Your Top 5 Christmas Songs & Movies?

[skooldem1]

Check out this video. It is a video of this lady talking about her top 5 Christmas songs. She talks about watching Diana Ross last night on the Christmas in Washington Special, and she also has a copy and talks about Mary Wilson's "My Supremes" magazine. I thought some of you would get a kick out of this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI2Xp3AipHk

Staying on topic. What are your favorite Christmas songs or movies?
I don't have a favorite movie. Unless you count "Frosty the Snowman" and Rudolph. Or maybe "The Wiz". My favorite Christmas songs are:

Silver Bells, White Christmas, My favorite Things: All sung by the Supremes.

It's Christmas Time: Diana Ross

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Any artist- partial to Diana Ross and Johnny Mathis

This Christmas: Donnie Hathaway

Silent Night: Sung by anyone. However, The temptations version- I've said before, its not Christmas until I hear this one.

The Christmas song: Nat King Cole

The Ronettes: Sleigh Ride

O Holy Night: Sung by anyone

All I want for Christmas: Mariah Carey

There are others that I can't think of at the moment.

[sophisticated_soul]

Very cool video, thanks. I didn’t really have a favorite Christmas movie until 2000 when Vanessa Williams did “A Diva’s Christmas Carol”. This contemporary retelling of the Dickens classic is both funny and warm. It’s been shown every year since and if I miss it I have the DVD.

My favorite Christmas albums are The Supremes’ “Merry Christmas”, Johnny Mathis’ “Merry Christmas” [[1958) and Diana Ross’ “A Very Special Season”. These three are always in heavy rotation each Christmas.

If I had to narrow it down to just five favorite Christmas songs, I’d go with:
1. Silver Bells – The Supremes
2. I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Johnny Mathis
3. It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Andy Williams
4. Silent Night – Mahalia Jackson
5. Winter Wonderland – Diana Ross

Looks like I’m going to have to stretch it to ten:
6. Go Tell It on the Mountain/Mary Had a Baby – Vanessa Williams
7. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! – Lena Horne
8. Marshmallow World – Darlene Love
9. Sleigh Ride – The Ronettes
10. Santa Baby – Earth Kitt

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[floyjoy678]

Movies:
1. It's A Wonderful Life
2. Home Alone
3. Santa Clause [[1985)
4. Meet Me In St. Louis
5. Santa Claus [[1994)
--Though it's not a Christmas movie but it comes on this time of year "The Wizard of Oz" [[that's in my top 5 movies of ALL time)

Music:
1. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town by the Crystals
2. All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey
3. Do You Hear What I Hear by Andy Williams
4. Step Into Christmas by Elton John
5. Christmas [[Baby Please Come Home) by Darlene Love
runner up: The Bells of St. Mary by Bobby Sheen

[robb_k]

5809
This should be on The SDF forum rather than Motown, unless you mean Top 5 Motown Christmas songs.

My Top 5 Christmas songs are:

"The Christmas Song"-Nat King Cole
"Merry Christmas"-The Cameos
"Christmas Time"-Jan Bradley
"It's Christmas Time"-The Five Keys
"White Christmas"-The Drifters

2nd Five:
"Christmas Baby Please Come Home"-Darlene Love
"Merry Christmas Baby"-The Poets
"Christmas Prayer"-The Valentines
"Love For Christmas"-Gems
"The Bells Of St. Mary's"-Drifters

Blues section:

"Lonesome Chistmas"-Lowell Fulson
"Sonny Boy's Christmas Blues"-Sonny Boy Williamson II
"Merry Christmas Baby"-Charles Brown & Johnny Moore'[s Three Blazers
"Please Come Home For Christmas"-Amos Milburn
"Merry Christmas Baby"-Chuck Berry

Detroit Christmas recordings:

"Christmas Everyday"-The Miracles
"Some Day At Christmas"-Stevie Wonder
"Silent Night"-The Temptations
"I'm Going Christmas Shopping"-Horace Williams
"Spending Christmas Day With You"-The Nibbs
"Can This Be Christmas?"-The Falcons
"The Joy Of Christmas"-Freddy Pride
"X-Mas Twist"-Twistin' Kings
"Silver Bells"-The Supremes
"Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer"-The Temptations

[robb_k]

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My Top 6 Christmas films: [[I couldn't cut down to 5)

"A Christmas Carol"-1951 Alastair Sim
"A Christmas Carol"-1938 Reginald Owen
"It's A Wonderful Life"-1946 Jimmy Stewart/Donna Reed
"Miracle on 34th Street"-1947 Edmond Gwynn/Maureen O'Hara/John Payne
"The Holly And The Ivy"-1954-Ralph Richardson
"Christmas in Connecticut"-1945 Barbara Stanwyk
"The Man Who Came To Dinner"-1942 Bette Davis/Monty Woolley

I guess I'm showing my age

I know that I've forgotten a couple other very good British films, and also one American comedy that I like very much. I should NOT be able to pare down to 6. I should have had a solid list of 10 classics -none of which could I leave out. Maybe I'll remember them later?

