Day 351 - 10 of My Favorite Religious Christmas Songs! - 12/17/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day is a list of 10 of my favorite religious Christmas songs!


1. Emmanuel/Oh Little Town of Bethlehem - Amy Grant

My Mom had this album for as long as I can remember. It was also the first CD I ever had that was mine.

Emmanuel is my favorite song on the album and love the transition into and Amy's version of Little Town.


2. Little Town of Bethlehem - HangNail

This song is fast and fun. Plus it has my favorite guitar solo thing at the end of the song.

I only wish I could play guitar like that.


3. What Child is This - Vince Guaraldi Trio

I love all of the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.

This is an instrumental track on it that I also love.

4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Vince Guaraldi Trio

A vocal track from the same soundtrack.

This part of the special always makes me tear up.


5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Garth Brooks

I like how dark the tune of this song is. I also like the older-sounding words.

I try to recreate this kind of feeling in the pumpkin carols I write for Halloween.




6. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear -  Celtic Women

I like the words a lot. The tune is nice too.

7. Silent Night - Michael Buble

I like this song. I like Michael Buble.

But I'd rather sing this song with a church congregation than listen to Buble sing it.

I just needed a copy of it, and wanted to include Buble.

I like how he sings.

8. In the Bleak Midwinter - James Taylor

Another song I love, that I would rather sing than listen to.

9. Angels We Have Heard on High - Andy Williams

Another song I love!

I especially like the "Gloria" parts.

10.  Oh Holy Night! - N'Sync

There are so many versions of this song. This is my favorite.

There are so many versions that my dad decided to compile as many as he could find and make a full album of different versions.

So far he has 45 different versions.

I quite like this version as well:

Bonus: 

The Only Gift - NSYNC

I forgot this song on the non-religious Christmas songs list:

I love the tune a lot. I love the silly lyrics.

And I LOVE Lance Bass's solo. They should've let him solo more often.

That's it for now!

I hope your Christmas Season is more wonderful than you could even imagine it could be!

Mine's been pretty good so far. But we decided not to put up our tree this year.

We'd put it up and turn around and have to take it back down again so soon.

Day 345 - Some of My Favorite Christmas Songs! - 12/11/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day is a bunch of my favorite Christmas Songs!


I will try to get 10 Christmas Songs that aren't specifically religious. We'll see if I can find that many of them on youtube.


1. Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You

This might be my favorite Christmas song. It's up there, anyway.

I've loved almost every version I've heard. I've only heard one so far that I did not like. I heard it in the restroom at the mall, and I don't know who it was by.


2.  Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time is Here

Mariah sings my favorite Christmas song with vocals. Vince played my favorite instrumental Christmas song.  So sad I had to cover the vocal version.

3. The Drifters - White Christmas

I love this song. It's almost my favorite. It's funny and well-sung at the same time.

It was in Home Alone.

4. Pep Squad - Feliz Navidad

I don't like this song for the talking at the beginning. It borders on racism, but I love the trumpet and the shouting.

5. Lost Dogs - The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)

I do love the original, but the harmonies on this are lovely.

The talking in between singing parts is hokey and kind of annoying, but I love their harmonies.

6. Michael Buble - Santa Claus is Coming to Town

I love the jazzy little "You better watch out..." part near the end.

7. Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone - Baby It's Cold Outside

I like most versions of this song. This is my favorite.

8. Jonathan Coulton - Christmas is Interesting

I agree.

This is yet another song JoCo wrote that I wish I had written.

9. NewSong - The Christmas Shoes

JUST KIDDING!

I don't like that song at all.

9. The California Raisins - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

I love all of the Claymation Christmas Special.

This is the Temptations version of the song. I think directly their version, but it sounds a bit retooled to me. There is a different higher tenor part than the classic Temptations version I've heard.

I don't feel like looking it up. I'm just going by memory.

10. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time

I hear that people hate this song. I don't understand why.

I love it!

The lyrics paint a comfy Christmas memory picture for me.

I love the idea of someone saying, "How's your holiday season going?"

and I reply, "Oh, I'm simply having a wonderful Christmas time!"

I like that idea a lot.;

That's 10!

I didn't think I'd be able to think of or find that many.

I could probably find more of my favorite non-religious Christmas songs, but 10 is a good number.

Later in the Christmas season I'll probably do a list of 10 of my favorite religious Christmas songs.

I gotta make something to fill out the rest of the year of Thing-a-Day things...

What are your favorite Christmas songs?