Music for all!
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resonantHey, wow, there's a holiday coming, isn't there? Until I finished the cookbooks, I couldn't even stand to look at it.
It's been a couple of years since I posted Christmas music, so all this is newly acquired during that time. Help yourself -- since it's Sendspace, no need to comment if you don't want to, but let me know if you want to download and the links have expired.
Huh. I have a lot of wassail songs, for a person who doesn't drink.
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day by Carly and Lucy Simon. (Because I grew up with this album, I think of this as "the real tune" and the more traditional tune as "that boring tune.")
Carol of the Beasts by Pete Seeger. (What I love about this is the implication that the oxen and donkeys of today are all terribly materialistic compared to the good, simple oxen and donkeys of the past)
Joy to the World by the River City Ragtime Band.
Galician Carol by Carlos Nuñez.
Shout for Joy by Odetta.
Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched) by the Boston Camerata. (I'll bet that "While Shepherds Watched" is the text for which I have the most different tunes, followed closely by "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning.")
Adam Lay Ybounden by the Mediaeval Baebes.
Fum Fum Fum by the San Francisco Girls' Choir. (In translation, unfortunately, but a nice lively arrangement.)
Chiquirriquitin by the Peninsula Women's Chorus.
Malpas Wassail by the Christmas Revels. (More drunken than most. The kidlet says, "All wassails are a little bit drunk. Otherwise why would they be telling you their ale is brown.")
The Nutcracker Suite by the Brian Setzer Orchestra.
Jingle Bells by the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby. (For some reason, the only versions of "Jingle Bells" I like are jazz ones.)
O Holy Night by the Whiffenpoofs. (Admirably low-drama; mostly I'm not crazy about "O Holy Night" because it seems to inspire singers to great displays of ersatz emotion. Nat King Cole has a version I like OK, though.)
Come, Love, Carolling by Shusha et al. (I'm not crazy about this version -- would prefer a simpler, less warbly female voice -- but I'm blown away by this voice of pregnant Mary: "All the while, wherever I may be/I carry the maker of the world in me.")
I Saw Three Ships/Song of the Ship by Heather Dale. (I'd never heard "Song of the Ship" before.)
Mi Levedie, Ich Thonke Thee by Joglaresa. (The more I listen to this, the more bits and pieces of it I understand.)
Leaping and Dancing by Nowell Sing We Clear. ("Shepherds and lasses come leaping and dancing,/Leaping and dancing, the eve of Noel.")
Ditchling Carol by Waterson:Carthy. ("And all remember, gentles gay,/For you who bask in fortune's ray,/The year is all a holiday.The poor have only Christmas.")
It's been a couple of years since I posted Christmas music, so all this is newly acquired during that time. Help yourself -- since it's Sendspace, no need to comment if you don't want to, but let me know if you want to download and the links have expired.
Huh. I have a lot of wassail songs, for a person who doesn't drink.
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day by Carly and Lucy Simon. (Because I grew up with this album, I think of this as "the real tune" and the more traditional tune as "that boring tune.")
Carol of the Beasts by Pete Seeger. (What I love about this is the implication that the oxen and donkeys of today are all terribly materialistic compared to the good, simple oxen and donkeys of the past)
Joy to the World by the River City Ragtime Band.
Galician Carol by Carlos Nuñez.
Shout for Joy by Odetta.
Sherburne (While Shepherds Watched) by the Boston Camerata. (I'll bet that "While Shepherds Watched" is the text for which I have the most different tunes, followed closely by "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning.")
Adam Lay Ybounden by the Mediaeval Baebes.
Fum Fum Fum by the San Francisco Girls' Choir. (In translation, unfortunately, but a nice lively arrangement.)
Chiquirriquitin by the Peninsula Women's Chorus.
Malpas Wassail by the Christmas Revels. (More drunken than most. The kidlet says, "All wassails are a little bit drunk. Otherwise why would they be telling you their ale is brown.")
The Nutcracker Suite by the Brian Setzer Orchestra.
Jingle Bells by the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby. (For some reason, the only versions of "Jingle Bells" I like are jazz ones.)
O Holy Night by the Whiffenpoofs. (Admirably low-drama; mostly I'm not crazy about "O Holy Night" because it seems to inspire singers to great displays of ersatz emotion. Nat King Cole has a version I like OK, though.)
Come, Love, Carolling by Shusha et al. (I'm not crazy about this version -- would prefer a simpler, less warbly female voice -- but I'm blown away by this voice of pregnant Mary: "All the while, wherever I may be/I carry the maker of the world in me.")
I Saw Three Ships/Song of the Ship by Heather Dale. (I'd never heard "Song of the Ship" before.)
Mi Levedie, Ich Thonke Thee by Joglaresa. (The more I listen to this, the more bits and pieces of it I understand.)
Leaping and Dancing by Nowell Sing We Clear. ("Shepherds and lasses come leaping and dancing,/Leaping and dancing, the eve of Noel.")
Ditchling Carol by Waterson:Carthy. ("And all remember, gentles gay,/For you who bask in fortune's ray,/The year is all a holiday.The poor have only Christmas.")