Great songs of Christmas past...

“Does your granny always tell you, that the old songs are the best...”, yes Noddy - she does. And she’s right! Apart from the odd edition from Coldplay and The Darkness, it’s the return of Cliff, Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby that really warms our Christmas cockles and makes it feel like December year, after year, after year...

The folks of the 40’s really nailed it with their Christmas releases, including Judy Garland’s “Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (1944), Crosby’s “White Christmas” (1942) and Nat King Cole with “The Christmas Song” (1946), and over seventy years later they’re still topping the Lucky Voice charts as some of the most sung songs at Christmas. 

Things got a little cheekier in the 50’s with Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby” (1953) and little Jimmy Boyd’s “I saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus” (who knew that was a 13 year old boy singing that?) and then of course Andy Williams confirmed “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” in 1963 and Darlene Love gave us “Christmas (baby please come home)”. 

All those classics and we haven’t even touched on the 70’s or 80’s yet. Christmas is a nostalgia-heavy time of year, and music is right up there when it comes to reminiscing, so make it a Christmas to remember with our ‘Christmas classics’ karaoke playlist. 

We've put together our top 20 Christmas classics from 1940’s up to the end of the 80’s. Just four decades, but all the songs you’ll ever need to sing to get that ultimate warm, fuzzy, ‘it’s-definitely-Christmas’ feeling!