Here’s a great thing about when someone puts labels on posts on the Blogger platform: you can access Jaquandor’s Daily Dose of Christmas, not just for this year, but for several years back. You’re welcome.
A couple new tracks from this year:
Indigo Christmas -Theresa Olin, written by Linda Bonney Olin
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – MonaLisa Twins
You Ain’t Gettin’ S#!t (For Xmas) – Emily “Boo Boo” Miller
Some random older cuts I’ve come across:
Christmas Rappin’- Kurtis Blow, 1979
The Christians and The Pagans – Dar Williams
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love, from her recurring appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman
We Need A Little Christmas – Angela Lansbury, from the Broadway musical MAME
Winter Song – Sara Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson
Chrissy The Christmas Mouse – Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor
The 12 Gifts of Christmas – Allan Sherman
A Shadows of Knight mashup of a Christmas carol and a Dave Brubeck hit
Shepherd’s Hey by Percy Grainger, which I have on some holiday record or other
Plus: Coverville 1197: The 2017 Christmas Cover Show
Finally, some tunes I tend to play every year:
Every Valley – Handel’s Messiah, A Soulful Celebration; it was such a great surprise
The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole; my late mom was a huge fan of Nat
White Christmas – the Drifters; not just the song but this particular animation I love
Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi, from a Charlie Brown Christmas
The Coventry Carol – Alison Moyet, from the very first A Very Special Christmas album in 1987
Christmas All Over Again – Tom Petty, from the second A Very Special Christmas album in 1992; I can’t believe he’s gone
Winter Snow – Booker T. and the MG’S (at 2:30) – Silver Bells is OK, but Winter Snow, which I first head on that first Stax-Volt box set, really gets to me
What Christmas Means To Me – Stevie Wonder; there are quite a few Motown Christmas albums and this is my favorite cut, the last song on the Someday at Christmas album from 1967
The Bells of Christmas -Julie Andrews; the version I have on vinyl skips the unnecessary instrumentation from about 1:08 to 2:02, which appeared on an album from Firestone tires in the 1960s. Oh, here it is at 17:05