By Chris Moore:
There’s a LOT of Christmas music.
As is to be expected, some is excellent, some is terrible, and much of it is mediocre. Over the years, in a variety of formats, I’ve been exposed to a lot of Christmas music. This year, I assembled all the songs that have survived over the years, and I’ve created a 340 song playlist for your perusal below. This master list has served as the source from which I derived my “Christmas, Volumes 1-3” playlists the past several weeks.
I’m sure I’m missing some tunes here that are very meaningful to you, so I encourage you to comment below to recommend any tracks I should seek out for a listen.
From our blog to you, I wish you the merriest of Christmases and a happy new year!
CHRIS’ CHRISTMAS MUSIC CATALOG:
Alvin & the Chipmunks: “Christmas Don’t Be Late,” “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”
America: Holiday Harmony
Band Aid: “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
Barenaked Ladies: Barenaked for the Holidays
The Beach Boys: Ultimate Christmas
The Beatles: “Christmas Time is Here Again,” “Everywhere It’s Christmas”
The Bee Gees: “Holiday”
Ben Folds: “Lonely Christmas Eve”
Bing Crosby: “Mele Kalikimaka,” “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays,” “White Christmas”
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans,
the Crystals, Darlene Love,
the Ronettes, & Phil Spector: A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector
Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart
Bobby Helms: “The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle”
Bobby Helms, The Brian
Setzer Orchestra, Charles
Brown, Clarence Carter,
Nat King Cole, Darlene Love,
Johnny Mathis, David Newman,
Lou Rawls: The Jingle All the Way Soundtrack
Brenda Lee: “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Papa Noel”
The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Boogie Woogie Christmas
Brian Wilson: What I Really Want for Christmas, “White Christmas,” “Little Saint Nick” (Web Version)
Burl Ives: “Holly Jolly Christmas”
The Carpenters: “The Christmas Song,” “Merry Christmas Darling”
Chicago: Christmas: What’s It Gonna Be, Santa?
Chris Moore: “Christmas From Now On,” “Feliz Navidad” (with Jim Fusco & Dana Camp), “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen,” “Green Christmas” (with Jim Fusco), “Here Comes Santa Claus,” “Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Moment,” “Must Be Santa,” “The New Year,” “A Winter’s Tale”
Chris, Jim, & Mike: Our Christmas Gift to You
Chuck Berry: “Run Rudolph Run”
Copeland: “Do You Hear What I Hear?”
Death Cab for Cutie: “Christmas”
The Drifters: “White Christmas”
The Eagles: “Please Come Home for Christmas”
Eartha Kitt: “Santa Baby”
Eisley: “The Winter Song”
Elmo & Patsy: “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer,” “Percy the Puny Poinsettia”
Elton John: “Step Into Christmas”
Elvis Presley: If Every Day Was Like Christmas
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer: “I Believe in Father Christmas”
The Fold: “Oh Holy Night”
Fountains of Wayne: “I Want an Alien for Christmas”
Frank Sinatra: “I Believe”
Gene Autry: “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)”
George Harrison: “My Sweet Lord,” “Ding Dong Ding Dong”
The Harry Simeone Chorale: “The Little Drummer Boy”
Hawk Nelson: “Last Christmas”
Ingrid Michaelson: “Winter Song,” “Snowfall”
Jack Johnson: “Someday at Christmas”
Jeff Foskett: “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day”
Jethro Tull: “Ring Out Solstice Bells”
Joe Pesci: “If It Doesn’t Snow for Christmas”
John Lennon: “Happy Xmas (War is Over),” “Happy Christmas & Give Peace a Chance”
Johnny Cash: Classic Christmas
Jose Feliciano: “Feliz Navidad”
Joy Electric: “What Child is This?”
Judy Garland: “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Lady Gaga: “Christmas Tree”
Mae: “Carol of the Bells”
The Magnetic Fields: “Everything is One Big Christmas Tree”
Mavis Staples: “Christmas Vacation”
The Moody Blues: December, “Another Morning,” “Eyes of a Child,” “What Child is This?”
The Moonglows: “Hey Santa Claus”
MoU: MoU Holiday Party 2006
Nat King Cole: “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” “The Little Boy Santa Claus Forgot”
NewSong: “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
The Orioles: “Crying in the Chapel”
Paul McCartney: “Wonderful Christmastime”
The Percy Faith Orchestra: “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”
Ray Charles: “What Child is This?”
Relient K: Let it Snow Baby… Let it Reindeer
Ringo Starr: I Wanna Be Santa Claus
Roger Whittaker: “Ding Dong Merrily on High”
Roy Orbison: “Pretty Paper”
The Royal Guardsmen: “Christmas Bells”
Simon & Garfunkel: “Seven O’Clock News/Silent Night”
Smashing Pumpkins: “Christmastime”
Spike Jonze: “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth”
Starflyer 59: “Christmas Time is Here”
Stevie Wonder: “Someday at Christmas”
The Temptations: “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: “Christmas All Over Again”
Weezer: Christmas with Weezer
Wham!: “Last Christmas”
The Who: “Christmas”
The Wilsons: “Hey Santa!”