Makin' Candy Winter Solstice edition, 12/21/04

This turned into kinda a Christmas show because I grew up with a lot of great Christmas music and it seems to fit the time of year for me... But whatever your faith or belief, celebrate the longest night of the year and the return of the sun!

• Christmas is Coming: Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas s/t)
  
• Go Tell it On the Mountain: Harry Simeone Chorale
  
• The Holly & the Ivy: Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
  
• Christmas Song: Nat "King" Cole
  
• Christmas Present: Andy Williams
  
• Kling, Glockchen, Klingelingeling: [unknown German singers]
  
• Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod): Luciano Pavarotti
  
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: Galliard Brass Ensemble
  
• What Noise on Earth: Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
  
• Russische Vesper: Ivan Rebroff
  
• I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm: Ella Fitzgerald
  
• Nutty Jingle Bells: Al Hirt
  
• A Marshmallow World: Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin live on the Dean Martin Christmas Show, 12/21/67
  
• Once in Royal David's City: Academy of St. Martin's in the Fields
  
• Boar's Head Carol
  
• Sleigh Ride: Midnight String Quartet
  
• Chicken Foot: The Christmas Revels
  
• Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer: Elmo & Patsy
  
• Do They Know it Christmas?: Band Aid
  
• Baby, It's Cold Out there: Dean Martin
  
• Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!: Dean Martin
  
• Winter Wonderland: Dean Martin
  
• I'll be Home for Christmas: Bing Crosby
  
• What Child is This: Vince Guaraldi Trio (A Charlie Brown Christmas s/t)
  
• Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy, The Nutcracker: P.I. Tchaikovsky
  
• Christmas at Sea (medley): Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde
  
• Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming: John Fahey (guitar)
  
• Un Flambeau, Jeanette Isabella: Jean-Paul Kreder Choir
  
• Happy Christmas: Oscar Lopez
  
• Dancing Day: University of Vermont Choral Union
  
• Synge We to This Mery Cumpane: The Boston Camerata
  
• Der Engel Sprach zu den Hirten: Heinrich Schutz
  
• Christmas Concerto: Arcangelo Corelli
  
• Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio: J.S. Bach