Editing Christmas music (section)

====1950s====
* 1950: "[[(Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man with the Bag]]", written by [[Irving Taylor (songwriter)|Irving Taylor]] and [[Dudley Brooks]]; popularized by [[Kay Starr]].
* 1950: "Dixieland Band from Santa Claus Land" by [[Jimmy Dorsey]] and his orchestra.
* 1950: "A Marshmallow World", written by Carl Sigman and Peter DeRose; released by Bing Crosby (backed by The Lee Gordon Singers and the Sonny Burke Orchestra).
* 1950: "[[Mele Kalikimaka]]"; written in 1949 by R. Alex Anderson; released by Bing Crosby and [[The Andrews Sisters]] as a single (with "Poppa Santa Claus" on the reverse side). The title is the closest approximation of the pronunciation of "Merry Christmas" possible in the [[Hawaiian language]].
* 1951: "Christmas Choir", released by [[Patti Page]] on ''[[Christmas with Patti Page]]''.
* 1951: "[[Suzy Snowflake]]", written by [[Sid Tepper]] and [[Roy C. Bennett]]; released by [[Rosemary Clooney]] as a 78 RPM record through [[Columbia Records]].
* 1953: "[[Up on the Housetop]]", written by [[Benjamin Hanby]] in 1864; popularized by Gene Autry.
* 1954: "[[The Christmas Waltz]]", written by Sammy Cahn and [[Jule Styne]]; released by [[Frank Sinatra]] on the B-side of his version of "[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]" and later ''[[A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra]] (1957)'' and ''[[The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas]] (1968)''.
* 1955: "The First Snowfall" written by Paul Francis Webster, Sonny Burke and recorded by [[Bing Crosby]] on November 22, 1955.
* 1956: "[[I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day]]", written by Johnny Marks from a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells" by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]; released by Bing Crosby as a single (with "Christmas Is A-Comin' (May God Bless You)" on B-side).
* 1956: "[[Mary's Boy Child]]", written by [[Jester Hairston]]; released by [[Harry Belafonte]] on ''[[An Evening with Belafonte]]''.
* 1957: "[[Mistletoe and Holly]]" written by [[Frank Sinatra]], Dok Stanford, and [[Hank Sanicola]]; recorded by Sinatra with orchestra conducted by [[Gordon Jenkins]], released as a Capitol 7" 45 single backed with "[[The Christmas Waltz]]". Included on ''[[A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra]]''.
* 1958: "[[Run Rudolph Run]]", written by [[Chuck Berry]] (though [[Johnny Marks]] successfully took songwriting credit on [[derivative work]] grounds in a lawsuit),<ref>{{cite web |title=140-Run!-Rudolph,-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer-and-the-copyright-mystery|url=http://www.crlf.de/ChuckBerry/blog/archives/140-Run!-Rudolph,-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer-and-the-copyright-mystery.html |access-date=April 1, 2022 }}</ref> released as a single on [[Chess Records]].
* 1959: "Caroling, Caroling", written by [[Alfred Burt]] in 1953; recorded by [[Fred Waring]] on ''The Sounds of Christmas''.
* 1959: "[[The Secret of Christmas]]", written by Sammy Cahn and [[Jimmy Van Heusen]] for Bing Crosby, first performed in the film ''[[Say One for Me]]''; Crosby recorded the song with an arrangement by [[Frank DeVol]] for a single that year released by [[Columbia Records]].