If there’s going to be another one it should be this other Darlene Love classic.
I’ll be Home For Christmas by Frank Sinatra or Michael Buble
That song defines the holidays for me.
There is no Christmas song I desperately need to hear. Nowadays, it’s easy to find and hear any song I want to hear, whenever I want.
But these are songs I love that I never hear on “Round the Clock Christmas Music” radio and that would be better than the dreck they keep recycling:
"A Soalin’ " by Peter, Paul and Mary
“Mary’s Boy Child” by Harry Belafonte
“Nothing But a Child” by Steve Earle
“It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way” by Jim Croce
I rather like Sting’s version…and that’s not something I say often (his Dowland lute songs make me all stabby).
I tend to favor the more miserable Christmas songs - “Please Come Home For Christmas” by the Eagles or Peter Warlock’s “Bethlehem Down” - so all the more saccharine fare is definitely off my list.
I’m neither a New Yorker nor an Australian, but I keep playing Fairytale of New York and White Wine in the Sun.
I Don’t Remember Christmas But then, I’m a huge fan of irony.
“Light of the Stable” recorded by Emmylou Harris (with Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Neil Young providing harmony). Beautiful!
You mean the Tomás Luis de Victoria composition? Yes, that’s fairly commonly sung version, I think since it’s from the late 16th Century, not that far removed from the time frame when the chant was as-yet un-re-worked. He also has a very nice O Vos Omnes that is often sung. 
Should note that one of the things both the Victoria and the Lauridsen versions have in common is the hushed quality that predominates the music. I dislike choirs that do the Lauridsen at full volume; it misses the essence of the image.
I’ve been known to listen to that on loop for… well, probably not hours, but quite a while.
I’m aware that the song was originally not a Christmas song, but it is now, so whatevs…
Slade’s Merry Xmas Everybody from 1973.
It’s upbeat and optimistic. What’s not to like?
The English translation of that, called “Carol of the Bells”, isn’t too hard to find. Though of course you’re not going to hear it very often in Ukrainian in an English-speaking country.
A lot of my favorite ones have already been mentioned (Hard Candy Christmas, Bob and Doug MacKenzie). My most favorite Darlene Love is Marshmallow World. The song I wish I heard more in general is Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella (I like hearing all sorts of versions of that one.)
All of those I can listen to if I seek them out. One that I don’t know how to find is a version of We Three Kings that must have been more common when I was a kid – it was more of a simple, folk arrangement and slightly slower tempo than a lot of the current versions.
Robert Earl Keene’s Merry Christmas From the Family is my only Must Hear Christmas song:
Little sister brought her new boyfriend,
He was a Mexican,
We didn’t know what to think of him,
Til he sang Feliz Navidad,
Feliz Navidad…
I have always enjoyed the groove of Run-D.M.C.'s “Christmas in Hollis.” And I can’t help but be amused by the cash-grabbing cynicism of Stephen Colbert’s “Another Christmas Song.”
I didn’t think I had anything to contribute, but then someone started playing “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” in the background. That song, plus the annoying little kid behind the voice, can DIAF.
cwthree, I think you have the wrong thread. This one is for songs that you do want to hear.
Call me weird, if you want, but I actually like the Grinch song, sung by Thurl Ravenscroft.
Also, I haven’t heard “Mary’s Boy Child,” by Boney M on the radio yet this year, but that’s upbeat and catchy; I always enjoy that one.