Today, the Christmas song is a holiday standard with over 1, 500 renditions since it was first recorded, but none of them quite reach the master's version.

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Mr. BACHARACH: Well, it would probably in the mood that I'm in go to the greatest Christmas song I think.

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And for those who suspect the Klezmatics are trivializing Hanukkah with kiddie stuff or secularizing it like it was Christmas or something, the longest song is educational.

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In 1984, Bob Geldof brought together a number of the world's most famous artists as Band Aid to record the song Do They Know It's Christmas?

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They have banned the Black Country band's song from their Christmas playlist.

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Camborne Hill was the venue for the carriage's test-run, on Christmas Eve - an event celebrated in a well-known Cornish folk song of the same name.

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Bieber added a song featuring The Band Perry to his new Christmas album.

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The song, which was unofficially released as a free download single over the Christmas period, heavily samples Planet Telex, the opening track on Radiohead's second album The Bends.

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The song that touches my heart the most is "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and try to put something on there.

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While Jackson's song, "You Are My Life, " filled the courtroom, jurors watched footage of a Christmas morning when he gave his children a dog.

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