Mine would be this one...
Captain Sensible - One Christmas Catalogue
https://youtu.be/xTeL9--BQkQ
This 1984 recording reached number 79 in the UK and failed to chart elsewhere, but I loved it then and listen to it every Christmas!
A few years ago, when Alexa was still relatively new, I asked her to play Christmas carols on classical guitar. She brought up an artist named Lasse Ivonen, who I wasn't familiar with. However, I soon found out this was a pseudonym for a German fingerstyle guitarist named Ulli Boegershausen, who I did know (and I like his playing a lot...he did a great version of "Both Sides Now" that I really love).
There were two carols I really liked that I wasn't familiar with. One was "How Far Is It To Bethlehem?":
https://youtu.be/cQQGMUZVnaE
The other was "In The Bleak Midwinter":
https://youtu.be/JjFEpQ-hoLA
I really love both of these. I'm American and these aren't as well-known in the U.S. as they might be in other parts of the world.
Oh that's interesting, I did not know "In The Bleak Midwinter" is not as well known on your side of the pond.
shareI think it's starting to gain some popularity over here now the past few years. I belong to a Christian hymn group on Facebook and there were a few people who knew this carol, but most didn't. It's really a beautiful carol...for some reason, it just wasn't an overly popular carol here in America for a long time, but I'm starting to see more Americans becoming familiar with it.
shareI'm from England, and it's one of my favourites, I've known it all my life, a beautiful Christmas carol. It's funny how some songs don't travel, I assumed most English speaking nations pretty much sung the same carols.
shareAwesome! It is such a great carol. I really love the English carols that I've heard...you have some gorgeous melodies and beautiful carols in your part of the world! 😃
You are definitely correct about how some songs don't travel for some reason. I have another example that you are probably familiar with...a couple of days ago, I finally heard "Streets Of London" by Ralph McTell and I just loved it. I'd heard the song and McTell mentioned before, but I'd never heard it until a couple of days ago. What a sad, yet beautiful song. But it was never a hit here in the U.S.
Streets Of London is a great song, I haven't heard it in years, it reached number two in the UK, surprising to learn it failed to chart in the States, or that it wasn't covered.
sharethe site provides french lyrics as well as many other lyrics: https://paroles.wiki/
shareIt’s about that time by The Idea.
If you like 90s alternative rock, the entire Yuletunes album is full of unique Christmas songs
https://youtu.be/NfvEP6MW4a4