There's upbeat pop Christmas songs and slow melancholy Christmas songs. There's Christmas carols and Christmas hymns. You've got your Christmas blues and your Christmas crooners. There are songs that have nothing to do with Christmas at all but because they were hits at Christmas-time they're Christmas songs.
For me, it's got to be the crooners. Nothing says Christmas for me like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, the Andrews Sisters...I like the old stuff. But my favourite favourite favourite Christmas song is this...
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It hits me right in that sad, sweet, melancholy, twinkling lights and dark nights and falling snow kind of Christmas spot.