Favorite Holiday Music - All Cultures

[mamselle]

It's too late for Divali, and Channukah is almost over, but Christmas and Kwanzaa and other celebrations are nigh.

I'll start--

Divali:
   Flute improv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZT11TM-j8A
       
   Drums and voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQtwaj8-rMw

        A lovely Ganesh gift: A wooden elephant head puzzle, with pieces that represent tiny lizards and other animals:
                        https://unidragon.com/products/wooden-jigsaw-puzzle-eternal-elephant

Channukah:
   Hatikvah (instrumental): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRSxZher9ag   

   A new piece, history and hep together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghauzXY2F_4

   This piece for peace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loEjCbSPNjw

   Instrumental loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pap8nWo3Hi8

   There are also many children's tracks, with Dredyl, S'vi Vom, and other favorites:


C'mas:
   Carol of the Bells (Libera's arrangement): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQadcm_dwEM

   The Star Carol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C7VX0lmuOI
     (or any others by A. Burt, who wrote them annually as greeting cards)

   A few other Burt carols, in fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGzTm_obVnM

   And I just found these (James Taylor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70kKTndnkBM
                                    (Also JT/Farjeon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmikN0XrRpE

   Plus this 1-hour-plus tape loop from King's College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmikN0XrRpE


Any and all--please just add your favorites, maybe why you like them, what they recall to you--in a positive, celebrative, constructive way.

If you comment on others' choices, please observe the same peaceful requests.

M.

[Wahoo Redux]

"Gramma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"

[mamselle]

I was doing the Kwanzaa entries but timed out:

Kwanzaa:
   Lovely Hoffman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg2T3zRfIRc

   Teddy Pendergrass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzrYUhMJZY0

   A dancing family with gorgeous moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaevJwvj1AQ

   A summary with music and dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kV-6qVp98Q

M.

[sinenomine]

The Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians version of "Jingle Bells"

[mahagonny]

'The Christmas Waltz' by Sammy Cahn and June Styne, written for Frank Sinatra.

[mamselle]

Maybe I should have asked, can people post YouTube or other links so we can hear the ones we don't know?

Merci bien!

M.

[sinenomine]

Here's Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians performing "Jingle Bells": https://youtu.be/H_bo-fkhsbw

[mahagonny]

'"We Need a Little Christmas" is a popular Christmas song originating from Jerry Herman's Broadway musical Mame, and first performed by Angela Lansbury in that 1966 production.'

-wikipedia

and 'What Are You Doing New Year's Eve' by Frank Loesser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-f1HcY4gAs

[lightning]

N.O.E.L. - by Psychostick (Christmas Parody of System of a Down's B.Y.O.B. )

https://youtu.be/tZWlZFfAnIM

[dismalist]

Christmas Truce of World War I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmJeWxwbSio

[onehappyunicorn]

https://youtu.be/t039p6xqutU

[Parasaurolophus]

I guess I'm partial to O Come O Come Emmanuel?

[lightning]

https://youtu.be/t039p6xqutU

Christmas at Ground Zero

!!!!

: )

[ab_grp]

'"We Need a Little Christmas" is a popular Christmas song originating from Jerry Herman's Broadway musical Mame, and first performed by Angela Lansbury in that 1966 production.'

-wikipedia

and 'What Are You Doing New Year's Eve' by Frank Loesser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-f1HcY4gAs

Angela starts our tree decorating session every year.  And we tend to listen to the Ella Fitzgerald version of the latter song (https://youtu.be/UFdfzNMV52Q).

This one always gets me into the Christmas groove (with lots of jazz hands): https://youtu.be/NrrS7zLdI68  "The Merriest" June Christy.  I like the Christmas Cocktails albums in general.

And I have a special fondness for "Feliz Navidad" after watching Christmas Eve on Sesame Street year after year.  https://youtu.be/DgMXBUJFZOA

This is one that always came up on my Mom's radio during Christmas and made us chuckle: https://youtu.be/Ca5wXojemRM ("Dominick the Donkey")

Of course, lots of the old standards are also favorites.

[mahagonny]

'Snow' (Irving Berlin) by Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%27snow%27+song+bing+crosby&t=h_&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRwZ1_f33doE

'Happy Holidays' (Irving Berlin) by Bing Crosby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzhd0SU8k4