We like holiday music if it is sung with some soul and not to a "follow the bouncing ball" meter. That gets old in a hurry.
And spare us from ANY version of "On the First Day of Christmas!"
More specifically, every Christmas morning for many, many years we have played Christmas songs by Ray Charles. All of them are absolutely wonderful!
J&B
Do they still make holiday videos with the bouncing ball for sing-a-longs? That might seem like a silly question but I haven't seen those in a while.
I used to be really fond of the classics. My Poppa and his wife were really good friends with some folks who owned a farm, and every single Christmas Eve they'd invite the whole town to come, and they had two different horse-drawn sleds that would drive people around over the snowy fields. They ran them from 5pm to midnight, and each ride was about 20 minutes or so, and you'd all sing Christmas carols as a group, and they had all these light displays set up. They even had Santa come in around 7pm for all the kids in attendance and he'd chat with every last one and make them feel really special. Talking to Santa on Christmas Eve before he had to run off and deliver all those presents? How cool is that!
I found out years later as an adult that my Poppa was Santa, haha (his eyes seemed really familiar to me under that snowy white beard, but I could never pin it down as a youngin'). But I went every single year and did caroling until I was about 13 and they stopped doing it. I miss it a lot sometimes. I'd like to do something similar again in the future, but here on the island -- at least around Victora -- we don't get a lot of snow, if any at all.
That said and slightly back on topic, I'll have to give Ray Charles a look later!
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