I don't think I've ever heard the song you cite here. Wonder if it's an east-coast thing? (I live in Oregon, grew up in California.)
I'm actually rather fond of "Christmas" music, but mostly stuff that's at LEAST 100 years old (the exceptions being John Lennon and Jethro Tull). When I was growing up, my family had three main Christmas albums (as in, LP-record, vinyl albums). Two were as old as I am, and featured "classic" seasonal songs like "Silent Night", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and (of course) "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel". I think there were maybe three (of two dozen) songs which wouldn't have been covered by a caroling group in Dickens' era. The third was an album by a choir which included my aunt, and sold to raise money for charity. Again, most of those songs were Victorian favorites, though the "B" side of the album included "modern" songs like "White Christmas"... Fortunately, it pre-dated "Rudolph The Red-Noed Reindeer" and "Frosty The Snowman"...
When I was in college, we added one more: the "Christmas Vespers" concert album from the year I was in one of the four college choral groups. It opened with "Veni, Emmanuel" in the original Latin (which we did with a soloist singing the first verse in a totally dark hall, and the rest of us joining in on the chorus and lighting flashlight-bulb "candles" while standing in a big circle around the perimeter of the college chapel), and I don't think there was a single piece that was less than 250 years old.
Since then, I've learned medieval carols and Renaissance madrigals (thank you, S.C.A.), and added Gregorian chants, Enya's gaelic version of "Silent Night", and a couple CDs of things like the Cambridge Choir and similar British versions of holiday music to our family's collection. I particularly like carols sung in their original languages (e.g.: "Adeste Fideles" rather than "O COme All Ye Faithful", "Esclarecida Madre", "Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen", "Noel Nouvelet", "Angeles Del Cielo", and "Stille Nacht"... all of which I've sung as part of choral performances).
OTOH, I loathe most of what plays in malls during the holidays, and have learned to NEVER turn on the car radio during December, when half the stations in our area switch to "holiday" programming. *gag* (Can we KILL whoever wrote "Feliz Navidad"?)
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I'm actually rather fond of "Christmas" music, but mostly stuff that's at LEAST 100 years old (the exceptions being John Lennon and Jethro Tull). When I was growing up, my family had three main Christmas albums (as in, LP-record, vinyl albums). Two were as old as I am, and featured "classic" seasonal songs like "Silent Night", "O Come All Ye Faithful", "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", and (of course) "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel". I think there were maybe three (of two dozen) songs which wouldn't have been covered by a caroling group in Dickens' era. The third was an album by a choir which included my aunt, and sold to raise money for charity. Again, most of those songs were Victorian favorites, though the "B" side of the album included "modern" songs like "White Christmas"... Fortunately, it pre-dated "Rudolph The Red-Noed Reindeer" and "Frosty The Snowman"...
When I was in college, we added one more: the "Christmas Vespers" concert album from the year I was in one of the four college choral groups. It opened with "Veni, Emmanuel" in the original Latin (which we did with a soloist singing the first verse in a totally dark hall, and the rest of us joining in on the chorus and lighting flashlight-bulb "candles" while standing in a big circle around the perimeter of the college chapel), and I don't think there was a single piece that was less than 250 years old.
Since then, I've learned medieval carols and Renaissance madrigals (thank you, S.C.A.), and added Gregorian chants, Enya's gaelic version of "Silent Night", and a couple CDs of things like the Cambridge Choir and similar British versions of holiday music to our family's collection. I particularly like carols sung in their original languages (e.g.: "Adeste Fideles" rather than "O COme All Ye Faithful", "Esclarecida Madre", "Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen", "Noel Nouvelet", "Angeles Del Cielo", and "Stille Nacht"... all of which I've sung as part of choral performances).
OTOH, I loathe most of what plays in malls during the holidays, and have learned to NEVER turn on the car radio during December, when half the stations in our area switch to "holiday" programming. *gag* (Can we KILL whoever wrote "Feliz Navidad"?)