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Feliz Navidad
"Feliz Navidad," written and recorded by José Feliciano in 1970, became one of the most successful bilingual songs in American popular music history, blending a simple Spanish-language chorus with an English-language verse to create one of the first genuinely bicultural Christmas standards embraced by mainstream American radio. Feliciano, a blind Puerto Rican-American guitarist and singer already established through his acclaimed cover of "Light My Fire," wrote the song intentionally as a way to send Christmas greetings to his family and broader Latino community in a style distinct from the traditionally Anglo-American Christmas song canon. The song's continued annual radio ubiquity across both English and Spanish-language stations decades after its release reflects its unusually successful crossover appeal, a status that helped pave the way for greater bilingual and Latino representation within mainstream American holiday music. Its combination of its pioneering bilingual crossover success and its continued multi-generational popularity has made "Feliz Navidad" one of the most culturally significant and widely performed Christmas songs of the modern era.
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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," written by Johnny Marks and recorded by 13-year-old Brenda Lee in 1958, became one of the first Christmas songs to successfully incorporate rock and roll's emerging rhythm and energy into the traditionally more sedate genre of holiday music. Marks, who had already written "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and would go on to become one of the most prolific Christmas songwriters of the 20th century, built his publishing career substantially around holiday material, an unusually specialized commercial niche within the broader music industry. The song's initial commercial performance upon release was relatively modest, and its status as a genuine holiday standard grew gradually over subsequent decades of radio replay, eventually becoming one of the most streamed Christmas songs of the digital era despite its more than 60-year-old original recording. Its combination of its pioneering rock-and-roll-infused sound and its eventual long-delayed rise to genuine standard status has made "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" one of the most distinctive and enduring Christmas songs of the mid-20th century.
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