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What's Your Favorite Christmas Song?

If you love holiday music, there's still time to put together your Christmas playlist.

Christmas is—yikes!—Wednesday, but it's not to late to create the perfect holiday soundtrack to make your Dec. 25 magical. 

Yes, it's the last minute, but get your mp3 player or Spotify account at the ready and think for a moment: What's your most loved Christmas classic, your favorite Christmas song? 

Is it a classic by Nat King Cole or Frank Sinatra? Do you prefer something more contemporary, for example 2013 holiday releases by artists like Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige and Nick Lowe? Should the songs be spiritual, say a "Silent Night" or "We Three Kings of Orient Are" or "Go Tell It on the Mountain?" 

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Nostalgia may be what you crave: Does Band Aid's charity-minded “Do They Know It’s Christmastime?” make you recall the 1980s, or do the sounds of bandleader Mitch Miller or, say, the Jackson 5 bring back childhood memories? Remember Jose Feliciano's ubiquitous "Feliz Navidad"? And what about the legendary Darlene Love's "Christmas Baby (Please Come Home)"? (She wailed the golden holiday oldie in the video during her 20th annual yuletide visit to "Late Show with David Letterman" last Thursday.)

Even cynics, the disaffected and lonelyhearts get seasonal songs to cherish. For example: The twisted "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer," the nonchalant "Christmas Wrapping," the, well, blue "Blue Christmas,"  Wham's "Last Christmas" (coal for the one who gave George Michael's heart away!), the downright depressing and yet nimbly soulful "Christmas Just Ain't Christmas Without the One You Love," the pleading "Please Come Home for Christmas."

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And then there is the inspiring Christmas song, the genre that spans genres yet contains songs crying for peace: "Someday at Christmas," "Happy Xmas/War Is Over," "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." 

Now. If you have that song in your head, spread out from there and create the holiday playlist of the ages! But first, let us know what your fave Christmas tune is. And if you come with a great Spotify holiday playlist, send us the link at natalie.davis@patch.com by noon Wednesday and we can cobble together a mass (and likely quite eclectic, and that's just considering my choices!) Jefferson Patch playlist.

Please let us know your favorite Christmas song/Spotify playlist link in the comment section below! If you don't like any at all, that's cool; we respect wishes for heavenly peace... and quiet.



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