Holiday playlists change every year, but a handful of Christmas records from the 1950s and 1960s still feel like the season’s default soundtrack. These albums mix lush orchestration, crooner warmth, ...

While the 1960s was perhaps the greatest decade for rock music, the era was also fabulous for Christmas songs. In part because the two crossed over in major ways, with big-name rock groups writing and ...

Some Christmas records do more than soundtrack the season, they reset the whole mood the second the needle drops. The ’50s and ’60s were packed with those kinds of albums, and plenty of them still ...