Song collections: Christmas songs
Carols and songs related to Christmas or midwinter.
Jean Ritchie.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Carols of All Seasons | 1959 | Tradition
Records
| TLP 1031
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[Reissued as "Carols For all Seasons"] | 1975 | Tradition
Records
| TCD 1058
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The Kingston Trio.
Title. | year. | Label. | number.
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Last Month of the Year | 1960 |
Capitol | ST 1446 |
The Watersons.
Title. | year. | Label. | number.
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Frost and Fire (LP) | 1965 | Topic |
12T136 |
[Reissue on CD](*) | |
Topic | TSCD136 |
For Pence and Spicy Ale | 1975 | Topic |
12TS265 |
[Reissue] | 1992 |
Topic |
TSCD462 |
A Yorkshire Christmas | 2005 (**) |
Witchwood | WMCD 2029
|
(* recordings made c 1980)
Joan Baez.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Noël | 1966 |
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Young Tradition and Shirley and Dolly Collins.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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The Holly Bears the Crown (*) | 1995 |
Fledg'ling
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(* recordings made 1969)
Maddy Prior.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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A Tapestry of Carols | 1987 |
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Carols at Christmas | 1987 |
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Carols and Capers | 1991 |
|
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Ballads and Candles (live) | 2000 |
|
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A Concert of Carols and Capers | 2006 |
|
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Martin Wyndham-Read.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Maypoles To Mistletoe | 1975 |
|
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John Fahey.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Popular Songs of Christmas and New Year | 1983 |
|
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The John Fahey Christmas Album | 1991 |
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Dolly Parton.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Once upon A Christmas | 1984 |
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Home For Christmas | 1990 |
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Mike and Peggy Seeger.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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American Folk songs for Christmas | 1990 |
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Tom Paxton.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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A Child's Christmas | 1992 |
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Burl Ives.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Christmas Album | 1995 |
|
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Have A Jolly Holly Christmas | 1995 |
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Sings the Biggest Christmas Hits | 1998 |
|
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Cherish The Ladies.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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On Christmas Night | 2004 |
|
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Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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The McGarrigle Christmas Hour | 2005 |
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Brian Wilson.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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What I Really Want For Christmas | 2005 |
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City Waites.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Christmas Now Is Drawing Near | 1980? |
|
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York Waits.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Old Christmas Return'd | ? |
|
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Christmas Musicke | |
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Yule Riding | 2004 |
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Mediaeval Baebes.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Misteltoe and Wine | 2003 |
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The Roches.
Title. | year. | Label. |
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We Three Kings | 1990 |
Universal
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Bob Dylan.
Title. | year. | Label. |
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Christmas in the Heart |
2009 |
? |
Hit albums - Annie Lennox.
Title. | year. | highest position
|
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Christmas in the Heart | 2009 |
40
|
Blackmore's Night.
Title. | year. | Label. |
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Winter Carols |
2009 |
? |
Johnny Coppin.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Songs and Carols for a West Country Christmas | 1990 |
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Magpie Lane.
Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
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Wassail
| 1998
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Knock At the Door Ring at the Bell
| 2006
|
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John Kirkpatrick.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Carolling and Crumpets | 2006 |
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Kerfuffle.
Title. | Year. | Label.
| Number |
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Lighten the Dark: A Midwinter Album |
2009 | Root Beet Records | |
Sufjan Stevens.
Title. | year. | Label.
| Number |
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Songs for Christmas (5 CDs) |
2006 |
Asthmatic Kitty | AKR 028 |
Annie Lennox.
Title. | Year. | Label.
| Number |
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A Christmas Cornucopia |
2010 | Island | |
Hit albums - Annie Lennox.
Title. | year. | highest position
|
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A Christmas Cornucopia | 2010 |
27
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Albums - Nowell Sing We Clear (John Roberts, Tony Barrand, Fred Breunig,
Andy Davis, Steve Woodruff).
Title. | year. | Label.
| Number |
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Nowell Sing We Clear | 1977 |
Golden Hind | GHM-105 |
To Welcome In The Spring |
1980 |
Golden Hind | GHM-205 |
The Second Nowell |
1981 |
? | ? |
Nowell Sing We Clear Vol 3 | 1985 |
? | ? |
Nowell Sing We Four (NSWC Vol 4) |
1988 |
Golden Hind | GHM-201 |
Best of Sing We Clear |
1989 |
? | ? |
Hail Smiling Morn | 1995 |
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Nowell, Nowell, Nowell! | 2008 |
Golden Hind | GHM-109 |
Collaboration - John Kirkpatrick, Rosie Cross, Georgina Le Faux, Michael Gregory, Jane Threlfall and Carl Hogsden.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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Wassail | 1997 |
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Various artists.
Title. | year. | Label. | Number.
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MidWinter | 2006 | Fellside | ?
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Album tracks.
Carols For All Seasons. Recorded 1959. Running time 36 minutes 30
seconds. Jean Ritchie (vocals, lap dulcimer), Robert Abramson (harpsichord),
LaNoue Davenport (recorder). Liner notes by Jean Ritchie. Original title was
"Carols of All Seasons".
Title.
|
Author.
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1. The Carnal and the Crane (instr)
| Trad
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2. I Saw Three Ships
| Trad
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3. Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies
| Trad
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4. Children Go Where I Send Thee (Appalachian carol)
| Trad
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5. Down in Yon Forest
| Trad
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6. Brightest and Best
| Trad
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7. Cherry Tree of Cumberlands (Appalachian carol)
| Trad
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8. The Pig Went out to Dig
| Trad
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9. Christ Church Bells
| Trad
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10. The Flower Carol (tune: Good King Wenceslas)
| Trad
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11. The May Day Carol
| Trad
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12. The Cambridge May Song
| Trad
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13. The Holy Well
| Trad
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14. The Little Family (Appalachian carol)
| Trad
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15. Christ Was Born in Bethlehem
| Trad
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16. The Holly Bears The Berry (Sans Day Carol)
| Trad
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17. Wassail Song (instr)
| Trad
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Last updated on 31/12/2010