Where is Christmas" by Ferndalian Brian Miller
Mary Gasiewski
3:48 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
I <3 Christmas Time by the Smashing Pumpkins:) That is my fave song!
Erin McGill Beard
4:56 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Good King Wenceslas. :)
LW
5:54 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Oh Holy Night. I feel the true meaning of Christmas when I hear that song.
Al Trudeau
8:02 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011
There's one that is rarely heard today, "Birthday of a King." I remember it from my childhood. Judy Garland recorded it around 1941 or so. It had a pretty good run back in the 40s & maybe into the 50s, but I've only heard it a very few times in recent years.
Al Trudeau, Oakland Twp.
Marina Martinez
12:17 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
I have a few favorites...they are Away in a Manger, The First Noel, & Come on Ring those Bells....we sang them every Christmas eve in church, some of the best memories I have growing up. A few others I liked growing up were the Hippo song & the Chipmunks christmas song.
Marina Cracchiolo
12:28 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Nice to see another Marina. :)