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BTW, that last video I posted...is a little risque. I''d never seen the full version of "Billy Mack"''s video and didn''t know that the girls had a wardrobe change...
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O Holy Night. I am not very religious but i simply LOVE this song.. especially when a female singer with full vebrato sings it.. literally sends shivers down my spine!
 
I have all my favorites on my iPod, but I lost the hard drive from my computer and, thus, my computer account with all the songs on it. One of my favorites is certainly, "Dona Nobis Pacem". I even lose track of some of the beautiful versions I have of songs because I have collected so many of them. (In the case of "Dona Nobis Pacem" I had at least ten different versions of it.) That is why I really want to restore all my music to my computer!

"Dona Nobis Pacem" is by no means my only favorite carol, but I tend to favor the real carols, those that are based on medieval and Renaissance tunes and on music by Handel and Baroque composers, not usually the popular music about snowmen. Sometimes I do love a modern song, though. One example is the song (I do not know the correct name) that has the refrain, "Do you hear what I hear?". I think Anita Bryant sang it. I know I have a recording of it somewhere!

This is a link to a beautiful version of, "Dona Nobis Pacem", although certainly not a traditional one! I just found it while looking for one to post here and I really enjoyed it; I hope that you do, too!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZoiZ09rjQY


Deborah
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Love Silver Bells
 
I loved her too! Especially in that christmas song!!
 
I like "In These Shoes?"--Freke, you'd like that song, too!
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Also, "Treachery" is hilarious.

I really like that Christmas song! I'll have to add it to my listening repertoire.

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Date: 12/3/2008 8:02:42 AM
Author: cbs102
O Holy Night. I am not very religious but i simply LOVE this song.. especially when a female singer with full vebrato sings it.. literally sends shivers down my spine!
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I too love O Holy Night but I much prefer a male singer with a deep voice (I think mainly because that''s the way I always heard it in church growing up). But ditto on the shivers.
 
I have to thank FrekeChild for posting her "Carols of the Bells". I enjoyed both versions enormously. I think it's obvious from her choices in music and mine that we both like rounds ;-). Speaking of rounds, do you know the version of, "The Hallelujah Chorus" done by the Roches? I love that for the same reason I love the other carols about which we have been speaking!

The Hallelujah Chorus by the Roches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEtSkJDA61g


Deb
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O Holy Night

and I''ve always liked Harry Connick Jrs "What are you doing New Year''s Eve"
 
Date: 12/3/2008 9:42:25 AM
Author: AGBF




I have all my favorites on my iPod, but I lost the hard drive from my computer and, thus, my computer account with all the songs on it. One of my favorites is certainly, ''Dona Nobis Pacem''. I even lose track of some of the beautiful versions I have of songs because I have collected so many of them. (In the case of ''Dona Nobis Pacem'' I had at least ten different versions of it.) That is why I really want to restore all my music to my computer!

''Dona Nobis Pacem'' is by no means my only favorite carol, but I tend to favor the real carols, those that are based on medieval and Renaissance tunes and on music by Handel and Baroque composers, not usually the popular music about snowmen. Sometimes I do love a modern song, though. One example is the song (I do not know the correct name) that has the refrain, ''Do you hear what I hear?''. I think Anita Bryant sang it. I know I have a recording of it somewhere!

This is a link to a beautiful version of, ''Dona Nobis Pacem'', although certainly not a traditional one! I just found it while looking for one to post here and I really enjoyed it; I hope that you do, too!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZoiZ09rjQY


Deborah
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Hmmm....irreligious as I am, I am a "high church" girl when it comes to Christmas. I want chant. In LATIN, thank you very much.
And I have enough albums of Anonymous 4 to prove it. I know the Latin text of the Gloria of the ordinary mass as well as any Catholic, because I''ve sung it so many times by various composers. (My mom said I had Catholic genes that expressed in this penchant for Latin hymns) I even hunted down some of the actual texts of the pieces done on Anonymous 4''s "English Ladymass" album, and have the actual music...(never have found anyone to sing it with me though, so I just learn all the parts myself, lol!)

Lessee, Gesu Bambino (sung by Luciano), Ave Maria (Bach-Gounoud version), to hear and to sing myself, and Silent Night. I have an accompaniment CD that has far and away the coolest arrangement of that for piano and voice, that I''ve ever heard. Very sparse, and coooooold!
 

Date: 12/3/2008 10:37:44 AM
Author: ksinger

And I have enough albums of Anonymous 4 to prove it. I know the Latin text of the Gloria of the ordinary mass as well as any Catholic, because I've sung it so many times by various composers. (My mom said I had Catholic genes that expressed in this penchant for Latin hymns) I even hunted down some of the actual texts of the pieces done on Anonymous 4's 'English Ladymass' album, and have the actual music
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I had never heard of Anonymous 4, so I went off to Amazon to listen to some. It sounded a little like Pentangle, which I liked as a teenager. That reminded me that I bought a Christmas CD last year that I had never listened to...so I dug it out. I have, "Mistletoe & Wine" by the Medieval Babes next to me now. I think I'll put it in the car. When my daughter isn't with me I'll be allowed to listen to it! It's a good thing you jarred my memory, Karen!

The above CD has, "The Holly and the Ivy" and, "The Coventry Carol" on it. Those songs, also, are among my favorite carols. One reason I loved these carols so much is that I sang them in school choruses, being a part of singing them in rounds. I think that knowing them so early in life left me with a magical feeling about them.


