[HPFGU-OTChatter] Favourite Holiday Music?

[An Unexpected Caller]

While everyone is adding their two cents worth about holiday tunes, I
thought I might as well list mine.

Though I'm 22, my latest favourites are the Muppets Christmas Carol CD,
John Denver & the Muppets, Carol of the Bells, and almost any classic tune
sung by a crooner.  Last year, I even discovered through my mother a
Christian version of the Twelve Days of Christmas sung by Carrol
Roberston.  My favourite new discovery is by Kirk Tally, called
appropriately enough "Fruitcake" and detailing his misadventures with the
holiday standard food.  You haven't really laughed during the holiday
season until you've heard that one.  Another good laugh for me comes from
"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer".  I enjoy the Christmas standards the
most, but one cannot deny that we all need to lighten up at times.

I believe that there is indeed the occasional "new" Christmas song that is
absolutely fabulous, like those mentioned above or the following.  I sang
a couple of years ago with a mass choir made up of young people between
the ages of 18 and 30 from a church, and we learned a marvellous accapella
(sp?) harmony version of "Old Toy Trains".  Also, a beautiful new SATB
song was written by a talented member of the group that we performed in
public.  Unfortunately, I cannot remember it's title (Heaven's Gift?), but
it had these lines, "And as I reached out to touch Him, I fell to my
knees, I knew that this child was divine, And with all my devotion I'll
offer my heart, Yet Heaven's sweet gift was mine."

I'm not normally one to be sucked into the sentiments of the season
deeply, but music is one thing that I will willingly drift away with,
especially when given the chance to sing with a group, whether it be
family or choir.

--
An Unexpected Caller
aka Shari Thornton
scrapbook at holmes.net
http://scrapbook.holmes.net


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