Christmas Songs: So Much To Choose From
One good thing about Christmas songs is that
there are many different ones that you can choose from that seem to
grow year after year and which are mostly very evocative of snow
and sleigh rides as well as going round and round the Christmas
trees that are always covered in snow. There is something very
appealing about Christmas songs that sing about sleigh bells and
the snow and the proverbial white Christmas is sure to evoke very
great memories of snow covered streets and hillsides that will live
in your memory forever.
Christmas Songs With Home Coming
Themes
Another theme that is found in many Christmas
songs and more particularly those that emanated from the sixties,
through to the eighties and on to the nineties and even the current
crop is that there is a constant desire that emphasizes on the
theme of coming home which seems very appropriate even today as the
US forces battle the insurgents in Iraq. And, when you hear Perry
Como or Bing Cosby crooning their special Christmas songs, you will
certainly feel even more nostalgic.
Another great song that you may want to add to
(if you don’t already have it) to your collection of Christmas
songs is the one sung by the Chipmunks and more particularly the
one called “All I Want for Christmas” as well as “I Saw Mommy
Kissing Santa Claus”. In addition, there is a lot of evolution
going on when it comes to Christmas songs and from the early
classics such as “O Holy Night” to “Little Drummer Boy” there are
many evocations of Christmas that have always brought out the best
of Christmas spirit and which have continuously kept us
enthralled.
Another thing you can be sure of and that is
that most Christmas songs bring back a sense of bonding, and being
able to meet challenges as well as having ones spirits lifted and
even John Lennon was moved enough to create his own special called
“And so this is Christmas and what have you done?” and some of his
lyrics certainly brought into play words such as ‘war’ and ‘fight’
that showed a touch of politics entering into the Christmas songs
of the late twentieth century.
Christmas songs have even moved artists of
diverse natures and backgrounds to come together to sing for their
audiences and a good example would be Bing Cosby joining up with
David Bowie to render “the Little Drummer Boy” and in a slightly
different vein, even Elvis’s “Blue Christmas” was a real
masterpiece which everyone loved. Though there are many modern
renditions of the Christmas songs, it still is hard for them to
beat the old time classics that were not only very beautiful to
hear, but also had very sweet sounds that simply made them hard to
forget leave alone are bettered.
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