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Your Favorite Christmas Songs and Movies :)

JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
edited December 2011 in General Discussion Posts: 5,745
For me:
Songs - (in no particular order)

The Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas
Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
Frank Sinatra - Silent Night
Dean Martin - Let It Snow!
Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Andy Williams - Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
Super Attractive Female Artist - Santa Baby

Movies - (in no particular order)
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Elf
Gremlins
Die Hard
A Nightmare Before Christmas
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
..and
Home Alone

Fell free to post videos! I'd love to expand my lists.

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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    I love anything Elvis and Sinatra at Christmas, and as for films Die Hard is up there and just below Elf. I watch Elf tons of times around this time of the year, almost religiously. I plan to watch it on Christmas Eve with my family.
  • Agent005Agent005
    Posts: 562
    Songs:
    -The 'Christmas in the Heart' album by Bob Dylan

    Movies:
    - OHMSS
    - Batman Returns
    - The Year Without a Santa Claus
    - The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • JBFan626JBFan626
    Posts: 1,497
    I have a lot of guilty pleasures when it comes to Christmas songs:

    Wham: Last Christmas
    Paul McCartney: Wonderful Christmastime
    Mariah Carey: All I want for Christmas is You
    Band Aid: Do they Know It's Christmas--I'm a sucker for Bono's line in the song

    Classic Favorites:
    Elvis: Blue Christmas
    Bing Crosby: White XMas
    Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas
    John Lennon: Happy XMas (War is Over)
    Herb Halbert: Winter Wonderland

    Movies: It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, Christmas Story

    Shows: Charlie Brown's Christmas, Burl Ives Rudolph Special. And...

    The California Raisins Christmas Special!

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  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
    edited December 2011 Posts: 4,399
    Christmas (baby please come home) - as performed by Smash Mouth
    Blue Christmas - Elvis
    Happy Christmas (war is over) - John Lennon
    Silent Night - as performed by Johnny Cash
    Let It Snow - Vaughn Monroe
    White Christmas - Bing Crosby
    Somewhere In My Memory - John Williams (from Home Alone)
    Christmas Star - John Williams (from Home Alone 2)
    All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carrey
    Last Christmas - Wham!

    as well of course I love all the traditional Christmas songs - my favorite of the traditional ones though, are probably "O Holy Night" and "Silver Bells"

    favorite Christmas movies?...

    Miracle On 34th Street (the original black and white)
    Scrooged
    A Christmas Carol
    Gremlins
    The Santa Clause
    Die Hard
    Christmas Vacation
    Home Alone
    Home Alone 2
    A Christmas Story

    I live and have grown up just outside of Cleveland, where "A Christmas Story" was filmed - so it's one of those things here, like the movie Major League, you can't be from this area and not have seen the movie lol... they usually hold tours of Ralphie's house every christmas, and you can actually buy the leg lamps there..... in all my 27 years I've never gone to house... maybe this year i will.
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    HASEROT wrote:
    I live and have grown up just outside of Cleveland, where "A Christmas Story" was filmed - you can actually buy the leg lamps there..... in all my 27 years I've never gone to house... maybe this year i will.

    You should. And pick me one up, too!
    I love TBS's 24 hours of A Christmas Story every year. My hole family stays up and watches it :)
  • karatemanchan37karatemanchan37
    Posts: 584
    Michael Buble - Grown up Christmas list
  • TrueMiracle85TrueMiracle85
    Posts: 300
    Awesome thread! :)

    Music:
    Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)


    Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree


    Frank Sinatra - Santa Clause Is Coming To Town

    (This is my favorite arrangement, just couldn't find it with Frank by himself.)

    Andrea Bocelli - Santa La Noche (O Holy Night)


    Tony Bennett - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas


    Almost any Big Band/Jazz Band Christmas arrangements

    Films:
    Home Alone
    Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
    White Christmas
    The Santa Clause
    A Miracle On 34th Street (Original and Remake)
    A Christmas Carol (Starring Jim Carrey)
    A Christmas Story
  • Monsieur_AubergineMonsieur_Aubergine Top of the Eiffel Tower with a fly in my soup!
    Posts: 642
    Can't believe Mistletoe and Wine hasn't got a mention. :-))
    Jingle Bell Rock for me though folks.

    Film has to be the 1984 version of A Christmas Carol with George c. Scott as Scrooge, all filmed in Shrewsbury - beautiful and really effective version.
    That said I love the muppets version too! ;-)
  • BennyBenny Shaken not stirredAdministrator, Moderator
    Posts: 15,138
    Christmas just isn't Christmas without Slade.

  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    .. Oh and Trans Siberian Orchestra is just the epitome of awesome.
  • 00Beast00Beast
    Posts: 4,762
    Fred Clause, Home Alone 1 and 2, Die Hard, and Elf are some of my favorite Christmas movies. As for the music, I don't have much of a preference, but I do love Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree!
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    Posts: 12,480
    White Christmas
    Silver Bells
    Happy Christmas (War is Over)
    O Holy Night
    and many Xmas carols
    movies:

    Miracle on 34th Street (orig. only)
    A Christmas Carol (Scrooge) with Alistair Sim
    The Muppets Christmas Carol (love it!)
    A Christmas Story
    White Christmas
    The Bishop's Wife
    It's a Wonderful Life
    Love Actually
    Home Alone
  • Artemis81Artemis81 In Christmas Land
    Posts: 543
    Songs:
    Last Christmas - Wham!
    Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters
    Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
    Sleigh Ride - anyone

    Movies:
    A Christmas Carol
    A Christmas Story
    Home Alone
    Elf
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,186
    Song:
    Driving Home for Christmas (Chris Rhea)

    Movie:
    A Nightmare Before Christmas
  • JBFan626JBFan626
    Posts: 1,497
    Benny wrote:
    Christmas just isn't Christmas without Slade.

    Yes!!! I'm from the States and I had never even heard of this song until I was 22 and studied abroad in London in fall of '03. They were playing this song on the streets during the lighting ceremonies and everyone was singing along to this when it came on. It was pretty magical. It's effect is instant, and now always puts me in the spirit right away.

  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    Posts: 12,837
    films

    die hard

    paul blart: mall cop

    007 OHMSS

    A nightmare before christmas

    home alone

    hone alone 2

    batman returns

    songs

    band aid 20: do they know its christmas is my fave, but to be honest as long as its a christmasy song I don't really have a preference
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