Clang & Clatter

Ho, ho, ho! It’s time for another holiday edition of Friday Five over at IckMusic.

Booker T. & the MG’s - “Silver Bells” (In the Christmas Spirit, 1966)
How’s about a little Hammond organ with those bells?!

Various Artists - “All We, Like Sheep” (Sleighride: The World’s Most Beautiful Christmas Carols)
Somewhere along the way my wife and I received this multi-disc compilation of mostly choral/orchestral arrangements of Christmas carols and hymns performed by famous orchestras and choirs like the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. There are a handful of good versions on here, but most of them are pretty yawn-worthy. Let’s just say this isn’t one of the good ones.

Glenn Miller - “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
Now this is more like it. Here’s an orchestra I can get behind.

Bing Crosby - “The Song of Christmas” (Christmas Album)
I said it last week, and I’ll say it again—nobody does it like Bing.

Various Artists - “Ave Maria” (Sleighride: The World’s Most Beautiful Christmas Carols)
See above. A “meh” kind of way to finish up the Friday Five holiday edition for me.