The chase was on, as it had been for years. After the tale of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was put to music and sold in a frenzy in 1949, each yuletide brought a bumper crop of sonic delights (or ...

The Number Ones is a new column where I'll review every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

It's the most wonderful time of the year - especially if you love Christmas music. "Feliz Navidad" by José Feliciano cracked the top ten in the Billboard charts for the first time since being released ...

Christmas songs are absolutely wonderful, but with so many variations of the handful of Christmas songs that exist, it's hard to find the versions that the whole family will love. From the Kidz Bop ...

Also later on, Simon raps. You have to love when Hollywood goes on crusades against its crassest impulses, then slips up by using super-marketable stuff in the service of proving its point. Because ...

Is there a music genre less respected than novelty music? Well, disco, but we weep not for the dead. The novelty song, which for our purposes here is defined as "a comical or nonsensical song," is ...

Alvin Simon and Theodore star in a trio of spooky stories and funny tales that are sure to lift your spirits And cool Chipmunk songs like Hideous Harold will have you ...

In an era preoccupied with overstimulation, a trio of cartoon rodents​’ slowed-down reinterpretations of pop classics offer an uncanny kind of calm ...