I always loved O Come O Come Emmanuel, since it was always the first we sang in school assembly after the beginning of Advent. The beginning of Christmas!
Two carols that were new to me when dds learned them at school for a carol service, were the Calypso Carol and the Cowboy ditto. I’m more a fan of the traditional, but these two are so lively and jolly, I liked them from the start.
We were once invited to a ticketed major carol singalong at a big church near friends in Devon. I was so looking forward to it, but oh, what a disappointment. I’m familiar with masses of carols, but I’d never even heard of several, and those I thought I knew, were sung to an unfamiliar tune. Towards the very end it was The Holly And The Ivy - surely they can’t muck this one up, I thought - but it was also sung to a non traditional tune. ☹️