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The Horse — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:46:55 -0000

marcus roberts christmas album - great piano jazz
mahaila jackson - need we say more?

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proud state copper — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:50:39 -0000

MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER "CHRISTMAS" CD. New wave christmas carols that will keep the tempo upbeat. Makes me not want to write tickets.

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NoGiftsPlease — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:55:27 -0000

Christmas With Elvis was and still is a classic. It had White Christmas AND Blue Christmas. I don't have it any more either. It was a cassette and finally failed....oh well, it left me with fond memories.

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Calypso — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:34:40 -0000

"Charlie Brown Christmas" and "Cockburn Christmas" for sure, maybe a little Mathis on the side.

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Just the Facts — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:10:10 -0000

Not sure if it ever made it onto an album but the most surreal Christmas duet of all time had to be Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing the Little Drummer Boy - I remember it from a tv special from years ago.

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Little Egypt — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:27:48 -0000

Rich, go to Recycled Records in Springfield and see if they have the same CD. If they don't, I'm betting Mark Kessler can order it for you. They are the best at tracking down older and out of stock music.

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Martha Mitchell — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:51:24 -0000

Christmas with the Cambridge Singers and the London Sinfonia. The best of the English cathedral choirs (members are friends who sang in King's Chapel Choir while students at Cambridge University in England). Absolutely breath-taking voices, harmonies and renditions. I like old, different carols, like "Lo How a Rose E're Blooming" and "Good Christian Men, Rejoice - sung in Latin, and the old German favorite, "Stille, Stille, Stille."

It all makes me think of the reformed Scrooge and Tiny Tim.

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ChuckAmuck — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:23:37 -0000

For a pop Christmas, you cannot do better than the Phil Spector Christmas Album, which includes Darlene Love's Christmas (Baby please come home).

Re: Friday afternoon music blogging – Jorma’s Christmas album

Rich Miller — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:03:24 -0000

===i also have a homemade disc of christmas-ish recordings, both live and studio, of al di meola, john mclaughlin, paco de lucia and julian bream===

Wow. I would love to hear that one.

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bored now — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:53:09 -0000

hot tuna's first album is still my favorite. if you don't know jorma, you don't know jack -- still a favorite t-shirt. i dl'ed a lot of their live shows when they were still up on etree, some of which are monumental.

as for christmas albums, i'm still partial to four albums that have since gone missing (too many moves, i guess): the first three grp christmas albums and one (who's name i completely forget but thankfully i got for my parents so one day i'll "remember") more winterish in theme with a guitar and viola (iirc). i also have a homemade disc of christmas-ish recordings, both live and studio, of al di meola, john mclaughlin, paco de lucia and julian bream that i play periodically...

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Jacques Strappe — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:57:02 -0000

A Very Special Christmas. Not only do Bono and Bruce wail, but it contains the single greatest Christmas song ever recorded, Run DMC's "Christmas in Hollis."

Proof of its brilliance: "It's Christmas time/in Hollis, Queens/Mom's cookin' chicken/and collard greens."

Oldskul, baby, oldskul!

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Hal — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:46:29 -0000

Timeless Christmas, by Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, a Christian big band. Very cool.

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Anonymous — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:17:29 -0000

Oh, and "A Peanuts Christmas." Beautiful.

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Anonymous — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:16:22 -0000

There is a Christmas CD from the early nineties called "A Lump of Coal." Covers of Christmas classics from great alternative bands (The Primitives, Drunken Boat, Crashtest Dummies). Must be checked out for the memorable rendition of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Henry Rollins. Truly beautiful and haunting.

Happy Holidays everybody.

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Angie again — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:28:39 -0000

Choirs, tone deaf kids, and Denis Leary's R-rated Christmas song.

Let's hear it for appreciation of diversity in music. lol

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Angie — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:26:43 -0000

My mother subjected me to the same Christmas over and over and over while I was growing up, and so there are certain albums which, if I ever hear them again, will make me scream bloody murder.

I like listening to choirs sing them when there's some tv special, or live, or something, but I cannot stand those pop star Christmas albums.

Tone deaf kids running around caroling are kind of cute, too, actually (if you can get over the tone deafness).

Favorite satirical song has got to be the Denis Leary Christmas song. I can't post the lyrics, because Rich would delete them for obscenity (gotta love Leary, though).

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Henry Krinkle — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:30:13 -0000

Me want to download Jorma's Christmas CD because it sounds so cool! But it is out of print, itunes doesn't have it, and this emusic outfit wants my cc# before they bill me. Can someone send it to me for free?! Thanks

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Gregor — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:05:43 -0000

It is a family tradition to listen to the whole Little Drummer Boy album, the famous old version with the Simeone Chorale, while setting up the tree and ornaments. The rest of the CD is not too shabby either. It is definitely religiously inclined and puts one in a good frame of mind. Since LDB and "The Friendly Beasts" goes all the way back to my earliest memories of home and family, hearing it now never fails to turn me into a sobbing mess the first time I hear it each year. Sometimes I have to go listen to it in private a time or two to get over all the close family members no longer with us, but after that, it brings back so many happy memories and feelings, the holiday just isn't complete without it. Music has true power.

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Reddbyrd — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:49:46 -0000

The new Hall & Oates Christmas album is great. Jimi Hendrix Little Drummer Boy is great too

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Frank the Frowner — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:57:48 -0000

You can get an emusic trial and download Christmas with Jorma Kaukonen for free here:

http://www.emusic.com/album...

emusic is a legit company, you get the files as mp3s that you can play on any device (without any of that stupid digital rights management that itunes imposes and the followers of jobs accept like sheep). you can cancel your membership in the trial period, or become a paying subscriber if you like it.

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cool hand claudio — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:36:42 -0000

pretenders "2000 miles".

so i was at the pretenders concert this week at the riv and - i kid you not - somebody in the beer line was talking about hot tuna... great band. find that CD.

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Skeeter — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:20:32 -0000

"The Spirit of Christmas" by Ray Charles. "Baby Its Cold Outside" is a classic.

I also listen to Ella Fitzgerald's "Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas."

For a Christmas song with a political edge, try Steve Earl's "Christmas in Washington" which is more of a political song than a Christmas song.

However, his "Nothing But A Child" is a great Christmas song.

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cermak_rd — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:41:37 -0000

I love The Christmas Attic (Trans-Siberian Orchestra). The lyrics are beautiful and full of the spirit of Christmas.

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Anani Mouse — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:24:06 -0000

For my money, you still cannot beat Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" -- an oldie but greatie.

Happy holidays, Rich, to you and all your readers.

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VanillaMan — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:18:58 -0000

I go from cutting edge punk and rock to syrupy sweet Christmas music. So admiting I like Jewel's Christmas album is a little tough for me.

But her tone and musical style is truley spiritual and perfectly modern, yet very cool.

Chick album, uh - yeah, OK - I'm embarrassed for me too.