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It looks like Tormé weather outside, so let’s snuggle up by the fire to this selection of The Christmas Songs old and older. Merry Kitschmas!

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Bring a torch Annette Funicello to this festive freak out full of holiday hits.

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A baby changes many things, but Kitschmas is evergreen. It’s all babes, all toyland in this joyous mix of heraldic tunes to get you in a merry mood. Merry Kitschmas from our family to yours!

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It’s Disc-overload! Disc-O Holy Night! First-foot your way to the Kitschmas afterparty with a bonus hour at the disco. More kitsch! No stops! Tammy Faye!

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Bid good rid-dance to 2020 with an hour at the disco. This 17-song some-stop mix is sure to help you boogie into the new year in style.

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An adoring matinee audience is full of excitement as you open your viola case and begin to tune. The curtain rises, as does the orchestra pit, and you play your one millionth flat seven chord of the season. Away we go!

A true Festival of Carols, this playlist features a variety of pops-orchestral favorites, plus some new ones, including an operatic ‘Feliz Navidad’ and at least 144 days of Christmas. Medley Kitschmas!

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You slip past the bouncer at Studio 25, New York’s hottest dance club of 1979. The trumpet-flare pants shall sound, and a mirror ball bathes the club in twinkly snowfall. You put on your sunglasses.

Disco meets Kitsch meets Christmas, starting and ending with selections from the unparalleled “Ethel Merman Disco Album” and featuring a new Christmas medley from the Salsoul Orchestra. Enjoy!

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You stop by the Double R Diner for some coffee and pie. The stoplight outside swings back and forth, and an owl stares at you from a fir tree across the street. Things are definitely getting weird.

Featuring 12 plays of kitschmas, each with its unique ‘charms’. Starting with Lynne McNeil’s relentless 12 days, then featuring 10 Kitschmas classics, followed by another 12 days from an artist called ‘bongolong’. Enjoy…?

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You enter the Tinsel Tavern at the I70/465 Howard Johnson, 1964. You order an eggnog and slide into a red leather banquette. The band begins to play a groovy setlist.

Featuring a 5-track excerpt from Choose Your Own Advent, followed by loungey tracks from throughout the Kitschmas oevre. We finish with Side A from Japan’s “Big Beat XMas” (1973).