Tis the season....

[TimothyBFan]

Every year, as I know some of you do here, I make a Christmas play list on the Ipod with some of my favorite Christmas songs. Most of mine are rock and roll artist with an occasional song by Christina Aguilera (she sings Christmas tunes beautifully) and Trans Siberian Orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Bing Crosby thrown in. Of course there are those novelty ones also that I must add, Twelve Days Of Christmas by Bob & Doug McKenzie, Santa Claus And His Old Lady by Cheech & Chong--silly but gotta love them!

My question is-does anyone here have any that they particularly love that I should add? Maybe some new versions of old favorites that I'm not aware of yet?

My favorites that always start my play list are the obvious---Please Come Home For Christmas, Funky New Year, Carol Of The Bells by Trans Siberian Orchestra and Santa Claus Is Back In Town by Jonny Lang. But I always love to add a few new ones every year.

[Troubadour]

Staples for us (guaranteed to hear constantly on the radio!) are:

Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade
I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard
Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
Step Into Christmas - Elton John
Lonely This Christmas - Mud
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Jackson Five
All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens

A few other random ones!

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[Freypower]

2000 Miles - Pretenders
It Must Have Been Love (Christmas Version) - Roxette
I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith Emerson

[Koala]

Some of mine favorite Chrismas Songs:

Santa Claus is coming to Town - Frank Sinatra
Let it snow / White Chrismas - Bing Crospy
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon
Please come home for Chrismas - Eagles
Driving Home for Chrismas - Chris Rea
Thank God it´s Chrismas - Queen
Do they know it´s Chrismas Time - Band Aid
I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus - Bobby Sherman

[Fan_For_Life]

Josh Groban's "Noel" has some great songs. In particular Thankful and then his Polar Express song Believe(not on Noel). .

[Brooke]

A couple of my favorites are Grownup Christmas List by Amy Grant (I love all of hers!) and The Christmas Song by The Carpenters.

When my kids were little we had a John Denver Christmas album (it's all great) and they loved to play Please, Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas over and over! It's cute!

[eaglesvet]

I've got a couple of suggestions for you, Willie!

Believe it or not, one of my favorite Christmas CD's was put out by Vanessa Williams in the mid-90's, called "Star Bright." My VERY favorite song on it is the duet, "Baby, it's Cold Outside" with Bobby Caldwell...I can literally hit replay four times in a row when it comes on! BTW, I really liked Bobby Caldwell in the 90's...wonder what ever happened to him?

I don't consider the Xmas season officially here until I've heard "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses! It is just such a fun song.

Bruce's 'lesser' known Christmas hit is a great bluesy version of "Merry Christmas, Baby" which features some great Clarence solos. I really like this one (surprise ! ) (Please notice that I restrained myself by not listing it first off...)

And finally, John Mellencamp's version of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is a favorite of mine.

[TimothyBFan]

Love Merry Christmas Baby by Bruce and I Saw Momma (especially his little girls voice at the end). I discovered that version of Baby It's Cold Outside last year for the first time. I never realized how many people have done that song until that silly movie Elf (which I adore) came out a few years back. Another version I love is Brittany Spears believe it or not.

I just checked and I never did put Christmas Wrapping on here. Meant to when someone else suggested it earlier in the thread. Will do it now.

[eaglesvet]

I know, there are a lot of versions of "Baby it's Cold," but that one is the best I've heard. Do they play a bunch of different ones in that movie??

[TimothyBFan]

I just mean that when I heard the version in the movie by Will Ferrell and the young lady (drawing a blank on her name right now) I went in search of the song to add to my playlist and came up with several different versions, all of them pretty good, including the original by Dean Martin & Doris Day.