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There was a request for Xmas song suggestions, and obviously I have loads. I'll do two lists - the ones where I can supply MP3s and the ones where I can't.


Recommendations I can deliver as MP3s, in order of my love for them:

1. Joseph Spence - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (see my LJ right now)
2. Drifters - White Christmas (Clyde McPhatter going insane)
3. Oscar McLollie and his Honey Jumpers - Dig That Crazy Santa Claus (how can you resist a title like that?)
4. Gary US Bonds - Call Me For Christmas
5. Charles Brown - Merry Christmas Baby (really lovely)
6. Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa (actually about sex)
7. James Brown - the whole Funky Christmas album! Maybe I'd go for Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year as a favourite.
8. Solomon Burke - Christmas Presents (this would surely make anyone happy).
9. Huey Piano Smith, Dr John & Aaron Neville - Silent Night (funked up in a New Orleans stylee)
10. Booker T & the MGs - Merry Christmas Baby
11. Snoop Dogg - Twas The Night Before Christmas
12. Willie Nelson - Blue Christmas
13. Fall - No Xmas For John Quays (actually I only have a live version on CD)
14. O'Jays - Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love
15. Otis Redding - Merry Christmas, Baby
16. Kinks - Father Christmas
17. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Silent Night (one of the all-time great gospel singers)
18. Jerry Lee Lewis - I Can't Have A Merry Christmas
19. Aretha Franklin - Winter Wonderland
20. David McAlmont - Have Yourself A Merry Christmas
21. Aaron Neville - White Christmas
22. Joe Tex - I'll Make Everyday Christmas (For My Woman)
23. Louis Prima - Shake Hands With Santa Claus
24. Melt Banana - White Christmas
25. Buck Owens - Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy
26. Cyndi Lauper - Early Christmas Morning
27. Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
28. Sonics - Don't Believe In Christmas
29. Ventures - Jingle Bell Rock
30. Django Reinhardt - Christmas Swing
31. Denim - I Will Cry At Christmas

Recommendations that I cannot deliver as MP3s, in order of my love for them:

1. Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
2. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
3. Huey 'Piano' Smith - Twas The Night Before Christmas
4. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
5. Carlene Davis - Santa Claus, Do You Ever Come To The Ghetto?
6. Billy Ward & the Dominoes (lead singer Jackie Wilson) - Christmas In Heaven
7. Ronettes - Frosty the Snowman
8. Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker (not festive)
9. Spyder-D - Ghetto Santa ("Ho ho ho motherfucker")
10. Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (title track of a whole Xmas album)
11. Turtles - Santa And The Sidewalk Surfer
12. Louis Armstrong - Zat You Santa Claus
13. Crystals - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
14. Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
15. Temptations - Silent Night
16. Suicide - Hey Lord
17. Little Joey Farr - Rock 'n' Roll Santa
18. Cadillacs - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
19. Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans - Here Comes Santa Claus
20. Phil Ochs - No Christmas in Kentucky
21. Supremes - Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer
22. Esther Phillips - Christmas Time Is Here
23. Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
24. Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairy Tale of New York
25. Private Charles Bowen - Christmas in Vietnam (a bit harrowing to be festive)
26. Wilson Pickett - Jingle Bells
27. Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
28. Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
29. Jimmy Reed - Christmas Present Blues
30. Marcels - Merry Twistmas
31. Jackson Five - Frosty the Snowman
32. Merle Haggard - Blue Christmas
33. Ernest Franklin - I'm Gonna Have A Merry Christmas
34. Commander Cody - Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas
35. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Christmas Lullaby
36. Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
37. Lightnin' Hopkins - Merry Christmas
38. Mikey Jarrett - Santa Claus Is Black
39. De La Soul - Millie Pulled A Pistol on Santa
40. Miles Davis - Blue Xmas
41. Captain Beefheart - There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evening Stage
42. Mott the Hoople - Death May Be Your Santa Claus (not festive)
43. Jacob Miller - Broke Pocket Christmas
44. Louis Jordan - Santa Claus Santa Claus
45. Blue Hawaiians - White Christmas
46. Bing Crosby - White Christmas
47. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - White Christmas (look, you can never have too many versions of this)
48. Moonglows - Hey Santa Claus
49. Derek B - Chillin' With Santa
50. Carla Thomas - Merry Christmas, How've You Been?
51. Director - Christmas Soca
52. Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
53. Dickies - Silent Night
54. Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want For Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
55. Nat King Cole - there is a whole Christmas With album. Silent Night may be the highlight.