Old, Fun and Unusual Christmas Songs of the
Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies
Back to less contrived (and more fun) novelty songs
Older songs surviving into the Fifties
- All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth (Spike Jones & his City Slickers, 1947)
1950s
- Christmas Alphabet (Dickie Valentine, 1955)
- I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas (The Goons, xxxx)
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Jimmy Boyd, 1952)
- I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Gayla Peevey, 1953)
- Nuttin’ For Christmas (Art Mooney and Barry Gordon, 1955)
- Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree (Connie Francis. 1958)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Gene Autry, 1950)
- Santo Natale (“Merry Christmas”) (David Whitfield, 1954)
1960s
- All I Want for Christmas is a Beatle (Dora Bryan, 1963)
- The Hat I Got for Christmas is Too Big (“Ring the bells and beat the drum”) (Mel Blanc, 1962)
- It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Andy Williams, 1963)
- Little Donkey (Nina and Frederik, 1960)
- Lonely Pup (“in a Christmas shop”) (Adam Faith, 1960)
- Snoopy’s Christmas (The Royal Guardsmen, 1967)
- Two Little Boys (Rolf Harris, 1969)
1970s
- Bionic Santa (Chris Hill, 1976)
- I Believe In Father Christmas (Greg Lake, 1975)
- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (Wizzard, 1973)
- Lonely This Christmas (Mud, 1974)
- Merry Xmas Everybody (Slade, 1973)
- Wonderful Christmas Time (Paul McArtney, 1979)
- Wombling Merry Christmas (The Wombles, 1974)