Best popular music Chrismas song

[FuzzyRabbit]

is Darlene Love's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". It's not Christmas for me until I hear this song.

Here is her final performance on David Letterman 2 years ago, and I think the best sounding version, even better than the original recording. Turn up your speaker's sound:

[guillaumeb]

1. Even better than this?

[FuzzyRabbit]

3. Very nice!

But I still prefer Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).

There are lots of great Christmas songs. Another I really like is this, by Patti Smith, singing at the Vatican's Christmas concert a couple years ago:

[guillaumeb]

5. I like this song also.

But I prefer it in the original language, which is also my original language.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

15. gorgeous....thanks FR

[DURHAM D]

2. For 29 years Darlene singing this on Letterman is how

I knew for sure it was time for Santa to come.

[lastlib]

38. I still like this one:!

Snoopy Rocks!

Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men.

[Chipper Chat]

4. I still like "Santa Is a Fat Bitch" by Insane Clown Posse.

Don't laugh.

[guillaumeb]

6. That should be illegal. eom

[Chipper Chat]

7. Somehow it seems to have relevance this year

Shhhhhhhhhhh

[guillaumeb]

9. True.

But Trumpie Claws will soon be here.

[HipChick]

8. Boney M

[Archae]

10. The ones above are nice, but this one takes it all.

[oberliner]

12. Paul begs to differ

[New Orleans Strong]

13. Played that song 5 times today. n/t

[oberliner]

11. Written by a young Jewish woman

I think when she was still in college.

[duffyduff]

23. Actually, songwriting great Ellie Greenwich co-wrote it

with Jeff Barry (to whom she was once married) and now convicted killer Phil Spector. Greenwich collaborated with Barry writing many songs, often produced by Spector.

[oberliner]

24. Jeff Barry was also Jewish

In keeping with a long tradition of Jewish people writing popular American Christmas songs.

[duffyduff]

28. So also was Spector Jewish. nt

[oberliner]

29. I don't think he actually wrote the song

Even though he is given a credit.

[duffyduff]

34. It is possible though he was a songwriter as well as a producer

He started out in the business when he was in his teens with the group the Teddy Bears. He wrote the hit "To Know Him Is to Love Him," a phrase that happens to be on his father's gravestone. It was a huge hit and launched Spector's career and brought him fame until mental illness brought him infamy and prison time.

[oberliner]

35. That's true

Maybe he did have a role - but from what I have read, he didn't. I am trying to find an old interview with Ellie Greenwich that I remember reading where I think she talked about some of these songs.

[stopbush]

14. White Christmas. It's really no contest. Biggest selling song of all time.

[duffyduff]

22. Yep. And the version by Bing Crosby is best.

Really anything that is not a traditional Christmas song apart from Elvis Presley did isn't worth listening to.

These songs have to be easy listening by definition.

[oberliner]

30. Also written by a Jewish person

The great Irving Berlin.

[montana_hazeleyes]

32. A really great version is,

The Drifters version. It's from the middle 1950s.

Check it out on YouTube. I know a lot of people who love it.

[FuzzyRabbit]

39. Here it is. Another of my favorites.

[montana_hazeleyes]

40. Thanks for the video FuzzyRabbit.

I just love it!

[lastlib]

37. (now #2, actually--dethroned by Elton John's Di tribute....

"Goodbye English Rose".)

"Hey Jude" is #3.

"White Christmas is STILL a great song!! .

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[kentuck]

16. This was the first one of my memory...

[Blecht]

17. UK Subs Hey Santa

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[djg21]

18. Christmas Must Be Tonight.

The Band. https://g.co/kgs/Uhk4ib

[kwassa]

19. The Pogues. "Fairytales of New York".

[AngryAmish]

21. It is Fairytale of New York, then everything else.

[lithiumbomb]

20. I'd like to add 'Post Apocalypse Christmas' by Gruff Rhys (2011) to the popular culture

This may be relevant by next Christmas:

Post Apocalypse Christmas - Gruff Rhys

[NightWatcher]

25. I miss Letterman's Christmas show. Jay thomas' Lone Ranger story and football toss at the

meatball topped tree

[Drunken Irishman]

26. This Christmas by Donny Hathaway...

[Elwood P Dowd]

27. Chris Rea: Driving Home For Christmas

[Charles Bukowski]

31. I agree with OP. Great song.

I love "Silent Night" as well. It's a genuinely beautiful song.

[Danascot]

33. One of my favorites

[ManiacJoe]

41. One of the better versions!

My favorite Xmas song.

[rdking647]

36. bowie and bing