Xmas music recommendations--not your standard collections

[Lachlan09]

Merry Christmas Everybody ! - Slade

[MacBubba45]

Merry Christmas Everybody ! - Slade

Merry Christmas! (and this comes from someone who has a difficult, trying job thru this time of year, beginning with Thanksgiving).

My cell phone ringtone is set to "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen" from the 1984 Mannheim Steamroller Christmas album. I may do a week of "Auld Lang Syne" next week, but my constant ringtone is "Highland Laddie" from that first best selling album by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (1960-something?). That always gets a lot of attention when it goes off in, say, the doctors office waiting room.

The "adult contemporary" style of Christmas music, like Ray Coniff or Mitch Miller, always reminds me of childhood this time of year.

I also like Leon Redbone's "Christmas Island" album, as well as a "Rat Pack" Christmas collection of Dean Martin, Sinatra, and Sammy Davis, Jr.