Songs & Singles: M
This index lists the essential songs (not all the songs) contained on the albums reviewed in Hip Christmas, plus singles, album tracks, or one-hit wonders not otherwise included on those albums. Whenever possible, the artist's name is linked to my review of the best Christmas album (not necessarily the only or original album) on which to find the song.
Barring that, the names will be linked to a place where you may buy the song (usually Amazon). If there's no link, it means that, to my knowledge, the song is not available on CD or MP3. Of course, the list will expand as I write more reviews. And, nothing's perfect - especially me and my crazy list. Please send additions, corrections, criticisms, and suggestions via email.
- Magic Of Christmas (Hunks & Friends, 2009)
- Magic Of Christmas Day (Dee Snider & Lzzy Hale, 2020)
- Make It Home (Juliana Hatfield, 1995)
- Make You Mine This Season (from "Happiest Season") (Tegan And Sara , 2020)
- Making Out (Is the Best Part of Christmas) (The Active Set, 2011)
- Mambo Santa Mambo (Enchanters, 1957)
- Man In The Santa Suit (Fountains Of Wayne, 1997)
- Man With All The Toys (Beach Boys, 1964)
- Mardi Gras For Christmas (Squirrel Nut Zippers, 2018)
- Marshmallow March (Surfrajettes, 2022)
- Marshmallow World
- Ray Anthony (1950)
- Bing Crosby (1950)
- Vic Damone (1950)
- Evergleams (2023)
- Los Straitjackets (1996) Top 100 Song
- Darlene Love (1963)
- Johnny Mathis (1963)
- Regrettes (2016)
- Marvelous Toy
[close]
Like "My Favorite Things" - but to a much lesser extent - "The Marvelous Toy" is a regular ol' song that has been adopted as a Christmas tune. It's not hard to hear why - it's a charming ditty about a mysterious toy, and the song's whimsical use of onomatopoeia neatly captures a child's fascination with that stuff Santa brings. However, for many years "The Marvelous Toy" served simply as comic relief in earnest folksinger Tom Paxton's set list (and, I am guessing, a steady source of income). Paxton wrote the song early in his career and recorded it live at the Gaslight in New York City for his debut album I'm The Man Who Built the Bridges (1962). The Chad Mitchell Trio waxed it the following year on their album Singin' Our Mind, and a single of the track peaked at #43 in January 1964 (see The Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio: The Mercury Years, 1998). Paxton finally recorded a studio version of the song for Elektra in 1967, but it came out only in England a self-titled EP; this definitive version is hard to find - it's only been reissued on the 2004 Rhino UK 2-for-1 CD of Paxton's Elektra albums Outward Bound (1966) and Morning Again (1968).
Meanwhile, Peter, Paul & Mary covered it on their popular children's album Peter, Paul & Mommy (1969). Paxton released another live version appeared on The Compleat Tom Paxton (Elektra, 1971), and it's this version that appears on Rhino's I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound: The Best Of Tom Paxton (1999). Paxton recorded it yet again in 1974 for UK LP The Tom Paxton Children's Song Book which was issued in the US in 1984 as The Marvelous Toy and Other Gallimaufry. Only in 1988 did the song (finally) appear on a formal Christmas album - Paxton's self-released A Child's Christmas, which Sony reissued in 1992 and was subsequently licensed to budget label Laserlight. (I suspect this is the same version as appears on The Very Best Of Tom Paxton, a batch of new recordings from 1988 with English folk notables Danny Thompson, Dave Swarbrick, and Archie Fisher.) All together, Paxton recorded "The Marvelous Toy" more times than I could count, and he even turned it into a children's book. Ultimately, however, it was 70's superstar John Denver who became responsible for the song's association with Christmas when he recorded a studio version on Christmas Like A Lullaby (1990) and a live rendition on The Christmas Concert (1996). Too much information? Welcome to my world....- John Denver (1990)
- Tom Paxton (1962)
- Peter Paul & Mary (1969)
- Mary And Joseph (Tim McGraw, 2012)
- Mary Christmas (Redd Kross, 1997)
- Mary Had A Baby (Mary Hopkin, 1972)
- Mary X-Mas (Nina Hagen, 1997)
- Mary Xmess (Sun 60, 1993)
- Mary's Boy Child
- Harry Belafonte (1956)
- Arthur Lyman (1963)
- The Springfields (1962)
- Mason Dixon's On The Line (Jerry Jeff Walker, 1984)
- May Christmas Bring You Happiness (Luther Vandross, 1976)
