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 ...

When perusing the Top 7 archives, it came to my attention that within the yearly Christmas lists, there was no Top 7 Christmas songs! This is an outright travesty and needed to change, so here you go.

The relationship between the secular Christmas music that emerged in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, and jazz is that both drew heavily from the same source—the Broadway songbook—for the same ...