Favorite Christmas music CD?

[maux]

My favorite individual Christmas songs:

Do You Hear What I Hear - Whitney houston
Santa Claus is Coming to Town & Merry Christmas, Baby - Bruce Springsteen

My favorite Christmas album:

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - featuring The Ronettes, The Crystal and Darlene Love, etc. Just to hear Darlene Love sing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is worth the price.

Also, this year I bought myself a $25 ITunes card and have been downloading all sorts of Christmas songs. It's been a lot of fun!


maux

 

[kmk160]

Straight No Chaser!!!!

I have been friends with one of the members of the group for over 25 years, since I was 8 years old.
AMAZING cd! (I know I am biased but truly is great)

 

[dgthree]

I have tons, and these are some of my all-time favorites (some have already been mentioned, but I figure this is an extra vote):

Celine Dion - These Are Special Times
Harry Connick Jr - When My Heart Finds Christmas
Peter, Paul & Mary - Holiday Celebration
Jim Brickman - The Gift
Judy Collins - All on a Wintry Night
Martina McBride - White Christmas
John Denver & The Muppets - A Christmas Together
Garth Brooks - Beyond the Season (out of print)
Now That's What I Call Christmas compilation
Very Special Christmas compilations (all are good)

 

[MickeyManiac]

My favorites have to be

Beach Boys Christmas CD
Collin Raye Christmas

Both are fun and upbeat!

 

[Carrie772]

A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio

I have way too many favorites to list. One of my very favorites is Harry Connick Jr's, When My Heart Finds Christmas.

I also love "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by Vince Guaraldi.

I agree with those too. I love Harry and Charlie!

 

[ceecee]

Trans Siberean Orchestra

 

[skip323]

My favorite music of the year!!! My top three are

A Charlie Brown Christmas (which a few others have already mentioned)

Take 6 Christmas CD ...I believe it is "He is Christmas" . I think they have 2 now and it is their first one....beautiful music

A Cheetah Girl Christmas.. Seriously though. When the cheetah Girls were popular I purchased this for my girls and we all love it! Very ...peppy!

I also have an excellent CD of Christmas Party Songs - instrumental, mostly piano that I got at a book sale. It is wonderful. Should I track it down I will post it!

 

[MAKHayes-DisneyDiva]

I have way too many favorites to list. One of my very favorites is Harry Connick Jr's, When My Heart Finds Christmas. It's his first one, he's put out one more two more since then, but that one is my favorite.

Me too!
I like his second one, but the first is my favorite.

 

[cjackearl]

James Taylor's Christmas album is a favorite for our family. Michael Buble has an EP of Christmas songs that I got off itunes that I love.

I LOVE the James Taylor Christmas album! I love that man's voice.

Our family's all time favorite Christmas album, though is John Denver and the Muppets. Some of the songs are really funny versions of classics, but there are some beautiful originals, also.

 

[Xcited4Disney]

My favorite music of the year!!!

A Cheetah Girl Christmas.. Seriously though. When the cheetah Girls were popular I purchased this for my girls and we all love it! Very ...peppy!

We have this one too and enjoy it as well. Cheetah Girls and Charlie Brown are on heavy rotation here lol.

I'm going to look into the other suggestions as well.

 

[gillenkl]

I don't have it, but a popular CD right now is by 'Straight No Chaser'.

I heard this group for the first time today on PBS television - they are awesome!

 

[IluvKingLouis]

If you are up for insturmental, George Winston's "December" is piano at it's best.

I love this one too. Have you thought about downloading your favorites and coming up with your own mix?

Remarkably, this one is free, and is a lot of fun. We played it for our Christmas concert and it was a huge hit.

http://www.kallmancreates.com/Audio/holiday_hoedown.mp3

 

[Jitzy]

Have you ever heard of Christmas with the Rat Pack if you have Bing Crosby, you might like Frank, Dean and Sammy!

 

[StitchandPooh'sMom]

My favorites:

Straight No Chaser (just asked for their new CD for Christmas this year - I love the first one)

Harry Connick, Jr.

Clint Black Looking for Christmas (I'm not a country music fan at all, but I love this CD. It has lots of great original Christmas songs.)

Trans Siberian Orchestra

A compilation CD that DH made for me with classic Christmas music - Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, etc.

I also like some individual songs - Bare Naked Ladies, New York City Christmas by Rob Thomas, Believe by Josh Groban (from Polar Express) - I'm sure there are many more that I can't think of right now.

 

[fatuhiva]

If you like Irish music The Chieftan's Christmas album is very nice.

 

[dsneybride]

I love Nat King Cole and Alabama!!

This weekend I am taking my mom to see The Manheim Steamrollers! I am very excited!!

 

[starbird]

I too have more than I can list. I think I have at least 100 CDs! Every year I say I don't need anymore, but then I pick up a few more. This year I want to get Taylor Swift's one. Both DD10 and I like Taylor.

I love the standards I had as a kid-
Bing Crosby-White Christmas
Bobby Sherman's Christmas Album
Partridge Family Christmas Album. (Though I was definitely a Bobby Sherman fan while my older DSis was for David Cassidy-we used to argue who was cuter!)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

I also like the "newer" ones as well. Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Streisand, Country Christmas Favorites, etc.

I like to get the compilation ones (Target) Both the Country and the Stars ones. I also like the older Special Olympics (1987) Christmas one. Some of the Transiberian Orch. ones are good. For background music I like instrumentals ones.

I pretty much like all Christmas CDs except those that really mess with the song 'til you don't recognize it.

check out these links for popular ones.
http://top40.about.com/od/top10lists/tp/christmasalbums.htm
http://countrymusic.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/Top10CntryXmas.htm

I can't believe someone else put The Partridge Family.

So I'll second BNL and Partridge Family. Also, the ones that I love are always the ones from being a kid.

• Mitch Miller's Sing A Long
• John Denver and the Muppets

 

[xbatman]

If you like Irish music The Chieftan's Christmas album is very nice.

The Irish Tenors also made a great Christmas album back in the Ronan Tynan days!

 

[java]

nobody has mentioned my all time favorite.

Luther Vandross
This is Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLTb8y8J50

just a little taste of why I love this one.

Boy do I miss Luther.

Oh my other favorite off that cd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6UxBbsunc

 

[dfchelbay]

nobody has mentioned my all time favorite.

Luther Vandross
This is Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLTb8y8J50

just a little taste of why I love this one.

Boy do I miss Luther.

Oh my other favorite off that cd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6UxBbsunc

I agree with you. Don't forget this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Aj05XDHScM&feature=related

I sure do miss Luther too. What a voice...what a talent.