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Songs of Christmas: Day 25 – O Come All Ye Faithful

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 25th offering:

 

Day 24

Donna Summer: O Come All Ye Faithful

Amy Grant: O Come All Ye Faithful

Kings College Cambridge: O Come All Ye Faithful

Songs of Christmas: Day 24 – Merry Xmas Everybody

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 24th offering:

How could I not include this one, even if I don’t like the X in Xmas!.

Day 24

Slade: Merry Xmas Everybody

Songs of Christmas: Day 23 – Joy To The World

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 23rd offering:

One of my favorite carols in two updated versions and a more traditional one.

Day 23

Chris Tomlin: Joy To The World (Unspeakable Joy)

Mariah Carey: Joy To The World

John Rutter / Cambridge Singers: Joy To The World

Songs of Christmas: Day 22 – Gloria

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 22nd offering:

Day 22

Michael W Smith:  Gloria

Songs of Christmas: Day 17 – Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 17th offering:

Day 17

Vaughan Williams : Fantasia on Christmas Carols

A great mix of Carols combined into a classical masterpiece. How many can you recognise.

 

 

 

 

 

Songs of Christmas: Day 16 – Breath of Heaven

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 16th offering:

Day 16

Amy Grant: Breath of Heaven

Sam Levine : Breath of Heaven

Donna Summer : Breath of Heaven

 

 

 

 

Songs of Christmas: Day 15 – Christmas Wrapping

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 15th offering:

Day 15

The Waitresses : Christmas Wrapping

 

 

 

Songs of Christmas: Day 14 – Rejoice

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 14th offering:

Day 14

Hillsong: Rejoice

 

 

 

Songs of Christmas: Day 13 – The Christmas Song

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 13th offering:

Day 13

This song has sung “many times, many ways” over the years

Christina Aguilera: The Christmas Song

Christina Aguilera: The Christmas Song (Thunderpuss Remix)

Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song

Donna Summer: The Christmas Song

Francesca Battistelli: The Christmas Song

Sam Levine: The Christmas Song

 

 

 

Songs of Christmas: Day 12 – Mary’s Boy Child

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 12th offering:

Day 12

A Christmas classic from ’80s Disco Pop Group Boney M and Harry Belafonte

Boney M :Mary’s Boy Child / O My Lord

Harry Belafonte: Mary’s Boy Child

Songs of Christmas: Day 11 – Winter Snow

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 11th offering:

Day 11

Winter Snow : Chris Tomlin featuring Audrey Assad

I heard this last Christmas – another haunting melody with meaning. A perfect song for those days when the world is blanketed in white (not something we’ll ever have here though!)

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Songs of Christmas: Day 10: Winter Wonderland

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 10th offering:

Day 10

Another song with a wide variety of versions from the likes of Doris Day, Eurythmics, Pentatonix, Sam Levine and a more unusual version by Steve Taylor!

Winter Wonderland: Doris Day

Winter Wonderland: Eurythmics

Winter Wonderland / Don’t Worry Be Happy: Pentatonix

Winter Wonderland: Steve Taylor

Winter Wonderland: Sam Levine

 

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Songs of Christmas: Day 9 – Coventry Carol

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of some of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 9th offering:

Day 9

So many different versions of this including two from my favourite artists, a more traditional version and a different version from the film “The Nativity”. Four for the price of one!

Lullay Lullay (Coventry Carol): Annie Lennox

Coventry Carol: Alison Moyet

Coventry Carol: Mediaeval Baebes

And Thou Bethlehem: Mychael Danna

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Songs of Christmas: Day 8 – Carol of the Bells

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of one of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 8th offering:

Day 8

Pentatonix: Carol of the Bells

I came across this ‘band’ on Facebook the other day and was amazed by the sound. An a capella group with a rich layered sound. There are many good songs on their two Christmas Albums. This is one of my favorites

 

For another alternative version there is this dramatic version from the Film Score to the Nativity

Mychael Danna : Is There A Place For Us?

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Songs of Christmas: Day 7 – Real

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of one of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 7th offering:

Day 7

Nichole Nordeman: Real

I bought this on an album last year, but for some reason I never heard it before this year. When I did I was amazed, such a hauntingly beautiful song, sung by a voice I didn’t know. Not a classic, definitely new but a firm favorite.

If you go to a Nativity this year think about this song and think!

Songs of Christmas: Day 6 – I Believe In Father Christmas

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.
Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of one of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 6th offering:

Day 6

Greg Lake : I Believe in Father Christmas

Probably my favorite secular Christmas song. A rock opera of a tune. The closing line is chilling –

Hallelujah Noël, Be It Heaven or Hell, The Christmas we get we deserve!

 

 

 

 

Songs of Christmas: Day 5 – Little Drummer Boy

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of one of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 5th offering:

Day 5

Bing Crosby & David Bowie: Little Drummer Boy

A surreal combination of 40’s Crooner and 70’s Glam Rock Star made for an interesting Christmas song. The kids are singing this one tonight as a duo at the Boarder’s Christmas Dinner Dance.

As with all Christmas songs there are several versions, this is one I particularly like

Whiteheart: Little Drummer Boy

 

 

 

 

Songs of Christmas: Day 4 – Veni Veni Emanuel

Each year I start playing Christmas Music from the start of December.

Each day until Christmas (in addition to my other posts) I will post a link to a video of one of the Christmas tunes on my iPod. Some will be carols, others pop songs. Here is my 4th offering:

Day 4

Mychael Danna: Veni Veni Emmanuel

The opening titles of the 2006 film The Nativity Story has this amazing version of the familiar Christmas Carol (O Come O Come Emmanuel) by Mychael Danna part of an atmospheric Film Score.

What’s Missing?

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Here’s a clue

 

 

Another Week Down!

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The weeks are flying by at a pace and with 11 weeks to go it’s beginning to feel like we’re never going to get it all done. Though remembering back to one of Anita’s early posts – you eat an elephant one bite at a time.

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