Comments of recommendations on Xmas music

A Charlie Brown Christmas on SACD--I still prefer the vinyl, but this gets part of the way there.

It's now new but Christmas Extroardinaire by the Mannheim Steamrollers has great sonics and is fun to listen to.

There are a couple of albums, with Keith Harring graphics on the covers, which contain X-Mas songs covered by contemporary artists. I have them on LP, but they must have been released on CD as well.

Both are nicely recorded/performed and great fun to listen to.

Ours are in storage (can't look up the label), but they should be easy to find on a web search.

As we also celebrate the Jewish holidays in our household I have been collecting Shlomo Carlebach recordings to play this year (only have two LP's so far). Shlomo is an awesome performer that my wife turned me onto (never heard of him before).

Wilson Pickets version of Jingle Bells always gets the season kicked off for me - 'Good God Almighty...Sleigh'

Here are my favorites, from the PROJEKT label:
Excelsis v.1 a dark noel (1995)
Excelsis v.2 a winters song (1995)
Excelsis v.3 a prelude (2001)

Here is link:

http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=PRO00062&dept%5Fid=10