I'll be starting to prep my holiday repertoire over the next few weeks...I'll assume I have most of the standard Xmas/seasonal favorites already in my book...

Curious if anyone has some nice, perhaps well-known, but not necessarily so, songs they might suggest...

Thanks-

Bill in Dayton

Bill, these are my two 'personal' lesser known Christmas favorites that I like to include in my Christmas shows:

* Merry Christmas Darling, beautifully sung by Karen Carpenter:

PLAY Sample Clip


* Christmas Time Is Here, by the Vince Guaraldi Trio:

Play Sample Clip (Vocal Version)

Play Sample Clip (Instrumental Version)

Scott

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Chrismas" is probably a song in your standard favorites, but I really like this song. Had trouble playing it last year. Will have to work on this song again for this xmas.
Starkeeper

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Alabama has a great song "Christmas In Dixie".
DonM

"Mary did you know" sung by Kenny Rodgers and Wynona Judd is a beautiful song.

http://home.att.net/~Poofy/xmas1.html

Wait after the page loads and the MP3 will play.

We have performed it at select occasions, since most venues prefer secular music.

Jerry

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Bill,

Whatever you do, please don't do "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"!!!! LOL

Al

"Grandma" is not that bad for a novelty, but John Denver's "Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas" is horrible!
DonM

Check out the GRP Christmas album...great players and innovative arrangements.


Russ

Hardcandy Christmas , by Dolly Parton.

The Ultimate Christmas Fake Book - 3rd Edition by Hal Leonard is good. A plus is that the keys are the same as most of the Christmas style/MDF collections found in the PSRTutorial.com files.
http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39879070&bfpid=0793585414&bfmtype=book