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My all time favorite Christmas song is Grant Goodeve’s The Night Time Stood Still from the Christmas in the Northwest 8 album.  I wish YouTube would get someone to put the video up.

http://grooveshark.com/s/The+Night+Time+Stood+Still/3suzrG?src=5

Such a good song!

I heard Dan Fogelberg’s Same Old Lang Syne for the first time the other week and now I’m obsess with it.

Thanks to YouTuber KOUJI328G for hosting the video!

Since the song references (and ends with an instrumental version of) Auld Lang Syne, I included that video.

Thanks to YouTuber saminnyc for hosting the video!

My favorite religious Christmas song is Mark Lowry’s Mary, Did You Know

Thanks to YouTuber GaitherVEVO for hosting the video!

I really liked Lowry’s parody songs when I was a kid, not that I really knew that they were parody at the time.

My favorite Pop Christmas song would have to be, without a doubt, Last Chrstimas – Originally by Wham

Thanks to WhamVEVO for hosting the video.

But I’m a sucker for any good cover of it.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=last+christmas

I have a few favorite complete albums.

Of course, the legend that is Trans-Siberian Orchestra.  I was lucky enough to buy the boxset of their three albmus – Christmas Eve and Other Stories / The Christmas Attic / Lost Christmas Eve, which came with a DVD.  I love this collection so much.

TSO also has this amazing Rock Opera CD, Beethoven’s Last Night, that I wish they were release a DVD for.

Christmas Eve and Other Stories

Thanks to YouTuber TovarishchS for hosting the full album!  Not sure how long that will last.

The Christmas Attic

Thanks to YouTuber ConCon TheButterfly

Lost Christmas Eve

Thanks to YouTuber Katie Duvall

Jewel has a terrific Christmas album, Joy : A Holiday Collection

YouTuber Jewel – Topic has a Playlist with all of her songs.

I adore Jewel, she went Country and I sort of lost track of her but there were years when I was a hardcore fan of hers.

Kelly Clarkson’s Wrapped in Red is another great Christmas album.

Thanks to YouTuber TheChrstimasLyrics3 for hosting the full album

I’m also a huge Kelly Clarkson fan.  I suppose it makes sense to like an artist and naturally like their holiday CD too.

Michael Buble’s Chrstimas album, and specials, are quite excellent as well!

YouTuber Shadee Henareh has created a playlist for all of Buble’s Christmas songs.  I’m also a huge Buble fan too.  But who isn’t and still has a soul? I ask you.

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My wife has hipped me to Alabama’s Thistlehair The Christmas Bear song which is pretty fun.

Thanks to YouTuber ItalianCottager for hosting the video.

My in-laws are all big fans of Robert Earl Keen’s Merry Christmas from the Family

Thanks to YouTuber The Outdoor Chautauqua for hosting the video.

Another song my wife becomes obsessed with this time of year is Jason Castro’s I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

Thanks to YouTuber memillieisme for hosting the video.

We were big American Idol fans for a few years.  That’s how I discovered Michael Buble, when he filled in for Tony Bennett.  Which is pretty cool that I know when I became a fan of Buble, April 4, 2007.

Her favorite classic Christmas song is, Winter Wonderland.  Which seemed like new information when I asked her.

She didn’t have a favorite version, so I included the Buble one.

Thanks to YouTuber zwoooooooooosh for hosting the video.

This made me think of what my favorite classic Christmas song is, it might have to be, O Little Town of Bethlehem

Thanks to YouTuber Gilda Tabarez for hosting the video.

I do try to recite “We Three Kings” from time to time but I never know the lyrics.

Thanks to YouTuber king mojo for the lyric video!

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My mother’s favorite Christmas song is, Little Drummer Boy

Thanks to YouTuber PTXofficial for hosting the Pentatonix video.

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Christmas songs I am not a fan of?  Pretty much any parody of 12 Days of Christmas.

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EDIT ON DECEMBER 22, 2014 –

Another song I keep hearing on the radio is Stephanie Davis’ The Gift

Which apparently she wrote but didn’t release herself.  That I’m aware of as YouTube only has cover versions.

Thanks to Britt Gillis for both hosting her cover and doing such a beautiful version of it.

http://www.stephaniedavis.net/the_gift.htm

There is the link to Stephanie Davis’ website and the lyrics to the song.  It is a nice story.  She’s also lives in Montana.