Little Drummer Boy.

Performed by pretty much anyone, really, although Low's version takes the cake. Even the Dandy Warhols did quite a good version.

I'm not a Christian, but the sentiment expressed in the song is really beautiful - 'I don't have much in the face of this big thing that I don't really understand, but I do have this little drum that i can play for it' - expressed in very minimal lyrics that I'd love to have written:

I played my drum for him.
I played my best for him.
Then he smiled at me.

Beautiful.

Wampanoag Christmas, after I write it.

btw- Nat King Cole is still the xmas king.

Tree wrote:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Impressive list edited

Where is "Kentucky Homemade Christmas"?

Never heard of it. Enlighten me.

Chapter Two wrote:Little Drummer Boy.

Performed by pretty much anyone, really, although Low's version takes the cake. Even the Dandy Warhols did quite a good version.

I'm not a Christian, but the sentiment expressed in the song is really beautiful - 'I don't have much in the face of this big thing that I don't really understand, but I do have this little drum that i can play for it' - expressed in very minimal lyrics that I'd love to have written:

I played my drum for him.
I played my best for him.
Then he smiled at me.

Beautiful.

If you haven't already, you've gotta hear Johnny Cash's version. He omits the pa-rum-pa-pum-pum's, and it's totally dramatic. The Jackson 5 do a good one, too.

Cheers Brett, I'll seek it out.

Another old and not well known good one is (Little) Stevie Wonder's Someday At Christmas. Which is about war.

Someday at Christmas, men won't be boys
playing with bombs like kids play with toys...

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:17. Darlene Love: A Marshmallow World

This song is incredible. I was pleased to hear it in a TV show the other night.

Sleigh Bells - Andy Willliams

toomanyhelicopters wrote:seeing Weird Al get a nod just reminded me of two Dr Demento standouts...

..which reminds me of Bob and Doug McKenzie's "12 Beers of Christmas", which I'm also surprised no one else has mentioned. This, to me, brings back memories of the holidays... although that may just be due to growing up in close proximity to the Canadian border

Charles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas

Sparks- Thank God It's Not Christmas

and no one has mentioned Slade yet...