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Kenngo1969 Grand Master

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Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.

 

But I can't decide if it's my favorite, or my least-favorite. :diablo:

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I love O Holy Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, The First Noel, Carol of the Bells, and Silver Bells.

I'm not very fond of Whiite Christmas.

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Kenngo1969 Grand Master

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... I'm not very fond of Whiite Christmas.

Some of us dream of white Christmases; some of us have nightmares of having to dig ourselves out of copious amounts of snow, spread for acres upon acres, and piled foot upon foot deep! :huh::D

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Garden Girl Grand Master

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Funny, when I first read the title, immediately I too, like Kenngo, thought of Grandma getting hit by the raindeer...

I love The First Noel and O Holy Night... "Chestnuts Roasting by an Open Fire" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas" make me wistful...  don't like "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" etc... Can't stand "Santa Baby."

 

GG

 

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Some of us dream of white Christmases; some of us have nightmares of having to dig ourselves out of copious amounts of snow, spread for acres upon acres, and piled foot upon foot deep! :huh::D

True!
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bluebell Grand Master

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I can't believe I'm the first to proclaim my loathing of Christmas Shoes. Or is that one just too easy?

I don't think I know that one.
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Hard to pick a favorite...as far as traditional songs/hymns go, I absolutely love O Holy Night, followed closely by Joy to the World and Angels we Have Heard on High (so long as long as the chorister is conducting the hymn in an upbeat fashion). I also love Born in Bethlehem, Do You Hear What I Hear, and What Child is This.

 

I hate All I Want for Christmas is You and So This is Christmas (which isn't really even a Christmas song)

Calm Grand Master

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Can we refer to the horrid Santa Baby as the Song That Must Not Be Named? Every time someone mentions it, it starts playing in my head....I think its eternal playing is considered as the seventh level of Hell.

And it is not only not my least favourite, it isn't even on the favourite list at all, but is on the "I can't stand it, please put me out of my misery" list....very close to the top rated there.

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Rivers Grand Master

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I can't believe I'm the first to proclaim my loathing of Christmas Shoes. Or is that one just too easy?

I forgot about that one.
Rain Grand Master

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I don't really have a favorite. It will just depend on the mood I am in. Some favorites: Silent Night, What Child Is This, Angels We Have Heard on High, White Christmas, Nancy Hanson's - Once in Royal David's City.

Least favorite right now is Last Christmas because I hear it all the time. Don't like Santa Baby or the So This Is The Guilt Song at all.

Jeanne Grand Master

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I am partial to "O Holy Night" for a favorite but I really love to sing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman"..my least favorite I think

is "Up On the Housetop".....

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Most favorite: "The First Nowell"

Least favorite: "Little Drummer Boy" …the par rump a pum pums ….ugh

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Favorite in English: Silent Night or "Hallelujah Chorus" sung by the MoTabs.  

Favorite in another language:"Il est ne le divin enfant".  The English translation doesn't do it justice.

Worst: I'll second the nomination for the Song that must not be named.  Heard a version sung by a guy called "Santa Buddy". the other day.  Just as nauseating. 

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My favorite: O Holy Night

Worst Christmas song (IMHO): Santa Baby

Amen..."O Holy Night". "Silent Night" and Mannheim Steamroller's "Silent Night", "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" and "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". Even better is the story about how the song came about. Worst Christmas song..."All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth".
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Thanks to some of you, I have the Song That Must Not Be Named stuck in my head. A slow, creepy version of it.

Kenngo1969 Grand Master

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Most favorite: "The First Nowell"

Least favorite: "Little Drummer Boy" …the par rump a pum pums ….ugh

To each, his or her own, Saemo.  Maybe I'm just a sucker for sappiness, but I have always loved Little Drummer Boy.  As the Omnipotent, Omniscient Lord of the Universe, Christ doesn't need any of my puny, insignificant gifts or offerings, any more than He needed the Little Drummer Boy's modest performance.  He can definitely do better than anything I might have to offer.  As Elder Jeffrey R. Holland once said, "Imperfect, mortal, fallible human beings are all God has ever had to work with.  That must be terribly frustrating to Him, but He deals with it."  That said, the Little Drummer Boy's offering to God may not have been much in the eyes of some (after all, all he could do for the Savior was play his drum the best he could), but however imperfect or inadequate anything is that I might have to offer, I take Little Drummer Boy  as God's assurance to me that even my puny, insignificant offerings are still acceptable to Him.  My $0.02. Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays! :)

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Tacenda Grand Master

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Amen..."O Holy Night". "Silent Night" and Mannheim Steamroller's "Silent Night", "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" and "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". Even better is the story about how the song came about. Worst Christmas song..."All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth".

Oh, but "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth" was so much fun to sing in elementary school. :(

I like "The First Noel". And remember a Christmas show about the young shepard boy, that I liked. I don't know why I link the two.

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Calm Grand Master

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I love the Drummer Boy as well, but there are some bade versions of it out there that make it too complicated and over emotional. I think it should be sung and played in a relatively simple manner as the simple drummer boy context suggests.

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cinepro Grand Master

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I can't believe I'm the first to proclaim my loathing of Christmas Shoes. Or is that one just too easy?

 

Eric Snyder would agree with you...

 

 

While we’re on the subject of songs that are supposed to make you cry whose doctrine I find questionable, there’s the recent sappy, crappy country hit “Christmas Shoes” (not to be confused with “Live Like You Were Dyin’,” “Already There,” or any of the other sappy, crappy country hits that are produced at the rate of one song per week). It’s about a guy standing in line in a store at Christmastime, and this filthy urchin in front of him is buying a pair of women’s shoes, which he declares to be for his mother:

 

“Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please

It’s Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size

Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there’s not much time

You see she’s been sick for quite a while

And I know these shoes would make her smile

And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight”

 

Because, what, Jesus can’t abide a barefoot woman? Or a woman who has shoes on that aren’t beautiful? And who says Mama will be wearing shoes when she gets to heaven anyway? I believe the old saying is, “You can’t take it with you.” Does that not apply to shoes? Is there supposed to be an asterisk next to it?

 

You can’t take it with you.*

*(except shoes)

 

Anyway, the kid in the song winds up getting the singer to buy him the shoes, because of course he’s too poor to pay for them himself. I picture him thanking the man profusely, then hurrying out the door with the shoes to his mother, who’s waiting in the car, smoking a cigarette:

 

“What took you so long? Here, let’s see ’em … What, these are the best you could find?! Pumps! I told you pumps! These are heels! I can’t wear these, they make my feet hurt, you stupid brat! You better get it right at the next store. And would it kill you to cry a little? See if you can get someone to give you some cash, too. Mama can’t buy lottery tickets with shoes.”

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