RowdyMoon Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 and...it's not Christmas without the Heat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PouMzBdB-Ts&feature=colike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowdyMoon Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 or Bruce.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syS9wU1Sr8A&feature=colike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC8AhRZ7rPk&feature=colike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Love this tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 or Bruce.... Ya man. Can't even remember how many times I have seen Bruce. And a couple up close and personal shows with Hugh Marsh in the band... Awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Leroy Anderson, The Ventures, and Debbie Gibson's versions of "Sleigh Ride" would be my favorite(not all at the same time of course) Least favorites would be "This Christmas". I really do love most Christmas tunes, unreasonably so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 I can't believe we've come this far without any of the Brits posting this one.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxQ4Ul_DME Slade's 'Merry Christmas Everybody' and this were released at exactly the same time. Slade got the top slot and Wizzard were #2. Best (?) two 'Pop' Xmas tracks from my youth IMO. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rogerb Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 I will alway like the Christmas Song written by Mel Torme. The Nat King Cole version is my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rogerb Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 I will always love The Christmas Song written by Mel Torme, my favorite version is by Nat King Cole. I really liked "Mary did you know" the first hundred times I heard it but it has gotten wearisome now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabs Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 LOL... Even Les Paul did the xmas thing.. Is it me? Every time I hear Les and Mary's music something about it reminds me of Hawaiian styled music? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 ...Is it me? Every time I hear Les and Mary's music something about it reminds me of Hawaiian styled music? :)... No, Rabs. You're spot on. Hard though it may be to believe now but Hawaiian music was extremely popular Stateside from as far back as the '30s and lasted to an extent up to the mid-'50s. Les Paul absolutely loved the purity of tone used by Hawaiian guitarists and was directly influenced by their sound. I'm sure he mentions it somewhere in 'Chasing Sound' but it's been a while since I watched it so can't be 100% certain. Furthermore, some of the very first electric guitars were (AFAIK) lap-steels built for this (Hawaiian Music) market. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl M Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Being a Southerner, I HATE those redneck type Christmas songs. They are NOT how we celebrate Christmas at my house. In that spirit, here is, in my opinion, the worst country Christmas representative... and the best one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanH Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 A couple of faves of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCoZVxlZWtU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corson Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I really don't like the Pogues or McCartney's songs,,,,,,,,favourite is Perry Como. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 And of course, Trans Siberian Orchestra. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender 4 Life Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 And of course, Trans Siberian Orchestra. NOW you're talkin' FM !! had a chance to see the show 2 yrs ago but had to work..... wish i'd played hookie that night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobB Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 "Christmas Time" by Larry Norman is one of my fav rockin' Christmas songs from the early '70's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCyLoL6vwS8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 NOW you're talkin' FM !! had a chance to see the show 2 yrs ago but had to work..... wish i'd played hookie that night! I'd love to see them live! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 I've just about concluded that in terms of tunes, we're quite influenced by what we heard in our childhood, perhaps rejected for "Pop" sounds in our teen and younger adult years, then returned to appreciation of the older material. I know in my case that's why I liked "The Christmas Song" and even Cole's version I'd heard a lot, but never even thought of playing until I was in my 50s and a good friend had been a classmate of Torme's. I started listening a bit more to Torme and his version and... whew. A whole new look at what for me was an "old" song. RE: Cockburn. Believe it or not, I'd not even heard the name until the past half dozen years or so. But then, he's an old guy. A cupla months older than I am, even. <grin> But in the 80s and early 90s I was running so hard I mostly listened to my older tapes of stuff I liked in the 60s and 70s; then the past 15-18 years on working on improvements for solo guitar arrangements of the stuff I liked "back then." <sigh> Gettin' older ain't for wimps, but in terms of music... I think in ways our taste is almost solidified by our mid 20s, and what we like after that tends to be patterned, at least, as with what we like then. At least, that's how it seems from here. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellion102792 Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 John Denver's Christmas With the Muppets album...I challenge you all to make that the only Christmas album you play from now til New Years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted November 14, 2012 Share Posted November 14, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqLGdsp1oc This is cool. I was looking for "I Zat you Santa Claus" and found this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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