You might remember when Boyle went viral for her angelic voice during her 2008 audition for Britain's Got Talent. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy. Free Christmas Album Cover Templates Spread the Christmas joy with magical flyers, videos and social media graphics for your parties, deals, carols and other events. Many songs simply have a winter or seasonal theme, or have been adopted into the canon for other reasons. Fun fact: This album was released the same year as the Sound of Music film, and it features the song "My Favorite Things" (the song was written for the stage show in 1959).

Since the mid-1950s, much of the Christmas music produced for popular audiences has explicitly romantic overtones, only using Christmas as a setting. In 1991, four years after the Pogues recorded "Fairytale of New York" (one of the greatest Christmas songs ever), their forefathers in traditional Irish music, the Chieftains, made a Christmas album of their own. For this list, we culled the best Christmas albums: ones that you want to listen to year after year, not fascinating novelties.This album, originally released as The Magic of Christmas in 1960, provides baritone reassurance that Christmas is a happy time, not an annual family debacle. It encompasses a record label, pressing plant and online magazine, and collaborates with artists and musicians to create stunning audio-visual shows.

Sometimes you just need a break from all those repetitive Christmas standards that end up on every holiday album. Cyndi Lauper may not be the first name you think of when it comes to Christmas music, but just see how long it takes to get “Feels Like Christmas” out of your head after one listen.Naturally, it's the centerpiece of this forlorn 2006 album by Aimee Mann, where she kicks off with "Whatever Happened to Christmas?

Many of the standout tracks belong to Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson, but as ever, the engine is the Motown house band, which can find the funk in "The Little Drummer Boy. This photo collection shows cringe-worthy and just plain awkward Christmas album covers from the past. As a full-service musical empire, the Motown label released scads of Christmas albums; this double-disc 2009 album collects the highlights, plus spoken seasonal greetings from stars like the Supremes. While most Christmas songs prior to 1930 were of a traditional religious character, the Great Depression era of the 1930s brought a stream of songs of American origin, most of which did not explicitly reference the Christian nature of the holiday, but rather the more secular traditional Western themes and customs associated with Christmas. The Bells of Dublin has great Celtic melodies, lots of fiddle and tin whistle, and guests that include Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, Jackson Browne, Nanci Griffith, and oddly, actor Burgess Meredith.Exceptions such as “The Christmas Shoes” (2000) have re-introduced Christian themes as complementary to the secular Western themes, and myriad traditional carol cover versions by various artists have explored virtually all music genres. In 2012, Cee Lo got a raspy Rod Stewart to duet with him on "Merry Christmas, Baby" and his fellow Voice judge Christina Aguilera to show up for "Baby It's Cold Outside," but his ideal musical partners were the Muppets. Not so much KFC as JFC, the chicken-loving colonel put together a finger-licking good selection of his favourute Christmas songs – but perhaps had one snowball too many and lapsed into unconsciousness for the artwork shoot.