Tinsel Tunes - The Christmas Music Podcast
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This month, Scott and Duane discuss the song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree". They also reveal the winners of each episode in the Great Tinsel Tunes Song Battle 2025 - please go vote for your champion using the poll: https://pollforall.com/pk7jyyjm
Here's the version recommended by our Welsh listener: Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Mel & Kim
Songs Played in this Episode:
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Semi Werner Francis (Reggae)
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Nick Sabia (Bossanova)
- Yackety Sax by Boots Randolph
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Joel Patterson (Instrumental)
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by The Brian Setzer Orchestra
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Asleep at the Wheel (Country)
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Jimmy Barnes
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Skinny Feelings (Pop Punk)
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by First to Eleven (Rock)
- Noche Buena Y Navidad by Brenda Lee (Spanish remake)
This month, Duane and Scott look at the history of the 1914 Christmas Truce and songs written about the event.
Don't forget to vote for your favorite song of the episode in The Great Tinsel Tunes Song Battle 2025.
Songs from the episode:
- Yorkshire Three Ships by Kate Rusby
- 1914 (Christmas Truce) by Elias Dummer
- Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
- Christmas Truce by Sabaton
- Pipes of Peace by Tim Pannell
- Stille Nacht (Silent Night in the original German)
- Christmas 1914 (No Man’s Land) by Roy Buckley
- All Together Now by The Farm
- 1914 - The Carol of Christmas by Military Voices
- Snoopy’s Christmas by The Royal Guardsmen
- 1914 by Mike Harding
This month, Duane and Scott discuss the carol "I Saw Three Ships" with Tim Babb from the "Can't Wait for Christmas" podcast.
Don't forget to vote for your favorite song in the Great Tinsel Tunes Song Battle 2025.
Songs played in this episode:
- I Saw Three Ships by the Barenaked Ladies (Tim)
- I Saw Three Ships by Blackmore’s Night (Duane)
- I Saw Three Ships by King’s College Choir (Scott)
- I Saw Three Ships by Nat King Cole (Tim)
- I Saw Three Ships (Metal Cover) by Forrest Howard (Duane)
- I Saw Three Ships by The Irish Rovers (Scott)
- I Saw Three Ships by South Park and the Muppets (Tim)
- I Saw Three Ships by Fiddler’s Green (Duane)
- I Saw Three Ships (Sea Shanty Version) by the Harris Siblings (Scott)
This month, Duane and Scott discuss the carol "Away in a Manger" with special guest Lynnora Gilbert.
Vote for your favorite song in the Great Tinsel Tunes Song Battle 2025.
Songs played during the episode:
- Mueller
- Cradle Song
- Away in a Manger by King’s College Choir
- Away in a Manger by Christafari
- Away in a Manger by Phil Wickham
- Away in a Manger by Home Free
- Away in a Manger by Rob Halford
- Away in a Manger by 9-year-old Claire Crosby
- Away in a Manger by Nat King Cole
- Away in a Manger by Vermicide Violence
- Away in a Manger by James Linden Hogg
This month, Scott and Duane celebrate seven years of Tinsel Tunes with our very special guest, Brian Earl from the Christmas Past podcast. They each share some versions of the carol "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear".
Here's Brian's "Christmas podcast wish list" video from 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fViebraVgQ
Don't forget to vote for your favorite song from this episode in the Great Tinsel Tunes Song Battle 2025: https://pollforall.com/pkd99o8n
Here are the jazz songs that listener Adam Parker recommended:
- O Swing All Ye Faithful by Andrew Morgan Smith & the Lifetimers
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Ezra Collective
- Jingle Bells by Gabriel Latchin Trio
Here are the versions of "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" that we played during the episode: