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Most-Loved Christmas Music

27 Dec 24 - 05:19 AM (#4214188)
Subject: MOST LOVED CHRISTMAS MUSIC
From: The Sandman

On a positive note, What christmas music do people like the most

27 Dec 24 - 05:47 AM (#4214191)
Subject: RE: MOST LOVED CHRISTMAS MUSIC
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

I think my favourite "While Shepherds" tune is "St. Helena", a fairly modern one that Ray at the top Lion at Grenoside wrote.

I quite like "On the dew besprinkled lawn" from Derbyshire.

Others will probably occur to me!

Robin

27 Dec 24 - 07:20 AM (#4214200)
Subject: RE: MOST LOVED CHRISTMAS MUSIC
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw

Oops! Trying again:

One freezing cold afternoon in the early 1970s we were all thrown out of London Bridge station on to the street because of an IRA bomb scare. As we stood around shivering in the cold, a tiny elderly lady launched into The First Tree In The Greenwood (all of it!), and boy, could she sing. That was my most loved Christmas music of all time.

27 Dec 24 - 11:29 AM (#4214207)
Subject: RE: MOST LOVED CHRISTMAS MUSIC
From: Acorn4

2,000 miles by The Proclaimers avoids the usual ding ding dongy irritation.

27 Dec 24 - 04:29 PM (#4214215)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: GUEST

While Sheperds to any tune at all????

27 Dec 24 - 05:33 PM (#4214218)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: GUEST,henryp

While Shepherds Were Watching (Roud 16898) (Recorded 14 June 1971, by Roy Palmer)
Sung by George Dunn (1887-1975) born in the Black Country village of Quarry Bank, some eight miles west of Birmingham, who retired at the age of 72 after 59 years, mainly as a chainmaker.
Sung by Coope Boyes & Simpson With Jo Freya, Fi Fraser And Georgina Boyes – Voices At The Door - Midwinter Songs And Carols No Masters – NMCD 25 (2006)

While shepherds were watching their flocks by the night,
There came a great noise which gave them a fright.
"Cheer up, faithful shepherds and be not afraid,
Cheer up, cheer up,
Cheer up, faithful shepherds and be not afraid."

It was angels a-shouting on that glorious morn
A-shouting glad tidings, "The Saviour is born
Is borned of a virgin so meek and so mild,
Our Lord, our Lord,
Our Lord and redeemer is now borned a child."

I went to behold him, I asked them his name.
His name it was Jesus, from Bethlehem came.
Let every believer his mercy implore,
And praise, and praise,
And praise him for ever 'til time be no more.

George Dunn: Chainmaker (MTCD317-8) This is, of course, an example - albeit an unusual one - of While Shepherds Watched. George, who learned this not in church but from his father, pointed out that in the second line of the first verse he should have sung 'a great light' rather than 'a great noise'. Steve Roud feels that it is sufficiently different to have its own number and, as far as he and Ian Russell know, it is unique to George Dunn. The carol singers also sang;

The cock sat up the rue tree, the hen came chucklin' by;
I wish you a merry Christmas and every day a pie.

However, the following verse was reserved, George Dunn explained, for the non-contributor - "We'd got to flit then, we'd got to depart quick!"

The cock sat up the rue tree, the hen came chucklin' by;
I wish the cock'd drop a turd and drop it in your eye.

27 Dec 24 - 06:01 PM (#4214220)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: Joe Offer

I'm partial to German carols. Three of my favorites are:

28 Dec 24 - 10:42 AM (#4214253)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: GUEST,keberoxu

The Huron Indian Christmas Carol,
English words beginning with
" 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime"

28 Dec 24 - 12:27 PM (#4214267)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: Tattie Bogle

As I mentioned in the other thread - "O Holy Night" - but it has to be the recording made at my daughter's school 30 years ago!

28 Dec 24 - 12:34 PM (#4214268)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: GUEST,paperback

Curtise Xmas song

28 Dec 24 - 01:42 PM (#4214274)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: GUEST,The Groovester

Motown!

31 Dec 24 - 05:36 AM (#4214427)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: Hrothgar

Silent Night
Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful (or Adeste Fidelis, for the Catholics who like to show off)
O, Holy Night

01 Jan 25 - 05:14 AM (#4214485)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: MaJoC the Filk

My youngest brother was in a school choir which was being taught Silent Night in the original German. He claims they started pronouncing the first line as "Stille na-*hawk*-*spit*" as a joke, and were surprised when the teacher praised them for getting the pronunciation right.

01 Jan 25 - 01:48 PM (#4214521)
Subject: RE: Most-Loved Christmas Music
From: MaJoC the Filk

Correction: the pronunciation of "nacht" was "na-*hawk*-T", with three distinct syllables.