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Yes, I'm bored. biggrin

 

I absolutely love The Year Without A Santa Claus (the Miser brothers) and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (The Bergermeister Meisterberger - TOYS!)

It also isn't Christmas until I hear Snoopy & the Red Baron battling it out on Christmas Eve. LOVE that song. I had the 45 when I was little and it brings back nice memories.

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If I can catch "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer" I'll watch it again for the 400th time!

I also love all kinds of Christmas music from Heavy Metal to Country to old standards. Silver Bells sung by Doris Day and The Christmas Conga by Cydi Lauper are two favorites.

 



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LOL... sorry. It's the ONLY one I look forward to!

ETA: and I posted by hitting "Reply" on the OP... so I didn't see your loathing of the song before posting... I promise! 



-- Edited by RichardInTN on Monday 5th of November 2012 08:57:21 PM

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I watch all the Charlie Brown holiday cartoons with the kids. We missed "It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown" this year. There is no way i'm going to miss any of the others. I love the Thanksgiving one as well as the Christmas one. I love all the cartoons really. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, Frosty the snowman, Santa Claus is coming to town, Mickeys once upon a Christmas, Mickeys twice upon a Christmas. I adore Mickeys Christmas Carol.

As for music, Christmas Carol by skip ewing is one of my favorites. I also really like The Gift by Garth Brooks and Martina Mcbrides version of O' Holy Night. I love most Christmas songs. There isn't much about this season I don't likeaww.



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The Huckleberrys must watch "A Christmas Story" and the George C. Scott version of "A Christmas Carol."

All others are optional.

The older I get, the less I care for Rudolph and other popular Christmas songs. There are so many kinds of beautiful music associated with Christmas, I reuse to give any holiday eartime to Grandma being run ove by a reindeer.

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Drat! all I wanted for Christmas was not to hear that damn song...

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Likely story, Richard! (j/k, I know it was just a lucky shot)

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huckleberry wrote:

Drat! all I wanted for Christmas was not to hear that damn song...

  I told you to run, I had your backno. Poor Huck lol.



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I like the Charlie Brown special too. I also watched the Halloween one this year.

I have some CDs of Christmas music. The Nutcracker, some classical/choral ones, and Bing Crosby carols.

When I was a child I always watched the George C Scott and Albery Finney versions of A Christmas Carol. I haven't seen either in years. I do have the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim.



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I like pretty much any version of A Christmas Carol.
Love A Christmas Story.

I don't like Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer - because I think Santa is a bully in that one.

I too can live without ever hearing about grandma getting run over by a reindeer again.

Any carol sung by Elvis is good, also Nat King Cole.


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FRAED wrote:

I don't like Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer - because I think Santa is a bully in that one.

 I agree wholeheartedly.  Who knew Santa was such a colossal jerk?

My favorite specials:

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Pink Panther Christmas
Emmitt Otter's Jug Band Christmas
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated only, please)
White Christmas/Holiday Inn
Christmas in Connecticut
While You Were Sleeping
The Bishop's Wife (with Cary Grant & Loretta Young)
A Christmas Story

My favorite music:

Night Heron Consorts' Celtic Christmas Albums (there are two and they are phenomenal.  All instrumental)
Squirrel Nut Zippers' Hot Christmas
Nat King Cole
Barenaked Ladies' Barenaked for the Holidays
Almost every classic version of every Christmas Hymn

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" ONLY if Judy Garland sings it.  Any other version is blasphemy.
"Dominic the Donkey" because, come on, he's the Italian Christmas donkey! 



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RareEyre, I have the Barenaked Ladies Barenaked for the Holidays and the Squirrel Nut Zippers' Christmas Caravan CD too!

Santa is a jerk in Rudolph. The second half with Yukon Cornelius and the Bumble is the best.



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Santa Claus is Coming to Town is my FAVORITE!! I also have to watch A Muppet Christmas Carol and Elf, or it's not the holiday season. As for music, I love Alan Jackson's Christmas CD; it's a good mix of sacred and secular. I love, love, love Colin Raye's version of O Holy Night, Christmas at Ground Zero, and my favorite secular tune: I Wanna Hippopotamus For Christmas. (My BFF gave me one for Christmas one year!)

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I like all of them!

Especially the Rankin and Bass animation (Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming to Town...).
I have a Bing Crosby Christmas DVD set and a DVD with a bunch of old sitcom Christmas episodes.
I like to watch those the day after Thanksgiving during My Decorating extravaganza! (Bloody Mary's included, lol)

I love all the " A Christmas Carol" versions as well, especially the one Starring Alistair Simm.

