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1. Lead Belly: The Midnight Special (theme) Last Sessions Smithsonian Folkways SFCD-40068/71
2. Cherish the Ladies: On Christmas Night (trad) / Charles O'Conor (O'Carolan, PD) On Christmas Night Big Mammy 002
3. Amahl and the Night Visitors (orig. TV cast): Shepherds! Shepherdesses! / Emily, Emily / Olives and quinces (Gian Carlo Menotti) (orig. NBC telecast - Christmas Eve, 1951) RCA Victor 6485-2-RG
4. Finest Kind: Shepherds Arise (trad) Feasts & Spirits Fallen Angle FAM 07
5. John D. Huston as Charles Dickens: A Tight-Fisted Hand at the Grindstone (Chas.Dickens) (from A Christmas Carol) Feasts & Spirits Fallen Angle FAM 07
6. Finest Kind: Horsham Tipteerers' Song (trad-add.lyrics S.Posen) Feasts & Spirits Fallen Angle FAM 07
7. Kiltartan Road Christmas: Deck the Halls (trad) / Carol of the Fieldmice (Joseph Sobol/Kenneth Grahame) Joy in the Morning Kiltartan 1003
8. Nowell Sing We Clear: Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy (Bruce Randall/trad) Just Say Nowell Golden Hind GHM-105
9. Dan Crary: The Little Drummer Boy (Katherine Davis-Henry Onorati-Harry Simeone) Holiday Guitar Sugar Hill SHCD 3871
10. Marlene Dietrich: Der Trommelman (Katherine Davis-Henry Onorati-Harry Simeone / trans. Buscher) Marlene Capitol ST 10397
11. Harvey Reid: The Heart of the Minstrel on Christmas Day (trad) Woodpecker WP111CD
12. Martin Simpson-Jessica Radcliffe-Gerry O'Beirne-Lisa Ekstrom: Abbott's Bromley Horn Dance (trad/arr.Simpsom) / In Winter's Shadow (John Matthews from the book Song of Taliesin) Beautiful Darkness High Bohemia HBR CD002
13. Magical Strings & family: March of the Kings (trad) Good People All Flying Fish FF 70604
14. Seamus Egan, et.al: We Three Kings (J.H.Hopkins, Jr.) The Soul of Christmas Upaya 19088 12182
15. El McMeen: Good King Wenceslas (trad/arr.McMeen) The Soul of Christmas Guitar Piney Ridge PRM111
16. Diane Zeigler: Good King Wenceslas (trad/John Mason Neale, PD) December in Vermont self 86851-0324-2
17. John Henry Faulk: Christmas story (as told to Studs Terkel in the early 1960s) WFMT recording
18. Odetta: Shout For Joy (trad) Christmas Spirituals Vanguard 79079-2
19. Nowell Sing We Clear: Joy to the World (Thomas Shoel/Isaac Watts) Just Say Nowell Golden Hind GHM-105

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20. Finest Kind: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night medley (Nahum Tate, PD) Feasts & Spirits Fallen Angle FAM 07
21. John D. Huston as Charles Dickens: The Two Children-Ignorance and Want (Dickens) Feasts & Spirits Fallen Angle FAM 07
22. Finest Kind: The Homeless Wassail (Ian Robb) Feasts & Spirits Fallen Angle FAM 07
23. Magpie: No Room For You Inside Last Month of the Year Sliced Bread CDSB71305
24. Martha Gallagher: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (trad) For the Love of a Baby SS 20031
25. Cherish the Ladies (Heidi Talbot): Silent Night (Franz Gruber/Joseph Mohr) On Christmas Night Big Mammy 002
26. Artisan: Christmas Eve 1914 (Harding) Paper Angels Boing 9806
27. Jeff Talmadge: A Soldier's Christmas Bozart
28. John McCutcheon: Christmas in the Trenches Live at Wolf Trap Rounder CD 0283
29. Jean Redpath: Dona nobis pacem (trad) Still the Night Jean Redpath JR-109
30. Bob Gibson & Joan Baez: Virgin Mary Had One Son (trad) (Live at Newport) Folk Song America - Vol 2 (a compilation box set) Smithsonian Sony RD 046-2
31. Odetta: Mary Had a Baby (trad) Christmas Spirituals Vanguard 79079-2
32. Gerry Armstrong: Seven Joys of Mary (trad) Simple Gifts Smithsonian Folkways F-2335
33. Corinna Hewat & Mary MacMaster w/ Dave Milligan, piano: Lullay Lullay (trad) Cold Blow These Winter Winds (A Celtic Celebration of Christmas - Live in Edinburgh, Scotland) Green Linnet GLCD 1228
34. Finest Kind: The Cradle Carol (Isaac Watts) Feasts & Spirits Fallen Angle FAM 07
35. Golden Ring: This Old World (trad) A Gathering of Friends for Making Music Folk-Legacy CD-16
36. Adrienne Jones: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (trad-arr.A.Jones) There Is No Rose self

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