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Happy holidays & a healthy, prosperous, joyous & holy New Year to all - here's my Dozen favorite holiday rock songs to get you in the holiday spirit......
Hit the "Full Screen" icon on bottom right and CRANK EM UP!!!!!!!! Only one can beat out Bruce…Gets you in the Holiday mood like no other…The Annual Letterman kickoff to Christmas….Rock and Roll Hall of famer Darlene Love singing her Christmas Classic…. #1 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love with Paul Schaeffer on Keyboards Go to you tube and listen to them all from this Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Legend... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSbGzDy0xcM You realize how good Darlene Love is when you see that even Mariah Carey cannot top the original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdA26H4EVE And here is a Bruce Springsteen Version: 2) Santa Claus is Coming to Town – Bruce/Clarence - there are better quaility versions but check out this rare footage of the first time they ever performed it at the Capital Theater in Passaic NJ on Sept 20th 1978: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebS3FABeck (Damn they took it down - well here is another:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57-oIzaVS9s and on Saturday Night Live last Saturday 12/19/2015 with Paul McCartney 3) Wonderful Christmas Time (Paul McCartney & Wings) 4) Christmas Wrapping (Waitresses) 5) I Believe in Father Christmas (Greg Lake) – (not ELP) here’s a rare version with Lake and Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-PAKOt7sM 6) Let it Snow (original #1 Vaughn Monroe) (Also done by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Chicago, George Strait, Micahel Buble, Boyz II Men, Carly Simon, Jewel, Lady Antebellum, Rod Stewart) – One of the best selling songs of all time. Also perfect ending to the original Die Hard movie when they are driving off in the Limo. – here is the song with a Die Hard tribute http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9hEzcpYOQc 7) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – The Pretenders 8) Happy Xmas (War is Over)- John & Yoko Lennon & the Plastic Ono band 9) Sleigh Ride - Ronnettes 10) All I want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey 11) Father Christmas – Kinks 12) The Hanukkah Song - Adam Sandler Original First Time Satruday Night Live: Part 2 Part 3 - Adam Sandler and the "Drei-Dels" SPECIAL MENTION TO THIS AMAZING COLLABORATION Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas? 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE and a 30th anniversary edition with some newer music stars…. Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It’s Christmas? (2014) Just missed Christmas Eve Sarajevo - Trans Siberian Orchestra– POWERFUL (watch it all the way through): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0IwpRzWL_4 Bells Will be Ringing (Don Henley) and Please Come Home For Christmas (Eagles) Honorable mention Christmas Must Be Tonight (The Band), Little Drummer Boy (Joan Jett) , Little Drummer Boy (Bing Crosby and David Bowie),Have Yourself a Merry Christmas (Whitney Houston) Sock it to me Santa (Bob Seger), Thank God its Christmas (Queen), Christmas All Over Again (Tom Petty), 2000 Miles (Pretenders), Jingle Bell Rock (Chubby Checker and Bobby Rydell), Little Saint Nick (Beach Boys), Feliz Navidad (Jose Feliciano), Rocking Around the Christmas Tree (Brenda Lee) , Merry Christmas Baby (Bruce). Grandma Kissing SC (JM), Frosty (Ronettes) ; Merry Christmas Darling (Carpenters); Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – U2; I Won't Be Home for Christmas - Blink 182 |
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