Secular Christmas Playlist
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Secular Carols
These are the timeless tunes of Christmas’ Golden Age. Golden means better… yes… sorry. They are better songs than contemporary. Period… That is not opinion, it is fact… why fact? Cause no one is going to still be listening to pop riffs with Christmas lyrics in 100 years… but these will be around long after your great-great-grandchildren stop drinking Coca-cola.
Thematically, these songs focus on the cheerful celebration of the season—painting a picture of the wintery setting, talk of hope and joy, and even expounding upon Christmas mythos. While very close to the “POP/CONTEMPORARY” category, they are set apart compositionally by their big-band-era-derived sound born of the tin-pan alley days of 1920 spanning through the end of 1950.
EXAMPLES:
“An Old-Fashioned Christmas”
“Christmas Dreaming”
“Christmas is A’Comin”
“Deck the Halls”
“Happy Holidays”
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
“It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas”
“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
“Jingle Bell Rock”
“Jingle Bells”
“Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow”
“Marshmallow World”
“Mistletoe and Holly”
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” – Brenda Lee
“Santa Baby”
“Silver Bells”
“Sleigh Ride”
“The Christmas Song” (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire…)
“The Christmas Waltz”
“The Twelve Days of Christmas”
“There’s a Train Out for Dreamland”
“There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays”
“We Need a Little Christmas”
“We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
“White Christmas”
“Winter Wonderland”