Christmas Songs thread

**MarkRhodes** · 12-02-2018, 08:39 PM

Your favorite ones to hear, ones you're learning, the ones that drive you nuts, whatever.... (Need not be guitar versions, but that's certainly appropriate.)

Here's Joe Pass doing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" from his "Six String Santa" album.

**MarkRhodes** · 12-02-2018, 08:43 PM

Doug Munro, with a few very special guests, doing the same tune.

**MarkRhodes** · 12-02-2018, 09:01 PM

**viccortes285** · 12-02-2018, 09:08 PM

After hear this I thought it was very touching as Eric can do.
ERIC CLAPTON HAPPY XMAS ALBUM - YouTube

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**Steven Herron** · 12-02-2018, 09:51 PM

I always liked Tony Mottola's arrangements of Christmas songs like "I'll Be Home For Christmas, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, and of course The Christmas Song".

Nice lush chords and sparkling single note runs!

**Hep To The Jive** · 12-03-2018, 12:27 AM

When ive heard it for the first time i didn't know it's considered a Christmas song, but I thought it's one of the best love tunes!

Still love it, especially this version.

**Jonah** · 12-03-2018, 06:56 AM

**reventlov** · 12-03-2018, 08:33 AM

This is by far my favourite Christmas song, it's also a great antidote to the overdose of sugar-coated, insincere crap and exploitative advertising that the tv channels will be foisting on to us for the next few weeks. I like Christmas though - whether you're religious or not, a midwinter festival can be a great pick-me-up during a freezing winter, plus kids are fun little folks to have around, and it's good to see them getting all excited and such. My choice of favourite song for the season though is not one for the kids, and it's also a well-constructed and quite moving piece of music.

**Jonah** · 12-03-2018, 08:49 AM

This is by far my favourite Christmas song, it's also a great antidote to the overdose of sugar-coated, insincere crap and exploitative advertising that the tv channels will be foisting on to us for the next few weeks. I like Christmas though - whether you're religious or not, a midwinter festival can be a great pick-me-up during a freezing winter, plus kids are fun little folks to have around, and it's good to see them getting all excited and such. My choice of favourite song for the season though is not one for the kids, and it's also a well-constructed and quite moving piece of music.

)))

And modern Christmas - especially in some countries - do not seem to have much related with Christ and its birth: elfs, dwarfs, Santa Claus....
I wonder when it all began.

**MarkRhodes** · 12-03-2018, 02:10 PM

I find myself singing this while making my morning coffee lately. I think it's a nifty tune.

**christianm77** · 12-03-2018, 05:25 PM

**MarkRhodes** · 12-03-2018, 08:21 PM

From an episode of the TV show "Sanford & Son."

**David B** · 12-03-2018, 08:58 PM

Sun Ra at Christmas.

**David B** · 12-03-2018, 09:11 PM

**David B** · 12-03-2018, 09:14 PM

**JohnoL** · 12-03-2018, 09:41 PM

Originally Posted by MarkRhodes

I find myself singing this while making my morning coffee lately. I think it's a nifty tune.

Yes, this song is definitely addictive! Last year while preparing for the office Christmas luncheon I played this song over and over.

**wintermoon** · 12-04-2018, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by christianm77

I bought this LP back in the day way before the internet and paid a pretty penny for it, organist Don Patterson's "Holiday Soul" w Pat Martino and Billy James drums (one of the finest working B3 trios ever)

And I never regretted the purchase, not only my favorite Christmas lp, but possibly my favorite organ trio lp, and I've about heard 'em all, well, most..