This is my favorite Christmas music of all time. It's the Carpenters (Peter and Karen! They're siblings!) and it's from, I think, the 70s. It's the music my mom would always have on during Christmas when I was growing up, and my first Christmas season in college I had to buy my own copy because I realized it just wouldn't be Christmas without it.
It's this amazing nostalgic blend of cheeserific cheerfulness (although Karen Carpenter on Ave Maria is really quite lovely) combined with some serious religious numbers. Plus even when I was little the whole thing was tinged with some tragic drama since my mom sat me down and explained how Karen Carpenter later died from anorexia. Heavy stuff for an eight year old.
If you want to listen to one song from this, please make it "The First Snowfall."
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