It’s Not Christmas Without…

…Perry Como, at least in the Woods household. It was Perry Como and the Ray Conniff Singers in my house as I grew up, and that’s what we like around this time of year now that I have a family of my own. My favorites are O Holy Night, The First Noel, and Hark the Herald Angels Sing, with an honorable mention to Silver Bells and Do You Hear What I Hear?

I also love the unjustly overlooked “Christmas Eve”:

As a fan of Jon Anderson’s angelic voice, I love his part of this O Holy Night duet, if you can overlook the cheesy ’80s synths (and I understand that’s a big if):