HOHO Harmonies !

Santa’s bag is overflowing with starstudded holiday music for every kind of fan!

Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Alvin & The Chipmunks, The Jackson Five, James

Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and The Beach Boys get the royal retro treatment in Capitol Records’ new vinyl reissues of each of their classic holiday albums from the 1960s and early ’70s. The R&B/soul/funk/disco/pop band Earth, Wind & Fire has been around since 1969, but guess what? The new Holiday (Legacy) marks the group’s first-ever Christmas album. Country music fans can kick back to Darius

Rucker’s Home fortheHolidays (Universal)

or ChristmasWith Nashville (Big Machine), which features the cast of the TV show Nashville crooning a slate of holiday favorites.

Christmas at Downton Abbey (Warner Bros.) is a collection of festive hymns and classic carols, some performed by cast members of the popular PBS series. The soundtrack to one of the late Robin Williams’ last movies, A

Merry Friggin ’Christmas (Lakeshore Records), mixes original film tunes and seasonal songs. Contemporary Christian music fans will recognize Grammy-winning Guy

Penrod, whose Christmas (Capitol) features the classic “12 Days of Christmas,” with vocals from his eight children and his wife. The iconic gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama collaborated with legendary bluesman Taj Mahal for Talkin’

Christmas! (Sony Masterworks), with covers of holiday songs and gospel gems.