I love Christmas Music
Mamalang is today's Fun Monday hostess and is curious about our favorite Christmas Carols.Do any of you know The Wexford Carol? It is one of my three favorites and I came upon it by accident when I was looking at You Tube selections. It is the first full song on the embedded video. The setting is the Julie Andrews 1987 Christmas Special. She would be my first choice to perform it for you, too!
Now I really hit the Jackpot when I found this. The next song is the late John Denver singing What Child is This (tune Greensleeves.) Another favorite song from another favorite singer.
This post is like one of the Ginsu Knife commercials, because, WAIT! There Is MORE!
For only a few minutes longer you get to hear Placido Domingo performing Ave Maria!
It doesn't get much better than this.
Had she asked for Christmas songs...well, I love White Christmas (Bing Crosby), Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire (Nat King Cole), and It's a Holly Jolly Christmas (Burl Ives.) Oh, I know... I'm dating myself here.
She also requested a photo of our favorite Christmas thing.
Sorry, no photos. My decorations are still packed away and it was too late to unpack them when I decided to participate today.
I would have shown you the little ornaments that my children made when they were in school. Now my girls are saving their own children's hand made ornaments.
My husband has carefully wrapped and stored each year a little nativity set that he bought when he was a teenager. It is now so fragile that we get anxious when we set it out on display.
One year we bought hand blown glass icicles from a craftsman at a local Christmas bazaar. I love the way they sparkle on our tree, and that each one is unique - just like they grow on a cold winter's night.
Mr. Linky is up over at MamaLangs blog, so you can sing your way through the entries today, and enjoy their Christmas delights.
Comments
Ave Marie reminds me rather sad events, both my mother and father asked for this song at their funerals ! I don't know why but in Germany it really has become a funeral song !
My decorating is still a work in progress too!
Oh if you ever get your children's ornaments out, get a photo and let me know...I'd LOVE to see them.
Happy Fun Monday
Thanks for your advice.
Now that you mention it there is 2 little girls in our town that KB does hang out with on outings. One of them happen to go to the church we been visiting and she has dyslexia just like KB. I have just been letting Rocker Dude fill in the gaps here with her school work, but never thought to ask one of these ladies if they minded KB to tag a long. I bet they wouldn't mind. They are very sweet ladies. Thanks for jarring my brain.
My favorite Christmas song is White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby. I love Bing Crosby. O Tannenbaum comes in somewhere near the top, but only when sung in German. I can sing two verses in German. Are there any more? There's another thing to google.
I don't know what traditional carols I like best. I'd have to think a while to remember the proper names.
I do have some favorites that I guess would be more along the lines of a carol, but they wouldn't be familiar to many people. I need to have a CD giveaway on my blog this week or it will be too late to arrive by Christmas.
Surprising what we have lost in our culture, though. Just a few years ago -- 1987 -- there was still such a sweet and touching Christmas concert. Imagine that by 1995 Julie Andrews was doing Victor Victoria (a good movie and fun, but compare her early work to how coarse she -- and movies -- became.)
I'm wondering if we will see anything even close to this on contemporary television this year.
I second several of the above requests to see the children's ornaments. I love my popsicle sleighs and can lid pictures.
This year, I've also discovered a new one I'm addicted to--Sara Groves' Christmas album. She rewrites melodies, or at least plays with old melodies, to our favorite hymns. It's beautiful. Highly recommend it.
I bought it for my mom. On her first listen, her response was, at best, eh? Now she says she can't stop listening to it either!
Thanks for keeping me on my toes.
I loved her in Thoroughly Modern Milly too. And what in the heck was the full name of the movie with "Lilly" in the title? She was great in both of them.
Good choices.
No ... I hadn't heard the Wexford song. Thanks for alerting me to it's existence.