Two songs: Silent Night & Run Run Rudolph by none other than the soon to be birthday boy!

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Keith's Rudolph and Bob's take on Must be Santa.

[My copy of Rudolph kind of comes out every year with the Christmas trimmings and gets a lot of hammer over the festive period ]

I just read something on Slate where a writer spoke of a new Ryan Adams version of "Must Be Santa" as a "laid-back cover of a Bob Dylan tune."


As noted in the book Bob Dylan: All The Songs, Bob's arrangement is pretty much borrowed from the earlier version done by the Texas polka-rock band Brave Combo.

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Last Christmas by George Michael is good

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I've got two:

1) Merry Christmas Baby - Elvis Presley.

2) Christmas Oratorio - J S Bach, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

you can't go wrong with gardiner on bach

Agreed. Although I love Angela Hewitt's keyboard Bach.Keith Jarrett can be a bit annoying on Bach, as can Glenn Gould.

I have two Christmas Oratorio versions, one directed by Corboz, a slightly 'catholic' approach (think: traditional, splendour) and by Koopman, a somewhat 'protestant' more sober and subdued approach. As for Gould, I can never hear too much of him, but yes, he is idiosyncratic alright.

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I've got two:

1) Merry Christmas Baby - Elvis Presley.

2) Christmas Oratorio - J S Bach, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

you can't go wrong with gardiner on bach

Agreed. Although I love Angela Hewitt's keyboard Bach.Keith Jarrett can be a bit annoying on Bach, as can Glenn Gould.

Hewitt's wonderful. You might also try Tatiana Nikolayeva. She's mainly known as the pianist who debuted several of Shostakovich's major keyboard works, but her Bach is impeccable.

Special shout out to Mistress for Christmas by Acca Dacca!

Jingle bells jingle bells jingle all the way
I can't wait till Christmas time when I can roll you in the hay!

Rock on

I have a weakness for Please Come Home For Christmas by The Eagles.

"I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon."

I don't know how I missed this album, but it's brilliant





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Nice to have heard original Baby It's Cold Outside while out and about last weekend. Glad it wasn't cancelled (at least where I was)

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Hazel Dickens & Duddley Conney - Blue Christmas

I was 19 when this one was released I enjoyed it then and still enjoyed these days.................





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I think the vast majority in North America know Slade only for Cum On Feel The Noize and Mama Weer All Crazy Now. I'll bet very few know Merry Christmas Everybody although I know it's huge in England every Christmas.

I always looked forward to seeing Darlene Love on Letterman every holiday singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).

I always enjoy Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses. And also Happy Christmas by John & Yoko.

Chris Rea “Driving home for Christmas.”
Dylan’s Christmas album as chaotic and off the wall as it is

Phil Spector-Ronettes-Crystals

The new Pistol Annies album, Hell of a Holiday, is really good.

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Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
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This year
Cristina - Things Fall Apart
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Cambridge Choir Traditional Christmas songs

Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song. Exquisite.

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Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song. Exquisite.

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Yeah really you know, so many great Christmas songs but it always comes back to this one for me. Not just the song obviously but that unmatched vocal.