Todays Washington Post has an article on two surveys of what songs people most and least want to hear during the Christmas season (apparently taken to mean the period before Christmas). The top three on both lists were Bing Crosby's "White Christmas", Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (1946) and Burl Ives's "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (1965) Other favoites, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" (Brenda Lee), "Jingle Bell Rock" (Bobby Helms, 1957) and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". All these works are described in the article as "standards" and "classics," may God have mercy on us!I dont know whether Christmas carols were included in the surveys or not, but I thought it might be interesting to ask what our favorite Christmas carols are, and why? Lets be positiveI wont ask you for your least favorite carol. (Im taking "carol" here to mean a song having some reference to the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, Messiah, Lord, and Savior.)