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1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special Last Sessions Smithsonian Folkways SFCD-40068/71
2. Kiltartan Road: Deck The Halls (trad/arr.Sobol) / The Carol Of The Field Mice (Sobol/Grahaeme) A Kiltartan Road Christmas: Joy In The Morning Classic Digital 1006 (312-832-9000)
3. Dan Fogelberg: At Christmas Time The First Christmas Morning Morning Sky MSPCD 8001
4. Odetta: Shout For Joy (trad) Christmas Spirituals Alcazar ALC104
5. Nowell Sing We Clear: Shepherds Arise Hail Smiling Morn! Golden Hind GHM102CD (Box 1792, Schenectady, NY 12301)
6. Original Broadway Cast: Rise Up Shepherd and Follow (trad) Black Nativity Vee Jay SR 5022
7. Original NBC Production: Shephers! Shepherds! / Emily, Emily / Olives and quinces / Shepherd's Dance (Gian Carol Menotti) Amahl and the Night Visitors RCA Victor 6485-2RG
8. Joel Mabus: How Like the Holly How Like the Holly Fossil 1299 (PO Box 306, Portage, MI 49081 or email.)
9. Diane Taraz: Green Grows the Holly (trad) Hope! Say the Holly Raisin Pie RP-4 (PO Box 1066, Arlington, MA 02474)
10. Cathy Barton & Dave Para-Patons: Holly Tree Carol (Jean Ritchie) 'Twas On A Night Like This FOLK LEGACY CD114
11. Artisan: The Holly and the Ivy (trad) Bygone Christmas Bygone Films BFCD112 (phone England: 44-1484-606230)
12. Tommy Makem: The Holly Bears a Berry (trad) Christmas SHANACHIE 52041
13. Greg Miner: Bright, Bright, The Holly Berries (trad) A Christmas Collection, Vol. Two Delos DE2102
14. Suzanne McDermott: Mid-winter (Holst/Rosetti) Out Under the Sky Rosema Red RRR 417 (617-680-7729)
15. The Night Herron Consort: In the Bleak Midwinter (Holst) A Celtic Celebration, Vol. One NORTH STAR SS0088 (800-743-8994)
16. Boys of the Lough: Midwinter Waltz (Dave Richardson) Midwinter Night's Dream BLIX STREET G2-10033 (818-763-9151)
17. Dan Fogelberg: In the Bleak Midwinter (Holst/Rosetti) First Christmas Morning Morning Sky MSPCD 8001
18. John Jacob Niles: I Wonder As I Wander I Wonder As I Wander Tradition TLP 1023
19. John Harbison: The First Noel (trad) Six String Christmas Adelphi Records GCD 1038

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20. Fairport Convention (Simon Nicol): End Of a Holiday What We Did On Our Holidays Hannibal HNCD-4430
21. Thomas Moore: God Is Born (D.H.Lawrence) The Soul of Christmas Upaya 19088 12182
22. Ensemble Choral du Bout du Monde: Joyful Mysteries (trad) Noels Celtiques: Christmas Music from Brittany GREEN LINNET GLCD 3124
23. Jean Redpath: 2000 Years Ago (Alan Bell) Still The Night Jean Redpath Records JR109 (888-845-4058)
24. Gerry Armstrong: Seven Joys of Mary (trad) Simple Gifts Folkways FA 2335
25. Nowell Sing We Clear: The Joys of Mary (trad) Hail Smiling Morn! Golden Hind GHM102
26. Odetta: Mary Had a Baby (trad) Christmas Spirituals Alcazar ALC104
27. Joan Baez & Bob Gibson: Virgin Mary Had One Son (trad) Folk Festival at Newport, Vol. 2 VANGUARD VRS-9063
28. Cathy Barton & Dave Para: Make My Present Small (Bob Coltman) Crazy Quilt Barton-Para no# (PO Box 33, Boonville, MO 65233)
29. John Henry Faulk: Christmas Story (WFMT studio, early 1960s) WFMT recording
30. Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum: The Gift (Stephanie Davis) Winter's Grace SIGNATURE SOUNDS SIG 1251 (800-694-5354)
31. Tommy Makem: The Gift of the Tree (JB Goodenough/arr.Makem) Christmas SHANACHIE 5204
32. Harvey Reid: The Heart Of The Minstrel On Christmas Day WOODPECKER 111CD
33. Priscilla Herdman-Anne Hills-Cindy Mangsen: At the Turning of the Year (Hills) At the Turning of the Year Hand & Heart 2000 (P.O. Box 800, Pine Plains, NY 12567)
34. Nowell Sing We Clear: Carol for the New Year (trad) Hail Smiling Morn! Golden Hind GHM102CD
35. John Fahey: Auld Lang Syne (trad/arr.Fahey) Christmas Guitar Varrick-Rounder CDVR-002

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