Top 10 - Christmas Music
December 22, 2007 | 8:00 pm
For as long as I can remember I’ve been an avid fan of Christmas music. Classic to new - it’s amazing just how many different ways a Christmas song can be styled and recorded. Personally, I’ve collected some 1,300 songs for over 80 hours of non-stop Noel. While some of you are probably pulling your hair out at the non-stop bombardment of commercialism - I could listen to this particular music over and over… (I even listen to it once in a while when it’s not the holiday time!)
Since I wasn’t able to get any new Christmas recordings done of my own this year, I thought I’d try my hand at putting together a Top 10 list of Christmas favorites by other artists… It was a lot harder than I had imagined… And even after pulling a first set of songs together - I pushed the list to 16 songs! And I left a good 15 more on the cutting room floor… not to count entire albums that are perfect for parties.
That being said, I eventually pulled together a list of songs that I actually enjoy on repeat… You’ll find that these selections aren’t your regular “That’s What I Call Music!!” or “Best Christmas Songs EVER!!” type lists. Or even a collection of “standards”. I’ve left the need for Bing Crosby, Band Aid, Burl Ives, What! to be left to other sites! (Although I did come across an updated version of “Last Christmas” by Britt Nicole that almost made the list…)
I’m also take a few seconds to plug my own selection of Christmas CDs that I’ve created over the years… (And at which I try each year to make a new one… without much success!)
Now for the list… By using the icons shown below you can download or stream hi and lo-fi versions of my prepared 30-second song samples. You can even grab a playlist of all of the selections and listen to them one after another…
SHeDAISY - Deck The Halls- The Big Band - Joy To The World
- The Cathedral Brass - Joy To The World (Mocean Worker Remix)
- Dance Nation - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Frank McComb - This Christmas
- Jimmy McGriff - The Christmas Song (Tonal Remix)
- Bryan Lubeck - The First Noel
- Dave Koz - Little Drummer Boy
- Dixieland - Frosty The Snowman
- Joe Williams - Jingle Bells (Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix)
- Spyro Gyra - Feliz Navidad
- Tom Scott - Feliz Navidad
- Fourplay - Amazing Grace
- Ray Conniff - Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town
- Mannheim Steamroller - Traditions Of Christmas
- Heidi Klum - Wonderland
Enjoy! And feel free to surprise me with some updated covers of these classics…
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I've been tossing around the idea of doing Top 10 lists for some time now and figured now was as good of a time as any. Most will probably be around music or other such topics… and I'm starting out with one of my favorites - Cinematic Scores. I've long enjoyed a good cinematic score and actually went to the Conservatory of Music - Kansas City in hopes of getting there. I did finish - but as you can probably tell - I didn't make it into the movies. While making this list - I had to find a few ways to limit my scope. If you call them "soundtracks" you end up getting a lot of competing choices. I'll actually come back to some of those other categories - but these are limited to selections that are usually composed for a specific movie and are mostly instrumentals (doesn't that describe a score?). What you'll see below represents the movie, composer and a musical selection. I've also included a 30 second sample for you to enjoy. You can download, stream, or listen to a lofi version by clicking on each of the icons next to the name. I now bring you…
