I never miss a chance to go on about Over the Rhine’s excellent album Snow Angels, consisting almost entirely of original Christmas songs, all of them good. This is a standout for me: “Darlin’ (Christmas is Comin’).”
Gah, that’ll teach me to post from my phone. I’ve flagged my post.
To Drive The Cold Winter Away.
(Seasonal, not explicitly Christmas.)
Doesn’t everyone?
In the other Christmas songs thread, someone assumed that the little girl voice on “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” was fake. (It was by the 10-year-old Gayla Peevey.) The “Two Front Teeth” singer, on the other hand, was the guy on the left. (George Rock, with Spike Jones on the right.)
The high-school concert I saw last week included “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”, and it was probably the best song in the whole concert.
The Band with “Christmas Must be Tonight”.
Though very simple, it’s one of the most moving xmas songs I’ve heard. I don’t know if it’s the words themselves, the spacey delay on the vocals or the timing of the lines in the chorus, but this one hits hard.
Yep, Love it. “I won’t let… sorrow bring me way-down.”
The Christmas episode of New Girl (of all things) reminded me of this great one. I think my love for it was partly influenced by it playing over the opening credits of Gremlins.
I caught her on the last year Letterman had a Christmas show, liked it a lot.
Not a song, but yesterday a recording made me grin.
There’s a certain record of Christmas songs that’s been making the rounds since at least the 60s. I think it was made by the chorus of a school; not a professional thing, in any case. Hearing that particular run of Spanish classics in IKEA was unexpected 
and I certainly like it better than most of the stuff whose singers I can name.
I like Christmas music. Better the closer you get. Solemn songs (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) and beautifully sung songs (Pentatonix, Bing Crosby) preferred.
The guy who wrote that (as a novelty gift for his nieces and nephews) copyrighted it, never thinking he would ever make a penny from it, and when a DJ played it a few years later as a joke and the phone lines lit up, that’s when the ball got rolling. The song made him wealthy.
He was inspired to do so when he substitute-taught in a 1st grade classroom shortly after WW II, and IIRC 16 of the 22 kids had no front teeth.
Green Chri$tma$ by Stan Freberg.
Chronos, is your version of The Holly and the Ivy perhaps perforned by Maureen McGovern? (Can’t link from my tablet, sorry.)
Bumped.
Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé blow the roof off with a duet of “All I Want for Christmas Is You”: - YouTube
And here she is doing the song as Carpool Karaoke with James Corden (and some other folks you may recognize, too): 'All I Want for Christmas' Carpool Karaoke - YouTube
Of the many holiday songs that our Gay Men’s Chorus has performed over the years, one of my favorites has been “Deck the Halls in 7/8”. I’m sure most of the audience had no idea it was any different from the usual arrangement.
CD’s we play over and over every year:
Vince Vance and the Valiants. Their song “All I Want for Christmas is You” (not the one Mariah Carey and countless others sing) is “our song” and I’ve never heard it done better.
Michael Card The Promise Joseph’s song is breathtaking.
Straight No Chaser. “12 days of Christmas” morphs with “Carol of the Bells” and “Africa”
Jimmy Buffett Christmas Island
I never heard this before this year when the church choir sang it. We went through it many times before I could sing it without crying. “Christ Is Born”: Christ Is Born - Shofar - YouTube
A no frills version of O Holy Night.
Christmas Time is Here, by David Benoit
In Gabriel’s Garden album by Wynton Marsalis. You don’t have to like him, but he plays a mean baroque horn.
Probably the sappiest song ever written, but I still like to hear it on christmas.
Christmas Shoes
Why don’t they ever play this song during christmas?
Good King Wenceslas
