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I know, I know… I just did a post yesterday that mentioned Christmas but I can’t help it. All you scrooges can now move on to the next blog. 
I’ve been driving the people in my house and office crazy with my constant playing and singing of Christmas music. I just can’t get enough of it. So in the spirit of Christmas I thought I would share with you my top 5 Christmas songs of all time.
So grab a cup of coffee, sit back and listen. I dare you to not sing along.
1. O Holy Night
3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
So fess up. What’s your all-time favorite Christmas song?
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I love “White Christmas” by Bing Crosby.
I love Christmas music so much I operate an internet radio station that plays only Christmas music all year long: http://www.AllChristmasInternetRadio.com
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Jeremy Walker
7:45 am
My favorite one is “Mary Did You Know?” – while several artists have sung this, I prefer the versions sung by the Gaither Vocal Band.
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J. Johnson
7:50 am
Great list Pete.
Here’s some of my faves:
1. O Come All Ye Faithful
2. Angels We Have Heard on High (Christina Aguilera versions ~ Is that bad?! Haha)
3. Breath of Heaven
4. O Holy Night
5. O Little Town of Bethlehem
I love Christmas!
On an aside, for those who aren’t aware that Matt Chandler, pastor of The Village Church, suffered a seizure and will be headed to surgery to remove a tumor in his frontal lobe! Pray for him and his recovery!
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John Alexander
7:55 am
“Ding Fries Are Done” – Burger King Dude
Or
“Fleas On My Dog” (Feliz Navidad – my kids hate it when I change words to songs, but I just can’t help myself).
Ok.. so seriously.
the Drummer Boy.. and I DO like the version by Third Day.
There is another one that the title is not coming to me right now that I will have to return and mention if I remember what it is… but I love it because it starts so softly but it has an amazing part where a trio of female singers just rocks it out.
Now that Thanksgiving is past, my family can turn the radio station to Christmas music with my blessing.
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Tony York
7:56 am
I’ll name a few CD’s I have been listening to lately:
1. Burl Ives: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.
2. Irish Christmas. This one says on the cover that it is ideal for in-store play!
3. 20 Classical Christmas Favorites.
4. And I have 3 German Christmas CD’s. One of my favorite songs on their is this man and woman singing in German with a Nashville accent.
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David Knapp
7:57 am
O Holy Night by the Oak Ridge Boys anytime, anywhere. But it is especially nice in front of a fireplace, watching the snow fall.
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devbeth
7:58 am
@Tony York, slowly I see your scrooge being lifted.
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Pete Wilson
8:00 am
Bob Rivers’ “12 Pains of Christmas.” If you haven’t heard it, you can here:
http://www.airmp3.net/download/-12_pains_of_christmas/mp3/dlXa2_7a076_1
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Jason
8:03 am
all of the ones you listed top any list – I would also add (and please note that I could sing Christmas songs year-round – yes, I am one of those
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God Rest You Merry Gentlemen
Carol of the Bells
Little Drummer Boy
The Christmas Song (Nat King Cole)
Sleigh Ride
Winter Wonderland
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (BEAUTIFUL!)
and I could go on and on!!
This was fun – thanks and Merry Christmas
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Rebecca
8:08 am
Pete!!!! Judy Garland is one of my actress heroes (must be a redhead thing) but that scene from Meet Me in St. Louis makes that song one of my favorites too! thanks for making my wednesday better. The James Taylor Christmas cd is a good one to check out if you don’t have it already
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Sarah S
8:09 am
Anything off of NSYNC’s Christmas album! I’m a little disappointed that you didn’t have any listed here.
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ashley
8:13 am
I say Bring on the Christmas music…I love it too!
O Holy Night…if sung by an awesome singer. Gotta have the pipes for that one! Like Josh Groban
Amy Grant’s Tender Tennessee Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKwOByDgW3I
And my new fave-Travis Cottrell and Natalie Grant singing Ring the Bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0U0-jR0gtA
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joyce
8:19 am
I want to say “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” but you might not take me seriously.
I like “O Holy Night” by anyone who can hit that high note. I like “White Christmas” by Bing-o. I like “Hallelujah Chorus” by the Oaks. “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts)” by the original (Nat King Cole). I also like a song on Collin Raye’s Christmas CD that features Johnny Cash in a telling of a Christmas of peace (can’t remember the name).
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Bill (cycleguy)
8:21 am
My mom was a huge Christmas music freak {which has passed to me…and now I am corrupting our children! with full pleasure.}
She started playing Christmas music in July, now she used directing the church choir as an excuse…we all knew that she was mentally counting down the days until Christmas. Ha!
