Christmas Music

Christmas music is one of the most cherished elements of the season. Name any other day or season on the calendar that celebrates with music. Nothing matches Christmas in its celebration through song. Those traditions date back hundreds of years long before the advent of modern recording technology. Like all things associated with the season Christmas music dovetails with history and tradition that makes celebrating Christmas a rich and satisfying part of our lives. We approach holiday music in two ways here at My Merry Christmas: in the features of this section and in the Merry Podcast — where Christmas music isn’t just explained it is shared. And because it continually evolves and expands we also explore new releases coming out every holiday season.

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Train Releases First Cut from New Christmas Album

This is one of the more anticipated albums of Christmas, titled Christmas in Tahoe by Train and available exclusively at Amazon. This first cut is called Merry Christmas Everybody:
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Alison Krauss and Robert Plant Light of Christmas Day

Part new Christmas music and part movie preview this song by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant comes from the soundtrack of the soon-to-be released movie Love the Coopers.
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Jingle Bells Like You Have Never Heard

Leave it to the King's Singers to give us a different take on the very American Jingle Bells. The King's Singers were originally founded way back in 1968 by a group of choral scholars from Cambridge. Generations before the popular a cappella…
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Christmas Kisses

Calling herself an "entrepreneur, singer/songwriter, pin-up model, and actress" singer Heather Ballentine has just released an original work titled Christmas Kisses, seen below in fabulous animated Christmas glory: You can learn more…
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Gardiner Sisters Have a Merry Little Christmas

All new for 2015 the Gardiner Sisters just released this nice a cappella version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. They must practice a lot:
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First Trailer for Christmas Eve Released

Maybe there is a new Christmas movie coming out this year. The first trailer for a film called Christmas Eve dropped yesterday. The film stars Patrick Stewart (Green Room), Jon Heder (Blades of Glory), Cheryl Hines (Curb Your Enthusiasm),…
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Maya Rae is Still Waiting for Christmas

We first met her a year ago -- and were blown away. This kid has talent galore. We are thrilled to have heard from her again and to see her 2015 rendition of I'm Still Waiting for Christmas. Invest a little time on her YouTube channel or…
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Bing’s Christmas TV Special of 1977

Bing Crosby was the face, the voice and the soul of Christmas for nearly 40 years. Through radio, movies and ground breaking television Crosby took Christmas to millions year after year. Already an established radio star in the 1930s Crosby…
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Pentatonix Releases Expanded Christmas EP

A cappella super group Pentatonix is riding a wave of popularity launched more than a year ago after their Christmas album That's Christmas to Me went Platinum. They have a new non-seasonal album out that debuted at #1 on Billboard -- a historic…
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What God Wants for Christmas

This album from last year and this singer does not get the credit he deserves. This was a great album and this is a timeless Christmas video. Enjoy:
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Osmond Brothers Christmas Medley of 1969

Andy Williams' Christmas television specials of the 1960s and 1970s were traditional seasonal viewing back in the day and the Osmond brothers practically grew up on those episodes. More or less discovered by Williams after an appearance at Disneyland…
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Christmas with 32 Fingers and 8 Thumbs

Music can be created in so many different ways. In this fun version of Angels We Have Heard on High the noises the Piano Guys make with a -- well, piano, of course -- will surprise you. And it is great music to boot. "We wanted this to be…
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Review: MoTab with the Muppets Christmas Concert

The annual Christmas concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has become a staple of Christmas television on PBS and has provided release after release of reliably solid Christmas entertainment on both DVD and CD for years now. But I will…
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The Christmas Song Celebrates 70 Years

It was a sweltering hot July afternoon in 1945 when Mel Tormé showed up for a writing session at the Toluca Lake house of his lyric partner Bob Wells. Mel let himself in and called out for Bob. No answer. He walked over to the piano, and there,…
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The World’s Largest Living Nativity

It took 1039 people and a lot of talented musicians on a cold November evening last year to pull off this incredibly beautiful rendition of "Angels from the Realms of Glory". If there is a word to describe this Christmas gathering it would be…