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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
 Posted - 20/12/2010 : 14:46:21
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You got'em...please tell'em...I have many in my collections old and new ..always looking for more.all styles....want to make sure I'm not missing anything good... ..you got Estonian carols? that's fine fine...
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 20/12/2010 : 18:48:42
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thanks lk..Amal's new for me!....
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
1308 Posts |
Posted - 20/12/2010 : 20:32:41
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for now, my favorites are
Phil Spector's Christmas Album ( i have the stereo lp!)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Nutcracker Suite
Nat King Cole's Christmas Album
and just about any 1950's Christmas records 
...what the world needs now... |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 20/12/2010 : 21:38:41
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| Yeah me too I like those 50's renditions..you now Windham hill stuff is ok but for some reason I keep going back to those older records...I don't know, must be something about the nostalgia, eh?????... |
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torben
Fifth Love
Denmark
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 20/12/2010 : 22:23:59
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The ubiquitous George Winston is always on this time of year at my house.
his "December" LP...soothes the savage beast....have a listen. Stop what you are doing first, and close you eyes, and listen. Still gives me chills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kllZlF6mB2s
By the way ....George Winston taught himself to play piano by listening to Ray Manzarek. He started playing organ and bass, like Ray, in a band and then moved to piano still using one hand for the bass lines. It works rather well.
( oh, and it's AMAHL, sorry)
That BEATMAS is very cool, Torb!!
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 20/12/2010 22:25:12 |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 14:14:55
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| Yes yes thanks Torben..where in the world do you find out about all this stuff??????..this belongs in my I-me-mine collection... |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 14:18:25
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| lk...get this I picked up "December" last week! I had some of those "Winter Solstice" records so I figured I would add "December". I sure like the arrangements and style. Joy and Canon in particular. |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
2154 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 17:37:57
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Gaudete by Steeleye Span.....a beautiful sixteenth century carol. Here's a superb live performance from 2004:
Light has arisen. Salvation is come,
Bursting the gates of death.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDc2FD-vy8M |
Edited by - John9 on 21/12/2010 17:42:22 |
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ALLANAGAIN
Old Love
United Kingdom
687 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 17:50:17
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| pouges with Kirtsy Mc call...."fairytale in new york"..or whatever it,s called... |
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torben
Fifth Love
Denmark
328 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 18:23:24
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rocker - Beatmas made one christmas cd.
They play under the name Rubber Band and are a danish Beatles cover band
Some of my favorites are:
Mary Hopkin: Mary had a baby.
Billy J. Kramer: Blue Christmas
Grek Lake: I believe in Father Christmas
just to mention a few
and then there's also this one:
http://love.torbenskott.dk/ |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 20:14:43
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Torb...I love that Greg Lake song! Forgot about it.
Rocker-That December album is fantastic....the first time I played it it was snowing in Maine....magic! Those two tracks you mention are my faves also.
This is from signedRW....
Here's one I play on the air every year at this time; I always get requests for it. One or two more to follow...
-RW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM38kN4AOys
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9876 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 21:49:31
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Another one to sooth the soul...meditative ....listen to the quiet.
January Stars from "Winter" by George Winston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4-LBMFpuSE
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Letting your freak flag fly is a state of mind,
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 22:08:32
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man between that beautiful piano sound and a doo-wop Xmas in Jail (now that was a first for me...never heard that tune!) and Beatmas and progressive Father Christmas I've got some good stuff to get..thanks!..
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 21/12/2010 : 22:11:44
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| and john that "Gaudete" is real good...and if I can suggest I got Stile Antico's recent Puer Natus Est..great 16th century stuff for Xmas..absolutely stunning voclas by that ensemble and they use no conductor.. |
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fav Xmas songs
