Leon Redbone : Blue Christmas [ purchase ] Blue Christmas provides the template for the holiday heartbreak song. Usually, the emotion gets h...

Chris Smither: Coventry Carol [ unpurchaseable ] As I wrote about earlier this month over at Cover Lay Down , the conceit of the Holiday Cl...

Eef Barzelay : Joy to the World [ purchase ] According to our friends at Wikipedia, "Joy to the World" is the most published ...

The Brady Bunch : Frosty The Snowman [ purchase ] The first single from the first album by The Brady Bunch was a Holiday song released ...

Les Brown & his Orchestra feat. Doris Day : The Christmas Song [ purchase ] John Edwards : The Christmas Song Out of print Smokey Robins...

Emmylou Harris : Christmas Time’s A-Coming [ purchase ] Country music Christmas albums: Bah, humbug. They are almost all forgettable, o...

Poi Dog Pondering with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band : Mele Kalikimaka [ purchase ] I must apologize to one of our readers, who sent me an...

Book Of Love : We Three Kings [ purchase ] See if you can name the decade in which this song was recorded. The Philadelphia-based sy...

David Lanz : O Come, O Come, Emmanuel [ purchase ] The origin of this Advent hymn is lost to time---some sources say it began as an 8th ...

Lou Rawls : Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [ purchase ] When Judy Garland sang “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” in ...

The Roches : Deck the Halls [ purchase ] The one constant in my family’s holiday celebrations over the past 20 odd years has been Th...

Carnival of Shame : You’re a Mean One, Mr Grinch [unavailable] I have no intention of stopping Christmas from coming, so I thought I ha...