What with it being only 6 days until
Christmas Eve (6 days????!!!????) I, like you, have been listening to
a lot of holiday music recently, if only because I need to decide
what we’re gonna be playing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,
when we’ll be playing nothing BUT 36 straight hours of holiday
music. And after listening to oh, I dunno, a hundred or so new
Christmas songs (or new versions of old classics), I’ve come to a
decision--
Usually, with Christmas songs, the
older, the better.
Now, I’m not trying to sound like an
old fuddy duddy here, but does the world really need the 114th
version of “Winter Wonderland”, this time sung by a 9-year old Disney
Channel star, or a remake of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”,
as interpreted by a spoken word poet (both of which are available this year,by the way)?
I dunno.
Normally, I enjoy listening to younger
artists trying their hand at classic works, and I do realize that
there are a finite number of Christmas songs out there, so if you
wanna record an album of “classics”, you only have a few from
which to choose. But there’s just something about the “classic”
version of those classics that make the holidays, well, the holidays.
You know, classic versions like these--the list of Jim’s top 5 Christmas songs of all time (assuming,
of course, I actually sat down and made a list of my top 5 Christmas
songs of all time)--
5. “All I Want For Christmas Is
You”, Mariah Carey.
4. “The Most Wonderful Time Of The
Year”, Johnny Mathis.
3. “Same Old Lang Syne”, Dan
Fogelberg.
2. “White Christmas”, by (don’t
laugh) Vince Gill.
1. “The Christmas Song”, by Nat
King Cole.
All songs that, I might add, are still
among our most requested holiday songs by YOU guys (well, except for
maybe the Vince version of “White”), and all songs that you’ll
be hearing from now through our 36 hours of non-stop holiday music
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
By the way...what are YOUR favorites?
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