Division of Labour: Favorite Christmas Songs

December 27, 2005

Favorite Christmas Songs

I am a pretty big fan of Christmas songs. A search for Christmas in my music library brings up 249 songs, so I have a fairly large collection. Here are five of my favorite Christmas songs. Some are fairly well known, some are not.

1. "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" - Bing Crosby and David Bowie.
2. "Let Me Sleep" - Pearl Jam. A rarity off their 1992 fan club single.
3. "Baby It's Cold Outside" - Dean Martin. I can't imagine anyone else doing covering this song.
4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" - Al Green.
5. "Pretty Paper" - Roy Orbison.

Recommendations desired, especially lesser-known songs by well-known artists. Comments are open.

Posted by Joshua Hall at 07:30 AM

Comments

3. "Baby It's Cold Outside" - Dean Martin. I can't imagine anyone else doing this song.

--Can you imagine Regis Philbin doing it? It's true...

Posted by: KipEsquire at December 27, 2005 10:45 AM

Thanks. I should have said "imagine anyone else doing it well." I also have a version with Doris Day and Bing Crosby that's not bad.

Posted by: Josh Hall at December 27, 2005 11:06 AM

Not especially Christmasy, but its good: "Christmas" by The Who, from the Tommy album.

Posted by: David Rossie at December 27, 2005 11:38 AM

Thanks David. One of my favorite non-christmasy songs is "Misstress for Christmas" by AC/DC.

Posted by: Joshua Hall at December 27, 2005 11:49 AM

Joshua,
Here's a few that I enjoyed this year. They have not yet been overplayed to an intolerable degree:

"Cool Yule" - Louis Armstrong
"It Must've Been Ol' Santa Claus" - Harry Connick, Jr.
"Papa Noel" - Brenda Lee

and the ultimate in hipster Christmas cool:
Mel Torme's version of "Good King Wenceslas"

Posted by: Edward Bierhanzl at December 27, 2005 01:45 PM

Thanks Ed. The Torme song is available on iTunes and it sounds great.

Posted by: Joshua Hall at December 27, 2005 02:00 PM