What are you favourite Christmas songs - can be of the Cliff Richard variety or traditional Carols  :-)

My favourites are:

Hark The Herald Angel Sings (reminds me of Midnight Mass as a kid)
Mistletoe & Wine (first time my Mum and I ever got tipsy together we sang this and it always brings a smile to my face)  :-)
In the Bleak Midwinter (again brings back childhood memories)

The Snowman (Walking in the Air) always makes me feel very Christmassy!!

wizzard - wish it could be christmas everyday

never fails to make me feel christmassey :D

That's my favourite one too voors

Oh I would be hard pushed to chose between that and Slade. Guess Slade just gets it as I had such a FAB time at their concert a few years ago, it was just a couple of days before Christmas and they couldnt empty the place for people singing it. Slade must have played it at least half a dozen times. Needless to say I sang myself horse :D

Most xmas songs just make it feel like xmas, good or not but my fave song for the christmas is last christmas - wham Quite sad really but the tune is to die for...got just the music without the lyrics aswell! :D

I LOVE that song!!!  :D

Right you two.. get your coats and go home!!!!
thats soooooooooo unforgivable!!!! (hehehehehehe..wham!!!?????)

for me its gotta be "Winter Wonderland" thats what me and the yeti are hoping for this year!!
:D

OK huskygal...I'm just gonna grab my coat, go home and put on wham CD on full volume! :D :P :D 

Silent Night and The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth by Bing Crosby and David Bowie - and probably every other Christmas song ever written!

Whats the song called by The Pogues - can't remember its name but I like that one too!!  :D

fairy tale of New york... with the sadly missed Kirsty Mccoll
I loooooove that one!!!
:D

Great minds think alike, HuskyGal!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wasn't it A Fairytale of New York with Kirsty McColl? I love it too!!

Fairytale of New York is my favourite too :)

Having worked in varios high street stores over the christmas period in the past and been subjucted to Christmas songs on a loop for weeks on end....I can safely say that I hate all other Christmas songs. I used to very much enjoy destroying the tapes in January :D

Its being re-released this year I gather :)

LOL Broomie.... (could be fools seldom differ!! is in my case!!)

oooh dear Im getting all misty eyed and Nostalgic for Christmass''s past with all this talk of songs I'd forgotten!!

Charanda you had the popcorn yesterday.... anything with a festive theme today to pass around!!!???

*Hoping for Mulled Wine* :D :D

LOL
It's trying sooo hard to snow up here so hopefully I'll soon have my own personal winter wonderland and I'm feeling another song coming on..........

Well up until last year my favourite Christmas song was All I want for Christmas (is yoooouuuuuuu - Mariah) but now Thomas is old enough to get involved with all of the Chirstmas things, it has to be his 'version' of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, he sings the whole song and dances away, makes me feel all tingly - even in July!!! :D

Love that Mariah song too, makes me go all fuzzy everytime I hear it, George Michael's Last Christmas is fantastic!!!  But for traditionals. Silent Night is my all time favourite. (Mainly because I learnt to play it on the organ) Nooooo........... not that type of organ! :-D

Mmmmm we can do mulled wine!!  :D  Though I also have a bit of a thing for Baileys come Winter - I've got through 2 x 1litre bottles already!!  lol  :D

The power of love Frankie goes to Hollywood.  Not quite sure if it comes under the heading of christmas carol but they usually have it on most christmas albumns

Thats it TTS - I'm going to be singing that all the way home now (after getting some very strange looks from around the office as I just burst into THE POWER OF LUUURRRRVVVEEEE!!!!!  :D

Nite Nite all  :-)

I love Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas and all the carols plus all the songs on those christmas compilation CDs that come out every year with all the same songs as no one seems to be able to write new ones!!

dont know who sings it but it is santa baby  la la la la l a  and hurry down the chimney tonight

Try Mannheim Steamroller for a new twist on old carols. I love their Christmas CDs.

I love 'Winter Wonderland' :D

Snow is fallin, all around me
Children playing, having fun
It's the season, love and understanding
Merry Christmas everyone

Time for parties, and celebrations
People dancing, all night long
Time for presents and exchanging kiss's
Time for singing christmas songs

Go Shakey :D :D

* finding it hard to type as my sides are splitting*
"Go Shakey"
he,he,he,he,he :D or should I say Ho,Ho,ho,ho,ho!!!! :D
good call Chloe! with an extra helping of cheese!

