Our favourite Christmas songs or carols

[lissie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q

It is nearly Christmas so how about our favourite songs or carols
This is mine

lissie

[Lozzles]

This is one of my favourites
In the bleak Midwinter

[Kaz]

Lissie I love that song! In fact when I worked in retail that was the only pop song on the Christmas song 'loop' they played that didn't get on my nerves after the first few days

This is mine - it always makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. They sing this at the start of the Carols From King's service on BBC2 in Christmas Eve, and to me it signals the real start of Christmas

[Kaz]

Loz that is lovely

[jenniren]

This is one of my favourites
In the bleak Midwinter

Loz that's always been my favourite carol

[meriad]

It's one of my favourties as well Loz - just beautiful. I also really like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDh_L9JU5dQ .

I find it quite disappointing that most radio stations only seem to have a handful of christmas songs they play over and over again when there is such a vast beautiful selection out there; esp more traditional ones



And on a more nostalgic note; this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52s1tmm51q8 was always the first carol that was played Christmas eve as us five kids with our parents stood around the Christmas Tree just before the gifts were handed out by my dad. It always makes me very nostalgic and quite sad really that none of my siblings took through any of the family Christmas traditions we grew up with.

[Kaz]

Those are both beautiful Meri - I love Carols and agree that they should be played more

On a point of interest, there is a 'new' Snowman cartoon this Christmas Eve - by Raymond Briggs - The Snowman and the Snowdog

[debih]

Fairytale of New York is my absolute favourite Christmas song Lissie. I know its nearly Christmas as soon as I hear it on the radio.

Carol wise - I love Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

[JoM]

Fairytale of New York is my absolute favourite Christmas song Lissie

Mine too, I like the one The Feeling released a few years ago too, Feels Like Christmas

As for carols, I like Silent Night and In The Bleak Midwinter, and Away In A Manger is beautiful when small children sing it.

Kaz, I can't wait to see the new Snowman animation, and I'm thrilled to bits that The Bear is on again - it brings back lovely memories of when the boys were toddlers.

[Aggers]

The first carol I learned was when I started at the infants school, 84 years ago.

It was Away In A Manger, and that carol has always sounded so lovely to me.

I remember that we had to bow our heads when we sang the word 'Jesus'.