What are your top five Christmas/Holiday Songs?

I like Coventry Carol.

And Kristin Chenoweth’s (from Pushing Daisies) new Christmas album!

Oh Holy Night, Vince Gill
Sing Joy, Peter Mayer
Jingle Bell Rock, Brenda Lee?
Baby It’s Cold Outside, James Taylor & Natalie Cole
Silent Night, Josh Groban
Holly Jolly Christmas, Burl Ives
Jingle Bells, Ella Fitzgerald
Sleigh Ride, The Ray Connif Singers (ahh childhood memories)
Little Drummer Boy, Bing Crosby & David Bowie
…ok, you said 5, I’ll stop now, sorry.

Three more to go girlofscience.

I love Burl Ives, bythebay. Extra points: In which classic Christmas cartoon did he voice the narrator?

@cprevite: Haha, but her album has 12 songs on it!

@girlofscience: Fair enough. ¡-)

@cprevite: Frosty!!

@bythebay: Yes, but in which classic Christmas cartoon? (it’s actually unclear if he was Frosty or just some random snowman).

@cprevite: No, he wasn’t actually Frosty – he was the narrating Snowman.

Sam…he was Sam the Snowman in the Frosty The Snowman cartoon.

“Feed the World” with Bono, “Merry Christmas (Was is Over)” by John Lennon, Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”, Bing Crosby’s “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” and the instrumental version of “Sleighride” (especially when they use the trumpet to sound like a horse at the end).

1. All I Want For Christmas is You- Mariah Carey
2. White Christmas- Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra
3. The Christmas Song- Nat King Cole
4. Christmas/ Sarajevo 12/24— Trans Siberian Orchestra
5. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas- Meredith Wilson

This is a great question
I could list the songs I can’t stand because there are A LOT

@90s_kid: LOVE that version of White Christmas also.

@bythebay: You’re almost there. He was Sam the snowman, but he narrated the classic Rankin and Bass stop-motion animated TV special…Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (12/06/1964).

@ cpretive The only good version :(

@cprevite: He narrated Rudolph as Sam, not Frosty? :( I’m all mixed up; obviously not enough coffee this morning!

<—-Ahhhhh, she says…waking up! Didn’t Jimmy Durante narrate Frosty?

Feed the world – original band aid song,
Fairytale of New York, – Pogues and Kirsty McCall
Blue Christmas – Elvis

Hark the Herald angels sing.

@bythebay: Ding, ding. You are correct. That was Jimmy Durante. ah cha cha chaaa

@suse: One more to go…

PS: Guy I work with LOVES that Pogues song. Makes me play it over the intercom at work every year.

Also, “CHRISTMAS DON’T BE LATE” by Alvin and the Chipmunks!!!

I think two of the most beautiful Christmas songs are “Where Are You Christmas” from “The Grinch” and “If you Believe” from “Polar Express” by Josh Groban.

If you never heard them, you should.

I like this jam.

River is not a Christmas song goddammit!

Christmas is All Around – Billy Mack (from the Love Actually OST)
;D

@mrdh: River is a Christmas song if you believe that Christmas is a melancholy holiday.

More importantly, the lyrics:
It’s coming on Christmas
They’re cutting down trees
They’re putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on

The whole Charlie Brown Christmas CD

Little Drummer Boy by Jars of Clay

O Holy Night by Barlow Girls

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus (no clue who sings it).

Oh, and Baby It’s Cold Outside also.

Please Come Home for Christmas – The Eagles
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Barenaked Ladies w/ Sarah McLaughlin (AWESOME!)
The Rebel Jesus – Jackson Browne
The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth – Bing Crosby & David Bowie (always get goosebumps when I watch this!)
O Holy Night – Nat King Cole (get goosebumps just hearing this one.)

The Rebel Jesus – Jackson Browne
Father Christmas – The Kinks
Happy Christmas – John Lennon
Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
Christmas Sucks – The Porn Orchard

Faintly Falling Ashes – The Lawrence Arms

Christmas in Maine, little drummer boy, 12 days of christmas, white christmas,mommy kissing santa clause.

@ mr m
how could i forget that song???
i always love that song when it airs….it’s too short though i wish it were longer

I have way too many favorites to pick just five, but the Bing Crosby/David Bowie Little Drummer Boy is my absolute favorite – whenever I hear it, I have to stop whatever I’m doing and just listen. So beautiful…

i always got the impression that david bowie didnt know the lyrics to the song. I mean look at him, hes staring at the paper like the whole song.

What about theat australian song with those 10 men singing toto-form? nevermind…

http://www.smodcast.net/holidayhavoc/venture_bros_henchmen_21_24-wonderful_christmastime.mp3

Here are my favorites, in no particular order:

1. “Holly Jolly Christmas” by Alan Jackson (his cover is peppier than the original Burl Ives version)

2. “O Holy Night” by 98 Degrees. So maybe they’re a defunct boy band, but they did harmonize well.

3. “Little Saint Nick” by The Beach Boys

4. “Christmas All Over Again” by Tom Petty

5. “Do You Hear What I Hear”, the Vince Gill version