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Favourite Christmas songs or carols

(58 Posts)
glammanana Sat 05-Nov-11 10:37:01

I will be singing carole's all day to-day now after reading this x

crimson Sat 05-Nov-11 10:30:46

Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel sends shivers up my spine; one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

glammanana Sat 05-Nov-11 10:25:41

I don't really have a favourite as I enjoy and TRY to sing along to most of them,I do like the childrens carole's that they sing at the school concert's all those little one's at their first concert getting the word's wrong,wonderful.

absentgrana Sat 05-Nov-11 10:07:38

I have a fondness for In the Bleak Midwinter. I hate Gatwick's Greatest Christmas Hits played in lifts and department stores throughout November and December.

susiecb Sat 05-Nov-11 10:05:01

My Christmas isn't made until I hear 'For unto us a child is born' from the Messiah. I am completely undone by Bing Crosby White Christams - reminds me of my parents and you cant avoid it. I could personally strange Noddy Holder and his Merry Christmas song and bloody Wham Last Christmas and as for Stiff Richards Mistletoe and Wine - poke my eyes out with a sharp stick!!!

kittylester Fri 04-Nov-11 19:59:11

O Little Town of Bethlehem for the carol and Fairy Tale of New York for the song. I taught my best friend who was/is a catholic. "O Little Town" because I've always loved it. She asked her priest if he knew it and was told to say a few "Hail Marys" Oops!

shysal Fri 04-Nov-11 19:54:37

Last Christmas by Wham is my favourite seasonal song.
I suppose it will not be long before we start hearing the usual stuff in shops, which always irritates me when it is too early - I feel sorry for the staff.

Divawithattitude Fri 04-Nov-11 19:17:52

What is yours?

I love the Angel Carol by John Rutter, one for choirs really but beautiful, and Away in a Manger sung by small children, or Little Donkey.

And apart from that Lonely this Christmas by MUD.