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Each year, at some point amid the food, fun, family and festivities between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I have a tendency to find myself a quiet place, settle in with a cup of coffee and a fine cigar and take a walk back through some old holiday memories.

I've recovered a vintage JBJ posting from the archive, December 2008 Yuletide music in the U.S. hasn't gotten better since I first posted this, but it's not for lack of song programmers scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Nick The Beach Boys 26 Please Come Home For Christmas Charles Brown 27 It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas Perry Como & The Fontaine Sisters 28 Feliz Navidad JosA© Feliciano 29 Santa Baby Eartha Kitt 30 Do You Hear What I Hear Bing Crosby 31 Blue Christmas Elvis Presley 32 Run Rudolph Run Chuck Berry 33 Silent Night Barbra Streisand 34 ... (more)

Don't limit your holiday decorating to an evergreen tree. There are lots of ways to make every surface gleam.