Everyone’s got their fave Christmas songs. These are mine. Better late than never. Happy Christmas!

• David Bowie & Bing Crosby – Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
  Bowie: “You the one that sings, right?” Bing: “Right or wrong, I sing either way.”
• Elvis Presley – Blue Christmas
  You’ve got to have the king.
• Christmas Tears – Freddie King
  One of three Kings of the blues. Christmas blues, this one’s a little-known classic. Download now!
• Otis Redding – Merry Christmas Baby
  Not one of his best. But it’s Otis Redding, so it makes it in.
• Andy Williams – Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
  Played and played year after year but still works.
• Nat King Cole – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
  Pure class, as you’d expect.
• Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song
  “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire” You just have to have this one. There’s a few more from Nat King Cole. But I’ll have to leave it there. Written in 1944 by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer!
• Ella Fitzgerald – Good Morning Blues
  “It’s Christmas time and I wanna see Santa Claus”. From her Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas 1960 album. With Count Basie
• Perry Como – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
  Played and played and on several movies but still a Christmas cracker!
• The Pretenders – 2000 Miles
  The 80s was a bad decade this one only just makes it in.
• Harry Connick Jr. – Sleigh Ride
  Loads of artists have done this light orchestral piece by Leroy Anderson. None better than Leo from Will & Grace.
• Slade – Merry Xmas Everybody
  Glam Rock gave us two Christmas classics.
• Roy Wood with Wizzard – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
  This was the second. The Top of the Pops miming performance is priceless!
• The Drifters – Bells will be Ringing
  Love it. Blues and Christmas again. Really works. Download this relatively unknown classic by the influential 50s R&B doo wop combo.
• Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas Is You
  OK OK OK! I’m sorry!
• Paul McCartney – Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time
  Some say he didn’t do anything after the Beatles. I’m not so sure.
• Dean Martin – The Christmas Blues
  “I’ve done my winter shoppin’ there’s not a store I’ve missed, but what’s the use of stoppin’ when there’s no-one on your list, You’ll know the way I’m feelin’ when you love an’ you lose, I guess I’ve got the Christmas blues!”
• Frank Sinatra – Winter Wonderland
  Don’t let the football supporters have all the best tunes!
• Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt
  Only just beats the sultry version by actress and jazz crooner, Cynthia Basinet which has often been mislabeled as Marilyn Monroe, whom never recorded the song. I’m going for Eartha anyway. Thanks to the commenters that pointed this out!
• Dean Martin – Baby it’s cold outside
  How to get a girl to stay the night…
• Dean Martin – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
  And if that doesn’t work try this!
• The Pogues and Kirsty McColl – Fairy Tale of New York
  No brainer
• John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
  Peace, out

Any more?