[Kamasu_Jr]

Top 5 Christmas Films:

A Christmas Story
The Preacher's Wife
Meet Me In St. Louis [[technically not a Christmas film, but it has holiday scenes).
Miracle On 34th Street
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Christmas records:
What Christmas Means to Me - Stevie Wonder [[I detest that remake by Ce-Lo)
Do You Hear What I Hear - Whitney Houston
The Bell That Couldn't Jingle - Burt Bacharach
Christmas Baby Please Come Home - Darlene Love
Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters

[JimBagley]

I only like two Christmas movies - A Miracle On 34th Street with Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn and The Christmas Story with Ralphie, so I will pick eight Christmas recordings:
-Welcome To Our World - Dawn [[Telma, Joyce, Pam)
-Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes
-Rudolph - The Temptations
-Grown Up Christmas List - Michael Bubbles
-Ave Maria - Andrea Bocelli
-Merry Christmas All - Denise Montana & the Salsoul Orchestra
-Born Of Mary - The Supremes
-It's Christmas Time - The Miracles

[skooldem1]

Santa Baby: Eartha Kitt

[jobeterob]

I'll be home for Christmas - Connie Francis
A very special season - Diana Ross
Christmas 1915 - the Celtic group
Christmas everyday - miracles

[marv2]

My Top 5 at the moment:

"Do You Hear What I Hear" - Whitney Houston
"Do You Hear What I Hear" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
"The Christmas Song" - Nat King Cole
"White Christmas" - Michael Buble
"Winter Wonderland"- Dionne Warwick

[soulster]

Badder Santa tops my list of Christmas movies.

[Ngroove]

Music:
- "Caroling, Caroling" - Nat King Cole
- "Caroling, Caroling / Happy Holidays" - Johnny Mathis
- "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of the Year" - Johnny Mathis
- "The Christmas Song " - Nat King Cole
- "Sleigh Ride" - Johnny Mathis

Movies
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Frosty The Snowman / Frosty Returns
- Jack Frost [[1979)
- The Polar Express
- A Christmas Story [[ "Gonna Shoot Your Eye Out!" "Oh FUDGE!", HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!)

[arrr&bee]

The christmas song[nat king cole]..white christmas[the drifters]..winter wonderland[johnny mathis]..silent night[temptations]..one little christmas tree[stevie wonder].

[kenneth]

[QUOTE=robb_k;136952]5810
My Top 6 Christmas films: [[I couldn't cut down to 5)

"A Christmas Carol"-1951 Alastair Sim
"A Christmas Carol"-1938 Reginald Owen
"It's A Wonderful Life"-1946 Jimmy Stewart/Donna Reed
"Miracle on 34th Street"-1947 Edmond Gwynn/Maureen O'Hara/John Payne
"The Holly And The Ivy"-1954-Ralph Richardson
"Christmas in Connecticut"-1945 Barbara Stanwyk
"The Man Who Came To Dinner"-1942 Bette Davis/Monty Woolley

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Hey Robb_K, great minds think alike. You picked almost all my favorite Christmas movies, except I've never heard of "Holly and the Ivy." Still, anything with Ralph Richardson can't be bad.

I also enjoy the musical version of "A Christmas Carol" with Kelsey Grammer. Very worth checking out. The music itself stands out, and the atmosphere and performances are fantastic. It's shown on the Hallmark Channel, though I didn't manage to catch it this year.

[robb_k]

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"The Holly And The Ivy"-1954-Ralph Richardson was a British film that was hardly noticed in USA, and is rarely [[if ever) seen on TV there.

[westgrandboulevard]

I agree with just about everything posted above.

There is one addition I'd make :

About 25 years ago, Loretta Young made a TV movie [[after, I seem to recall, nearly a quarter of a century away from films), with Trevor Howard, called ' Christmas Eve'.

If anyone here finds themselves getting emotional and sentimental around this time of year, but has not yet seen this picture, see if you can track it down. It's well above the level of an average made-for-TV movie.

While you may feel you can guess how the story will end [[and hope very much for that to happen...!) you'd best steel yourself not to fall completely apart during the last few minutes....!!:)

[marybrewster]

It's too hard to pick just 5 songs, but these three always get played during the holidays:

"Christmas [[Baby Please Come Home)" - Darlene Love
"All I Want For Christmas is You" - Mariah Carey
"Pine Cones and Holly Berries" - The Osmonds