Songs & Singles

This index lists the essential songs (not all the songs) contained on the albums reviewed in Hip Christmas, plus singles, album tracks, or one-hit wonders not otherwise included on those albums. Whenever possible, the artist's name is linked to my review of the best Christmas album (not necessarily the only or original album) on which to find the song.

Barring that, the names will be linked to a place where you may buy the song (usually Amazon). If there's no link, it means that, to my knowledge, the song is not available on CD or MP3. Of course, the list will expand as I write more reviews. And, nothing's perfect - especially me and my crazy list. Please send additions, corrections, criticisms, and suggestions via email .

• Keegan's Christmas (Marcy Playground, 1997)
• Kings Of Orient (The Odds, 1991)
• Kiss For Christmas (Jimmy Boyd, 1955)
• Kissin' By The Mistletoe (Aretha Franklin, 1963)
• Last Christmas
  • Dexter Freebish (1999)
  • Glee Cast (2009)
  • Hairy Bottlers (2004)
  • Jimmy Eat World (2001)
  • Wham (1984)
• Last Day Of December (Chilliwack, 1976)
• Last Minute Rush (Cheepskates, 1984)
• Last Month Of The Year (Chris Isaak, 2004)
• Last Train To Christmas (April March y Los Cincos, 1998) [close]
  Indie princess and pop changeling April March is best known for her fiesty side - as a punk rocker with the Shitbirds (with whom she cut a fabulous version of "Christmas Is A-Coming" for Happy Birthday Baby Jesus) and as a sexy, faux French chanteusse (cf. Chick Habit). "Last Train To Christmas," however, is cut from an entirely different cloth. Extracted from a one-off collaboration, April March y Los Cincos, the song is a moody, impressionistic piece of chamber pop somewhat out-of-step with the bossa nova flavor of the rest of the album. Charming, nonetheless. Lastly, I am compelled to point out that a 45-rpm record commonly attributed to April March ("Christmas In Killarney" b/w "When Christmas Rolls Around" on Keystone Records) is not this April March, but rather an obscure supper-club pop singer, circa 1960.
• Late Great Snowball Fight of 2006 (MXPX, 2006)
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
  • Les Brown (1953)
  • Sam Bush (2003)
  • Bing Crosby (1962)
  • Woody Herman (1946)
  • Lena Horne (1966)
  • Los Straitjackets (2002)
  • Luscious Jackson (1999)
  • Dean Martin (1959)
  • Miracles (1963)
  • Carly Simon (2005)
  • Jo Stafford (1956)
  • Temptations (1970)
• Let Me Hang My Stockings In Your Christmas Tree (Roosevelt Sykes, 1937)
• Let Me Sleep (Christmas Time) (Pearl Jam, 1991)
• Let Us Love (Bill Withers, 1972)
• Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year (James Brown, 1966)
• Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby
  • Brother Cane (1995)
  • Amos Milburn (1949)
• Let's Put Christ Back In Christmas (Tammy Wynette, 1970)
• Let's Put The X Back In Xmas (Candye Kane with Country Dick Montana and Kim Wilson, 1993)
• Let's Spend Christmas At My House (Tom T. Hall, 1988)
• Let's Start The New Year Right (Bing Crosby, 1942)
• Let's Unite The Whole World At Christmas (James Brown, 1968)
• Light My Way (Bangles, 2006)
• Light Of The Stable (Emmylou Harris, 1975)
• Like A Snowflake (Ride, 1991)
• Listen The Snow Is Falling
  • Galaxie 500 (1998)
  • Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band (1971) [close]
    Yoko's bucolic b-side to "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" has been largely forgotten by history - it even gets ignored by bootleggers (c.f. the Beatles' The Ultimate Christmas Collection). Yet, it's a lovely meditation on winter that perfectly compliments John Lennon's more celebrated a-side. "Listen" has never been included on a Christmas album, but it has been issued as bonus track on CD a couple of times - first on John & Yoko's otherwise unlistenable Wedding Album (1969), then on the duo's more palatable Sometime In New York City (1972) along with "Happy Christmas." Also recommended - Galaxie 500's 1990 cover version from This Is Our Music, further available on the band's excellent retrospective, The Portable Galaxie 500 (1998).
• Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas (Okkervil River, 2002)
• Little Becky's Christmas Wish (Becky Lamb, 1967)
• Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Nat King Cole, 1953)
• Little Bright Star (Supremes, 1965)
• Little Cajun Drummer Boy (Evan Johns & The H-Bombs, 1990)
• Little Christmas Tree (Nat King Cole, 1950)
• Little Christmas Tree (Michael Jackson, 1973)
• Little Drum Machine Boy (Beck, 1996)
• Little Drummer Boy
  • Tori Amos (1995)
  • Bomboras (1994)
  • Kenny Burrell (1966)
  • Johnny Cash (1959)
  • Ray Charles (1986)
  • Dandy Warhols (1994)
  • Gloria Gaynor (2002)
  • Emmylou Harris (1979)
  • Jars Of Clay (1995)
  • Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (1981)
  • Ben E. King (1982)
  • Miracle Legion (1985)
  • Lou Rawls (1967)
  • Bob Seger (1987)
  • Harry Simeone Chorale & Orchestra, 1959)
• Little Drummer Boy (Up The Khyber) (Hoodoo Gurus, 1991) [close]
  Australia's leading power popsters transformed Harry Simeone's hoary classic into a smokin' surf-instrumental-cum-Indian-raga as the b-side of their 1991 single "Castles In The Air." The Guru's "Drummer Boy" was also featured on A Lump Of Coal, a solid alt-rock holiday album released later the same year, and was later compiled on Gorilla Biscuit, a collection of odds and sods that served as a companion to Electric Soup (1992), a greatest hits collection. Much later, "Drummer Boy" was added as a bonus track to the deluxe 2005 CD reissue of Kinky - the album from which "Castles In The Air" was excerpted. Completist maniacs should note that "Jungle Bells," the third track from the "Castles" CD single, is neither the song recorded by Les Paul & Mary Ford (1953) and the Four Seasons (1962) nor - despite appearances - a Christmas song at all. Rather, it's an original Hoodoo Guru composition (also compiled on Gorilla Biscuit) that dates back to 1988 when it was originally released as the flip of "The Generation Gap" (a non-LP single compiled on Electric Soup). Got that?
• Little Jack Frost, Get Lost (Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee, 1952)
• Little White Mouse Called Steve (Jimmy Charles, 1961)
• Little Red Rooster (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, 2000)
• Little Saint Nick
  • Beach Boys (1963)
  • Andrew Gold (2008)
• Littlest Angel (McGuire Sisters, 1955)
• Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming (John Fahey, 1982)
• Lonely Christmas (Sloppy Seconds, 1992)
• Lonely Christmas (aka Lonely Christmas Again) (Bob Wagner, 1962)
• Lonely Christmas Call
  • Mickey Gilley (1976)
  • George Jones & The Jones Boys (1962)
• Lonely Christmas Eve (Ben Folds Five, 2000) [close]
  Ben Folds has written a couple of Christmas songs, but "Lonely Christmas Eve" is the more musically agreeable of the two. Thus far, however, it has only been commercially released on the soundtrack of Jim Carrey's live-action adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000). Written for the film, the song adopts the perspective of the Grinch, gazing down disdainfully at the Christmas Eve celebrants from atop his lonely mountain. "How I hate their happy noise!" Folds exclaims, adding "There's only one thing I hate more... the people who keep making it." In 2002, Sony appended the song as the flipside of a promo-only, 7-inch vinyl single promoting "Bizarre Christmas Incident," a song from the inaugural edition of Nettwerk Record's Maybe This Christmas series.
• Lonely Christmas Eve (Ernest Tubb, 1954)
• Lonely Without You (This Christmas) (Mick Jagger & Joss Stone, 2004)
• Lonesome Christmas (aka I Wanna Spend Christmas With You) (Lowell Fulson, 1950)
• Look Around You (It's Christmas Time) (Bobby Goldsboro, 1968)
• (Look At The) Reindeer Rock (Jimmy Boyd, 1955)
• Look Out The Window (Gene Autry & Rosemary Clooney, 1952)
• Looking For Santa (Hungry Dutchmen, 1988)
• Looks Like A Cold, Cold Winter (Bing Crosby, 1950)
• Love For Christmas (Ebonaires, aka Jackson Trio, 1955)
• Love For Christmas (Gems, 1964)
• Love For Christmas (Felix Gross, 1949)
• Love For Christmas (Carole King, 2002)
• Love Turns Winter Into Spring
  • June Christy (1957)
  • Four Freshmen (1956)
• Love's What You're Getting For Christmas (Bobby Sherman, 1970)
• Lovely Christmas (Jason Ringenberg & Kristi Rose, 2006)

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