Favorite Christmas tunes

This Christmas by Donny Hathaway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWmOnfcI-CA

+1. Untouchable.

Friends did a great version of Christmastime Is Here that gives it more swing without (IMHO) violating the spirit of the original: https://analogplayerssociety.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-time-is-here-steppers-version

I also love Sharon Jones's new holiday album: http://www.npr.org/2015/12/13/458829436/first-listen-sharon-jones-the-dap-kings-its-a-holiday-soul-party

But at the end of the day, I go back to my choirgirl roots--my all-time favorite is the ever-so-British Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming.

https://youtu.be/t8facHjO_mU

The ramones

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y5GtaTrPHM

And billy squier

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOBggLe0tY

Vince Guaraldi Trio, "A Charlie Brown Christmas". For the melancholy.

I get freaked out by churches  . . .

White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q

any good version of O Holy Night makes me cry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LItq0D2SrlA

The Waitresses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8MntONTbuA

Glad to see the thread's still going, even though it's actually Boxing Day.

Totally agree on The Waitresses.  It's a Christmas story everyone can enjoy.  But cuethesun, part of the joke is the actual title is "Chrtistmas Wrapping".   Songwriter Chris Butler explained it was inspired by Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'", meant to form a double pun.  

http://www.songfacts.com/blog/writing/scrooge_writes_a_christmas_song_the_christmas_wrapping_story/

Also can never hear anything from A Charlie Brown Christmas too often.  Not much of jazz fan, but one of the best TV soundtracks and cool jazz albums ever.  

So here's one of my favorites...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un3G0N-6bH0

A Boxing Day song.

https://youtu.be/VabBe5JX7TY