Anonymous
Post 12/06/2025 10:03     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:What’s the Robert Downey Jr one he sang on Ally McBeal? Something about skating on a river?

Wham’s Last Christmas is a classic pop song.


Oh, yes. That's the best. River by Joni Mitchell.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 20:47     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas- Judy Garland

Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas- Burl Ives


Those are not "secular" I guess reading it not a skill for you!



I read secular to mean non religious. Christmas is celebrated by non Christians who say merry Christmas and do all the secular Christmas rituals like trees, Santa, toys, cookies, mistletoe and holly as opposed to nativity and mentions of Christ being born specifically.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 20:43     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:I'm a big Christmas Carol lover (listening to them now). Just spoke with a Jewish friend of mine, and came away from that conversation thinking I'd love to make and give him a CD with secular carols. It's tricky--the songs I'm looking for aren't religious, or about Santa. That leaves winter songs, I think…don't get bah-humbug-y about this, folks; I just want to cheer him up. Let's spread some holiday cheer!

So far I've got:

(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays (Perry Como)

Sleigh Ride (Johnny Mathis)

Let it Snow! (Dean Martin)

Jingle Bells (Jim Reeves)

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Andy Williams)

Frosty the Snowman (Gene Autry)

Linus & Lucy (Vince Guaraldi Trio) (the Peanuts Theme)

My Favorite Things (Sound of Music song)

What else?


Love Vince guaraldi, add Christmas is coming, Skating, the Christmas song, green sleeves

Add home alone theme

Add fantasia barring holiday

Add anything holiday by Kelly Clarkson she may be my new fav holiday music since Mariah!

Add the Grinch theme

Frosty the snowman

Rudolph (stuff everyone knows the words to)

The drifters white Christmas

Let it snow by boys to men

Anything Ella Fitzgerald

Back door Santa by Jet 😝

Joy by Whitney Houston that could be religious though



Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 20:14     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
I'm a Christian married to a Jewish man and I don't understand how this would help cheer him up, OP.
Anonymous
Post 12/05/2025 18:28     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Cocteau twins winter wonderland and frosty

Check the album She & Him Christmas party and pull some songs off of there.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 21:54     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:I'm a big Christmas Carol lover (listening to them now). Just spoke with a Jewish friend of mine, and came away from that conversation thinking I'd love to make and give him a CD with secular carols. It's tricky--the songs I'm looking for aren't religious, or about Santa. That leaves winter songs, I think…don't get bah-humbug-y about this, folks; I just want to cheer him up. Let's spread some holiday cheer!

So far I've got:

(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays (Perry Como)

Sleigh Ride (Johnny Mathis)

Let it Snow! (Dean Martin)

Jingle Bells (Jim Reeves)

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Andy Williams)

Frosty the Snowman (Gene Autry)

Linus & Lucy (Vince Guaraldi Trio) (the Peanuts Theme)

My Favorite Things (Sound of Music song)

What else?


How did you come away with that idea? Did your friend say they loved that type of music?
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 21:20     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:Santa Baby
Carol of the bells
Baby It’s Cold Outside


"... Tell all the world, Jesus is King. Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas...Christmas is here, bringing good cheer..."

The entire dong is about church bells ringing the announcement of Christ's birth.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 21:15     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland

Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas - Burl Ives


Those both are Christmas songs
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 15:55     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Merry Christmas- Elton John and Ed Sheeran
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 14:24     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Those at not secular. Those are Christmas songs.


Why?


Seriously? Christmas songs are for Christmas which is a Christian holiday.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 14:20     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Winter Song by Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 13:28     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
It’s a Marshmallow World
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 13:09     Subject: Re:Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
What about the soundtrack from Die Hard?
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2025 12:44     Subject: Help me make a secular holiday music CD!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Fairytale of New York--The Pogues


+1, but only if your coworker is kinda twisted.


+1. It’s a fantastic song but not traditionally cheery.


I absolutely love that song! It’s actually been stuck in my head for the past few days.