It may be July, but for the Munchkin it's just a few days before Christmas.
So I'd like to do a quick survey. What's your favorite Christmas carol?
I'm looking for something sentimental, that brings you fond memory of your youth.
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It's gotta be...
...Silent Night.
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Christmas in July?
How about little drummer boy?
K
Carol?
Silent Night
July is cold
Well here it is, so that sorta works. Christmas proper here is mid Summer and often stinking hot so looking at films or shots of people all rugged up and maybe even snow seems incongruous, Mostly what we get though. I remember once as a kid the 'olds' bought an Album Aussie Christmas Carols or something similar and I laughed and danced around the room to one called Six White Boomers, sung I think by Rolf Harris. (boomer is a big Kangaroo, never heard of a white one though).
I like quite a few traditional type Carols and songs by Bing and others. Not sure I can name too many but I know them the instant I hear them. Some I'll admit are a bit cheesy, but hey that's allowed now and then.
Kristina
I'm kind of
partial to "It's cold outside." by Michael Beuble or "Walking in a Winter Wonderland."
I know they're not classical carols but I love guys like Bing Crosby.
Bailey Summers
"Winter Wonderland" and
"Winter Wonderland" and "Hark The Herald Angels Sing (ESPECIALLY to hear Jewel sing it. /swoon) are two of my personal favorites. Even in the middle of summer if I'm feeling down or something I can listen to Tran-Siberian Orchestra and instantly lift my spirits.
I'm also partial to "Silent Night" for an instant Christmas-feel. It's such an iconic song.
Christmas in July
For the Magical Mystical Munchkin, I'd say [Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer] just for laughs, but to me, her song would be {What Child Is This] better known as Greensleeves.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
The Munchkin's sining? Cover your ears :-)
Hold on a minute, think back to when Mrs. T auditioned their voices, Mary Beth is the one that has a voice like an Angel. Matilda has a hard time trying to carry a tune in a bucket. So, I'm really trying to decide on a song for Mary Beth to sing solo.
There's
a version of "Have yourself a merry little Christmas." I've heard sung sweetly and kind of slow jazz like by I think Gwen Steffani but I'm not sure. I just know it could fit any female character really well from ages 14+
Bailey Summers
"I'll be home for Christmas."
Having spent so many Christmases away from home, it has special meanings for me. Now that my parents and grandparents are gone along with my best friend of all time, and so many friends are far, far away, it always makes me cry when I hear it, knowing I can;t ever go back "home."
Merry Christmas, Munchkin!
Cathy
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
Judy Garland's version
from Meet Me in St. Louis of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas as she sings to her screen sister Margaret O'Brien. A very bittersweet moment and brilliant camera work to capture the sadness in Judy's eyes; directed by her then husband, Vincente Minelli.
A close second would be O Little Town of Bethlehem.... the lyric The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight says so much to me; not only of the holiday but of my faith as well. Thanks for the blog!
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Con grande amore e di affetto, Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
Winter Wonder Land.
I found a web-site with lyrics for a hundred Christmas Carols.
I don't know about any of you, but I've never heard this one.
I wonder who wrote this, one of you maybe?
Lacy things -- the wife is missin',
Didn't ask -- her permission,
I'm wearin' her clothes,
Her silk pantyhose,
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear.
In the store -- there's a teddy,
Little straps -- like spaghetti,
It holds me so tight,
Like handcuffs at night,
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear.
In the office there's a guy named Melvin, He pretends that I am Murphy Brown.
He'll say, "Are you ready?" I'll say,"Whoa, Man!" "Let's wait until our wives are out of town!"
Later on, if you wanna,
We can dress -- like Madonna,
Put on some eyeshade,
And join the parade,
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear!
Lacy things... missin',
Didn't ask... permission,
Wearin' her clothes,
Her silk pantyhose,
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear,
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear,
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear!
Ho, Ho, Ho. Merry Christmas.
Winter Wonderland
This version I beleive was written by someone in Monty Python.
Melanie
The ever popular Weird Al Yankovic
is credited on one site. Wikipedia give Bob Rivers and Elsa Boreson both credit on their site.
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Con grande amore e di affetto, Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
Munchkin does have a devious streak, though a bit silly, Penny
She does have a mischievous streak so maybe A Christmas Carol by Tom Lehrer?
Or there is this cute Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters Hawaiian Christmas song, Mele Kalikimaka. It was on the radio everywhere on our early December trip to Hawaii in 2006.
Or she could shock them and sing some classic Chrismas carol angelically, nah!
But please, NOT The Little Drummer Boy. I HATE that song.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Jeez, that's little drummer GIRL, fer sure!
Don't know how I pissed him off, par rum pa pum pum
Someone else wrote this song, he thinks it's so dumb
I'm so hurt I feel so bad, I'm almost numb, feeling so glum, ain't it so dumb?
so i'll just console myself while chewing some gum
this song is so dumb!
(shhh..not really, but don't tell John that)
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Con grande amore e di affetto, Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
They considered using The Little Drummer Boy at Gitmo ...
to force the suspected Taliban to talk but decided on waterboarding instead. They DID play songs from BarneyTM to them. I love you, you love me.... ACK! But not The Little Drummer Boy.
Hey, even intergators have their limits.
The Little Drummer Boy, yet another reason to detest the Trap Family Singers -- they were the first to *popularize* it in America. I mean, as if The Sound of Music wasn't bad enough.
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. Part of what I said is actually true about Gitmo, the BarneyTM that is.
John in Wauwatosa
Youth carols
Especially given her diminutive size, the favourite of every primary school:
Away in a Manger
Or, for something more upbeat, See Him Lying on a Bed of Straw.
How about the tale of the lovestruck fool, who happens to know where to acquire 12 partridges1, 22 turtle doves, 30 french hens, 36 blackbirds2, 40 ring-necked pheasants3, 42 geese, 42 swans, 40 milkmaids (and 40 cows!), 36 female dancers (or 9 dancers hired for 4 days), 30 peers (who happen to be good at gymnatics - heck, even finding 10 to hire for 3 days would be hard enough!), 22 pipers (or 11 hired for 2 days) and 12 drummers...
If you want the choir to attempt a few non-carol seasonal songs, then Rudolph and Frosty are good bets.
Or how about Jingle Bells (originally written for Thanksgiving!)
Footnotes:
1) The pear tree may be a mistranslation of "A partridge, une perdrix" - the song may have been originally French, then translated into English.
2) Nowadays almost always said to be calling birds, the original said "colly birds" (i.e. blackbirds)
3) Not jewellry rings, but a ring-necked bird - besides which, it keeps the continuity of the first seven days being birds.
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