tomswift2002
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So from An Old-Fashioned Christmas, what are your 3 favourite tracks?
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"Santa Claus is Comin' to Town", "Old-Fashioned Christmas", "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"
newvillefan, you realize that you could vote for 3?
They're irresistible choices, really. The Carpenters' version of "Santa Claus" is my all-time favorite rendition. I was listening to "Old Fashioned Christmas" the other day and was rather taken aback by it. You introduced me to "New Year's Eve"-- that song is awesome! It's a shame it's never heard.Matched my choices song for song
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" would have been an honorable mention for me. I really like it. I can look past the lyrical flubs (no "do you know what I know" ) because it's that good. The arrangement is top-notch, and the lead is impeccable.
The more I listen to, and study that beautiful voice of Miss Carpenter; I have noticed that she is really gifted at "closing" a song. Holding the final lyric of the song for an amazing amount of time, at just the right tone, pitch, vibrato, and emotional "effect". She is a "master" at interpreting lyrics IMHO. I'm really at a loss to explain it adequately.And how powerfully she sings at the end of it!
I guess I’m the odd man out because ‘He Came Here For Me’ is in my top 3 of ALL Christmas songs by Carpenters. Karen’s using that incredible lower register to great effect. The recording is so clear and bright and you can really hear her so well. My other two favorites (today, anyway) are ‘Little Altar Boy’ and ‘Do You Hear What I Hear’. The vocals blow me away and those 3 tunes (along with the 1970 version of ‘Merry Christmas Darling’) are the first ones I play every year.
Going off on a tangent here, but the single version of ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ and, of course, ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ are classic and timeless.
I know that “Do You Hear” was released as a radio single. It’s to bad that the song wasn’t released as a commercial single. It probably would’ve gone up the chimney on the Christmas charts (I was going to say “burned up the charts”, but that didn’t seem appropriate for Christmas).DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR, I feel that this song is going in crescendo in voice and orchestra I think the end is epic as if one came to a kind of Olympus and that I'm not religious.. greetings
I guess I’m the odd man out because ‘He Came Here For Me’ is in my top 3 of ALL Christmas songs by Carpenters. Karen’s using that incredible lower register to great effect. The recording is so clear and bright and you can really hear her so well. My other two favorites (today, anyway) are ‘Little Altar Boy’ and ‘Do You Hear What I Hear’. The vocals blow me away and those 3 tunes (along with the 1970 version of ‘Merry Christmas Darling’) are the first ones I play every year.
Going off on a tangent here, but the single version of ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ and, of course, ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ are classic and timeless.
I’d disagree. For me I was raised in and still attend Protestant churches, however I never was a part (although on a few occasions because of baptisms and such I was at services in) Of Anglican or Lutheran churches, and I’m not Catholic, so songs like “Little Altar Boy” and “Ave Maria” I don’t really understand what the song is about in relation to Christmas and the religious part.Being, apparently, one of the only actual "religious" persons here, this both LAB and He Came Here For Me bring a tear to my eye.
I want to chime in. I think there are many believers in Jesus Christ here. Count me in as one. Merry Christmas- you're not alone.Being, apparently, one of the only actual "religious" persons here, this both LAB and He Came Here For Me bring a tear to my eye. Fantastic reading by Karen and impeccable arrangement!
I’d disagree. For me I was raised in and still attend Protestant churches, however I never was a part (although on a few occasions because of baptisms and such I was at services in) Of Anglican or Lutheran churches, and I’m not Catholic, so songs like “Little Altar Boy” and “Ave Maria” I don’t really understand what the song is about in relation to Christmas and the religious part.
They're irresistible choices, really. The Carpenters' version of "Santa Claus" is my all-time favorite rendition. I was listening to "Old Fashioned Christmas" the other day and was rather taken aback by it. You introduced me to "New Year's Eve"-- that song is awesome! It's a shame it's never heard.
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" would have been an honorable mention for me. I really like it. I can look past the lyrical flubs (no "do you know what I know" ) because it's that good. The arrangement is top-notch, and the lead is impeccable.