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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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White Christmas
"White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and first performed publicly by Bing Crosby on Christmas Day 1941, became the best-selling single of all time by some measures, a distinction it has held for over eight decades despite the enormous growth of the recorded music industry since its release. Berlin reportedly wrote the song's wistful, nostalgic lyrics while staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, composing an ode to a snowy Christmas from the middle of a Southern California winter, a contrast later commentators have often noted as part of the song's enduring emotional appeal. Crosby's version, featured in the films "Holiday Inn" and later "White Christmas," became so closely associated with the song that Berlin himself reportedly considered Crosby's recording the definitive version, and it has been re-released and charted repeatedly during the Christmas season for decades since. Its combination of its record-setting sales status and Bing Crosby's definitive vocal performance has made "White Christmas" widely regarded as the greatest and most commercially significant Christmas song ever written.
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