christmas music


I'll go ahead and take some darts to mention christmas music this early in the year, but what are some of your favorite christmas albums? I can't necessarily speak for sonics with these choices, as I don't have a vinyl rig currently, but these sure take me back to listening to some LPs with my family as a child. I have to vote for the Elvis christmas album (as a friend once told me, "it's not christmas until elvis says so") and Andy Williams christmas LP. I am anxious to hear some of your choices. I just bought Josh Groban's christmas cd in anticipation of the holiday season.
bigsam2
Christmas Time is Gears,Art Bernstein and Chuck D'Aloia find it on line and buy it!I play it through the whole year.
"Rejoice! A string quartet Christmas" Vols 1-3 on John Marks Records, now out of print but available at Archiv or on Amazon.

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Kings College Cambridge, on EMI I think.

David
here's last year's Christmas music thread. It may provide some reminders including some of my fav's in no particular order:

Trans Siberian Orchestra
Vanessa Williams
GRP Christmas Collection
Emmylou Harris

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A modern Christmas classic, fun for kids and adults, Vince Guiraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas."