So I'm listening to something from my childhood -- the New Christy Minstrels, which was (is?) a large folk ensemble from the 60s that probably continues in some form to this day. They have a Christmas album, which we're perusing in our great search for new Christmas music. It's beginning to grow on me. Especially "Sing Along with Santa", which brims with quaint snark. It's very early 60's -- folky and earnest.
Everyone with a microphone has recorded at least one Christmas song, it seems, and compilations don't capture all of them. I haven't seen one with "Dominick the Christmas Donkey" (for which I'm grateful) or "Christmas at Ground Zero" (maybe it's on "Bummer Holiday"?)
My happiest Christmas album discovery is Annie Lennox's Christmas Cornucopia, which has been remastered and re-released this year. I could listen to it all day, as it's the anti-Last Christmas.
Now we're listening to Kids' Christmas, and I should be hearing "I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" any minute now.
Happy Christmas!
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