Your list includes some of my all time favorites plus these:
- “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree”…I just love that part of the movie “Home Alone”.
- “Happiest Christmas” MWSmith
- “White Christmas”
I might have to go make some hot cocoa and watch some Christmas movies. Oh yeah that’s right my two year old is already watching “The Grinch”…”Oh the noise. The noise. The noise, noise, noise.”
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jessica
8:26 am
1) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
2) Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer
3) The Little Drummer Boy
4) The Virgen Mary Had a Baby Boy
5) Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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Helen
8:26 am
“O Holy Night” is my very favorite. I love all kinds of Christmas music!
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Alison
8:35 am
As you know Pete this is the time of year where I rain on everyone’s parade, so this year instead of indepth discussions on the morality of Santa, or the overwhelming hypocracy of spending money on people we don’t like and getting them things they don’t need when a child dies of starvation every 16 seconds in this world. I will leave you with my favorite Christmas artist and one of my favorite Christmas songs. Merry Christmas everyone.
1) Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire – Bob Rivers.
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Harold
8:36 am
@Harold, thank you for your restraint in raining on my parade. I know where you live and I’m coming up there tonight to decorate your house with the most gaudy Christmas decorations you’ve ever seen!!!!
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Pete Wilson
8:41 am
Although, I love Josh Groban I lOVE the versionDavid Phelps does of Oh Holy night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZFxG6-WSnI
Lil Drummer Boy
Mary did you know
Breath of life
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Heidi
8:42 am
Oh Holy Night by (do NOT laugh) NSync. Acapella. AMAZING. We have it on a Christmas mix CD and LOVE it! I dare you to listen! (Just ignore the boy band and their leather pants.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzJqRXLI08
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Diane Moody
8:52 am
I love Christmas music, too.
I’ll be singing Christmas songs, wearing a dress I made COMPLETELY out of Christmas gift wrap, at a gig on the 15th.
One of my favorite’s is “Merry Christmas Darling” by The Carpenters. (sappy, I know, but dang, what a voice)
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britt
8:54 am
I’d say these are some of my favs:
1) O Come All Ye Faithful (for worship)
2) All I Want For Christmas is You (for my husband)
3) I’ll Be Home for Christmas
4) O Holy Night
5) Come Thou Long Expected Jesus (the version led by Christy Nockels on Tomlin’s Christmas CD is great – simple, but profound)
Pete, I decorated my office every year. I even had musical note and guitar shaped lights. Yes, that is gaudy. But it was fun. I was the only one who decorated. Now my office is my living room so I have a 10 foot tree in my office!
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Jan Owen
8:57 am
@pete, you’ll be proud to know my 7 foot Christmas tree in the living room has one thousand six hundred bulbs. Of course, I could not resist doing the math and found that it consumers more power than many of the door buster bargain vacs I saw on sale black Friday. That is not including the Christmas village and oh yes the second Christmas tree in the dining room. JESUS WOULD BE PROUD!
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Harold
8:57 am
My motto is Pete, you can NEVER talk about Christmas too much.
I love your list.
I love Breath of Heaven, Christmas Shoes, and many more. So hard to choose, ha!
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Lauren Kelly
9:01 am
I like Mary did you know and Oh Come oh come Emmanuel
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Joanna
9:20 am
“Put A Little Love In Your Heart” (Annie Lennox duet with Al Green). This song is one of my favs…My 1st job was at The Gap and I worked there for 5yrs and every Christmas they played this song…LOVE IT!! I have several others too…
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Falguni Patel
9:21 am
Oh Holy Night by Celine Dion.
And Theodore Chipmunk singing “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth”….
Come on..I know you know that one!
My hubby asks me every year to sing to him Mariah Carey’s All I want For Christmas Is You. I fail at it every time!
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Tiffany
9:27 am
I loooove Amy Grant’s “Tennessee Christmas”.
and of course “O Holy Night”.
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Lindsey Smith
9:29 am
O Holy Night is my all time favorite. But I do like just about ANY Christmas music. Right now, I’m loving “Christmas Canon” and the Sarah McLachlan/Bare Naked Ladies rendition of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings”
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Lorelei King
9:32 am
Oh Holy Night
Mary, Did You Know?
Breath of Heaven
Tender Tennessee Christmas
The Hallelujah Chorus
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Lisa
9:41 am
I love Amy Grant’s version of O Come, O Come Immanuel. I love Ron Kenoly’s version of A King Is Born. And I love the Peanuts’ piano theme song. But to me – I can’t believe I’m admitting it here – the season officially begins when I hear the Royal Guardsmen sing “Christmas Bells” (the song about the Red Baron letting Snoopy go in the midst of a dogfight on Christmas Eve.). Aaaah, the happy memories. . . S’cuse me, I have to go find that now.
