20 Holiday Music Video Favorites: Merry Christmas Carol Countdown

What’s your favorite Christmas carol or seasonal song?

As Thanksgiving slips by, ushering in the Yuletide season, what tunes do you eagerly await on the radio? What songs do you cue on your holiday playlist? And which merry melodies make you sing along?

Take a look at 20 of our favorite Christmas songs.

Here they are – this year’s picks – listed alphabetically by title. Some are sacred songs, while others are seasonal standards or simply silly. A few are modern melodies, while others are among the Best Known Christmas Songs. These selections range from traditional to trendy as well.

Enjoy!

Click each title link to watch a YouTube music video for that song. (Depress the CTRL key while clicking to open each link in a new internet window.)

• Angels We Have Heard on High
• The Christmas Song
• Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
• Cryin' Christmas Tears
• Do They Know It's Christmas
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• Feliz Navidad
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
• Joseph’s Lullaby
• Let It Snow
• Lo, How a Rose, E’er Blooming
• Mary’s Boy Child
• Mele Kalikimaka
• Move Me Closer
• Please Come Home for Christmas
• Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
• Silent Night
• Walking in a Winter Wonderland
• What Child Is This?

 

Are your best picks included in this roster? Do you prefer these versions, or covers by other artists?

Did you find any holiday hits or classic carols you may have missed before?

Please leave a comment, and include the title (and artist, if possible) of your favorite holiday tune.

Merry Christmas.

Happy Holidays.

Season’s Greetings.

And best wishes for a wonderful new year.

 

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Feliz Navidad: Merry Christmas Carol Countdown

Merry Christmas. Joyeux Noel. And Feliz Navidad.

Here’s an annual favorite, a bilingual greeting by Puerto Rican/American singer/guitarist Jose Feliciano. Although the song has been covered by others artists, including Celine Dion and Michael Buble, Feliciano’s original version of “Feliz Navidad” has enjoyed steady play on the holiday season airwaves for decades.

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What does this song mean?

Here’s a fairly close translation, such as you might find with a Spanish-English Dictionary.

Feliz Navidad – Merry Christmas

Prospero Año – Prosperous New Year

y Felicidad.- and Happiness

Did you know?

Jose Feliciano was blinded by glaucoma as a young child, but he focused on music and became a pop and rock legend.

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What Child Is This: Merry Christmas Carol Countdown

The Babe of Bethlehem has held the hearts of humanity since that very first Christmas, when God arrived in mortal flesh in a rustic stable, because there was no room for Him in the inn.

What manner of man could this Baby grow to be?

How could the Immortal, All-powerful Almighty take on human form and become a tiny infant, born to a carpenter and his still-virgin wife? What a miracle is Christmas!

Here’s a soul-stirring version of “What Child Is This,” a much-loved Christmas song, set to the tune of an old English folk song known as “Greensleeves.” The music video includes scenes from “The Nativity Story,” a 2006 motion picture.

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Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus: Merry Christmas Carol Countdown

With the winter whirlwind of holiday happenings picking up speed all around us, we may crave quiet moments of contemplation. 

This beloved hymn draws us back to the original intent of Advent and the meaning of the Christmas season.  Stop for a bit. Take a listen to “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus,” and be blessed.

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