Dreaming of a white christmas by Bing crosby, from the film,  love the film ,love the outfits the women wear would loved to have had a xmas wedding with those sort of outfits,
very xmasie

'It'll be lonely this Christmas, without you to hold.....'

MUD

Thanks for making me cry Bunty!

That was the first single I ever bought and it STILL makes me sob!

This one's for you, Jackyjat..

'Try to imagine a house that's not a home,
Try to imagine a Christmas all alone,
That's where I'll be, since you left me,
err.. in a lonely errrrrr

HELP!!

..emptiness and lonliness and an UNLIT CHRISTMAS TREE>>>

PS did you know lead singer Les Gray died this year?
Thankyou husband for that input (sad man)

I just LOVE Christmas songs, from the traditional carols (O Little Town of Bethlehem is a favourite) through the classic Phil Spector ones, the 70's ones from Wizzard etc ...love them :D

I haven't really got a favourite, i love them all!! (Even the extremely cheesey ones!) Probably my all time fave if i have to choose, is "do they know  its christmas", the ORIGINAL one, not that rubbish one they released last year!

i really like Elton John's 'Step into Christmas'. Its one of those super cheesy ones that is always playing in shops. I always sing along. Its in my car ready to go!

Deffinately Fairytale of New York followed closely by Stop the Cavalry and Wizzards Wish it could be christmas everyday - oh and the Waitresses one Christmas Wrapping, jolly little number :)

Not long to go - 4 weeks and 3 days, think I'm more excited than the kids :D

Can't remember what its called again but it goes

And its lovely weather
For a sleigh-ride together
With you!!

:D

Fairytale of New York is my favorite too even if the lyrics are a bit dodgy:

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Living there almost dead on a drip
In that bed

You scum bag
You maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God
It's our last

:D :D

Reminds me of the time I bought the OH a Beautiful South album, she put it on in the car with our 3 daughters sitting in the back, the first track is "Don't marry her".  The lyrics are not quite the same as the version released as a single :D :D

I know what you mean shadbolts about The Beautiful South song - it wasn't really "marry" me was it?!?!  ;-)

I've been humming Christmas songs all morning so far at work - I'm on "Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree" at the moment!!  :-)

I think it was Ken Bruce who accidentally played that version on Radio 2 once! You rarely hear such panic and crashes on the wireless as he desperately tried to stop it! :D :D

lol  :D  :D

i wish it could be christmas every day (wizzard)

merry christmas every body (shakin stevens)

and a whole lot more of party ones but carnt remember them till i listern to them
mostly the fun ones that get everybody up danceing stupidly thinkin were one of the best dancers and singers ever
till u play the camcorder back the next day and feel sooooo ashamed

"Cheeeeeeeeestnuts Rooooooasting on an oooooopen fire!"

(which my OH always interprets as a threat!! ;) )

"Jaaaaaaack Frost nipping at youuuuuuuuuur nose"

(or was it toes??????????)

:D

Grandma got ran over by a reindeer :D

Grandma got run over by a reindeer
Walking home from our house Christmas eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

She'd been drinkin' too much egg nog,
And we'd begged her not to go.
But she'd left her medication,
So she stumbled out the door into the snow.

When they found her Christmas mornin',
At the scene of the attack.
There were hoof prints on her forehead,
And incriminatin' Claus marks on her back.

Grandma got run over by a reindeer,
Walkin' home from our house Christmas eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

Now were all so proud of Grandpa,
He's been takin' this so well.
See him in there watchin' football,
Drinkin' beer and playin' cards with cousin Belle.

It's not Christmas without Grandma.
All the family's dressed in black.
And we just can't help but wonder:
Should we open up her gifts or send them back?

Grandma got run over by a reindeer,
Walkin' home from our house Christmas eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.

Now the goose is on the table
And the pudding made of pig.
And a blue and silver candle,
That would just have matched the hair in Grandma's wig.

I've warned all my friends and neighbors.
Better watch out for yourselves.
They should never give a license,
To a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves.

Grandma got run over by a reindeer,
Walkin' home from our house, Christmas eve.
You can say there's no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Grandpa, we believe.
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I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause

I love Shakey and all the Phil Spector ones! Also 'Driving Home for Christmas' by Chris Rea - another classic! Ooh, I love Christmas! :D