MFCSC...

Disclaimer: This is my list, though not in order, and some of you may have never even heard of some of the songs on it although I'm confident you have. Your list will differ so let me know how.

This is the songs by a choir version.

Right click on any link and select Open Window in New Window to keep hearing the music.

Push play on the music player thingy.

This is "Carol of the Bells". This particular arrangement is done by the Robert Shaw Chorale. Who is Robert Shaw? Glad you asked. He is only the Tiger Woods of Choral Directors. Bad comparison. Maybe the Jack Nicklaus of choir directors. He's old school. He was the greatest of his generation. Still widely considered to be the greatest. Holds all the records: most tenors to hit a high C, most sopranos to shatter glass, most basses to fall off the risers. He was a true pantheon of choral conductors. Kelly's dad has a man-crush on this guy. Not in the same way I have a man-crush on Baldwin from NYPD Blue. His is purely professional.

Anywho, this is a great song to listen to as well as sing. I always get a mental picture of Quasimodo, it's him only because I don't know of any other famous bell people, up in his bellfry pulling the ropes and making the bells chime. But in this case, it's voices doing the chiming. Which may frustrate the beejeebus out of Quasimodo seeing as he does not know where the voices are coming from causing him to go mad and fall from the bellfry...I need to do a little less stream of consciousness.

I timed out the post to match the end of the song. So a few more words here and there sould do the trick. I love the tenor part here. If you clicked on the link above, the timing is probably off; but if you did not, the song should pretty much be over now. Or not.

Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming

The next song on the list over there.

This is just a beautiful song. The fact that the tenor part is the one that holds the whole thing together is just the icing on the cake.

I don't have much else to say about this. Mostly because Kelly hurt her back this afternoon and I am taking care of the kids and they seem to be tearing each other apart in there.

Gotta go.

Enjoy the Music.

Choirs are what Christmas is all about. If you haven't heard The Messiah done at Christmas time, you haven't lived.