Holiday

[BrianHayesMusic]

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas - Gayla Peevey

[CyrilleB]

Snowfall - Claude Thornhill (1941)

[CyrilleB]

Mistletoe And Holly - Sinatra-Stanford-Sanicola

[Poparad]

After playing some gigs with the "Holiday 100" set this holiday season, I've noticed how many songs in there have non-standard chord changes. I hesitate to call them "wrong," because they musically work, but they're not the common or original changes to many of these songs. I updated all of them with either the standard changes I've encountered over the years or the original changes for songs where you can point to a specific, original, iconic recording. I also added all of the Vince Guaraldi "Charlie Brown Christmas" songs plus the "Grinch" song. Lastly, I removed the "jazz" versions of the songs as they seemed claustrophobically reharmed, especially since many of the original changes are quite suitable for jazz as-is without needing to throw in the everything and kitchen sink.

Holiday (Standard Changes) (82)

1. All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Donald Yetter Gardner
2. All I Want for Christmas Is You - Afanasieff-Carey-Condon
3. Auld Lang Syne - Traditional
4. Away in a Manger - Traditional
5. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Frank Loesser
6. Blue Christmas - Hayes-Johnson
7. Carol of the Bells - Mykola Leontovych
8. Caroling, Caroling - Burt-Hutson
9. Christmas Don't Be Late (Alvin and the Chipmunks) - Ross Bagdasarian
10. Christmas Is Coming - Vince Guaraldi
11. Christmas Song (Guaraldi), The - Tormé-Wells
12. Christmas Song, The - Tormé-Wells
13. Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi
14. Christmas Waltz, The - Cahn-Styne
15. Deck the Halls - Traditional
16. Do You Hear What I Hear? - Regney-Baker
17. Do You Hear What I Hear? (Jazz) - Regney-Baker
18. Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano
19. First Noël, The - Traditional
20. Frosty The Snowman - Rollins-Nelson
21. Go Tell It On The Mountain - African-American Spiritual
22. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Traditional
23. Good King Wenceslas - Cantiones-Neale
24. Greensleeves/What Child Is This? - Vince Guaraldi
25. Happy Christmas (War Is Over) - Lennon-Ono
26. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Wesley-Whitefield-Mendelssohn
27. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Martin-Blane
28. Here Comes Santa Claus - Gene Autry-Oakley Haldeman
29. Home for the Holidays (There's No Place Like) - Robert Allen-Al Stillman
30. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Christmas Carol
31. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Tommie Connor
32. I Wonder as I Wander - John Niles
33. I'll Be Home for Christmas - Gannon-Kent-Ram
34. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Richard Willis
35. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Meredith Willson
36. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Andy Williams (Pola-Wyle)
37. Jingle Bell Rock - Beal-Boothe
38. Jingle Bells - James Pierpont
39. Jingle, Jingle, Jingle - Johnny Marks
40. Jolly Old St. Nicholas - Traditional
41. Joy to the World - Handel-Mason-Watts
42. Let It Snow! - Cahn-Styne
43. Linus and Lucy - Vince Guaraldi
44. Little Drummer Boy, The - Davis-Onorati-Simeone
45. Marshmallow World - Traditional
46. Mele Kalikimaka - Robert Anderson
47. Merry Christmas Baby - Baxter-Moore
48. Merry Christmas, Darling - The Carpenters (Carpenter-Pooler)
49. Mister Santa - Pat Ballard
50. Mistletoe and Holly - Sinatra-Stanford-Sanicola
51. My Favorite Things (Alt) - Rodgers-Hammerstein
52. My Little Drum - Vince Guaraldi
53. O Christmas Tree - Traditional
54. O Christmas Tree (Alt) - Traditional
55. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) - John Wade
56. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) (Jazz) - John Wade
57. O Holy Night - Adolphe Adam
58. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Redner-Brooks
59. O Tannenbaum - Ernst Anschütz
60. O Tannenbaum (Guaraldi) - Vince Guaraldi
61. O Thou Joyful Day (O Sanctissima) - Traditional
62. Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (Johnny Marks)
63. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry (Johnny Marks)
64. Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt (Javits-Springer)
65. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Coots-Gillespie
66. Silent Night - Gruber-Mohr-Young
67. Silver and Gold - Burl Ives (Johnny Marks)
68. Silver Bells - Livingston-Evans
69. Skating - Vince Guaraldi
70. Sleigh Ride - Parish-Anderson
71. Snoopy's Christmas - Royal Guardsmen
72. Snowfall - Claude Thornhill
73. This Christmas - Donnie Hathaway
74. Toyland - Herbert-MacDonough
75. We Three Kings of Orient Are - John Hopkins
76. We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Traditional
77. We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Jazz) - Traditional
78. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Frank Loesser
79. What Child Is This? - William Dix
80. White Christmas - Irving Berlin
81. Winter Wonderland - Felix Bernard-Richard Smith
82. You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch - Albert Hague

[pdxdjazz]

Thank you for posting your playlist
)BOB