Best Songs From Christmas Movies

The holiday season arrived and once more, it is for radio and television the opportunity to make us enjoy the Christmas music we love. While historians are not sure of the origins of Christmas caroling, we tend to think that originally carolers were roaming from one house to a different one, singing Christmas songs and receiving food or some hot beverage. Then came radios echoing the beautiful melodies of Joy to the World as well as Silent Night. The birth of television allowed us to enjoy the holiday season by creating a wide variety of Christmas shows that we enjoy each year.

One of these well-known classics is Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", especially adapted for these shows. Who does not know the story of this old miserly, avaricious, selfish and vindictive man called Ebenezer Scrooge, who became a kind, generous and grandfatherly gentleman? Many carols are largely and regularly featured in any adaptation you care to watch. The familiar words to "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen", "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", and "Silent Night" are sung by numerous young boys caroling, also known as wassailing, in hopes of receiving some cakes or a hot cup of the alcoholic drink.

And what about the famous film "It's a Wonderful Life", starred by James Stewart? Remember George Bailey and the angel Clarence Odbody... The angel has been sent on earth to show George, depressed, all the good he has done to people around him. At the end of the movie, the entire family gathered around the Christmas tree and sang "Joy to the World". Life is actually wonderful!It's a wonderful life indeed

In all film genre, there is one whose music will become an international and eternal success... The famous "White Christmas", performed by the great and unequaled Bing Crosby! Nowadays this song is still regarded to be the most popular Christmas song in the world.

Bing Crosby held a Christmas special for many years until his death in 1977. These shows hosted a myriad of Hollywood celebrities like Cyd Charise, Carol Burnett, Michael Landon, Connie Stevens and many more. Everyone of them would sing such classics as "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", "Jingle Bells", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", and many others. Bing Crosby's last Christmas show was unforgettable as David Bowie did a duet with Bing Crosby. The song they performed was "The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth". Exactly like White Christmas, it is for sure one of the most wonderful Christmas songs ever created.

By: D. Halet

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