Bath Abbey Girls' Choir sings Christmas Carols

Advantages: Great christmas music
Disadvantages: Some tracks arent as good as others - ruin CD in some ways

...Tracks include: Fanfare - Joy to the World/Ding Dong Merrily on High The First Nowell It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Gabriel's Message (Old Basque Noel) Once IN Royal David's City Medley - Have yourself a merry little Christmas/Winter Wonderland/Let it Snow/White Christmas/Jingle Bells The Virgin Mary had baby boy Sweet Little Jesus Child When a child is born Still, still, still This is the truth sent from above Sessex Carol O Little town of Bethlehem Joy to the World O Come all ye faithful Hark! the Herald angels sing This CD includes most of the best known Christmas carols and some Christmas songs. Sung by Winchester Cathedral choir, Huddersfield Choral Society, Exeter Cathedral choir and congregation, as well as others. It sounds like a normal epsiode of Songs of Praise would - with hymns (or carols in this case) being sung, led... Read review

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Advantages: Humours Christmas music
Disadvantages: Maybe hard to find, very short

...Was One Of Us) and 'Magic Comet Ride' (Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride) to name but two. Bob has been a radio veteran for 20 years now, having worked for lots of different stations (in one 6 year stint about 20 different stations) Bob said himself "I wanted to make every mistake possible in the business" • Track Listing • I'll give a brief description of the track and a rating out of 10 in brackets at the end. *12 Pains Of Christmas : of course a twist on the 12 days of Christmas. Not just very funny but true as well, like rigging up the lights and 5 months of billlssssss. Hilarious (9) *The Chimney Song : Think this is an original tune, a little girl singing about Santa not coming one year and something being stuck in the chimney and starting to smell. (7) *We Wish You Weren't Living With Us : A very short song being blatantly honest... Read review

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Advantages: Enjoyable listening
Disadvantages: Will not appeal to everybody

...It's supposed to be the season of goodwill to all men. The rush to the shops for presents (assaults and battery's included). It's that season of the year again when the television has Christmas adverts on. The P C brigade is in the news papers again seemingly trying to put anything that reminds us of Christianity into the dustbin of history in case it offends somebody, (They have. Me). I spend quite a lot of time listening to Classic F M radio and they are now playing a lot of carols by various artists. I suppose that you could say I am a terrible old reactionary when it comes to music. On the whole I prefer classical to modern, instrumental to vocal. For preference I like music played on period or original instruments. That does not mean that I do not like modern orchestrations. There are some that I do and there is even some "pop... Read review

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