What is the greatest Christmas song ever?

tikitatas · Post by **tikitatas** » November 26, 2008 12:49 pm

Good for laughs at our house still!

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.

You're a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.
Mr. Grinch.

I wouldn't touch you, with a
thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.

You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch.
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile.
Mr. Grinch.

Given the choice between the two of you
I'd take the seasick crockodile.

You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You're a nasty, wasty skunk.
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk.
Mr. Grinch.

The three words that best describe you,
are, and I quote: "Stink. Stank. Stunk."

You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch.
You're the king of sinful sots.
Your heart's a dead tomato splot
With moldy purple spots,
Mr. Grinch.

Your soul is an apalling dump heap overflowing
with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable
rubbish imaginable,
Mangled up in tangled up knots.

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch.
With a nauseaus super-naus.
You're a crooked jerky jockey
And you drive a crooked horse.
Mr. Grinch.

You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool
sandwich
With arsenic sauce.

pbans · Post by **pbans** » November 26, 2008 1:21 pm

This is a great cover of that song, Cate.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_TWNRy7SU

chippewa · Post by **chippewa** » November 26, 2008 2:28 pm

tikitatas wrote:Good for laughs at our house still!

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.

I came here to post this song after seeing the picture in another thread. Ya beat me to it!

Thurl Ravenscroft, who was also the voice of Tony the Tiger.

nutmeg · Post by **nutmeg** » November 26, 2008 3:16 pm

I'm rather fond of da yoopers Rusty Chevrolet

Love anything Andy Williams. Boy I sure miss his Christmas specials. It's the most wonderful time of the year.....

Also love Merry Christmas Alabama (Never Far from home)

I Hit the change stations button as soon as I hear the start of the one about the red shoes

nutmeg · Post by **nutmeg** » November 26, 2008 3:22 pm

Rusty Chevrolet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IgzksUqpQ

Frank4 · Post by **Frank4** » November 26, 2008 3:57 pm

I was just listening to "Christmas Caravan" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers on my lunch hour. It's not a bad album, has some different styles coming at you that is for sure.

tikitatas · Post by **tikitatas** » November 26, 2008 4:12 pm

nutmeg wrote:I'm rather fond of da yoopers Rusty Chevrolet

Love anything Andy Williams. Boy I sure miss his Christmas specials. It's the most wonderful time of the year.....

Also love Merry Christmas Alabama (Never Far from home)

I Hit the change stations button as soon as I hear the start of the one about the red shoes

Saddest one ever, Nancy . . .

Hockey Mon · Post by **Hockey Mon** » November 26, 2008 4:19 pm

...and, who can forget "Christmas With the Devil" by Spinal Tap.

alphabits · Post by **alphabits** » November 26, 2008 4:25 pm

I like a lot of the songs/versions that have been mentioned. Heck, I really love some of them. But, as far as greatest CHRISTMAS song, irrespective of performer, my pick would be SILENT NIGHT.

conched · Post by **conched** » November 26, 2008 4:39 pm

tikitatas wrote:Good for laughs at our house still!

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel.
Mr. Grinch.

That's always one of my favorites too, Cate. One of my favorite folk artists, Slaid Cleave, used to always do that song at his Christmas shows.

It's on his EP Holiday Sampler

conched · Post by **conched** » November 26, 2008 4:47 pm

Frank4 wrote:One of my favorite Christmas Albums is "Christmas" by Bruce Cockburn. Just a wonderful album, I can't say enough good things about it.

I have enjoyed that CD for years. It is beautiful...and unique!

Frank4 · Post by **Frank4** » November 26, 2008 4:50 pm

conched wrote:
Frank4 wrote:One of my favorite Christmas Albums is "Christmas" by Bruce Cockburn. Just a wonderful album, I can't say enough good things about it.
I have enjoyed that CD for years. It is beautiful...and unique!

Thanks for the picture, quite a wonderful album. I think I'll give it a listen on the way home.

Bruce Cockburn used to do an annual Christmas Show that always broadcast the week before Christmas on the radio. Always a great show.

conched · Post by **conched** » November 26, 2008 4:57 pm

Everyone has such diverse tastes in music, but Christmas songs are so universal...

Probably my personal favorite is O Holy Night. (I'll have to listen to Martina McBride's version, blackjack)

And, Barry, Little Drummer Boy is also one of my favorites and that version by Bowie and Crosby is a "pretty thing...isn't it?"

(thanks for that link)

conched · Post by **conched** » November 26, 2008 5:16 pm

Found Martina on youtube. Wow, I had no idea how many versions there might be of O Holy Night by Martina.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWfuoAmB ... re=related

This is also a pretty one...same version with piano.
(TallSky has some very beautiful youtube interpretations of music.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-CbmQBF ... re=related

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » November 26, 2008 5:19 pm

BigR-KyParrothead wrote:i cant believe nobody has mentioned the greatest christmas song of all time......

christmas in hollis-run dmc

SNAP!!! That would be my vote!!

(we gotta stop thinking alike.....)

popcornjack · Post by **popcornjack** » November 26, 2008 5:34 pm

There's another one I forgot. "O Come all ye Grateful deadheads." pretty funny. Still looking for a postable version of it.

Missing B'dos · Post by **Missing B'dos** » November 26, 2008 6:38 pm

"Stille Nacht"... a capella
"White Christmas", the Bing version with the extra bits
"Baby It's Cold Out", the James Taylor & Natalie Cole version
"Wassail Wassail (All Over The Town)".... REALLLLLY old song!
"Marshmallow World", the "live" Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra version

All time favorite, favorite, guaranteed for tears, smiles and singing along EVERY time is

"This Christmas" by Shawn Thomas

Down here, they LOVE the Dolly-Kenny hit "With Bells On"... and every islander loves "The Little Drummer Boy"... who is always of course here playing his pan (steel drum)!

SoCal fav? "Mamacita, donde es Santa Claus?"

pcbfan · Post by **pcbfan** » November 26, 2008 8:39 pm

Hard to pick a favorite....

Christmas in Dixie ...Alabama

White Christmas...Bing Crosby

O Holy Night.... Josh Groban

Away in the Manger...Mannheim Steamroller

Little Drummer Boy....Crosby/Bowie

pbans · Post by **pbans** » November 26, 2008 11:49 pm

conched wrote:Everyone has such diverse tastes in music, but Christmas songs are so universal...

Probably my personal favorite is O Holy Night. (I'll have to listen to Martina McBride's version, blackjack)

And, Barry, Little Drummer Boy is also one of my favorites and that version by Bowie and Crosby is a "pretty thing...isn't it?"

(thanks for that link)

YES....I love that video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-OTQmVOqJU

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