01) Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 00:00 02) Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Christmas Song 03:28 03) Sonya Kitchell - White Christmas 07:07 04) Jackopierce - My Favorite Time of Year 10:23 05) The Digital Age - Silent Night 13:15 06) Philip Aaberg - Charity 17:29 07) Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel / Mary Mary 21:43 08) Jetty Rae - Little Drummer Boy 26:41 09) Chance's End - We Three Kings 29:29 10) Starchillaz - Northern Stars 33:25 11) Lounge of Spirits - Life in Balance 39:47 12) Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong 44:44 13) Enya - How Can I Keep from Singing? 48:09 14) Angel Snow - O Holy Night 52:28 15) Young Oceans - All Who Hear 55:43 16) Mahalia Jackson - Si...
01) Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 00:00 02) Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Christmas Song 03:28 03) Sonya Kitchell - White Christmas 07:07 04) Jackopierce - My Favorite Time of Year 10:23 05) The Digital Age - Silent Night 13:15 06) Philip Aaberg - Charity 17:29 07) Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel / Mary Mary 21:43 08) Jetty Rae - Little Drummer Boy 26:41 09) Chance's End - We Three Kings 29:29 10) Starchillaz - Northern Stars 33:25 11) Lounge of Spirits - Life in Balance 39:47 12) Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong 44:44 13) Enya - How Can I Keep from Singing? 48:09 14) Angel Snow - O Holy Night 52:28 15) Young Oceans - All Who Hear 55:43 16) Mahalia Jackson - Silent Night (46bliss Remix) 62:02 17) Mary J. Blige - My Favorite Things 65:36 18) Billy Paul Williams - Auld Lang Syne 69:26 19) Philip Aaberg - The Gift 74:30
Honestly, I wasn't planning to do a Christmas show this year, until I realized how much new music there is for the season ... hopefully, enough to lure us all away from that automatic reaction: Oh good grief, again!?!
I’m easing you in with some classics (Sinatra, Herb Alpert) and then turning the spotlight on new creations & new singers putting their spin on the classics ... In fact, Christmas music is the singer's equivalent of Hamlet for an actor; they need to see what they can bring to these tunes that's new.
Notable among the secular and spiritual offerings, kudos to Sarah McLachlan for a song that reminds us of those friends whose Christmas will not include their loved ones, and to Angel Snow for her reading of O Holy Night, reminding this bitter world that “His law is love, and his gospel is peace.” And, of course, I could not resist including my all-time favorite version of Silent Night from Mahalia Jackson....