For a lot of people, it's not Christmas until Ol' Blue Eyes is singing, and that is certainly true when one considers the legacy of Frank Sinatra's first Christmas record. Released in the same year as Elvis Presley's own wildly successful yuletide…
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All the Holiday Hits
These fun & festive albums are sure to get you into the holiday spirit!
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- If there is one Christmas song we all know by heart, it's Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You." When the track first graced the airwaves in 1994, it was an immediate hit, as was the album it's featured on, Merry Christmas, though neither…
- It's difficult to overstate just how groundbreaking Elvis Presley was in the 1950s, especially in the United States, where this Christmas classic was considered so salacious at the time of its release that a number of people, including the man who…
- The gravelly voice of Bob Dylan might not be exactly what one immediately associates with the holiday season, but Christmas in the Heart still delivers the Christmas spirit with a side of surreality. The album, which was recorded to benefit the…
- A Charlie Brown Christmas has been a holiday classic for over half a century, and audiences keep tuning in year after year to enjoy watching a pack of kids celebrate Christmas with nary an adult in sight. The heart-warming take on what the holiday…
- Johnny Cash's take on Christmas classics is exactly what fans of the late singer had come to expect by 1972: a little snarling and a little holy, and reliably produced with the right degree of each. Cash's version of "O Come All Ye Faithful" is…
- When Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward combined forces to create She & Him, indie-twee hearts around the world swooned. The release of their first Christmas album was met with a similar degree of excitement, as the pair's smokey lounge vocal stylings are…
- Phil Spector's 1963 holiday release has the honor of being both an excellent Christmas record and a guilty pleasure listen no matter the time of year. With this album, Spector managed to pull together powerhouse voices (Darlene Love is nearly…
- While there's plenty of raucous music out there for rocking around the Christmas tree, sometimes it feels nice to curl up in a chair with a cozy blanket and a warm drink and listen to something a little more sensual. In 2021, Norah Jones gifted us…
- Llegó Navidad might not feel like a traditional Christmas album to those who are used to the stylings of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, but the veteran Los Angeles rock band Los Lobos were intent on releasing something special when they recorded…
- While Ray Charles might have opted to kick off his 1985 Christmas record with the downbeat "What Child Is This," the album itself is a soaring and poignant offering from a man, who in his mid-50s at the time, was still very much enjoying the height…
- Mannheim Steamroller has quite literally made Christmas its business, with each holiday season invariably accompanied by its new age synth sound. This wildly successful Christmas album is the brainchild of composer and producer Chip Davis, who…
- When Sufjan Stevens embarks on a project, he tends to think big… really big. Sure, his commitment to write an album for every state sputtered out after Michigan and Illinois, but he brings that same ambitious energy to Songs for Christmas, being a…
- Leave it to the Godfather of Soul to roll out a Christmas record as bold and energetic as this one. The record is actually a compilation of the best songs from James Brown's three previous holiday albums recorded between 1966 and 1970: James Brown…
- There is a reason why this holiday album is beloved by so many, and that has everything to do with Nat King Cole's inimitable voice. And odds are, there's at least one song from The Magic of Christmas that you've loved and incorrectly identified as…
- In the mid 1960s, the Beach Boys were hardly known for their ability (or desire) to restrain themselves, and that is definitely apparent in their 1964 holiday offering. In addition to their signature layered vocal stylings, the band worked with a…
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