A song I never miss playing come the holidays is Fairytale of New York by the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl from the album If I should Fall From Grace With God, it is both sacred and profane and always leaves a tear in my eye. Some great Christmas tunes are hidden away on albums that are not holiday albums. Just try getting the song I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas out of your head once it has taken hold. Demento Presents the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All-time and Holidays in Dementia. Don’t miss Willie Colon’s salsa classics Asalto Navideño volumes 1 and 2.ĭr Demento brings the full Yule cheese-log to his Christmas compilations Dr. The Chinese Twelve Girls Band has a fine instrumental Christmas album called Twelve Girls of Christmas played on traditional Chinese instruments. How about Tuvan overtone singing, also called throat singing? You will find members of Alash joining in with banjo legend Bela Fleck to tackle Jingle Bells and What Child is This on the album Jingle All the Way. I enjoy the standards but also like exploring the outer reaches of the canon, especially international takes on the holidays and I also go for cheesy novelty tunes.
I love Christmas songs and have several hundred CDs and LPs that I haul out of the closet every year in December.
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