I watch all the Lifetime Christmas movies too, and my two favorites are Divas' Christmas Carol and A Carol Christmas. There was one Called The Christmas List with Mimi Rogers too that's really good too but they don't play it as often anymore.
The Musical Christmas shows on PBS are also fabulous!


Basically......I'm a christmas Special Hoor!!!

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I have quite a few of the Rankin-Bass specials, Mary, but I cannot stand Frosty the Snowman! I loved it as a kid, but upon viewing it as an adult, I can't stand it. It's just so ridiculous!

Oh, and did you know, Hallmark is playing Christmas movies on the weekends now?

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I wish I had hallmark channell! you have to get the digital packlage to have it here and my cable is included in rent so....
wahhhhhh!!!
must see if I can watch them online!


I have several Christmas stations programmed into my Pandora too. I like the old standards like Bing, Perry Como, etc.... But My favorites are the classical/traditional Christmas choirs, celtic choirs , french carols and stuff like Chanticleer. It gives me chills.

I have one Pandora station that has a bit of all of them and I stream that one on my tv alot when I have people over during the holidays. Thank God for my roku, just saying....
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Do you get ABC Family? Their 25 Days of Christmas starts on December 1st and they usually have some good movies. My favorites are Three Days, Holidays In Handcuffs, and Santa Baby.

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No TV specials in particular. I do love hearing any music written or recorded before 1960. I *despise* modern cover versions of classic Christmas songs. (NSYNC, you know who you are.)

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Aardvark wrote:

Do you get ABC Family? Their 25 Days of Christmas starts on December 1st and they usually have some good movies. My favorites are Three Days, Holidays In Handcuffs, and Santa Baby.

 I don't get that channel anymore. It's on the digital as well, but i used to.  I miss it!

There are so many holiday movies out though, I love them all :)

 



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Movie 1- Emmit Otter's Jugband Christmas

Movie 2- The scary movie my family has been filming for about 20 yrs now

Song 1- Donnie Osmond's Christmas album

Song 2- Colorado Christmas by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

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Maybe Hulu will put some Christmas stuff up, but I do know that the 3 major networks show the classics, so you don't have to miss out completely!

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Does anyone remember Nester the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey? I also love the Little Drummer Boy

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Both DH and I LOOOOOOOVE christmas and Christmas movies.

Most favourite christmas Album was song by Michael Buble.

It is not Christmas until we have seen:

Christmas with the Kranks.
Mr Bean's Christmas
Are you Being Served Christmas episodes
The Vicar of Dibley Christmas episodes
Man Behaving Badly Christmas Episode

A Christmas Carol - Patrick Stewart
Miracle on 34th Street.

There are also a whole lot of cartoons we have to watch including:

Prep and Landing
The Penguins Madagascar
The Year Santa forgot

That reminds me I had better start to watch things.



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Forty-two wrote:

Does anyone remember Nester the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey? I also love the Little Drummer Boy

 I think we have both of those on DVD.



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Papa Bear wrote:

No TV specials in particular. I do love hearing any music written or recorded before 1960. I *despise* modern cover versions of classic Christmas songs. (NSYNC, you know who you are.)

I agree. Other than some of Donnie Osmond's stuff...I don't like the remakes or other versions. They got it right back then...if it ain't broke don't fix it. They are the best.

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Mary, do you get Lifetime? They've started showing Christmas movies, too.

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Does anybody remember the old Disney Christmas sing-along with Andy Williams? We had it on a record as kids and then my dad put it on a cassette tape for the car. Molly Ringwald sings "The First Nowell" on it (and thankfully stuck to acting!).

I forgot some other great music: The Chieftains' "Bells of Dublin." Aside from one or two "meh" songs, it's a fabulous album.

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I must be Scrooge. I don't like most Christmas specials and only like Christmas songs in small doses.

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Aardvark wrote:
Forty-two wrote:

Does anyone remember Nester the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey? I also love the Little Drummer Boy

 I think we have both of those on DVD.

 The little Drummer Boy makes me cry every time!



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It seems like when I was a kid there were lots of specials that I always watched, but I don't remember them now, other than the Peanuts. Maybe most of them weren't actually very good?

I like The Nutcracker. It's nice if I can see that at least on tv.

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Aardvark wrote:

Mary, do you get Lifetime? They've started showing Christmas movies, too.

 Oh Yes!   I watched Dear Santa  and The Christmas Consultant on Sunday.   Yay!



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I can't remember what I watched last night, but I liked it...very happy ending about a Christmas ornament factory. The second one that I started was really boring, so I gave up on it.

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I preferred having It's a Wonderful Life on tv all the time to having A Christmas Story on tv all the time.



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