Your Favorite Holiday Album


Figured it’s time to start this thread for this time of year ... so what album gets you into the holiday mood? Outside of the obvious (Guaraldi), one of my go-to faves is the original Argo pressings of the Ramsey Lewis Trio Sound of Christmas... both the mono and stereo mixes are great!
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Ok, so don’t shoot me, but I grew up in a household with lots of Muzak-y stuff, and a Christmas perennial was “Christmas with the Three Suns” ... several different RCA pressings over the years (all mono), and I have multiple copies. The bells and chimes shimmer if your cartridge can track it, and that accordion... oh boy!
I’ll second On Yoolis Night ... perfect Christmas Eve music.

in the jazz vein, there’s great stuff by Don Patterson, Bobby Timmons, and Kenny Burrell.

Jafreeman, have you checked out Russ Freeman’s or Boney James first Christmas offerings?
OK, while we’re talking unordinary, the ventures Christmas album manages to take most of the greatest surf rock anthems and morph them into Christmas songs. Wonderfully cheesy and wildly creative....
bdp24, thanks for the context! Cool story. 

The other Christmas album I would give a shout out to from that era is James Brown’s “Santa’s got a brand new bag”....