"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey and "Christmastime Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi Trio are among the best ...

As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s ...

“An Old Fashioned Christmas (Daddy’s Home)” opens with a mother, who is enthusiastically singing about her family’s ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas ...

When entertainer Bing Crosby stepped up to the microphone in New York’s NBC Studios on Christmas Day 1941, many of the tens ...

As a songwriter, Johnny Marks had a pretty good career. Although he penned 25 notable songs and is in the Songwriter’s Hall ...

We found three of the best Christmas songs in country music, which were all released sometime during the 1980s.

The tune crooned by Bing Crosby is still one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. It's endured as a favorite — ...

If you’re sick of hearing the same old festive cheese at this time of year, allow Kevin E G Perry to suggest an alternative ...

This is a story of when a singing cowboy got upstaged by Santa Claus on Hollywood Boulevard. In the Christmas season of 1949, Gene Autry's version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was the No. 1 ...