| Author | |
molly
Forum Pro
Joined: Jan 09 2009
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 285
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 5:42pm | IP Logged
|
 |
|
Can you please tell me your favorite CD for the season. I have some itunes cards I want to use on new music. We love Clancy Bros Christmas, country style, Irish folk music etc. It need not neccessarily be religious.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Courtney
Forum All-Star
Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: Texas
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 796
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 5:44pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
I love Josh Groban's Christmas Cd! I'm typically not a Josh Groban fan, but this is wonderful!
__________________
Courtney in Texas
Wife to Mike since 3/94 
Mom to Candace 10/97 ,Christopher 4/00 and Connor 11/11
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
MaryM
Board Moderator
Joined: Feb 11 2005
Location: Colorado
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 13104
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 6:15pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Your favorite Christmas & Advent Music
Favorite Christmas CD you sing to
suggestions for advent/xmas music
The "Straight No Chaser" Christmas album that was recommended in the thread from last year ended up being a real popular one here last year.
__________________
Mary M. in Denver
Our Domestic Church
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Tami
Forum All-Star
Joined: Dec 27 2006
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1066
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 6:24pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Molly, I don't know if you'll include soft rock/country in your choices, but I love this Neil Diamond Christmas Album. It's available on iTunes.
I'd also recommend Manheim Steamroller and John Denver's Christmas Like a Lullaby. OH, and there's always Amy Grant!
__________________
God bless,
Tami
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become. (Nouwen)
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
JodieLyn
Forum Moderator
Joined: Sept 06 2006
Location: Oregon
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 12234
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 7:08pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
 I weighed in on some of those from last year.. my kids LOVE the Celtic Woman we got.
But I had to laugh.. I'm looking at my Christmas playlist on windows media player.. I have all my Christmas music on it.. and I took off duplicates of songs (like a compilation ablum might have Bing Crosby's White Christmas plus I have an album of Bing Crosby with White Christmas etc) I have 23.9 hrs of Christmas music  and I want more
__________________
Jodie, wife to Dave
G-18, B-17, G-15, G-14, B-13, B-11, G-9, B-7, B-5, B-4
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-Sir Walter Scott
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
molly
Forum Pro
Joined: Jan 09 2009
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 285
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 7:15pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
I do hope Mary, that it is OK to ask for new ideas??
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
SusanJ
Forum All-Star
Joined: May 25 2007
Location: New Jersey
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1347
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 7:22pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
We love this Baroque Christmas album.
And even though my husband hates it, I have a real soft spot for the Muppets/John Denver album. I grew up with it I was the dorky kid whose parents only let her listen to John Denver.
__________________
Mom to Joseph-8, Margaret-6, William-4, Gregory-2, and new little one due 11/1
Life Together
[URL=http://thejohnstonkids.blogspot.com]The Kids' Blog[/UR
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
guitarnan
Forum Moderator
Joined: Feb 07 2005
Location: Maryland
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 10883
|
| Posted: Nov 18 2009 at 9:46pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Last year's L'Angelus Christmas CD is just fabulous.
__________________
Nancy in MD. Mom of ds (24) & dd (18); 31-year Navy wife, move coordinator and keeper of home fires. Writer and dance mom.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
MaryM
Board Moderator
Joined: Feb 11 2005
Location: Colorado
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 13104
|
| Posted: Nov 19 2009 at 4:20am | IP Logged
|
|
|
molly wrote:
| I do hope Mary, that it is OK to ask for new ideas?? |
|
|
It certainly is, Molly. I hope it is OK to link the past suggestions as well...
__________________
Mary M. in Denver
Our Domestic Church
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
mom2mpr
Forum All-Star
Joined: May 16 2006
Location: N/A
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 1550
|
| Posted: Nov 19 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged
|
|
|
John Tesh, A Romantic Christmas.
Brings me back to nursing my babies in front of the lit Christmas tree in a darkened room. But even before babies it has always been my absolute favorite.
Anne
PS-I too LOVE the Muppets Christmas album with John Denver.
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Wendy
Forum All-Star
Joined: Feb 14 2005
Location: Virginia
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 530
|
| Posted: Nov 19 2009 at 8:28am | IP Logged
|
|
|
The John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album is one of my favorites, too! The first year I was in college (in Virginia, and my parents were in Hawaii, so I couldn't afford to go home) my dad taped it and sent it to me.  Now it's one of my dc's favorites.
We also like Amy Grant, Harry Connick Jr., Bing, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Martina McBride, The Carpenters, a Charlie Brown Christmas, and a Very Veggie Christmas. Kenny G is good background for a party, or if you happen to have time in the evening after the kids have gone to bed to sit by the tree with a glass of wine... Mariah Carey's Christmas CD is a fun high-energy, Top 40-type of collection.
Andrea Bocelli's Sacred Arias is beautiful! And he has a new Christmas CD this year that's on my wish list...
Also, we just received Christmas at Ephesus from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles. Absolutely beautiful! Highly recommended.
Oh! And James Taylor's Christmas CD.
ETA: A Scottish Christmas!!! Bonnie Rideout playing fiddle, with dulcimer, acoustic guitar, and bagpipes.  Also, Christmas Morn' by Dan Duggan is a good Celtic/Gaelic-flavored acoustic CD.
__________________
God bless,
Wendy
Wife to Chris
Momma to Grace, Sam, Ben, Maggie, Mary Cate, and Jamie
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
lapazfarm
Forum All-Star
Joined: July 21 2005
Location: Alaska
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 6082
|
| Posted: Nov 19 2009 at 8:35am | IP Logged
|
|
|
We love, love, love Christmas music! I can't wait to pull it out of storage!!!
