Laura Ridgeway’s “Christmas Lullaby” is not about her baby but about The Baby. Unimaginative soft pop tells The Story. You know this one.
Is it a cappella when it’s a big ol’ choir? Parry Music tickles the earlobes with harmonics in their gospel-ly “Christmas Lullaby.” Refreshing!
Brad Tassell (feat. Steve Goodie) make complete sense with a rostrum of reasons why you should “Sleep Til Christmas Morning.” Great kidsong rock.
The “Midnight Christmas Lullaby” figures all the children are asleep. Which gives The Predicates the opportunity to sound off with New Age pop about how good life is now. Ahhh.
Bert Nievera keeps up with the chiming in this big-eyed “A Christmas Lullaby.” I expect a boop on the nose by the end of this jazz-lite condescension.
Alex ‘Elvis Claus’ Smith uses a bossa nova beat to belabor this “Christmas Lullaby.” Now if i hadn’t told you it was an Elvis impersonation you wouldn’t have gotten that, would you, little baby?
Starlet Knight impels powerful singing into a quiet performance in “Sing Me to Sleep.” Just so.
Now try Jamie Aaron Kelly’s “Christmas Lullaby” and tell me the difference to that last number. Taking care of Christmas.
Childish lisping may be adorable, but how many repeat listenings will you take of John G. Elliott/Michaella Elliott’s “Christmas Lullaby“? Massive string section, itty bitty voice.
More professionally, The Marty Gold Children’s Chorus follow the bouncing ballad with “Lullaby for Christmas Eve.” I can understand most of this.
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles pipe up with falsetto for their “Christmas Lullaby.” Promises of a bike and something Mommy will like compel compliance with the request: Go to sleep. No peeking!
Britpop (OZZIEpop?) from Fezziwhig pumps up the style for this “Christmas Lullaby.” Not simply a matter of slumber here, folks.
Karie Hillary is trying out a deep voice for her “Christmas Lullaby.” Then the flute reminds us how music should be. Off pop.
Lynne & Mike put the gentle in their “Christmas Lullaby.” Wistful and sweet slow pop.
Robbie Williams has a sly sense of humor with his symphonic “Coco’s Christmas Lullaby.” Great dad stuff.
The Hipwaders get sentimental in their “Good Night” song. Retro pop makes it palatable. And it’s for anyone you love, including us old people who have trouble with that anyways.
Kris and the Kringles return us to the thrilling days of kidsong: a metronome and a pretty female vocal. “Christmas Lullaby” counts us down with slow pop.
Rejojice programs Christ into their symphonic slow pop “Christmas Lullaby.” Close your eyes, He is King. You know the drill.
Rocking helps that One who’s in “A Cradle in Bethlehem.” Soft pop from The Lower Lights is nearly hypnotizing.
Weirding me out, however, are The Wizards of Winter skipping the beat and asking us to Fly Away in the strange Carrib recording “Christmas Lullaby.” Is it just me or should children not fly away on Xmas Eve?
David Alley’s brass backup has his “Christmas Lullaby” all brazen and tinkly and cool. But this pop jazz fusion comes on strong for a lullaby.
Amber Cavanaugh blends goth with pop for a more novel “Christmas Lullaby.” A marching syncopation with electronic prodding. Wild stuff.
Loorah Loorah Loorah haunts many of these pieces, including Greg Doolan’s short/sweet “Christmas Lullaby.” Makes a point, though.
So let’s give him an encore (with Susan McRae and Ross Bogaart) serenading our droopy eyes with the somewhat country “Mary and Josep’s Lullaby.” It’s like they are reaching across the millenia to tell you their story.
Ten de Vils describes an actual child (chocolate in his fist) he wants to talk down with a lite pop “Christmas Lullaby.” This one does NOT want to sleep. Ding dang dong.
You want rap?! ZINZILÈ’s “Christmas Lullaby” provides! There’s sipping and sinking and crying, however. Watch out.
C.J. Ramone belts out the ’80s rocker “Christmas Lullaby” as a tribute to getting home on time to his baby.
The Langer’s Ball drive hard into “A Christmas Lullaby” (with just a hint of Celtic flute) to hush your mouths. Toorah loorah rock.
Nogu Svelo! sings “Christmas Lullaby” (Ногу Свело! – “Рождественская колыбельная”) as a Russian horrorshow of laughter and hiding from Santa. Industrial pop, translated into English for your convenience.
Santa won’t deliver gifts to your house if you– [1] Are naughty? pshaw, he’ll leave you coal! [2] Have no chimney? didn’t we just cover that?! [3] live in the Projects? we need to talk, you poor thing! The answer is– [4] If You’re NOT Asleep!!
One of the timeless proven methods to encourage somnolence is to sing to the wee ones. Rather than get to their feet and wave lighters, their response is to feel comfort and safety. Then saw logs. [I’ll be honest: i had no idea how many dozens of songs were Xmas lullabies! Figured i’d spend a week on these, but my posts for this entire month include only a fraction of what i found. Holy moly.]
A grand gathering of church choristers mellifluously harmonizing about why this baby king has no crown prolly wouldn’t put me down, but John Rutter and The Cambridge Singers’ “Christmas Lullaby” rises and rises to make its point. Hey Mary.
With a big holy holy holy lead in Danny O’Flaherty tenders his tenor simply to the Celtic mastery of “The Christ Child Lullaby.” Better’n church!
Jason Robert Brown’s musical ‘Songs for a New World’ yields the modernized hymnal “Christmas Lullaby” more about mother power, than sons of men. Solea Pfeiffer’s vocals soar into the rafters and beyond.
Christian pop from P.O.D. sanctifies the unplugged “Christmas Lullaby.” Gentle observations and homilies guide our nighttimes.
Keziah Kate Gwenaelle begins with “Velvet Stockings” for her family before waffling about her BMI, then eventually asking for God’s grace in this warbling hymnal. Probably read better in the original Czech.
Jeanne Dennis’s “Stocking for Jesus” is that bent kind of carol where righteousness supercedes tuneful music. Holy moly.
“The Third Noel (Christmas Crackas)” brings out The Three Prophets [feat. The Maynooth LGBT Communist Choir]. Despite Jesus not actually getting a stocking in year 0, this social commentary mentions all of that with a sweet beat to dance to.
A Christmas stocking is a marker of time. So’s death.
Kids shouldn’t go hungry at Christmas! comes the refrain for the minute-long punk sermon “Stocking Filler” by way of Popclaw. That kills.
“Christmas Stocking 2009” is soft spoken country sentimentality from Larry Heral about grampa’s stocking and what happened to it. Wah.
“The Devil’s Christmas Stocking” by Helen McCookerybook is a delightful bit of folk fluff wherein Santa and Satan get down to brass tacks and agree to disagree. (I’m thinking Satan didn’t get any stocking fillings.)