Favorite (forgotten?) Christmas songs

[vchimpanzee]

Wasn't Burl Ives kind of a king of Christmas music.

I guess so. I just didn't know he had done all those because they're not on radio.

 

[Don CT]

I guess so. I just didn't know he had done all those because they're not on radio.

When I hear Burl Ives I think of Christmas, not his other stuff. I think Bing Crosby has been type cast as the Christmas music guy now.

 

[CTListener]

When I hear Burl Ives I think of Christmas, not his other stuff. I think Bing Crosby has been type cast as the Christmas music guy now.

Ives was a folk singer originally. He hit it big with his "Wayfaring Stranger" album. He later branched into pop ("A Little Bitty Tear") and the Christmas favorites we know him for today.

 

[vchimpanzee]

When I hear Burl Ives I think of Christmas, not his other stuff. I think Bing Crosby has been type cast as the Christmas music guy now.

"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" is probably the reason. Bing doesn't make an annual appearance.

 

[semoochie]

Ives was a folk singer originally. He hit it big with his "Wayfaring Stranger" album. He later branched into pop ("A Little Bitty Tear") and the Christmas favorites we know him for today.

He had some pretty heavy duty movie roles as well, often in a part you can't stand!

 

[CTListener]

He had some pretty heavy duty movie roles as well, often in a part you can't stand!

Yes, he was frequently an on-screen heel, totally at odds with his delightful singing voice ... and his later voice-over work as a snowman. But he was a big man and overweight, and Hollywood didn't usually use that type of actor as an appealing character. If you were heavy, you played a heavy.

 

[firepoint525]

On the program Christmas Across the Lands, I heard Carrie Underwood's version of "Do You Hear What I Hear." It blew Whitney Houston's highly overplayed version out of the dust. This is the kind of song(s) that I was hoping to hear on specials like these.

 

[centerfreqradio]

Hi all.Happy holidays to all.......

I love Stevie Nicks version of Silent Night from the first "Very Special Christmas" album.Some stations don't play it here for some reason.They have no problem playing her and Fleetwood Mac music on these stations that dont play her Silent Night ..

I think most other Christmas tunes I like do get great airplay every year around here...Yes some do get overplayed...

 

[crainbebo]

I heard Stevie Nicks 'Silent Night' this season. Same with multiple other covers, including Wilson Phillips and some traditional covers.

 

[onairb2014]

Yes, he was frequently an on-screen heel, totally at odds with his delightful singing voice ... and his later voice-over work as a snowman. But he was a big man and overweight, and Hollywood didn't usually use that type of actor as an appealing character. If you were heavy, you played a heavy.

What "voiceover work as a snowman" did Crosby do?

 

[CTListener]

What "voiceover work as a snowman" did Crosby do?

Ives, not Crosby. Didn't I make that clear? I was responding to -- and quoting -- a post that was about Burl Ives' acting career, which itself had been posted in response to my post about Ives' folk-music roots. Crosby wasn't mentioned at all.

 

[semoochie]

Ives, not Crosby. Didn't I make that clear? I was responding to -- and quoting -- a post that was about Burl Ives' acting career, which itself had been posted in response to my post about Ives' folk-music roots. Crosby wasn't mentioned at all.

On top of that, I don't think I would describe Bing Crosby as a big man, who was overweight!

 

[vchimpanzee]

On the program Christmas Across the Lands, I heard Carrie Underwood's version of "Do You Hear What I Hear." It blew Whitney Houston's highly overplayed version out of the dust. This is the kind of song(s) that I was hoping to hear on specials like these.

I like Carrie's version and hear it all the time. If I never hear Whitney yowling Christmas music, I'll be happy.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Hi all.Happy holidays to all.......

I love Stevie Nicks version of Silent Night from the first "Very Special Christmas" album.Some stations don't play it here for some reason.They have no problem playing her and Fleetwood Mac music on these stations that dont play her Silent Night ..

Some stations may not play it because of its religious nature, although there isn't much in it because in her version the line Jesus Lord at thy birth is replaced with another line of Sleep in Heavenly peace. I don't know if that was intentional to remove at least some religious connotation, but it sounds that way, and is the one thing I don't like about her version. But some stations may just consider it too slow for the other music they're carrying.

 

[firepoint525]

I heard Stevie Nicks 'Silent Night' this season. Same with multiple other covers, including Wilson Phillips and some traditional covers.

Speaking of Wilson Phillips, I got to see Carnie and Wendy sing "Hey Santa" on The Talk late last week, right before the show went into Christmas hiatus. I haven't heard it played on radio this year, but then again, I tend to avoid stations that go too heavy with Christmas music, especially if they do so too early as well.

 

[firepoint525]

Some stations may not play it because of its religious nature, although there isn't much in it because in her version the line Jesus Lord at thy birth is replaced with another line of Sleep in Heavenly peace. I don't know if that was intentional to remove at least some religious connotation, but it sounds that way, and is the one thing I don't like about her version. But some stations may just consider it too slow for the other music they're carrying.

Stevie will be the special guest at the New Year's Eve note drop here in Nashville this year. She doesn't really have a connection to Nashville, but apparently happens to be here. I think that she is from southern California.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Stevie will be the special guest at the New Year's Eve note drop here in Nashville this year. She doesn't really have a connection to Nashville, but apparently happens to be here. I think that she is from southern California.

"Dreams" could pass for country.

Christine McVie's "Got a Hold on Me" comes closer.

I wish there was some way of identifying some possibly familiar Christmas music on a YouTube video I was told about.

There's one song with the words "We will rock you" which most definitely is NOT performed by Queen. And "rock" refers to what you do with a baby.

 

[umfan]

'Christmas Dream' by Perry Como. Not sure I've ever heard it on the radio. It is included on the last segment of the Antenna TV 'Yule Log'.