Nine carols without the lessons

This has got bugger all to do with the everyday or the banal, but it’s my blog and I can do what I like, so here in no particular order are my favourite Christmas songs/carols:

1. The loveliest Hollywood Christmas song ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4lY8Y3eoo

2. John Rutter’s Shepherd’s Pipe Carol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EhVWGHDM9c

3. We used to sing this Calypso Carol in primary school:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Yukt2LiI8

4. This one’s a no-brainer, obviously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCr30OVMjHA

5. Kate Rusby with her South Yorkshire variant on a well-known carol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETe6jOt6BnI

6. Peter Cornelius’s Three Kings, always performed in carols from Kings on Christmas Eve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2dNKv48WJQ

7. A new one from Thea Gilmore:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQAE794uvo

8. Victor Hely-Hutchinson’s Carol Symphony, fondly remembered from the BBC children’s series The Box of Delights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nzQePaJBJI

9. And (no sniggering at the back please) Christmas Day by Dido:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMFzQhR9dJw