Favorite Christmas songs?

[junkbondtrader]

I am trying to make a playlist of Christmas songs and was wondering if you all could give me some of your favorites.
So far I have
Purple Snowflakes-Marvin Gaye
Maybe this Christmas-Ron Sexsmith
Baby Please Come Home-DCFC
No Christmas While I'm Talking=Walkmen
Best Coast+Wavves-Got Something for You

So what are you favorite songs?

[Alex]

Weird Al-Xmas at Ground Zero, Blink 182-I Won`t Be Home For Xmas, Barenaked Ladies-Green Xmas and Deck the Stills, Bob Rivers-12 Pains of Xmas

[JK]

The Trashmen----"Dancin' With Santa"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyo9cuzkjY

[Alan Smith]

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues; is essential.

Another left fielder is "How to Make Gravy" by Paul Kelly which hits the right buttons without layin' on the cheese

[Jason]

Bing Crosby - White Christmas,
Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas, Santa Claus Is Back In Town, Merry Christmas, Baby, The First Noel
Johnny Mathis - Winter Wonderland, Silent Night, Silver Bells, Sleigh Ride
The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick, We Three Kings Of Orient Are, Morning Christmas
Brian Wilson - Joy To The World, What I Really Want For Christmas
Stevie Wonder - Someday At Christmas
Darlene Love - Baby Please Come Home
Jock and Yono - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Jackson 5 - Give Love On Christmas Day
The Moody Blues - What Child Is This?, December Snow, On This Christmas Day, In The Bleak Midwinter
The Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling
Jose Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
Gene Autry - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Here Comes Santa Claus
Andy Williams - Happy Holidays, It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
The Pogues/Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York
Elmo and Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
Augie Rios - ¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?
Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas
Barry Gordon - Nuttin' For Christmas (avoid prolonged exposure, it might lead to homicide)
Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper
Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey
The Melodeers - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells (it has to be heard to be believed)
The Supremes - Twinkle Twinkle Little Me
The Ventures - Sleigh Ride
Perry Como - Home For The Holidays
Mavis Staples - Christmas Vacation
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
Ray Charles - That Spirit Of Christmas
Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman
Wham! - Last Christmas
Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy's Christmas
Spike Jones and his City Slickers - All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
"Weird Al" Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy (extra gory version)

[pixletwin]

Pretty much everything in TRBB's list, plus I would add

Atlas Eets Christmas by Imagene Piese (The Flaming Lips)
Christmas At the Zoo, Silent Night/Lord Can You Hear Me? by The Flaming Lips
Silent Night by Old Old Old Frank Sinatra.

[SMiLE Brian]

The kinks- Father Christmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni04_SF-HRQ

[Alan Smith]

The kinks- Father Christmas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni04_SF-HRQ

Ha ha  I gotta get that!!! Hoping for some real McCoy this xmas

[hypehat]

Just listened to some of Dylan's christmas album. It's amazing, in the sense that he probably rinsed his local off-licence beforehand 

[Ron]

My favorite would be the Ronettes "Sleigh Ride".  I think that stands out as the greatest ever.  

On the other end of the spectrum, I always liked "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses

[SMiLE Brian]

My favorite would be the Ronettes "Sleigh Ride".  I think that stands out as the greatest ever.  

On the other end of the spectrum, I always liked "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses

Just bought the Spector christmas album and i can see why Brian loves it so much. The wall of sound is amazing on this album.

[Loaf]

Bing Crosby - Round and Round the Christmas Tree

[The Madcap]

The Spector Christmas Album
The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth
Keith Richards - Run Rudolph Run
Wizzard - Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
John Cale - A Child's Christmas In Wales (it has Christmas in the title so I'm counting it goddammit)

[Ebb and Flow]

Albums:
The Beach Boys Christmas Album
A Christmas Gift For You
Elvis' Christmas Album
The Ventures Christmas Album
A Charlie Brown Christmas
White Christmas (Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters)

Songs:
A Surfer's Christmas List - The Surfaris
White Christmas - The Drifters
New York's A Lonely Town - The Tradewinds (not technically a Christmas song but I always play it this time of year)
Come Home For Christmas - The Platters


Question: Anyone know if The Wrecking Crew played on other Christmas tunes similar to "A Christmas Gift For You"?  Though I love the BB Christmas album, I think it's kind of a shame that Brian didn't do one or two Wrecking Crew productions for the A side.

