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Poll: What's Your Favorite Holiday Song?

Certain December music makes us pause, sing along and feel nostalgic.

 

Holiday voices sing, are you listening?

Songs of the season are inescapable this week – whether they bring comfort and joy or lyrics and beats that annoy. Amid the jingling and roasting, most people cherish at least a few Christmas songs – perhaps because they've been sung many times, many ways since we were young.

Though it may be tough to single out a favorite, here's a chance to click on one that invariably makes you pause, turn up the volume and feel nostalgic.

So come and vote, faithful celebrants, and let's see which is triumphant. Write-in votes for unlisted tunes can go in the comments.

    • What is your favorite Christmas song?

      (Voting has been closed for this question)
      • White Christmas
          18 (10%)
      • Silent Night
          62 (35%)
      • Drummer Boy
          24 (13%)
      • Jingle Bell Rock
          11 (6%)
      • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
          22 (12%)
      • Let It Snow
          4 (2%)
      • The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting ...)
          20 (11%)
      • Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer
          3 (1%)
      • We Wish You a Merry Christmas
          0 (0%)
      • The 12 Days of Christmas
          3 (1%)
      • Santa Claus is Coming to Town
          5 (2%)
      • Frosty the Snowman
          1 (0%)
      Total votes: 173
    • Your vote will only count once. This is not a scientific poll. View Results Vote!
    Related Topics: Christmas songs, Holiday Guide 2011, and holidays 2011
    What's your favorite Christmas song? Did we skip your favorite? Tell us in the comments.

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    Alan Stamm

    8:21 am on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Va bene! Good semi-obscure one from 1960, Billy! Way to play. Grazie.

    Rebecca Jaskot

    10:53 am on Monday, December 19, 2011

    It's not a Christmas song, but I love "The Chanukah Song" by Adam Sandler!

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    John Hetzler

    10:56 am on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Love "The Chanukah Song," Rebecca. Also like Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." But when I'm in a Scrooge mood, I admit I like "Father Christmas" by the Kinks. Does that make me a bad person?

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    Alan Stamm

    11:03 am on Monday, December 19, 2011

    No way rockin' around the Christmas time could every be bad, lad.

    "Remember the kids who got nothin'
    While you're drinkin' down your wine." -- Ray Davies, 1977

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    Nicole Krawcke

    11:21 am on Monday, December 19, 2011

    I love "Please Come Home for Christmas" - Charles Brown!

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    Colleen

    11:21 am on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Traditional: The First Noel and O Come All Ye Faithful - Uplifting and powerful
    Contemporary: I'll Be Home for Christmas - Written about WWII soldiers, it brings tears to my eyes.

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    Joni Hubred-Golden

    11:30 am on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer always makes me laugh. But Andy Williams' version of "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is at the top of my list.

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    Guy Fawkes

    12:07 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Any song that removes the religious impositions on this Winter Holiday that was never intended to be more than a time to lift the spirits of those in the colder, darker portions of the hemispheres that the long nights are over and daylight and Spring returns.

    Deck the Halls.
    We Wish You...
    Joni's Williams choice (excellent).

    All uplifting, uncomplicated, happy and genuine.

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    Charlie Garvin

    12:48 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

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    Jason Alexander

    12:52 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    I have to go totally non-traditional. I love Blink 182's I Won't be Home For Christmas and Smashing Pumpkins Christmastime.

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    Jason Alexander

    12:54 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    How bout the worst Christmas song ever? I nominate Justin Bieber's Little Drummer Boy featuring Busta Rhymes.

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    Nicole Krawcke

    1:54 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    I didn't even know that was a song. Just from the two artists, the song sounds terrible!

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    Christofer Machniak

    2:49 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    that's one of my favorite's … I heard it sung live in Flint at the Whiting a few years ago by a man in French and it was incredible.

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    Al Trudeau

    9:32 am on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

    I'll second that!
    And I also agree with the comment by Christopher Machniak that the French version, "Cantique Noël," is very special.

    Al Trudeau, Oakland Twp.

    Mike

    1:45 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Bob Dylan - Must be Santa
    Flaming Lips - Christmas at the Zoo
    Xmas Time is Here Again - The Beatles

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    Nicole Krawcke

    1:53 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Another favorite of mine is Mele Kalikimaka!

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    salemslot

    2:07 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    A Marshmallow World
    The Secret Of Christmas
    both by Johnny Mathis

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    Trisha Lulu Ryan

    2:34 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    O Holy Night is my 'favoritist' Christmas song, but it wasn't on the list. Someone else said It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and that's tied in at first for me.

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    Linda Baker

    2:45 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Burl Ives singing "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas"

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    Mary Pritchard

    4:09 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Last Christmas by Wham! is a personal favorite. I also LOVE Grown Up Christmas List sung by Amy Grant, and the entire Theresa Brewer Christmas album which no one else but my family ever seems to have heard of. But it's fabulous.

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    Jill Darlene Knox

    4:09 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Gloria! (in excelsis deo). Always loved this song. Second fave is I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas :o)

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    Katie D

    4:10 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Jason - couldn't agree with you more! (sorry girls lol)

    My personal fav I don't see on the list, not sure if it's the real name, but I love In Excelsis Gloria. :)

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    Poksanna

    4:11 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Santa Lucia's Processional & O come, O come, Emmanuel are my favorites :o)

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    Sheryl Shaker

    4:42 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Either the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah....or Baby, It's Cold Outside. Any version.

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    SpartyPants

    8:42 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    Baby, It's Cold Outside, Dean Martin and Martina McBride. Hands down my all-time favorite. No other holiday song even comes close!

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    Behkey Morrell

    10:18 pm on Monday, December 19, 2011

    I love "Last Christmas" by Wham! and "Hard Candy Christmas" by Dolly Parton.

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    Michelle Foster

    12:58 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

    "The Christmas Song" - Nat King Cole - All time fav

    My new favorite is "Where is Christmas" by Ferndalian Brian Miller

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    Mary Gasiewski

    3:48 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

    I <3 Christmas Time by the Smashing Pumpkins:) That is my fave song!

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    LW

    5:54 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

    Oh Holy Night. I feel the true meaning of Christmas when I hear that song.

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    Al Trudeau

    8:02 pm on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

    There's one that is rarely heard today, "Birthday of a King." I remember it from my childhood. Judy Garland recorded it around 1941 or so. It had a pretty good run back in the 40s & maybe into the 50s, but I've only heard it a very few times in recent years.

    Al Trudeau, Oakland Twp.

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    Marina Martinez

    12:17 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011

    I have a few favorites...they are Away in a Manger, The First Noel, & Come on Ring those Bells....we sang them every Christmas eve in church, some of the best memories I have growing up. A few others I liked growing up were the Hippo song & the Chipmunks christmas song.

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