It's time for the best Christmas song ever! What's yours?
The Pogues, "Fairy Tale of New York."
What's your favorite winter holiday song?
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I remember lighting his cigarette at a bar right off Broadway a couple blocks north of Houston/Bleeker.
Long time ago, Reagan was president.
I forget. Wasn't nearly as cool though as talking about chicken parts with Lauren Bacall at the Gristedes in Amagansette.
Long time ago, but damn was she ever gorgeous!
And they remember what variety I like. CREEPY!
We should be facebook friends.
I just posted about how damn it cool it was to find that they'd arranged my clothes and filled my ice bucket.
WTH?
PS, it's my one indulgence, for good causes, two years ago at this event I got to meet and chat with Bill Ayers, and I love that!
that down under they insist we hate each other and that as soon as I "wrangled control" of the gun control group, I banned you? 
All the more reason to be friends.
I was thinking about it today, how sad it the history, and pointless, but that's enough of that, no good can come from it I tell ya!
Go ahead, ban me again!
The Simeone Chorale version is what we had as an LP when I was growing up, so it's the default winner, imo.
Christmas music is a major thing for me - I have dozens of Xmas music albums and listen to it all day long, starting right after Thanksgiving. So, I will probably have several additional replies to your OP, as I think of more essentials to add. 
Not sure I can find them online...stay tuned. 
Thurl Ravenscroft was the singer.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060345/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
Starting a new assignment Monday in downtown Atlanta.
...dollars, greenbacks... They flake less than most teams.
Brain Salad Surgery Tour. It was AWESOME. Thanks for the info about the Troika movement.
I have a soft spot for jazz/rock people who have classical chops, since that's what I started on as a child. Piano lessons at age five, violin lessons starting at age ten. I was not quite big enough for a full sized fiddle when I was ten, and they are only 14 inches long!! I'm not a very big girl so my hands are the right size for fiddling.
And the critics at Rolling Stone think if you have the chops to play classical competently, then you're "pretentious". I think they're jealous.
I give ELP credit for playing Moussorgsky. Back in high school orchestra we played The Great Gate of Kiev. So the critics don't like ELP, Yes, Blind Faith, Asia, Rick Wakeman, King Crimson and all those guys in art rock. Tough.
People who get bored with classical music tend to go into jazz because those are the only two complex forms of music. Jean-Luc Ponty got the Grand Prix as outstanding student at the Paris Conservatory in violin, so he went into fusion. He made albums with Stephane Grappelli and Frank Zappa.
"No one has ever put up a statue to a critic." --Jean Sibelius, famous composer who wrote "Finlandia" and some damn good symphonies.
I just never got Rush ...
I took piano lessons as a child and music runs in the Family ...
My Mom and I sang in the local church choir and local choral society ... that type of thing.
Aunt sang in some local Dallas Opera. Brother plays Bass in a Jazz Trio (also Bluegrass 
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My musical tastes run the gamut ... I love classical but, am not knowledgeable and I really appreciate your threads because of all the info.
Merry Christmas, Manifestor_of_Light 
Yeah, I'm old!!
I love to turn people on to good music of any kind. I say "You need to hear this, it's good stuff!". Did this to my hubby, played tapes in my car, he's a crazy guitarist/math guy, and he didn't run off from my music appreciation class.
I got all the musical talent in the immediate family. Was an orchestra nerd, had season tickets to the symphony and the opera in Houston. So I learned most of this stuff by playing it. I have some cousins on mom's side that are pretty talented.
I have sung in a lot of church choirs and directed a few and played the piano for church. I like the UUs because you can play secular music if it fits the theme of the service. Sacred and secular are artificial distinctions to me.
I love masses in Latin and that sort of thing. Anything by Anonymous Four, Chanticleer or The Tallis Scholars.
If it's good stuff that makes you feel better, then I'd call it sacred.
I auditioned for the HGO chorus back in 2005. My audition no. is Cherubino's fast number from Marriage of Figaro "Non so piu cosa son, cosa faccio".
A lot of what I know about literary works I know second-hand from opera or ballet suites. I don't like seeing the ballet. It just doesn't turn me on. It is very artificial and I don't understand it.
I've played lots of ballet suite music and that is fun. The Firebird, Rite of Spring, probably all the Tchaikovsky ones, Carmen, Rodeo, Les Sylphides, blah de blah.
Brother plays bass in a jazz trio? That's cool. Quote from Sting: It's not a chord until the bass player says it is.
I have a Fender jazz bass tuned in fifths, CGDA, like a cello. I can't think in fourths like guitar players. That should blow your brother's mind. I can read bass clef, being a pianist.
I don't like country, hiphop or rap. Country is whiny and negative, and I refuse to listen to that stuff. Most pop stuff now is crap too.
I gave up on rock when I saw the Police on the Synchronicity Tour in the summer of '83 and they were really getting good, and they broke up after that. 
My first rock concert was the Righteous Brothers in '64!!
Only art rock band I saw back in the 70s was King Crimson. They were the middle act in a line up of Robin Trower of Procul Harum, King Crimson and headliners Ten Years After with Alvin Lee -- can you believe that line up??? That was in '74 and King Crimson had a violinist which impressed me.
As far as jazz, I like some of Pat Metheny's stuff: We Live Here, Secret Story and movie soundtrack A Map Of The World. He stole his licks from Wes Montgomery. Clean guitar like Pat just isn't fashionable. Steal from the Best!!!! I also like Chick Corea, Lyle Mays and Gary Burton.
Lately I've been getting into Queen's lesser known stuff. Got a copy of Greatest Hits II. Such wonderful positive stuff. Brian May(my avatar) is tasteful with the distortion. He should be president of the Studly Physicists Society.
And you have a very Merry Christmas too, Tuesday!!! In Your Wildest Dreams, and in reality too!!
I just love it!
I have good taste, and so do you. 
The group is called "Da Yoopers", as in, U.P.-ers.
I only know about them because I found the song someplace one year and Googles what the hell a "yooper" was.
originally written in 1962 in the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, recorded by Bing Crosby in 1963, played during Christmas 1963 in the aftermath of the JFK assassination, recorded numerous times in numerous styles.
This version is sung by country artist Carrie Underwood:
makes me feel nostalgic
