Forty-three years ago today, a legendary singer/songwriter behind some of country music's most enduring hits died.

In the late 1950s and through the mid-1960s there was a flurry of corny songs, many with nonsense word refrains.

Here are 40 Christmas music classics for your playlist, from Mariah Carey to Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Joni ...