East Coast Friday Random Ten: Xmas Edition

Sufjan Stevens, "Once in David's Royal City" Songs for Christmas, Vol. II: Hark!
The Roches, "Sleigh Ride" We Three Kings
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, "Some Children See Him" The McGarrigle Christmas Hour
Mark Whitfield, "Those Soulful Christmas Bells" Jazz for Joy: A Verve Christmas Album
Helen Donath, Ann Reynolds, Etc., "Then Shall the Eyes of the Blind" Handel: Messiah
David Benoit, "Carol of the Bells" Jingle Bell Jam: Jazz Christmas Classics
Frank Sinatra, "Medley" Christmas Songs by Sinatra
The Staple Singers, "Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas" MOJO: Blue Christmas
Sweet Daddy Lowe, "Be-Bop Santa Claus" Yule Be Boppin'
Lord Nelson, "A Party for Santa Claus" MAS! A Caribbean Christmas Party

Bonus: The Minus Five, "Your Christmas Whiskey" Oh Santa!

This is not like me. Tom usually does something for Christmas. But since he's away and since (as part of a long-term assault I'm making on George's song-count supremacy) I happened to put 29 Christmas albums (all Mary's) into my iTunes this week, we've gotten into the Xmas spirit here in the blizzardy eastern "mountains" today with a random ten list of Christmas songs.

Maybe I'll come back later and put a regular FRT list under the fold. Feel free to add any old kind of list you'd like us to see in comments. Or put whatever you'd like in there. Be creative.

Note: I don't know why the artist on track three in my list is given as Kate & Anna McGarrigle. The song is sung, magnificently, by the children of Kate -- Rufus and Martha Wainwright. (That's a terrific Christmas album, by the way.)