The holidays are just around the corner, and it’s time to bust out the holiday songs once again. Sure, you could play “All I Want For Christmas Is You” from now until New Year’s. If you shovel aside the usual radio hits and classic carols, though, there’s a trove of underplayed holiday songs to brighten your season from artists you probably didn’t even know sang holiday songs. Today is your lucky day because we did the shoveling already.
Kirsty Maccoll Performing With The Pogues - 1988, Kirsty Maccoll Performing With The Pogues - 1988 (Photo by Brian Rasic/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - CIRCA 1986: Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels and Jam Master Jay of the hip-hop group "Run DMC" pose for a portrait in circa 1986 in New York, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
British musician and singer-songwriter Greg Lake (1947 -
2016) of Emerson, Lake and Palmer during rehearsals for the band's 'Works' tour, at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada, February 1977. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
Just home in time for Christmas in England - Slade have a new record going into the charts at number 10 called 'In for a Penny'. The group are pictured here in their American look. Noddy Holder, 25, in a genuine US Cop leather jacket and hat given to him by a Cop in New York. The tee is from New Orleans. Jim Lea, 24, braces and shoes from Greenwich Village, New York. The hat from an American fan thrown on stage. Dave Hill, 24, wears denim dungarees and shirt studded and rhinestoned by himself, 6000 of them all applied by hand. Matching clogs and spurs, Don Powell, 25, wears loose calico trousers and striped cardigan, worn with a baseball cap (thrown on stage by a fan), 4th December 1975. (Photo by Doreen Spooner/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 01: TOP OF THE POPS Photo of WIZZARD (Photo by David Warner Ellis/Redferns)
Neko Case and Carl Newman of the New Pornographers (Photo by Frank Mullen/WireImage)
"Weird Al" Yankovic performs at The Governors Ball NYC Music Festival on June 7, 2015 (Photo by Nicky Digital/Corbis via Getty Images)
(MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images) Kate Bush relaxing in a hotel room, Tokyo, June 1978. (Photo by Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 01: Kimberley Walsh, Nicola Roberts, Nadine Coyle, Cheryl Cole and Sarah Harding of Girls Aloud perform on their 'Ten - The Hits Tour' at The O2 Arena on March 1, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
Rapper Ludacris attends the "Welcome to Atlanta Jam" BET Hip-Hop Awards Kick-off Party at The Velvet Room on October 11, 2007 in Atlanta, GA. (Photo by Ben Rose/WireImage)
NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 28: Singer Cee Lo Green performs with the Muppet characters at the 80th annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center on November 28, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic)
Blink 182 during MTV New Year's Eve Bash 2000 at MTV Studios in Times Square in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage)
Bob Dylan in London in 2009 (photo: Harry Scott / Redferns).
Bing Crosby and David Bowie shake hands during the taping of the television special "Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas". The two singers, of diverse styles, sang together on "Little Drummer Boy."
Singer and guitarist Marc Bolan (1947 - 1977) of T-Rex poses in 1972. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)
STOCKTON, CA - DECEMBER 3: The Ramones are performing at the University of California at Stckton,, California on December 3, 1984. (Photo by Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
