My Favorite Holiday Tunes

These days, you’d be hard pressed to walk into a grocery, retail, or drug store and not hear holiday tunes blaring from the rafters. Turn on the radio and it’s you’ll find much of the same – nonstop holiday and Christmas songs playing over and over. Even after Thanksgiving and Black Friday, it never feels quite like the holidays without the perpetual barrage of Christmas tunes. Famous musicians have dedicated entire songs and even albums to the holidays, and there are dozens of beloved American holiday songs that fill our hearts and heads each year.

I’ve made a playlist of some of the greatest holiday tunes, full of nostalgic classics and a few newer songs, with one or two “guilty pleasures.” A handful of these songs might even be more obscure than what you’ll typically find playing at the department store! Use them at your office party, in the car, or while you’re working out, anywhere!

Miss Mayfield’s Holiday Playlist

1. Bing Crosby & David Bowie “The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth”

      2. John Lennon “Happy Christmas (War is Over)

3    3. The Beach Boys “Little Saint Nick”

4    4. Chuck Berry “Run Rudolph Run”

5    5. Booker T & The MG’s “Jingle Bells”

6    6. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (Bing Crosby on this list twice? I know, I know, he's just great!)

      7. Jose Feliciano “Feliz Navidad”

8    8. Elvis Presley “Blue Christmas”

      9. Louis Prima “What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin’)”

     10. U2 “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”

     11. Vince Guaraldi Trio “Christmas Time is Here”

1   12. Andy Williams “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’

1   13. The Ramones “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)”

     14. Ella Fitzgerald “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”

1   15. Frank Sinatra “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”

1   16. Mariah Carey “All I want for Christmas is You”

What are some of your favorite holiday tunes?

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