[Mike's Beard]

It goes under different names but The Four Seasons put out a great Christmas album.

[Summertime Blooz]

Thanks For Christmas- XTC (aka The Three Wise Men)
A Christmas Love Song- The Manhattan Transfer
What Christmas Means To Me- Stevie Wonder

Merry Christmas!!

[Rocker]

Elvis' "I'll be home for christmas" is absolutely brillantly sung. Probably his best vocal performance in the 50s and one of the best this song (which itself is a great composition) has ever known. It's almost on "Are you lonesome tonight"-level

[JK]

With a mere 32 shopping days to Christmas, here's Adam Faith with a touching if exceedingly brief UK Yuletide #4 from 1960:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_VJhCN3cko

[Emily]

My daughter played "We Three Kings" and "Go Tell it on the Mountain" at her recital yesterday, so today those are my favorites.

In terms of recordings, I used to have "Winter Wonderland" by Jewel on some sort of compilation and I really liked it, despite not being much of a Jewel fan. That same comp had "Let It Snow!" by Chicago, which was good.

Kinks "Father Christmas" has been one of my favorites since I was a kid.

Also, 1/2 of my childhood was in NJ and Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" was played everywhere, so for me it's traditional Christmas music.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Love Christmas music, mostly from the 50's, 60's, and 70's:

- Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
- Johnny Mathis - Sleigh Ride
- Perry Como - Toyland
- Bing Crosby - Do You Hear What I Hear
- Nat "King" Cole - Caroling, Caroling
- Percy faith - We Need A Little Christmas
- Frank Sinatra - Christmas Memories
- Mario Lanza -  O Come All Ye Faithful
- Mantovani - Christmas Bells
- Tony Bennett -  My Favorite Things
- David Rose - The Christmas Tree
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmastime Is Here
- Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas
- The Moody Blues - December Snow
- Ella Fitzgerald - The Secret Of Christmas
- Jack Jones - Sleigh Ride
- The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman
- Bert Kaempfert - Jingo Jango
- Canadian Brass - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Roger Whittaker - Ding Dong Merrily On High
- Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
- The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy & The Red Baron's Christmas
- Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
- Dan Fogelberg - Snowfall
- John Denver - Silent Night
- Mitch Miller - Must Be Santa
- The Beach Boys - Winter Symphony
- Linda Ronstadt - River
- Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - That Holiday Feeling
- Mel Torme - The Christmas Song
- Henry Mancini - Carol For Another Christmas

[NOLA BB Fan]

Classic
Christmas Song - Nat 'King' Cole

Upbeat
Little Saint Nick - Beach Boys
Sleigh Ride- Ronettes

Slow/Soulful
Please Come Home for Christmas- Charles Brown
Merry Christmas Darling - Carpenters

Meditative
Christmas Lullaby- Doc Watson
Lullaby - Dave Brubeck

And an album- Duke Ellington's incredible take on The Nutcracker Suite

[Seaside Woman]

My all time favourite Christmas album is the Carpenters Christmas Portrait ...

[Emily]

Classic
Christmas Song - Nat 'King' Cole

Upbeat
Little Saint Nick - Beach Boys
Sleigh Ride- Ronettes

Slow/Soulful
Please Come Home for Christmas- Charles Brown
Mary Christmas Darling - Carpenters

Meditative
Christmas Lullaby- Doc Watson
Lullaby - Dave Brubeck

And an album- Duke Ellington's incredible take on The Nutcracker Suite

OK. I love the Nutcracker and I love Duke Ellington, so why has Duke Ellington's take on the Nutcracker Suite never entered my life until now? Shopping time!

[JK]

I have a soft spot for this ultra-cheezy take on the Festive Season by, of all people, The Trashmen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llyo9cuzkjY

[KDS]

I'll be breaking out the Xmas music on Friday.  I always wait until after Thanksgiving.

My favorite Xmas album of all time is

The Trans Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve and Other Stories.  - I typically listen to this album at least five times every December. 

The Beach Boys Christmas Album is a close second.  It was actually the first BB album I ever bought.

One I just got last year that I really like is Blackmore's Night - Winter Carols.  I'm a huge fan of Deep Purple and Rainbow, and I haven't really embraced Ritchie's medieval body of work over the last 18 years.  But the medieval type music works well for the Xmas season.