- May Everyday Be Christmas (Louis Jordan, 1951)
- May You Always (Harry Harrison, 1965)
- Maybe At Christmas Time (Drugstore, 2000)
- Maybe Next Year (Jenny Owen Youngs, 2019)
- Maybe Next Year (X-Mas Song) (Meiko, 2007)
- Maybe This Christmas (Ron Sexsmith, 2005)
- Maybe You Still Call It Christmas (Phantom Planet, 2023)
- Medleys
- Christmas Time's A-Comin'/Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (John Fahey, 1983)
- Coventry Carol/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Chet Atkins, 1961)
- Deck The Halls/Bring A Torch (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, 1970)
- Do You Hear What I Hear/You Really Got Me (Bobby Lloyd & The Skeletons, circa 1980)
- Gloria In Excelsis Deo/O Christmas Tree/Lovely Star How I Adore Thee (Swingle Singers, 1968)
- Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season (Andy Williams, 1963)
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/O Come All Ye Faithful (John Fahey, 1982)
- I Love The Winter Weather/I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Tony Bennett, 1968)
- Let It Be Me/The Christmas Song (Laura Nyro, 1990)
- Little Drummer Boy/The Christmas Song/Deck The Halls (Cowsills, 1967)
- Little Drummer Boy/Do You Hear What I Hear (Pressure, 1983)
- Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne (Jimi Hendrix, 1969)
- Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord (Boney M, 1978)
- Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy
- Jack Black & Jason Segel (2010)
- David Bowie & Bing Crosby (1977)
- Flaming Lips (2019)
- The Priests with Shane McGowan (2010)
- Sleigh Ride/Christmas Wish (El Vez, 1994)
- Mele Kalikimaka (Beach Boys, 1977)
- Mele Kalikimaka
- Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters (1950)
- Arthur Lyman (1963)
- Poi Dog Pondering (1990)
- Dionne Warwick featuring Fiji & Nomad (2018)
- Memory Of Snow (Sofia Talvik, 2021)
- Memphis Christmas (Star & Micey, 2010)
- The Merriest (June Christy, 1961)
- Merry Christmas (Bryan Adams, 2011)
- Merry Christmas (Al & The Vibrators, 1968)
- Merry Christmas (Automatics, 2007)
- Merry Christmas (Cameos, 1962)
- Merry Christmas (Face To Face, 1999)
- Merry Christmas (Fighting Gravity, 2015)
- Merry Christmas (Lightnin' Hopkins, 1953)
- Merry Christmas (Kingstonians, 1967)
- Merry Christmas
- Marvelous 3 (2000)
- Butch Walker (2004)
- Merry Christmas (Melanie, 1970)
- Merry Christmas (Plan 9, 1984)
- Merry Christmas (Ed Sheeran & Elton John, 2021)
- Merry Christmas (Sir Jablonski, circa 1969)
- closely resembles his earlier recording, Merry Christmas Day - Merry Christmas (Ramona Wulf, later of Silver Convention, 1970)
- Merry Christmas (Blake Xolton & The Martians, 1980)
- Merry Christmas Actually (Charley Stone, 2020)
- Merry Christmas All (Brook Benton, 1983)
- Merry Christmas At Grandmother's (Andrews Sisters & Danny Kaye, 1949)
- Merry Christmas Baby
- Chuck Berry (1958)
- Booker T. & The MG's (1966)
- Joe Bonamassa (2009)
- Charles Brown (1956) Top 100 Song
- Sheryl Crow with Eric Clapton (1999)
- Hank Crawford (1964)
- Dion (1993)
- Four Tops (1995)
- Lionel Hampton with Sonny Parker (1950)
- Johnny Moore's Three Blazers featuring Charles Brown (1947)
- Elvis Presley (1971)
- Bonnie Raitt & Charles Brown (1992)
- Lou Rawls (1967)
- Otis Redding (1968) Top 100 Song
- Senders (1987)
- Bruce Springsteen (1986)
- Ike & Tina
Turner (1964) [close]
In her 60-year career, Tina Turner cut just one Christmas song. In her defense, it's so good and so frickin' intense, she might've thought she didn't need to cut anymore. And who's gonna argue with the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll? There have been lots of covers of Charles Brown's "Merry Christmas Baby," but Tina's vocal cord-shredding performance puts hers in a category all by itself. And, to their credit, the Ikettes almost keep up with her! Produced by "Bumps" Blackwell and released as the non-LP b-side of Ike & Tina Turner's 1964 Warner Brothers single "Ooh Poo Pa Doo," the song was never widely available before the advent of the internet, having been reissued just once as part of Rhino's essential Cool Yule series. That said, Tina gave us a video a while back, and the song can now be downloaded or streamed on Warner Music's Merry Christmas From Stateside (2017), a fascinating collection of holiday sides released by the storied EMI UK reissue label (later purchased by Warner).
