Your favorite "lesser known" Christmas Songs

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy--Brad Paisley (though several other people have done it, too)

Another one from Brad--364 Days to Go

 

[DeaverTex]

Lorena McKennitt's recording of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"

 

[WDWBarb]

The entire album, "John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together." My favorite song is When The River Meets the Sea.

 

[iheartdisney]

My favorite-est you can't find anywhere. I had to go on ebay and buy an old CD to hear it. It is called "The Tumbleweed Christmas Tree" by Andy Wilkenson.
Just found it on Amazon! Best Christmas song EVER!!! (especially if you are Texan.)
Tumbleweed Christmas

My new favorite humorous song has to be the Kung Pow Buckaroo Holiday
Kungpow Buckaroo Holiday

 

[ShesAPirate]

One of my all time favorite songs is The Christmas Song by London After Midnight.

Wow, London After Midnight -- I didn't think anyone knew who they were! Haven't even thought about them since I was in high school


This is my favorite, lesser-known Christmas song -- Christmas Bells by Patti Page. I love it!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hZ2Rx2vqo

 

[clutter]

(Must have been) Ol' Santa Claus - Harry Connick Jr.

 

[2girls4me]

Merry Christmas eve - better than Ezra

 

[castmemberb4]

Christmas in Dixie - Alabama

 

[teacherforhi]

Ding A Ling The Christmas Bell by Lynn Anderson

 

[lemondog]

Emmanuel - Amy Grant

Gabriel's Message - Sting

 

[Geoff_M]

"Some Children See Him"

 

[Rylee]

This isn't exactly a song, but is anyone familiar with -
Dear Santa, from the Wayne Newton Album, Merry Christmas To You. (1970)

It's a child's reading of the letter he wrote to Santa. In the letter, he talks about how Santa must have moved because last year they sent his letter to the North Pole. This year, he ask Santa to give his toys to the kid down the road, "Cause he don't get many," and then he goes on to tell Santa, he cried last night, "Cause of what I want for Christmas, I want my Daddy."

The child's voice is adorable, and it is heartbreaking because at the end, Wayne Newton comes on to sing...

This coming year,
No Christmas cheer
because I won't
be home to hear
Merry Christmas Daddy.
and a Happy New Year.

I always figured it was about a father in the Vietnam War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5--Mcj4D9Cg

Another of my favorites is not just a Christmas song, but we get to hear it more often during the Xmas season... Let There Be Peace on Earth.

 

[dfchelbay]

Not sure how well know these might be. I know many people I know do not know them, but this one is my favorite of all time. The vocals are superb and the music itself is wonderful...so full, layered and rich:

Toyland

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-wjtQASnc


This is a nice one as well: C H R I S T M A S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhtUu1cvVJY

Yes, I simply adore Perry Como.

 

[Shugardrawers]

All I Want for Christmas is You -- NOT the Mariah Carey version. This one is by Vince Vance & the Valliants & is a totally different song. I crank the radio and really belt it out the rare times I hear it.

 

[shinysparklybubbles]

All I Want for Christmas is You -- NOT the Mariah Carey version. This one is by Vince Vance & the Valliants & is a totally different song. I crank the radio and really belt it out the rare times I hear it.

Blech. Mariah Carey and Christmas music. Should be a law against that.

Off to google the version you are talking about!

 

[HippieChickadee]

Mary's Boy Child by Harry Belafonte

 

[EPCOTatNight]

Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

 

[Shugardrawers]

Blech. Mariah Carey and Christmas music. Should be a law against that.

Off to google the version you are talking about!

Here it is. And DAMN what a voice!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1VkMBi9vvw

 

[AngieMouse86]

Ev'rybody's Waiting for the Man With the Bag by Kay Starr

Seconded!

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses is my all time favorite. I love the Brass!!!

Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses

The entire album, "John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together." My favorite song is When The River Meets the Sea.

Yes! My youngest sister, 8, *LOVES* their version of 12 Days of Christmas. We have so much fun singing along, doing all the different voices lol, and doing the dramatic Miss Piggy parts.


I'm blanking on some more lesser-known ones that I enjoy to list and I don't have my iPod handy, lol. I greatly enjoy Petit Papa Noel by Josh Groban, but I'm sure his version made that a well-known song.

 

[indimom]

I love Trans Siberian. I could listen to my CD for days and days.
Mary, Did you Know?
Jewell's version of O Holy Night. Just beautiful.
Where are you Christmas? Faith Hill

And for pure fun (and so many of my childhood memories)
The Twelve Pains of Christmas
"Rigging up the lights."
"Now, why the hell are they blinking?"
"I need a drink."

Good Times!