Some of our favorites are: Chicago's Christmas album, Manheim Steamroller, Transiberian Orchestra, and George Winston's "December."
__________________
Theresa
us-schooling in beautiful Fairbanks, Alaska.
LaPaz Home Learning
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
JenPre
Forum Pro
Joined: June 16 2009
Location: Rhode Island
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 366
|
| Posted: Nov 19 2009 at 10:36am | IP Logged
|
|
|
My husband and I just came across the Indiana University group "Straight no Chaser". We love love love their "12 Days of Christmas". The other songs they sing are really good too.
__________________
Jen
Mommy to Marie-Therese born 12/4/09
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Karen T
Forum All-Star
Joined: Feb 16 2005
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 927
|
| Posted: Nov 28 2009 at 9:20am | IP Logged
|
|
|
I *love* getting Christmas CD's! Growing up, we had two records - Perry Como and Andy Williams, and that was all we ever heard. Of course, I'm quite nostalgic about them but once I left home, it dawned on me that I could buy as many Christmas albums (yes, they were still mostly vinyl when I was in college ) Anyway, over the years I've gotten quite a collection and keep adding to it. In addition to Perry and Andy some of my favorites are
the Bonnie Rideout Scottish Christmas
Carpenters,
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker,
Handel's Messiah, Amy Grant (older one - I see she has a new one out now)
Il Divo (one of my new faves as of last year)
and ....Elvis! This was given to me as a gift, along with a pop-up cardboard Graceland, years ago by a boss shared a lot of music tastes with - I didn't care that much for Elvis at the time, but I've grown to love that CD!
And one which is not really a Christmas CD but I include it with my Christmas music each year b/c it sort of goes with it, is the soundtrack from The Preacher's Wife movie.
After seeing the recommendation for Straight No Chaser here (I'd never heard of them) I picked it up at Target the other day but then later saw there are 2 different Christmas CD's. The one I got (still in shrink-wrap) is called Holiday Spirits and does have the 12 Days of Christmas. Is that one everyone likes?
Karen T
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
joann10
Forum All-Star
Joined: Feb 10 2007
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 3493
|
| Posted: Nov 28 2009 at 11:59am | IP Logged
|
|
|
Wendy wrote:
| The John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album is one of my favorites, too! |
|
|
When I first read this question I thought, "I can't tell them my favorite cd is John Denver and the Muppets"
But I guess I am among friends here. 
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
MrsM
Forum Pro
Joined: May 05 2008
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 202
|
| Posted: Nov 28 2009 at 3:11pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
This has been our favorite for years. It's absolutely beautiful colonial style music. You can hear samples on Amazon.
A Colonial Christmas
My other favorite is from Stillwaters. They are the family that sings the Divine Mercy Chaplet on EWTN every day at 12:00pm.
Gentle Joy
__________________
Lynn in California
Homeschooling dd13, dd11, ds10, and ds8
Mom to Miracle Baby ds3
Mom to darling Elizabeth and Francis, held in Mary's arms and always in my heart
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
Angie Mc
Board Moderator
Joined: Jan 31 2005
Location: Arizona
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 11400
|
| Posted: Nov 28 2009 at 3:45pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
joann10 wrote:
Wendy wrote:
| The John Denver and the Muppets Christmas album is one of my favorites, too! |
|
|
When I first read this question I thought, "I can't tell them my favorite cd is John Denver and the Muppets"
But I guess I am among friends here.
|
|
|
Me too .
My long time faves are:
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Christmas Eve with Johnny Mathis
I think A Very Veggie Christmas will be to my children what JD and the Muppets are for me .
Noel by Josh Groban is a hit here, too.
Love,
__________________
Angie Mc
Maimeo to Henry! Dave's wife, mom to Mrs. Devin+Michael Pope, Aiden 20,Ian 17,John Paul 11,Catherine (heaven 6/07)
About Me
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
MelissaClaire
Forum Pro
Joined: May 16 2007
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 475
|
| Posted: Nov 28 2009 at 3:50pm | IP Logged
|
|
|
Sunshine and Snowflakes was my absolute favorite as a kid and I still love it! (So do my kids!)
__________________
Melissa
Mom to a dd ('02), ds ('03), ds ('05), dd ('07) and baby due 9/01/09
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
anniemm
Forum Pro
Joined: Sept 19 2006
Location: Texas
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 348
|
| Posted: Dec 01 2009 at 10:40am | IP Logged
|
|
|
We like the Reliant K Christmas Albums. They are a Christian rock band that makes funny versions of some songs, beautiful versions of others, and has new Christmas songs that are amazing. My favorite is called "I Celebrate the Day." The kids love it too.
__________________
Andrea
__________
Wife to Charlie (03)
Mama to four little girls (04), (05), (07), (09),& my 1st little guy 11/11
www.hiswillmypeace.com
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
JodieLyn
Forum Moderator
Joined: Sept 06 2006
Location: Oregon
Online Status: Offline
Posts: 12234
|
| Posted: Dec 01 2009 at 11:26am | IP Logged
|
|
|
No one has mentioned it yet. We also enjoy Go Fish "Snow". They're the ones that did "Christmas with a Capital C"
__________________
Jodie, wife to Dave
G-18, B-17, G-15, G-14, B-13, B-11, G-9, B-7, B-5, B-4
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-Sir Walter Scott
|
| Back to Top |
|
| |
4Real Forums : Tea and Conversation
Topic: Your favorite x-mas CD