Deborah
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This one. It takes on so much more meaning this year...
 
Click on the link below to hear a glorious recording of, "The Coventry Carol":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYx1aWmT_M


Would someone give me the directions on how to write out a link so that I can post just "The Coventry Carol" (for example) and allow people to click on that? I used to have the directions written out next to my computer, but they disappeared and ever since then I have been unable to write nice, clean links! I remember that there used to be marks like this: and quotation marks and an http and so forth!


Deb
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Pssst!!! I want to do what Ellen did above!!!


Deb
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Date: 12/3/2008 11:32:50 AM
Author: AGBF



Click on the link below to hear a glorious recording of, 'The Coventry Carol':


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYx1aWmT_M


Would someone give me the directions on how to write out a link so that I can post just 'The Coventry Carol' (for example) and allow people to click on that? I used to have the directions written out next to my computer, but they disappeared and ever since then I have been unable to write nice, clean links! I remember that there used to be marks like this: < and this > and quotation marks and an http and so forth!


Deb
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Deb,

It takes two cut and pastes....first cut and paste the text you want to have be a link, then go up to the URL bar at the top and copy (don't paste yet) the address in the bar. Then come back to PS, and highlight (by selecting the text) the text you originally put in and that you want to be "linked". Go up to the toolbar above and click on the icon that looks like an unbroken link. A little window will pop up. Delete the http:\\ in the top bar, then put your cursor there and paste the address you pulled from the URL and which has been waiting to be pasted. close the little window. Voila! Link!

eta - of course you can just TYPE the text you want to be a link TOO, you don't have to have the actual title (which is what I typically do) and then link it as above....

Hope that helps!
 
Date: 12/3/2008 10:15:32 AM
Author: AGBF


Speaking of rounds, do you know the version of, ''The Hallelujah Chorus'' done by the Roches?
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Ohhh my goodness. My mom ADORES the Roches, we have to hide their Christmas CD every year. Something about their voices is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Their version of Deck the Halls seriously drives me up the wall! Hahaha.


My favorites:

Mariah Carey- "All I Want For Christmas is You" and "Silent Night"
Nsync- "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays" (So dorky, but fun!)
Anything Nat King Cole or Bing Crosby
"Baby It''s Cold Outside"
"The First Noel"
Elton John- "Step Into Christmas"
 
Date: 12/3/2008 11:34:05 AM
Author: AGBF







Pssst!!! I want to do what Ellen did above!!!


Deb
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I'll give the way I do it, it's different from Karens.

1. Copy the URL of the info/page, you want.

2. In post window (after you click reply), up to the right, is a picture of a little chain link. (if you put the cursor over it, it says, insert link). Click that.

3. A box pops up, and it has a spot for the URL, paste it in there. (clear out the http part first)

4. In the "title" spot, put whatever you like.

5.Click insert.

That's it!
 
I love all Christmas music! Definitely gets me in the holiday spirit. I''m surprised no one mentioned Jackson 5 when Michael was small...? I think that is my favorite
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Santa Clause Is Coming To Town!!!!!
 
Date: 12/3/2008 12:29:08 PM
Author: Ellen

Date: 12/3/2008 11:34:05 AM
Author: AGBF







Pssst!!! I want to do what Ellen did above!!!


Deb
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I''ll give the way I do it, it''s different from Karens.

1. Copy the URL of the info/page, you want.

2. In post window (after you click reply), up to the right, is a picture of a little chain link. (if you put the cursor over it, it says, insert link). Click that.

3. A box pops up, and it has a spot for the URL, paste it in there. (clear out the http part first)

4. In the ''title'' spot, put whatever you like.

5.Click insert.

That''s it!
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LOL! Well yours is clearly more efficient, but then I do tend to get stuck in my ways. Maybe I''ll start doing it that way too.
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Date: 12/3/2008 12:47:17 PM
Author: ksinger
LOL! Well yours is clearly more efficient, but then I do tend to get stuck in my ways. Maybe I''ll start doing it that way too.
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Hey, I didn''t even question your way, because I have found over the years that depending on a few variables, the way to do something is not always universal (as in, sometimes not even possible)!
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Date: 12/3/2008 11:23:56 AM
Author: Ellen

This one. It takes on so much more meaning this year...
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Ellen, I am sure that I have heard that John Lennon song hundreds of times, but somehow I never really "heard" the lyrics. I needed to see them the way I could when I watched this video to which you linked us. I found it really powerful, especially since I had heard it so many times and yet had never heard, "The war is over...if you want to". I had heard the supertext, but not the subtext.

Thank you for posting this.

Deb
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Date: 12/3/2008 10:10:24 AM
Author: ladypirate
I like ''In These Shoes?''--Freke, you''d like that song, too!
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Also, ''Treachery'' is hilarious.


I really like that Christmas song! I''ll have to add it to my listening repertoire.


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I have In These Shoes on my ipod-I adore that song!! Glad you liked Fairytale of New York.
 
Date: 12/3/2008 11:23:56 AM
Author: Ellen
This one. It takes on so much more meaning this year...
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Very true. I love this song.
 
Another carol I like is, "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel". Apparently this is actually an advent carol, but gets sung at Christmas time nowadays. I went to YouTube to see if Joan Baez'' rendition was available. (It was not.) While there I found what I thought was another beautiful version. I am going to save this one to my favorites!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxPynSu2LGE&feature=related


Deborah
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