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The Gang's Momma
9:50 am
@Lindsey Smith, How in the world did I forget Amy Grant’s “Tennessee Christmas”. LOVE it.
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Pete Wilson
9:51 am
“O Holy Night” has been my favorite for as long as I can remember, but Casting Crowns’ “While You Were Sleeping” is a VERY close second. I also love “Carol of the Bells,” “Breath of Heaven” and “Christmas Shoes.” I think I may have to turn my iPod on now and break out some Christmas music in my office.
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Jennifer
10:03 am
“Little Drummer Boy” by Jars Of Clay is my favorite but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf—13Q0g is my ULTIMATE favorite, but it’s never on the radio & I haven’t found it to buy it (Thank God for YouTube)
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Sarah
10:13 am
Ah, O Holy Night is my all time favorite. I can’t hear that song without tearing up. It is the most beautiful song I have ever truly heard. When the orchestra gets going every hair on my body stands up, and chills go up my spine. Profound.
Thanks for the link.
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Gina
10:14 am
Oh Holy NIght and Mary Did you Know?
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Amy
10:26 am
O Come All Ye Faithful
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Winter Wonderland (Amy Grant)
Sleigh Ride (Amy Grant)
Angels We Have Heard On High (Amy Grant)
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Amy Grant)
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Welcome to Our World (Amy Grant)
Tennessee Christmas (well, who else but Miss Amy…)
Just a little Amy going on around our house, LOL–hey, she does Christmas so well.
Long list, but I could’ve made it even longer. Merry Christmas!
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Tina Dee
11:00 am
Little Drummer Boy – Jars of Clay!
Yes, Sarah, that’s an awesome one!
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Tina Dee
11:01 am
My favorite used to be Last Christmas by Wham! But unfortunately it has been overplayed in recent years…
So now I’d have to say Bing Crosby and David Bowie’s Peace on Earth. Love it!
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Lindsey Nobles
11:06 am
“We Three Kings” from Michael W. Smith’s album Christmastime.
My favorite part of that song is the first 35 seconds.
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Jenn
11:17 am
Mele Kalikimaka, Bing Crosby. Hands down my favorite!
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Linnae Hoppe
11:23 am
o holy night and then I heard “Mary did you know?” Now that is my all time favorite.
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Molly
11:58 am
Mine is also O HOly NIght, the Point of Grace version. With the 4 part harmony throughout the songs, it sounds like angels themselves are singing it
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Maureen
12:24 pm
Little Drummer Boy/Peace On eArth by Bing Crosby and David Bowie!
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Marcie Porterfield
12:29 pm
I’m with you and lots of the comments here in that I adore Christmas as well and in that O Holy Night is one of my most favorite Christmas songs. I’m also especially partial to “Emmanuel”.
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Tracy
12:36 pm
Without a doubt, my favorite Christmas song is “Child of Love” by Sara Groves from the City On a Hill: It’s Christmas Time album.
That is a great album overall, and I would suggest anyone add that to their Christmas music collection.
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dubdynomite
12:36 pm
The Christmas Song (chestnuts roasting on a open fire) and A Tender Tennessee Christmas. . .okay, that’s a new favorite. It doesn’t make a lot of sense since I’m a KY girl at heart, but it talks all about Colorado (where we now live) and with the amount of time I have spent in Nashville over the years I’m thinking it’s at least sort of appropriate.
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amyc
1:10 pm
@Linnae Hoppe, pretty much anything by Bing Crosby makes me happy.
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Pete Wilson
1:31 pm
I love little drummer boy. pretty much any version, but the better the snare drum solos in it the more I like it hah.
and I love Angels We Have Heard on High, and Carol of the Bells, and I really like a lot of Trans Siberian Orchestra.
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Shelby
1:39 pm
It’s a tie between ‘Maybe This Christmas’ by Ron Sexsmith (lovng the cover by Leigh Nash) and Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee
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Brunettekoala
2:24 pm
Breath of Heaven is one my very favorites. I got the Amy Grant Christmas CD the year Allyson was born and I loved to turn all of the lights out except the tree and play that song. I just cradled her in my arms and would sing and cry. That song makes me feel blessed!
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marla
3:09 pm
O Holy Night is my all time favorite song, Christmas or not. I also love Christmas Angels by Michael W Smith.
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Rachel
3:34 pm
My favorite all time is “Chrismas Time is Here”, best known for the Charlie Brown Christmas.
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tracy
3:39 pm
Love all Christmas music, but I guess my favorite would be “Silent Night”—-it really puts Christ in Christmas for me.