- Merry Christmas Baby (Beach Boys, 1964) Top 100 Song
- Merry Christmas Baby (Del Lords, 1984)
- Merry Christmas Baby (Poets,
1965) [close]
For a number of reasons, the Poets' 1965 Red Bird single "Merry Christmas Baby" is a very notable record. Fundamentally, it's a fine performance - a light, breezy example of the East Coast soul sound that grew out of doo wop and Tin Pan Alley, plus a little Curtis Mayfield influence. Red Bird, in fact, was owned by famed songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who also produced the record. More significantly, the Poets were an early incarnation of the Main Ingredient, who would strike sweet soul gold in the 1970's. "Merry Christmas Baby," actually, was written by Rudy Clark, who later helped write the Main Ingredient's greatest hit, "Everybody Plays The Fool" (1972). That means, not incidentally, that "Merry Christmas Baby" is an original song - not either of the popular songs called "Merry Christmas Baby" associated with Charles Brown and the Beach Boys, respectively.The Poets were a vocal trio from Harlem, New York, comprised of Donald McPherson, Luther Simmons, and Tony Silvester, and they would record just this one record under that name. They changed their name to the Insiders for their next and last Red Bird single, then signed to RCA. After two more singles, they became the Main Ingredient and were charting records by 1970. Sadly, lead singer McPherson died suddenly in 1971 and was replaced by Cuba Gooding, who would be the voice of "Everybody Plays The Fool," "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely," and many other hits. (And, yes, he was the father of actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.) The group would record for RCA through 1981, and Everybody Plays The Fool: The Best Of The Main Ingredient is an excellent overview of their career.
The final notable thing about the Poets' "Merry Christmas Baby" is its mysterious scarcity. Admittedly, it was not a hit, but over the years it has been reissued on exactly one Christmas album, Rhino's Rockin' Christmas: The 60's (1984) - though it pops up occasionally on bootlegs and European public domain compilations. In the digital age, it has appeared on exactly one compact disc, The Ad Libs And Friends (1996), a collection of Red Bird recordings from oldies specialist Collectables Records. It's worth noting, however, that the liner notes of that CD conflate the Harlem Poets with another group also called the Poets, also from New York City, but from the borough of Brooklyn. Easy mistake to make, I guess. The Brooklyn Poets scored a #2 R&B hit in 1966, "She Blew A Good Thing," which probably explains the name change mentioned earlier...Much later, the Poets' "Merry Christmas Baby" finally showed up for download and streaming on a digital album called A Very Vintage Christmas (2021) from the revitalized Sun Records, the Memphis-based label that gave the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Red Bird had nothing to do with Sun, of course, but they are both now owned by Primary Wave, a company that's been hoovering up music publishing and recording masters since 2006.
- Merry Christmas Baby (Tasha Taylor, 2010)
- Merry Christmas Baby (George Thorogood, 2004)
- Merry Christmas Baby (Please Don't Die) (Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls, 2009)
- Merry Christmas Darling
- Carpenters (1970)
- Mary Karlzen (2003)
- Wendy Newcomer (2012)
- Maxine Nightingale (2015)
- Merry Christmas Darling
- Fabulous Thunderbirds (1983)
- Poppa Hop & His Orchestra (1961)
- Merry Christmas Darling (And A Happy New Year, Too) (Uniques, 1963)
- Merry Christmas Day (Sir Jablonski, circa 1959)
- Merry Christmas Doctor (Nichols & May, 1961)
- Merry Christmas Emily (Cracker, 2000)
- Merry Christmas Eve (Better Than Ezra, 1993)
- Merry Christmas Everyone (Shakin' Stevens, 1985)
- Merry Christmas From A Bar (Mike Ireland & Holler, 1997)
- Merry Christmas From Lisa Marie (Jana Sampson, 1979)
- Merry Christmas From Mars (Michael Hall, 1994)
- Merry Christmas From The Family
- Diesel Doug & The Long Haul Truckers (1997)
- Dixie Chicks with Rosie O'Donnell (2000)
- Robert
Earl Keen (1994) [close]
Those
of you outside of Texas may not have heard of Robert Earl Keen, but inside
the expansive borders of the Lone Star State, he's a hero. A hero, at least,
to Texas' unique brand of college-educated good old boys who, despite copious
book learnin' and nascent liberalism, struggle to nurture their inner redneck.
