There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but impossible. Still, we try.

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas ...

Drinking Christmas songs, romantic Christmas songs, rowdy Christmas songs and spiritual Christmas songs all make this list.

What are the most unbearable Christmas songs? We offer a few of the many, many options.

Earlier this week, I delivered a Scrooge-like rant against Paul McCartney’s rubbish “Wonderful Christmastime,” naming it the worst holiday tune south of the North Pole. With its use of outdated (and ...

This is a story of when a singing cowboy got upstaged by Santa Claus on Hollywood Boulevard. In the Christmas season of 1949, Gene Autry's version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was the No. 1 ...