Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s default soundtrack. These albums mix lush orchestration, crooner warmth, ...

The change has been driven by technology. In the pre-streaming era, consumers would play Christmas music through CDs and ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of people, that means listening to the same old Christmas records all over ...

Are you a Jingle Bells person? Maybe Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree? Dominick the Donkey, maybe? If you're one of the people who can't start Christmas early enough, you're not alone. Christmas ...

As Christmas grew into public extravaganzas- other holidays also got big. Kwanzaa, a weeklong celebration of African American heritage, began in 1966 out of the civil rights movement. Hanukkah also ...

Some Christmas records do more than soundtrack the season, they reset the whole mood the second the needle drops. The ’50s and ’60s were packed with those kinds of albums, and plenty of them still ...