These fellows follow Keen around from gig to gig, drunkenly hollering
along (singing is too kind a word) with his acerbic, folk-tinged country songs.
Keen originally
cut "Merry Christmas From The Family" - his greatest hit - for his 1994 Sugar Hill studio album Gringo
Honeymoon, and that recording's quiet, dry, but affectionate humor make it the definitive version. This original studio take can also be found on Keen's best-of collection, The
Party Never Ends (2003), and on Sugar Hill Records: A Retrospective (2006).The most commonly aired versions of the song, however, are the ones excerpted from Keen's raucous live performances. Modestly stated, there are more than a few: a 1995 CD single (also released as a book, pictured, and included on Sugar Hill Record's 1996 holiday collection Tinsel Tunes), 1996's No. 2 Live Dinner (also included with his 2006 Koch retrospective Best), 2004's Live From Austin TX, 2006's Live At The Ryman, and 2016's Live Dinner Reunion.
Which is a shame, because Keen's
boistrous fans all but obscure his hilarious account of a typical white trash
holiday, complete with TV football, hard drinking, and electrical disasters.
These themes, it turns out, ring very true in Middle America. "Merry
Christmas From The Family" struck a chord with country fans everywhere,
and it became something of an anthem for urban hicks, spawning cover versions
by, among others, alt-folkie Jill Sobule and country acts Montgomery
Gentry and the Dixie
Chicks.Ultimately, Keen penned a sequel of sorts, "Happy Holidays Y'all," that he appended as a bonus track to his 1998 album Walking Distance. Then in 2004, he recorded a new, bluegrass-tinged studio version of "Merry Christmas From The Family" with help from Daryle Singletary and David Lee Murphy. That version was released as an Apple Music exclusive (now deleted) to promote Christmas Grass Vol. 2 (2004) - a Koch album on which the track does not appear.
- Montgomery Gentry (2000)
- Jill Sobule (1994)
- Merry Christmas Girl (Figgs, 1995)
- Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (Chambers Brothers, 1969)
- Merry Christmas, Happy New Year (Lee Scratch Perry, 1985)
- Merry Christmas (Here I Come) (Lil' Lost Lou, 2010)
- Merry Christmas, I Do Want To Fight Tonight (Bunnygrunt, 2022)
- Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
- Frankie & The Pool Boys (2019)
- Kung Fu Monkeys (1999)
- Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul (2017)
- Helen Love (2001)
- Ramones (1987)
Top 100 Song [close]
No punk rock act is bigger than New York's iconic Ramones, a band that could make a valid claim to having invented the stuff. They took the post-modern ennui of the Velvet Underground, the primitive fundamentalism of the Stooges, and the raw, streetwise energy of their peers the Heartbreakers and the Dictators, and distilled it to its essence. Their one-and-only holiday song, "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)," is the perfect marriage of Johnny Ramone's chainsaw guitar, Joey Ramone's disarmingly sweet vocals, and the indomitable holiday spirit. "Christmas ain't the time for breaking each other's hearts," pleads Joey, and truer
words have never been spoken. Recorded more than a decade after their groundbreaking 1976 debut, "Merry Christmas" reflects the huge growth in the Ramones' songwriting chops, and it incorporates their well-documented love of Phil Spector and classic Tin Pan Alley pop. The band first released "Merry Christmas" in 1987 as the b-side of their Beggars Banquet UK single "I Wanna Live," and they later included it on their 1989 album Brain Drain - though in a new, more polished version. Both versions, however, were produced by Jean Beauvoir (Plasmatics) and Daniel Rey, so it's possible that they are built on the same basic track. Either way, Rhino's Punk Rock Xmas includes the hard-to-find single version with all its rough edges intact. The album version is much more common, appearing on Oglio's The Edge Of Christmas (1995), Rhino's VH1: The Big 80's Christmas (2001), Blackheart's Christmas A Go-Go (2008), and many others. [back to list]
- Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman (Headwound, 1996)
- Merry Christmas I Love You (Mark Bacino, 2000)
- Merry Christmas I Love You (James Brown, 1966)
- Merry Christmas I Love You (Velocity Girl, 1992)
- Merry Christmas (I've Been Waiting So Long) (John Lindberg Trio, 2014)
- Merry Christmas Kiss My Ass (All Time Low, 2010)
- Merry Christmas (Let's Turn Off The News) (Niagra Balls, 2015)
- Merry Christmas Loopy Lu (Kaisers, 1996)
- Merry Christmas Mary (Johnny Cash, 1972)
- Merry Christmas Mary Jane (Katie Pruitt, 2021)
- Merry Christmas Momma (Lloyd Price, 1963)
- Merry Christmas My Love (Tierra, 2016)
- Merry Christmas Polka (Andrews Sisters, 1949)
- Merry Christmas Polka (Tex Ritter,
1947) [close]
We think of Tex Ritter as a country singer, but he was more of a singing cowboy - which is not quite the same thing - appearing in dozens of western movies. "Merry Christmas Polka" (1948) reflects the difference, and it has the same goofy charm as singing cowboy songs like "(I've Got Spurs That) Jingle Jangle Jingle," which he recorded the same year, and "Christmas Carols By The Old Corral," his 1945 holiday smash. Compared to that song, "Merry Christmas Polka," can be hard-to-find. Outside the public domain, it's only ever appeared on one compilation, , a long out-of-print 1990 compact disc. Thankfully, the album got reissued for streaming and download in 2011.
