Christmas Songs

Well, here's a list of 110 235 songs which are all explicitly released under a Creative Commons license (no, I did not consider songs which are merely "podsafe"!) and thus can be shared, listened to, and sometimes even modified freely. There's a great variety in style, mood, and genre of the songs: some traditional, some contemporary, some happy, some sad, and some just plain funny. So here's the list:

Single MP3s:

• Natalie Brown - Jingle Bells
• Danny Morris - Santa's Gone Surfing!
• Bullette - Christmas Blank
• Bullette - The Finest Gifts
• Jonathan Coulton - Podsafe Christmas Song
• Jonathan Coulton - Christmas Is Interesting
• Pete Green - Everything's Dead Pretty When it Snows
• Robert Gayler - Christmas Bells
• Sonny Jim - Christmas
• Shira Kammen - Christmas Day in the Morning
• Derek K. Miller - We Three Kings
• High-C & DJ Manticore - How George Stole Christmas
• Sarah Whiteley - Still, Still, Still
• Sean McGaughey - Homeless Babe
• Skoria - Christmas Impro

Compilations:

• Kemper Crabb - A Medieval Christmas (11 songs)
• Diorisiy - Christmas Carols (19 songs)
• The 8bitpeoples - The 8bits of Christmas (8 songs)
• Austin Rudy Christmas - Carolina Christmas (5 songs)
• Goyette Christmas Carolers - Various Christmas Songs (10 songs)
• Kevin MacLeod - Holiday / Christmas Collection (8 songs)
• Oilville Christmas Dynasty - Christmas Compilations (39 songs)
• Ottmar Liebert - Winter Rose (13 songs)

Additional songs 2006:

• Jonathan Coulton - Chiron Beta Prime (1 song)
• Naomi & Shamine King - Christmas with the Swirrels (11 songs)
• Naomi & Shamine King - Duets 2004 "Star Zero" (18 Christmas-related songs)
• Happy Puppy Records - A Happy Puppy Christmas (4 songs)
• Hairy Larry - The Gift (9 songs)
• Anup - Jingle Bells (1 song)
• Shira Kammen - Christmas Day in the Morning (1 song)
• The Kyiv Theological Academy And Seminary Choir - Hymns of the All-Night Vigil (20 songs)
• Drevo - Christian Themes in Ukrainian Folk Songs (22 songs)
• Uncle Seth - To Be An Angel (1 song)
• Die Weihnachtshasser - Gemeines zur Weihnachtszeit (14 songs)
• Die drei Lenöre - Der Weihnachtsmann / Rasierschaum (5 songs)
• Jeff Taylor keeps another list of free Christmas-related music at freechristmasmusic.googlepages.com (but not all of it is Creative Commons licensed!).
• Some more Christmas music will probably appear in my podcast over the next few days, too...

This list is by no means complete, I'm sure. So if you happen to know some more Creative Commons licensed Christmas music, please leave a comment! I'd love to hear about it.

(Btw., the nice image on the right is taken from the Wikipedia. The author is Malene Thyssen, and the image is dual-licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license)

Merry Christmas everyone!