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Patch Picks: Our Top 5 Holiday Songs
A couple classics and a couple sleepers to get your ears in the holiday spirit.
If you came here expecting to see "Jingle Bells" by the Singing Dogs on our list, you're barking up the wrong trimmed tree. There are those holiday songs that, each December, everyone absolutely dreads hearing; if even just once. However, there are also songs that put us in the spirit more than any other. It was hard, but we've narrowed our seasonal list down to our top five holiday songs:
1) "Marshmallow World" by Dean Martin: If you're familiar with The Rat Pack, then you've probably heard their "Christmas with the Rat Pack" album. Staying true to the era of masculine, martini-drinking crooners, Dean Martin's bellow in this song about living in a snowy land feels as warm as a cup of hot cocoa sipped 'round the burning yule log.
2) "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney: Sir Paul, being the icon that he is, had to make a contribution to the list of contemporary Christmas songs. This isn't a Beatles-esque rendition of an old holiday classic, but rather an original, pop-infused, keyboard-and-electric-drums-laden Christmas tune that'll be stuck in your head for the whole season.
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3) "Mele Kalikimaka" by Bing Crosby: It would seem that with this song, Crosby's dreams are no longer filled with a white Christmas. At some point in time Hawaii was bound to feel like it was missing out, what with all of the snow and stocking references in holiday songs. Crosby did them a favor and used his tenor to sing this tropical song suitable for any island Christmas.
4) "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" by Ella Fitzgerald: No Christmas song has ever felt cozier than when Ms. Fitzgerald sings this one with her smokey, jazz club voice. She breaks away from sleigh bells and fast tempos, slowing it way down for the perfect song to wish a loved one a wonderful season.
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5) "Last Christmas" by Wham!: George Michael made his stamp on the entire decade of the 1980s before falling into obscurity in the '90s. As a member of the band Wham! in 1984, Michael penned this Christmas pop gem that is as incredibly good as it is embarrassingly bad. It's possible that no one has ever been so heartbroken on Christmas, and if they have, George Michael isn't convinced.