It's worth noting, however, that, unlikely as it seems, this "Merry Christmas Polka" is not the same song as the Andrews Sisters' 1949 recording of the exact same title. - Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy) (Max Headroom, 1986)
- Merry Christmas To Me (Swoon 23, 1994)
- Merry Christmas To You (Peter 118, 2015)
- Merry Christmas Tonight (Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, 2007)
- Merry Christmas Wherever You Are
- George Strait (1999)
- Tanya Tucker (2011)
- Merry Christmas (Wherever You Are) (Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots, 1985)
- Merry Christmas Will Do (Material Issue, 1991)
- Merry Crassmas (Crass, 1981)
- Merry Fucking Christmas (To Some Of You) (85% Jesus, 2011)
- A Merry Jingle (Greedies, 1979) [close]
The Greedies are kind of a big deal - though you wouldn't know it at first glance. The band was an unlikely collaboration between members of decidedly old-school rockers Thin Lizzy - purveyors of anthems like "The Boys Are Back In Town" - and the Sex Pistols, princes of English punk. The Pistols had disintegrated in early 1978, and their infamous bass player, Sid Vicious, was dead little more than a year later - though not before murdering his girlfriend. Thin Lizzy's lead singer and bass player, Phil Lynott, was a punk ally of sorts, and he formed the Greedies (originally Greedy Bastards) with the guitarists and drummers from both bands: Steve Jones and Paul Cook (Sex Pistols), Scott Gorham and Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy). They played a few gigs, cut one single, "A Merry Jingle" (1979), appeared on Top Of The Pops - and that was that."A Merry Jingle" is hardly a masterpiece - just a medley of "Jingle Bells" and "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" that favors Thin Lizzy more than the Sex Pistols. But, it's a good time and a genuine historical artifact. It was first anthologized on Rhino's essential compilation Punk Rock Xmas (1995), and it's rarely been reissued in subsequent years.
- Merry, Merry Christmas (Alton Ellis & The I Listicks, 1972)
- Merry, Merry Christmas (Keb' Mo', 2019)
- Merry, Merry Christmas Baby (Dodie Stevens, 1960)
- Merry Muthafuckin' Xmas (Eazy-E, 1992)
- Merry Something Tou You (Devo, 2009)
- Merry Stupid Fucking Christmas (Thorazine, 1996)
- Merry Swiftmas (Even Though I Celebrate Chanukah) (Evan Taubenfeld, 2009)
- Merry Texas Christmas, You All!
