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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: oreally Date: December 7, 2025, 4:03 pm
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[quote author=oreally link=topic=3881.msg362488#msg362488
date=1764971934]
Sentimental fave:
HTML https://youtu.be/bBFHUyVAch4?si=9MAXwJweUDRuo6c9
That's for you, Mom.
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Another sentimental fave:
HTML https://youtu.be/bBFHUyVAch4?si=9MAXwJweUDRuo6c9
That's for me :)
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And because I hate picking favorites of anything, even Christmas
songs, I give you Ella
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RONlGSGusck
[/quote]
Wait! Wait! My "that's for me" song was just a repeat of Mom's
-- the wrong link. The correct link is this Vince Vance and the
Valiants (of New Orleans) Christmas fave named "All I Want for
Christmas is You" (but it's a different song from Mariah
Carey's).
Here it is:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HWHd0EYJA
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: Lurknomore Date: December 7, 2025, 4:46 pm
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Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah… This always gives me
chills.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZEtVbJT5c
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: farmgirl Date: December 7, 2025, 5:31 pm
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[quote author=Lurknomore link=topic=3881.msg362761#msg362761
date=1765147565]
Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah… This always gives me
chills.
[/quote]
The entire Messiah is one of my very favorite pieces of music.
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: ShirtOfBlue Date: December 14, 2025, 12:29 pm
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A nice piece by Niall, who writes the Recording Studios of
London, over at The Other Place I Hang Out. It's the story
behind Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas.
HTML https://theafterword.co.uk/top-to-toe-in-tailbacks/
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jckb3dnS5fw&list=RDJckb3dnS5fw&start_radio=1
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: northbayteky Date: December 14, 2025, 1:27 pm
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When I was a child and Christmas meant more to me, I loved
singing "Hark the Hearld Angels
Sing" and "Good King Wenceslas." I still like those songs, but
my "modern" favorite is "Merry Christmas Darling" by the
Carpenters. Karen Carpenter has such a lovely, smooth voice.
And it holds memories for me.
HTML https://youtu.be/cQsJdoUngA0?si=TeNFyK8AwyByXBRe
HTML https://youtu.be/cQsJdoUngA0?si=BXFUMqweao48qIIL
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: LesserGoddess Date: December 14, 2025, 2:51 pm
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This one is tied for my favorite
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD-rtAVu14g
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: LesserGoddess Date: December 14, 2025, 2:54 pm
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[quote author=Aardtacha link=topic=3881.msg362613#msg362613
date=1765054192]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riG85oA6Wy4
I just love the harmony on this.
[/quote]
Oh that's nice!
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: LabPartner Date: December 14, 2025, 3:11 pm
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Is Riu Riu Chiu a Christmas song?
Yes, "Ríu Ríu Chíu" is a famous, powerful 16th-century Spanish
Christmas carol (a "villancico") about the birth of Jesus, known
for its driving rhythm and Marian themes, popularized in modern
times by groups like The Monkees and various choirs.
The basic theme of the song is the nativity of Christ. The
refrain which gives the villancico its title goes:
Ríu, ríu, chíu, la guarda ribera,
Dios guardó el lobo de nuestra cordera.
"[With a cry of] Ríu, ríu, chíu, the kingfisher, God kept
the wolf from our Lamb."
The Immaculate Conception is mentioned in the lyrics:
El lobo rabioso la quiso morder
Mas Dios Poderoso la supo defender
Quísola hacer que no pudiese pecar
Ni aun original esta virgen no tuviera.
"The raging wolf sought to bite her, but God Almighty knew
(how) to defend her; He chose to make her so that she could not
sin; no original sin was found in that virgin."
The song also mentions themes of the Incarnation and Christmas:
Éste que es nacido es el Gran Monarca
Cristo Patriarca de carne vestido
Ha nos redimido con se hacer chiquito
Aunque era infinito finito se hiciera.
"This one that is born is the Great King, Christ the
Patriarch clothed in flesh. He redeemed us when He made himself
small, though He was Infinite He would make himself finite."
Muchas profecías lo han profetizado
Y aún en nuestros días lo hemos alcanzado
A Dios humanado vemos en el suelo
Y al hombre en el cielo porque Él le quisiera
"Many prophecies have prophesied it, and even in our days
we have reached it, God in flesh we see on the ground, and men
in heaven because He would wanted"
Yo vi mil Garzones que andavan cantando
Por aqui volando haciendo mil sones
Diciendo a gascones Gloria sea en el Cielo
Y paz en el suelo pues Jesús nasciera.
"I saw a thousand boys (angels) go singing, here making a
thousand voices while flying, telling the shepherds of glory in
the heavens, and peace to the world since Jesus has been born"
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: muskrat Date: December 15, 2025, 8:36 am
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[quote author=The Ghost of Cable Street
link=topic=3881.msg364154#msg364154 date=1765736950]
A nice piece by Niall, who writes the Recording Studios of
London, over at The Other Place I Hang Out. It's the story
behind Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas.
HTML https://theafterword.co.uk/top-to-toe-in-tailbacks/
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jckb3dnS5fw&list=RDJckb3dnS5fw&start_radio=1
[/quote] [member=74]The Ghost of Cable Street[/member]
Love the back story: I'd never heard the song before.
But um what ?
"...turned up for a coffee and a chinwag...."
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Re: Post your favorite Christmas song
By: muskrat Date: December 15, 2025, 9:09 am
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I love all of the traditional xmas songs that we grew up with so
here's my very fave that's a little off the beaten tracks.
It sounds exactly like snow and cold and wintertime to me and
Chrissie Hynde's voice is sublime.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEyGZlBdkaA
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