All I Want
Song #131: All I Want
Artist: Styx
Year: 2003
Notes: It's one of the things I love most about collecting Christmas music. Eventually almost every artist records one if they stick around long enough!
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Song #131: All I Want
Artist: Styx
Year: 2003
Notes: It's one of the things I love most about collecting Christmas music. Eventually almost every artist records one if they stick around long enough!
Song #130: Doo Wop Christmas
Artist: Kenny Vance & The Planotones
Year: 2002
Notes: Kenny was also an American in Jay And The... but has fronted this popular neo doo wop band for many years.
Song #129: Be A Santa
Artist: Living Voices
Year: 1965
Notes: Along with the Living Strings, they were responsible for much of the "beautiful music" of the 1960s and 70s.
Song #128: Celebrate Me Home
Artist: Kenny Loggins
Year: 1977
Notes: Another one of those songs that didn't start out as a holiday song when it was released (in the month of April no less!) but has become one in the decades since. Must be thanks to its lyrics about how great it feels to be home.
Song #127: It's Christmas Time
Artist: James Brown
Year: 1969
Notes: An unusually restrained vocal performance from the Godfather of Soul.
Song #126: My Only Wish (This Year)
Artist: Britney Spears
Year: 2000
Notes: This attractive pop singer has the same name as that crazy, fat mental patient and paparazzi target.
Song #125: Walking In The Air
Artist: Peter Auty
Year: 1982
Notes: This is the original version of the song, written for the animated movie The Snowman. The film has been a British perennial holiday staple on television ever since and the song has been covered dozens of times.
Song #124: Little Saint Nick
Artist: The Beach Boys
Year: 1963
Notes: Here's the hit version based on Brian Wilson's earlier song Little Deuce Coupe along with the alternate version
based on his song Drive-In. It is unknown to me which came first and who chose which version would be released at the time.
Song #123: Santa
Artist: Lightning Hopkins
Year: 1960
Notes: Great Texas bluesman, among the most prolific of them all.
Song #121: Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis
Artist: The Ataris
Year:
2003
Notes: This Tom Waits song from 1978 reads like the most interesting Christmas letter you ever got: " Hey Charley I think I'm happy for the first time since my accident and I wish I had all the money that we used to spend on dope." Remade here by the Indiana rock band.