- Gene Autry (1952)
- Elton Britt (1952)
- Ernest Tubb (1952)
- Merry Twist Mas (Jay Matty, 1961)
- Merry Twist-mas (Marcels, 1961)
- Merry Xmas (Fetty Wap, 2015)
- Merry Xmas Blues (Celibate Rifles, 1982)
- Merry Xmas Everybody
- Camp Freddy (2006)
- Doctor & The Medics (2012)
- Metal Gurus (aka Mission UK, 1990)
- Oasis (2003)
- R.E.M. (2007)
- Slade (1973)
- Vice Squad (2011)
- Merry Xmas (Screw You) (Audra & The Antidote, 2005)
- Messed Up Xmas (Dollyrots, 2010)
- Message To Santa (Cheetahs, 1992)
- Millennium Prayer (Cliff Richard, 1999)
- Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa (De La Soul, 1991)
- Million Dollars For Christmas (The Andersons, 1995)
- Miss You This Christmas (Letters to Cleo, 2019)
- Missus Santa Claus (Leslie "Uggams" Crayne, 1953)
- Mister Kringle's (Dressy Bessy, 2011)
- Mistletoe (Lucy Hale, 2014)
- Mistletoe (Saturday Looks Good To Me, 2002)
- Mistletoe And Holly
- Jack Jones (1964)
- Frank Sinatra (1957)
- Mistletoe And Me (Isaac Hayes, 1969)
- Mistletoe And Wine
- Collabro & Cliff Richard (2021)
- Cliff Richard (1988)
- Vice Squad (2016)
- Mistletoe Kiss Polka (Margaret Whiting, 1949)
- Mistress For Christmas
- Misty Wonderland Hop (Hayseed Dixie, 2008)
- Mittens (Train, 2021)
- Mod Guitar Christmas (Stratocruiser, 2006)
- Mom And Dad For Christmas (Lee Denson, 1973)
- Mommy Look, Santa Is Crying (Stonewall Jackson, 1966)
- Mommy What Happened to Our Christmas Tree (Little Willie John, 1953)
- Mons Vaticanus (Ziggy Marley, 2021)
- Monsters' Holiday
- Lon Chaney, Jr. (1964)
- Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers (1962)
- Moonlight, Mistletoe & You (Keb' Mo', 2019)
- Morning Christmas (Beach Boys, 1977)
- Motorcars & Aeroplanes (Remington Super 60, 2001)
- Mr. And Mrs. Santa Claus
- Laura Cantrell & Michael Shelley (2021)
- George Jones & Tammy Wynette (1973)
- Mr. Grinch (D.I., 1994)
- Mr. Santa (Suzy Bogguss, 2001)
- Mr. Santa Claus (Bring Me My Baby)
- Fleshtones (2008)
- Nathaniel Mayer & His Fabulous Twilights (1962) Top 100 Song
- Mr. Santa Claus (Santa Claus Helping Hand) (Richard Marks, 1969)
- Mr. Santa's Boogie (Marshall Brothers, 1951)
- Mr. Scrooge
- Cindy Lawson (2022)
- Orchids (1964)
- Ms. Claus (The Grapes & Friends, 2018)
- Mrs. Claus (Aquadolls, 2021)
- Mrs. Claus Has Menopause (Sterilles, 1987)
- Mrs. Santa Claus (Nat King Cole, 1953)
- Mummy Won't Be Home For Christmas (The Scaffold, 1974)
- Mule Size Yuletide (Evan Johns, 1990)
- Must Be Santa
- Brave Combo (1992)
- Bob Dylan (2009)
- Mitch Miller (1961)
- Kurt Vile (2022)
- My Baby Fell For Ol' St. Nick (Dada, 1993)
- My Boyfriend's Coming Home For Christmas (Toni Wine, 1963)
- My Christmas Card To You (Groovie Ghoulies, 1992)
- My Christmas Card To You (Partridge Family, 1971)
- My Christmas Disappointments (The Feebs, 2010)
- My Christmas Dream (Sonny James, 1966)
- My Christmas List (A Simple Plan, 2002)
- My Christmas Love (Bobby Vee, 1962)
- My Christmas Prayer (Saint Etienne, 1993)
- My Christmas Song For You (Melissa Manchester, 2006)
- My Christmas Tree (Temptations, 1970)
- My Christmas Tree Is Hung With Tears (Sarah Brown, 1983)
- My Christmas Was In June (Ze Malibu Kids, 2002)
- My Christmas Wish (Ronnie Spector, 2010)
- My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)
- Peggy Lee (1983)
- Regina Spektor (2007)
- My Dreams Of Christmas (Boxmasters featuring Billy Bob Thornton, 2007)
- My Most Miserable Christmas (Charles Brown, 1961)
- My Favorite Christmas (Brandy Clark, 2023)
- My Favorite Things
- Tony Bennett (1968)
- Supremes (1965)
- We Five (1965)
- My Favorite Time Of Year (Jackopierce, 2012)
- My Favorite Time Of Year (L.A. Exes, 2021)
- My Mom & Santa Claus (George Jones & The Jones Boys, 1962)
- My Name Is Santa And I'm A Punk Rocker (Launch Control, 2016)
- My Stocking Is Empty (Leslie "Uggams" Crayne, 1953)