Pressing Play on Christmas Music

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You may not want to hear it but it’s less than a month until Christmas. Shopping centres pulled the decorations out of the box weeks ago but more and more of us will be decorating our homes in the coming days.

I must admit that I’ve already hit the play button on my Christmas music selection. I’ve got a few hundred Christmas songs on my iPod and they’ve already been filling our home with Yuletide cheer … whatever that is. Everyone from Michael Buble to Diana Krall, Bing Crosby, Run DMC, Barry White, The Wiggles, Guy Sebastian, Jimmy Barnes and even Russel Coight, along with many others, are singing about Christmas on our stereo.

What is your favourite Christmas music?

Do you have a favourite Christmas song? Do you have a favourite artist at Christmas time? Does Mariah Carey’s very successful Christmas album get a spin at your place each December?

I’m not a huge fan of the song Little Drummer Boy but I am a fan of both Bing Crosby and David Bowie so I love hearing their Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth medley around this time every year. The chat at the start of the video is cheesy and somewhat awkward but I just love it. Enjoy.

Let me know about your musical tastes around Christmas.



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Rodney Olsen

Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.

He previously worked in radio for about 25 years but these days he spends his time at Compassion Australia, working towards releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.

The views he expresses here are his own.

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  • I found Tommy James’ “I Love Christmas” a couple of years ago and it is my favorite Christmas CD. In my mind no one does White Christmas like Bing Crosby. I also found a group called Theocracy (probably not your style) does a Christmas song every year. They put an “edge” to theirs.

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