The Gransnet 2020 Christmas playlist

Treebee

Cheekily, I request Keeping the Dream Alive by Rock Choir as my voice is somewhere in the mix. And it’s an uplifting Christmassy song.

That's my football song, as my team is having a bad season! Love it

Gaudete by Steeleye Span definitely.

Also any traditional Carols song by church choirs, preferably in Latin.

Flaxseed

I’m really missing Fairytale of New York being played on the radio this year
My ex and I used to do a great duet when it came on!
I do like Carol of the Bells but can’t not think of ‘Home Alone’ everytime I hear it!

Whilst I have resigned myself to my self isolation Xmas day alone, I don’t think I will be able to listen to any carols as they always choke me up !

I always sang it on holiday in Gran Canaria with a dear friend, now sadly no longer with us. For the last couple of years I haven’t been able to listen to it, far less sing it! This year, my first without the Bodach, it will be even more poignant.

I’m really missing Fairytale of New York being played on the radio this year
My ex and I used to do a great duet when it came on!
I do like Carol of the Bells but can’t not think of ‘Home Alone’ everytime I hear it!

Whilst I have resigned myself to my self isolation Xmas day alone, I don’t think I will be able to listen to any carols as they always choke me up !

A winter's tale by David essex

Cheekily, I request Keeping the Dream Alive by Rock Choir as my voice is somewhere in the mix. And it’s an uplifting Christmassy song.

Something that was on our bucket list that got ticked off many years ago was to attend the midnight service at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The Finale was the 'Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's Messiah, sung in Latin.

Try as I might, I couldn't find something similar from Notre-Dame but The Royal Choral Society are just as good, in Latin, of course.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUZEtVbJT5c

Luciano Pavarotti - Ave Maria (Schubert)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpYGgtrMTYs

I love this by the Florin street band....

youtu.be/H10f2w7T5CU

Aepgirl, Michael Buble is on tv tomorrow night (Saturday, 19th), Sky Arts, 8.20pm. It’s a recording of his To be Loved tour from 2013/15, so not a Christmas Show, but over an hour and a half of the Buble! Thought you’d like to know!

Yes Riversidegirl, ‘we’ll have to muddle through somehow’.

baubles

Judy Garland singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

youtu.be/MKG5X0QMSWA

The words to this always bring tears to my eyes. If you listen carefully this year you may actually cry!

Once in Royal David's City, as sung at the start of the Kings College Cambridge Festival of Nine lessons and carols every year.

Thanks for that lovely video Grannynannywanny!

Craftygran, Madonna recorded a good version of Santa Baby.

Another vote here for Driving Home for Christmas.

This was a Christmas no1 in 1971 does it count?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6edDwphhk

The whole of the Phil Spector Christmas Album, please!

For this year how about Blue Christmas by Elvis!
Also Thank God its Christmas by Queen.

Well - I noticed this hasn't already been mentioned. I'll say " White Christmas" by The wonderful Bing Crosby
This is a beautiful and simple song, which transports me ( in my mind) to happier days when things were more simple and Christmas was just about family

Little Drummer boy, Pentatonix is just the perfect version.

Fairytale of New York is my all time favourite.

I like Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree. Brenda Lee.

Thank you to those who I suggested Pentatonix, at last a group that dh and bacon both enjoy!
Ps sorry to butt in on the thread, but this is a momentous occasion in our home.

I just bought Derek Ryans new cd The road to Christmas to play on Christmas day

fairytale of new york

I like a lots of the usual Xmas songs. But for a new one, Mabel — the loneliest Christmas. ???

The Harold Darke version of In the Bleak Midwinter..