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#263376 - 11/19/07 10:40 PM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: Terry Bohannon]
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Choirs - yes
Congregations - on the whole- no
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#263390 - 11/19/07 11:32 PM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: harmon3110]
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Does anyone know The Twelve Days of Marxmas?
Fr. Serge
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#263447 - 11/20/07 05:15 AM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: Logos - Alexis]
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Registered: 10/18/07
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You're Greek; you might as well count yourself as Southern Italian! Apparently in the Calabrian dialect this rhymes.
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#263448 - 11/20/07 05:20 AM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: Logos - Alexis]
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Catholics really, really can't sing. Call me biased, but no one sings traditional Protestant hymns better than the Methodists. I'd say that the Episcopalians could give them stiff competition. In the spirit of œcumenism, take yourself sometime to St. Thomas' Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City. I went once on a Sunday morning with friends and it was amazing to have the entire congregation of about 800 all singing traditional English hymns in four-part harmony, all inside a cathedral-size church. The only similar experience I've had was in Rome after Sunday Mass when the congregation (in most parishes) sings the Salve Regina.
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#263556 - 11/20/07 07:09 PM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: Ung-Certez]
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With Christmas just a few weeks away the airwaves are once again bombarding us with the secular Christmas songs. What are your favorites in any genre(Rock,Country, Pop, etc.)?
1. "I Believe in Father Christmas"- Emerson,Lake & Palmer
2. "Same Old Lang Syne" -Dan Fogelberg
3. "River"-(Joni Mitchell, Sarah Mclachlan)
4. "Father Christmas"-The Kinks
5. "War is Over/Happy Christmas"-John Lenon
6. "Please Come Home for Christmas"-Don Henley
U-C How could I leave on "The Twelve Days of Christmas" by the Mckenzie Brothers of SCTV fame? U-C
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#263713 - 11/21/07 04:19 AM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: Alice]
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Funny, with my Italian mother having a lot of Perry Como and Dino Martin Christmas LP's, I don't remember that song. To all my "pisans" on the Forum, have a "Buon Natale"!
Ungcsertezs(Ja Rusyno-Italiano!) My husband has Perry Como's Christmas album which he got from his uncle. It is from the 1950's, and my husband just has to listen to it every year, because he grew up hearing it. It is kind of cool, actually. I love Frank Sinatra, but Dean Martin had a far better voice. I love his music...especially 'volare', one of my favorite songs. Regards, Alice, ( not a paisan, but an Italophile ) I'm still looking for a download for "Santo Natale". I could have swore it was sung by Connie Francis. I found the Patti Page version, but can't find an audio clip to download from the internet. U-C
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#264268 - 11/23/07 08:34 PM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: Ung-Certez]
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I never cared for it despite the fact that I really like ELP. Their version of Jerusalem however is excellent.
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#264272 - 11/23/07 09:00 PM
Re: What are your favorite secular Christmas songs?
[Re: Ung-Certez]
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There are refers to the "Vigin birth" and "believe in the Israelite", so it's not that anti-Christmas. I always thought it to a rather well-written classic "70's-"80's Rock Christmas song.
Ung "They sold me a dream of Christmas They sold me a silent night They told me a fairy story Till I believed in the Israelite." Sounds Anti-Christian to me. 
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