Holiday

[Neetgal2]

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus🎅🏻!

Takes me back to my happiest time in life.  Young, innocent and protected by wonderful parents.  🎄

[vermint]

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" always does it for me...but I still love the song!

Years ago, on an episode of M.A.S.H, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) sang this song...it was the first time I really understood the meaning of it. Made me cry!

ETA: After reading the other responses, I just had to say--I used to love "Christmas Shoes" and it made me cry. But after listening to it a zillion times, I started thinking that maybe this little boy was running a scam with his dad. I could just see them returning several pairs of "Christmas shoes" --that others had paid for--for cash on December 26!

[frenchie]

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@Flatbush wrote:

For me, I always feel nostalgic and tear up when ever and where ever I hear, "I'll Be Home For Christmas".

So many in my family are gone and I am so far from my home and city.

How about you, do you also react with such memories?

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Same for me. Perry Como comes to mind. His Christmas album is the best. 

[LindaSal]

Little Drummer Boy..........I can still hear my dad singing it to us when we were little. (sigh)

[PhilaLady1]

Merry Christmas Darling by Karen Carpenter.   She had such a beautiful voice.   There was a deep mournfulness in it.

[Carolina925]

"Blue Christmas" is mine. It always made me tear up and I never thought it was Christmas until I heard it for the first time. Funny that it never had much meaning until I lost my mother; now it really is a blue Christmas. A lot of other Christmas carols get to me, especially those by the "crooners" of the 60s because I think of those Christmases past that hold such wonderful memories. I can think of only a few gifts from Santa but I sure remember my heart being filled on Christmas mornings.

[Goldengate8361]

All of them! I literally hate Christmas music.....one of the worst things about this time of the year.

[Dragonflyveb]

The Moody Blues singing "A Winters Tale."

lost love--always sad at Christmastime.

Melancholy is such an apt word too.

[Pezzie]

@on the bay   Especially sung by Nat King Cole.  

[skatting44]

@Group 5 minus 1   @vermint 

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent and recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby, ."     Many memories shared by family of  many  sons, Uncles , brothers who were all enlisted men overseas during WWII. This song is timeless .