10 Best Original Christmas Songs in Country Music
Country artists have been as reliable as any in creating Christmas songs to make the holidays more magical. A few originals have been around for so long that they almost feel like the traditional classics that we love.
What would Christmas be without Alabama s Christmas in Dixie or Faith Hill s Where Are You Christmas ? Still, neither of these songs topped our list of the 10 Best Original Christmas Songs in Country Music. That honor goes to a man whose voice just seems built to protect you from the cold outdoors on Christmas morning.
See the 10 Best Country Christmas Originals:
Top 10 Original Country Christmas Songs
Country artists have been as reliable as any in creating Christmas songs to make the holidays more magical. A few originals have been around for so long that they almost feel like the traditional classics that we love.
What would Christmas be without Alabama s Christmas in Dixie or Faith Hill s Where Are You Christmas ? Still, neither of these songs topped our list of the 10 Best Original Christmas Songs in Country Music. That honor goes to a man whose voice just seems built to protect you from the cold outdoors on Christmas morning.
See the 10 Best Country Christmas Originals:
Pioneering country music singer Charley Pride (1934-2020) dies of COVID-19
Country music singer Charley Pride died from the COVID-19 virus on December 12 in Dallas at age 86. He was the first African American artist to achieve major success in country music, signing with the RCA Victor label in 1966. He produced at least 30 chart-topping country songs through the late 1980s and sold over 70 million records worldwide.
Pride is best known for songs of love and heartache, including “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’,” “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone?”, “All I Have to Offer You (Is Me),” “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” “Streets of Baltimore,” “I Can’t Believe You’ve Stopped Loving Me” and “Just Between You and Me.”
Home for Christmas
With Christmas coming up on Friday this week, I hesitated to post these videos in a
Sunday Morning Coming Down post yesterday so far in advance of the holiday. On second thought, the time has come today. I want to revisit a few of the secular pop songs that seize on Christmas in one way or another for their own artistic purposes. I’ve added one new selection to last year’s lineup. Here they are in chronological order of release along with my notes on them.
In the video below Johnny and Edgar Winter perform the Charles Brown number “Please Come Home For Christmas” (1966). It was originally issued as a single b/w “Santa Don’t Pass Me By” by Jimmy Donley on the Meaux Sound Memories label (the Donley recording is also accessible on YouTube, but pass it by). As I access it on Napster, the Winter brothers’ recording is included on Johnny’s album
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HO HO WHO: Mandy Moore, first introduced to listeners two decades ago as a teenage pop star and now known to the sensitive viewers of the world for her role on the NBC tearjerker
This Is Us. In recent years, she’s made a return to the music world, releasing her first album of new music in a decade just as COVID-19 hit the U.S. The pandemic forced the cancelation of her tour in support of that album, but she put the downtime to use, compiling a two-song holiday EP featuring her version of “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and an original track, “