I know you are going to laugh , but I have a Elvis Christmas CD that I love….listen to it in my car everyday because James isn’t the Elvis fan that I am… I love how excited you get each year about Christmas…MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Laurel
3:50 pm
The entire album by the Vince Guaraldi Trio – “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. I also watch the movie at least five times in December.
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RW
4:37 pm
The last few years it’s been God Rest Ye Weary Gentlemen – because of the revelation that when Jesus was born “enmity” with God was being brought to peace by the birth of His Sacrifice. God said of His birth: Peace on Earth! Goodwill towards men. NOT until that time was God at peace with people!!??? Wow, it was quite the newsflash for me when I thought of it that way.
I also LOVE Mary Did You Know – because I have six soon-to-be seven children and the thought of any of them growing up to become a carnal sacrfice, hanging on a cross, baring all our sins is tough to think of when you are holding your sweet little baby in your arms.
– that’s a tear not a wink BTW.
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Cheryl Floyd
4:41 pm
I’ve been really diggin “Little Drummer Boy” for a few years. I have several versions I like.
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Terrace Crawford
4:43 pm
@ Brunettekoala, you can never go wrong with a little Brenda Lee.
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Pete Wilson
5:11 pm
little drummer boy is my all time fave.
breath of heaven, mary did you know, carol of the bells… so many, i could go on and on!
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monica
5:37 pm
O Holy Night, and then all of the others. I love Christmas music!!!!
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Vanity of Vanities
6:29 pm
I don’t like Christmas music. At all. Terrible I know … but I still love Jesus!
I do like Andrew Peterson’s very non-Christmasy Christmas album.
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Lori
6:39 pm
@Lori, What the HECK? You were like in my top 5 favorite people of all time. You just dropped to number 6. Scrooge!
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Pete Wilson
7:48 pm
Pete, I used to start listening to Christmas music in September because I just couldn’t wait.
My all time favorite is Steven Curtis Chapman’s The Night Before Christmas. It paints the vision of that night like no other song I’ve heard.
Then:
Oh Holy Night- can’t decide which version
Breath of Heaven- Amy Grant- I’ve sung this so many times at my church back home, I’m sure they got sick of it
Heirlooms- Amy Grant
Sweet Little Jesus Boy- Trisha Yearwood
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amanda
8:19 pm
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen (I love the ‘comfort and joy’ part so much)
Mary, Did You Know?
Breath of Heaven
Joy to the World
Emmanuel (yes, I know that’s six…I’ll stop now before it grows to sixty!)
Silent Night (our Christmas Eve service always ends with it… and we leave, taking our candles out into the night)
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pendy
9:19 pm
@Pete … I blame it on the torture that my parents inflicted upon me … they made me listen to Osmond Family Christmas over and over. One can only take so much Donny and Marie.
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Lori
9:51 pm
John Denver and the Muppets “The Peace of Christmas Day” – hands down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkwnuD5BoMU
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Candy
10:15 pm
Don’t think anybody’s mentioned one of my favorites – “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqIM_bPTws
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Steve Gwilt (@swggy)
10:22 pm
If you haven’t heard Audrey Assad’s song Winter Snow, http://www.rhapsody.com/player?type=undefined&id=tra.30215753&remote=undefined&page=undefined&pageregion=undefined&guid=undefined&from=undefined&__pcode=, then you are missing the best of Christmas 2009! It’s new but definitely one of my favorites this year. My “old” favorite is In the Bleak Midwinter, http://bit.ly/4PSIfv.
I was talking with a friend of mine just the other day about our favorite Christmas song… She said she’d NEVER heard of my “old” favorite. I almost cried!
You MUST go check out Audrey Assad’s Christmas song. It’s on Chris Tomlin’s new Christmas CD that just came out! You won’t be sorry!
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@hasbell
10:29 pm
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas performed by Gayla Peevey
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Tyson Brown
6:51 am
Is it bad to like semi-depressing Christmas music?
I like O Come, O Come Emmanuel… but only when it’s sung slowly and depressingly. Like a groaning for deliverance.
Weird, I know.
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Jon Smith
10:44 am
@Jon Smith, Yes, it is.
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Pete Wilson
8:49 pm
It is definitely White Christmas
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cfguy
1:15 pm
Carol of the Bells sung by Family Force 5
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Des
4:42 pm
Pete,
I agree with your choices but I also love O Come O Come Emmanuel. There is also a new song called New Words by Brian Stokes Mitchell I posted on my blog. You should give it a listen. I thought of you and your ministry and your fatherhood when I heard it.
http://tasithoughts.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/a-holiday-song-new-words-by-brian-stokes-mitchell/
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