December 11, 20232 yr Author Thanks all, will tot them up later today I hope, busy dealing with car battery recharging (suspected alternator failure driving back from London as my power steering and lights went down, happily almost home when the steering was about to give up) and shed drying out, roof ruined from constant rain. So still time to amend or add till I get round to it!
December 11, 20232 yr Author Thanks everyone who voted, much appreciated, and these be the ones that didn't quite make the top 10: 21st equal - 1 point Vince Guaraldi Trio - Skating Bob B Soxx & The Blue Jeans - Here Comes Santa Claus 19th equal - 2 points, 1 voter Bing Crosby - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas The Crystals - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 18th equal - 2 points, 2 voters Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper
December 11, 20232 yr Author 15th equal - 3 points Harry Belafonte - Mary’s Boy Child Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 11th equal - 4 points The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman Darlene Love - A Marshello World Perry Como, The Fontane Sisters, Mitchell Ayres and his Orchestra - It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas Rosemary Cloony & Gene Autry - The Night Before Christmas and so the ten qualifiers are:
December 11, 20232 yr Author 9th equal - 5 points Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here Joan Regan - Must Be Santa 8th - 7 points Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock 7th - 8 points Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus And Lucy 6th - 10 points Andy Williams - It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year and so to the top 5!
December 11, 20232 yr Author 5th - 12 points: It's that old xmas 50's chestnuts (song) Nat ‘King’ Cole - The Christmas Song 4th - 13 points: Her 2nd in the list, and a Spector 60's classic I bought on single in 1974 and charted it that year, it took another 30-odd years for the UK charts to do the same. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 3rd - 19 points: A xmas 60's perennial I first heard at Xmas 1973 and it took 40 years or so after that to chart The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick 2nd - 29 points: It was a close race at the top but Brenda gets pipped at the post with her Xmas classic which has gotten more popular with each passing decade, not least last week's US chart-topper 65 years late Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree and the winner! 1st - 33 points: Another Spector 60's classic that first charted for me at Xmas 1974 as a heavily-played oldie on Radio 1, and one which has never gone away and remains popular and charting annually, the late great Ronnie Spector on lead: The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
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