This is my favorite. It was recorded on November 22, 1963... Bing Crosy Do You Hear What I Hear? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARt3PRLz3xM This beautiful version is sung in Irish-Gaelic... Enya Silent Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTfL6_eiWo A modern classic... Trans-Siberian Orchestra Wizards in Winter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLmAPW39uE For all of you bad boys from the 60's... The Kinks Father Christmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaPXihbORk
Gene Autry Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLf0DDt3Xiw Bing Crosby Ed Sullivan Show White Christmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m5kJFb-97w
Gene Autry...man that guy really made a ton of money off of being a B movie cowboy didn't he...must have been a pretty sharp dude!
"B" movie???? "B" MOVIE??????? Man, you're talking about Gene Autry! One of the three greatest cowboys ever, including Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger. He shoulda got an Oscar for at least one of his movies. Don't be dissin' my man Gene Autry. :wink:
Gene Autry...my all time favorite Singing Cowboy from the time my mom first took me to see him in the movies around 1940. Loved him on the radio, and his comic books! j.
Gene Autry was my hero too. (BTW- he was from Texas.) He was one of the most popular singer/movie stars of all-time. When he visited foreign countries (like Ireland) he was treated like a visiting head of state. His song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, is the second biggest selling tune of all-time; second only to Bing Crosby's White Christmas. Nothing that the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis or Michael Jackson ever did surpassed him. He was also a war hero as a pilot during WWII. His business abilities were off the chart as well. His "Flying A Ranch" properties included the first radio and TV stations here in SoCal; Flying A Gas, which is now part of Chevron-Texaco; The Anaheim Angels baseball team; recording studios; SoCal real estate; as well as the copyrights to his songs including Peter Cottontail, Here Comes Santa Claus, Back in the Saddle Again and Rudolph. He used his money to collect items of the real West through out his career and donated it all to the Autry Museum of the West in Los Angeles. If you've never been there, you're missing a treat. We take our students there every year, despite our school being located more than 100 miles away. Autry's museum contains collections of real artifacts next to movie artifacts, so that you can be standing next to Kevin Costner's costume from Dances With Wolves as you look at Mrs. Custer's dress or Wyatt Earp's pistol. This museum contains the greatest collections of women's and Californio (old Mexican) artifacts that I've ever seen, as well as everything from Billy the Kid to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and they're not done yet. This year, they will unveil the greatest collection of American Indian artifacts ever seen. More than 500,000 of them! Thank you Mr. Autry. You were my hero too. http://www.autry.com/geneautry/geneautry_biography.html ...............JO'Co
Trans-Siberian Orchestra.....we took the kids to see them in concert last year just before Christmas. Love their music and it was an extraordinary show.....great musicians and the arrangements and compositions are absolutely and truly brilliant. Little known factoid.....there are actually two TSO's for live touring purposes....an east coast TSO and a west coast TSO.....gotta buy the program to get the scoop!
I love all christmas music...new and old. For whatever reason, I really like this arrangement by the quirky Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan <iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HGVNzgUxE-g" frameborder="0"></iframe>
I just love Christmas! <iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7Dw7GE_BYjI" frameborder="0"></iframe>
Speaking of Sarah McLachlan, this is not a Christmas song per se but I really like this redo of a Gordon Lightfoot song; <iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/06t60Ei_8Vg" frameborder="0"></iframe>
That was good Stu, made me look up Gordon's version....He says he wrote it during a rainy night in Cleveland! I think I kind of like Sarah's better, but then maybe it's because she's so easy to look at! <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JVG2eF40hzE?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JVG2eF40hzE?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>