I like listening to Christmas music, be it traditional Christmas carols or the classic rock ´n roll and pop music Christmas songs. There’s no better background for Christmas tree decorating than some festive music.
Here is my selection of 12 best Christmas songs:
Silent night
According to Wikipedia Silent Night was composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr, in Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. A true classic.
Jingle bells
This is an American song written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857. I like the cheerful melody of this old Christmas song.
We wish you a Merry Christmas
It’s a traditional English Christmas carol.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
It’s another traditional English Christmas carol. Imagine receiving such grand 12 gifts on twelve days up to Christmas….I watched a great Hallmark Christmas movie on this subject.
All I want for Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
My favourite Christmas song 🙂
Santa Claus is Comin´ to Town by Eddie Cantor
Last Christmas by Wham
Fairytale of New York by the Pogues
Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas by Bing Crosby
White Christmas by Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby
Let it snow by Dean Martin
What about you? Do you like these Christmas songs? Which ones would you add?
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Yess these ones never fail to put me in a festive spirit! I especially like the one by Wham! Thanks for sharing 😊
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Thanks for commenting 🎄🎅🎁
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I love Fairytale of New York…. hard to beat that one …
I’d add…
Bing Crosby / David bowie – Drummer Boy
Greg Lake – I believe in Father Christmas
Coldplay – Christmas Lights.
East 17 – Stay Another Day – not exactly a Christmas song but was a Christmas Hit … sad but brilliant
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Thanks, I remember East 17 song, it’s a good one
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I love your list of songs! Some of my classic favourites I see there including Last Christmas and Fairytale of NY, I also really like the sentiment of the 1980’s Band Aid song, Feed the World.. B xx
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thanks!
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Loving your mix of old and new. All these songs are great! I’d also like to throw some We Three Kings, Michael Buble and Slade into the mix.
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thanks, I’ll check those too
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This is genuinely an amaing list – the only one missng I think (for me anyway) is Bing Crosby + David Bowie’s Little Dummer Boy – I’m obsessed with it!
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thanks, I’ll check it out
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great list. but as great as the Mariah Carey song is, I’ve ALREADY heard it too many times this year!
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thanks!, oh well, …:)))
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Good list – glad to see Fairy Tale of New York on there (my all-time favourite) and White Christmas. I would add Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody, the Waitresses’ Christmas Wrapping, Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas, Pretenders’ 2,000 Miles, Jona Lewie’s Stop the Cavalry, Springsteen’s version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas, and Darlene Love’s Walking in a Winter Wonderland (on the Phil Spector Christmas album, which is great!)
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thanks for the suggestions, I’ll look for those songs too
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The classics are great! I would also recommend a more-modern one: “Christmas Lights” by Coldplay. The lyrics are rather sad, but the tune does get you in the holiday spirit all the same! Thanks for sharing your favorites. 🙂
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Thanks, I like Coldplay but I don’t think I know of that song, I’ll check it out
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Frosty the Snowman is missing from the list! 😍😋⛄️ I’ve just been singing it with the boys and googled to find what it was in Finnish – it’s like a completely different song in Finnish, I didn’t even recognizen it!
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that’s a great song for the kids
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Yeah it is!
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