The Best and Worst Christmas Songs

Merlin wrote:

tac wrote:Cheers, Bas . . . youtube also has their recording of the Holly and Ivy . . . another fav

Yep, my all time fave as well - The Holly and the Ivy ....
F/B Lennon's "So this is Christmas", and as a young 'un - "Here comes Santa Claus"

Worst - Slade's garbage "Merry Christmas", flogged to death every year (October to January) in shopping malls.

Sorry, merls, I left a "the" out of the song title . . .

My mate Sebastian said this was his fave . . .

Demelza wrote:My mate Sebastian said this was his fave . . .

Nice, but hard to whistle . . .

Try it now

An old Cornish song, again with an arrnagement by RVW . . .

How do you know it's Cornish?

Because I have an encyclopedic knolwedge of the folk songs of Britain . . .

You will be interested to note that it can be found on Brass Monkey's 3rd album . . . link

Listen to his voice in this one. Pity he had such a large head . . .

tac wrote:Because I have an encyclopedic knolwedge of the folk songs of Britain . . .

You will be interested to note that it can be found on Brass Monkey's 3rd album . . . link

I love all that.
Do you have any others?

Cornish songs?

Yes, and ye olde Christmas ones.

Sorry, old girl, but there's not much on youtube . . .

No, I just found the Wassail one, but that's all.

The Holly and the Ivy is there, of course . . . if you like folksongs, try under Vaughan Willimas, Alfred Deller or some other artist names . . .

John Dory is my fave folk song, but I can't find it. You will find "Dark-eyed sailor" and a few others

You might also like Vaughan William's settings of the Shropshire Lad song cycle and Stevenson's Songs of Travel cycle . . . not folk, but very good stuff

Will have to stick with Steelye Span!
Have you ever heard of a group called Magna Carta?

Saw their stuff on youtube . . . Steeleye Span are a bit "ye olde Englande" for me . . .

tac, we'd better be careful. Two people have asked me if we're friends now . . .

Oh, dear . . . don't they realize? How did you respond to Nigel, BTW?

Nah not me Garry. I know her views on you.

I said I'm waiting for the big insult . . . just keep watching.

Demmy, Demmy, Demmy . .

Have to admit I'm getting a little nervous here.

Actually I just saw that youtube has a version of Vaughan Williams's "5 variants of Dives & Lazarus" which is a wonderful piece based on a very old folk song . .

Link?