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Offline Roger Kettle

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The Annual Question.
« on: December 03, 2008, 08:55:23 PM »
What's your favourite Christmas song? Post 'em here!
(I will admit to a nostalgic fondness for Slade and Kirsty McColl).
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2008, 10:00:26 PM »
I don't have a favourite.

...But with what is going down on our Canadian Parliment Hill theses days...I can't help humming "It's begining to look a lot like christmas".  ;D
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Colin

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2008, 01:46:49 AM »
The Pogues with Kirsty McCall. Fairytale of New York is a good shout for my favourite.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2008, 06:06:46 AM »
In the early 1980s there was a band called Nevada that did a superb version of In The Bleak Midwinter, which I really liked, but it doesn't appear to be on YouTube. (It has to be that one).

This song reminds me of the School Carol Concert, and I like it anyway.

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Malc

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2008, 07:45:37 AM »
The Pogues and Kirsty are definitely in the frame there - great song. Slade's "So Here It Is, Merry Christmas..." is a great one, especially when Noddy sings "It's Chriiiiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaas!! at the end.

I was educated in an army boarding school in Germany, so I had to attend church services, especially the Christmas ones, and I remember all the hymns.
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2008, 08:36:21 AM »
I snogged Lesley Henderson (name changed to protect the...oh, okay, I forgot her real name) all the way through Wizard's 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day', at the school Christmas disco in 1974, under a piece of fake mistletoe (it was actually a bit of string, but you improvise, don't you? Lesley neither noticed nor cared - her strengths were not horticultural).

She only did it to make her 6' 2" boyfriend jealous, but the song elicits a nostalgic grin every time I hear it nonetheless. I was a legend for about a week.
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Zesty White

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2008, 10:05:25 AM »
O Holy Night by Placido Domingo -fantastically sung, and yet there is still humour in it. You can tell that he has learned the English translation phonetically.
The guitar solo in Mike Oldfield's In Dulci Jubilo is awesome too.
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Fyodor

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2008, 10:57:45 AM »
Don't know if it's a Christmas song, but David Essex's A Winter's Tale rings my chimes.
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Malc

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2008, 02:41:20 PM »
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In the early 1980s there was a band called Nevada

That was Nirvana, and you had a cold.  And it was the 90s.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2008, 03:47:05 PM »



I wish I could someone would upload it to YouTube. I've got it on an old compilation tape somewhere.

http://www.nlightsweb.com/lib/lyrics/nevada.htm
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2008, 04:19:30 PM »
I like Sarah McLaughlin's in the bleak midwinter - I like the whole Wintersong CD.

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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2008, 04:30:40 PM »
This is a great one from the late, great Sensational Alex Harvey Band.


"There's no lights on the Xmas Tree Mamma - They're burning Big Louie Tonight". It's about gangsters, and cops gunning each other down, and Louie gets put in the electric chair. It hasn't got sleigh bells on it though.
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Malc

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2008, 06:44:15 PM »
Brilliant. Interesting to see Zal with no Pierrot make up. I'm assuming it's him.
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Offline Max

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2008, 06:46:32 PM »
I could push for Perry Como's "Christmas Dream" from the movie  "The Odessa File", written by Tim Rice.

However a lady in Seattle sent me this CD once, and from the CD....................... 



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlfjZpyDew8
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: The Annual Question.
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2008, 07:47:55 PM »
Max, you realise the original song will never be the same again for me. Thank you!
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