Editing Christmas music (section)

====1980s====
* 1980: "It Must Have Been The Mistletoe (Our First Christmas)", written by Doug Konecky and Justin Wilde; released by [[Barbara Mandrell]] on ''[[Christmas at Our House]]''.
* 1980: "[[Same Old Lang Syne]]", written by [[Dan Fogelberg]]; released as a single by Folgelberg in 1980 (with "Hearts and Crafts" on B-side). It was included on his 1981 album ''[[The Innocent Age]]''.
* 1980: "[[Stop The Cavalry]]" written by [[Jona Lewie]]; released by Lewie as a single (with "Laughing Tonight" on B-side).
* 1981: "[[Christmas is the Time to Say 'I Love You']]" written by [[Billy Squier]]; released by him by as the B-side of his hit, "[[My Kinda Lover]]".
* 1981: "[[Christmas Wrapping]]", written by [[Chris Butler (musician)|Chris Butler]]; released by [[The Waitresses]] as a single (with "Christmas Fever" by [[Charlelie Couture]] on B-side). Also included in a Christmas compilation album.
* 1982: "[[Hard Candy Christmas]]"; written by [[Carol Hall]] for the [[Musical theatre|musical]], ''[[The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas]]''; released by [[Dolly Parton]] as a single (with "Act Like a Fool" on B-side).
* 1984: "[[Another Rock and Roll Christmas]]"; written by [[Gary Glitter]], [[Mike Leander]] and Edward Seago; released by Gary Glitter as a single, with the instrumental version as the B-side. The song had appeared earlier in the year on his 1984 album ''[[Boys Will Be Boys (Gary Glitter album)|Boys Will Be Boys]]''.
* 1984: "[[Thank God It's Christmas]]", written by [[Brian May]] and [[Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)|Roger Taylor]]; released by [[Queen (band)|Queen]] as a single (with "[[The Works (Queen album)#"Man on the Prowl"|Man on the Prowl]]" and "[[The Works (Queen album)#"Keep Passing the Open Windows"|Keep Passing the Open Windows]]" on B-side).
* 1984: "Another Lonely Christmas", written by [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]; released by [[Prince and the Revolution]] as a single.
* 1984: "[[The Power of Love (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song)|The Power of Love]]", written by [[Holly Johnson]], [[Peter Gill (FGTH drummer)|Peter Gill]], [[Mark O'Toole (musician)|Mark O'Toole]], and [[Brian Nash (musician)|Brian Nash]]; released by [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] as a single (with "The World Is My Oyster" on B-side).
* 1985: "[[Merry Christmas Everyone]]"; written by [[Bob Heatlie]]; released by [[Shakin' Stevens]] as a single (with "With My Heart" and "Blue Christmas" on B-side).
* 1985: "There's a New Kid in Town", written by [[Don Cook]], [[Curly Putman]], and [[Keith Whitley]].
* 1987: "[[Christmas in Hollis]]", written by [[Joseph Simmons]], [[Darryl McDaniels]], and [[Jason Mizell]]; released by [[Run D.M.C.]] on two Christmas compilation albums: ''[[A Very Special Christmas (album)|A Very Special Christmas]]'' and ''Christmas Rap,'' and as a single (with "Peter Piper" on B-side).
* 1988: "[[Driving Home for Christmas]]"; written by [[Chris Rea]]; originally released as one of two new songs on Rea's first compilation album ''[[New Light Through Old Windows]]'' in October, then issued as the fourth single from the album in December.
* 1988: "[[Mistletoe and Wine]]", written by [[Jeremy Paul (screenwriter)|Jeremy Paul]], [[Leslie Stewart (writer)|Leslie Stewart]] and [[Keith Strachan]] for the 1976 musical, ''Scraps'' (an adaptation of [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s "[[The Little Match Girl]]"); released by [[Cliff Richard]] as a single (with "Marmaduke" on B-side), and on his album ''[[Private Collection: 1979–1988]].''
* 1989: "[[All I Want for Christmas Is You (Vince Vance & The Valiants song)|All I Want for Christmas Is You]]", written by Troy Powers and Andy Stone; released by [[Vince Vance & The Valiants]] as a single.
* 1989: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" by [[The Ramones]] on their ''[[Brain Drain (album)|Brain Drain]]'' album.