12 Days of Casey - Day 12

In somewhat of a countdown fashion, HERC will be featuring a different Casey Kasem Christmas show or countdown each day from now until December 25th, in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent and ending with the very first American Top 40 Christmas countdown from 1971.

Near the end of his long and illustrious broadcasting career, Casey Kasem recorded several Christmas music themed shows for his latter day countdowns American Top 20 and American Top 10.  We begin the 12 Days Of Casey with the bottom half of Casey's 60 Top Christmas Songs, originally broadcast on American Top 10. 

The show was originally broadcast across two consecutive weekends back in 2005 and has since been re-aired that way nearly every year via the Premiere Radio Network.  The countdown is somewhat dated by the inclusion of Extras, more current songs that were interspersed within the countdown as well as Casey's noticeably aged voice.  Still, the program is very nearly wall-to-wall Christmas music and a favorite around The Hideaway.  Casey introduces himself as both Casey Kringle and Casey Claus throughout the show as he name checks Christmas-y sounding cities and towns across the U.S. such as Pasco, Detroit, Pineville, Navasota and Nacogdoches.  The charts below countdown the songs including those featured Extras as well as the song's position on the December 20, 2014 Billboard Holiday 100 chart.

#	title	artist	year	Holiday 100
60	Santa Claus Is Coming to Town	The Jackson 5	1970	61
59	Someday At Christmas	Stevie Wonder	1967
	What Christmas Means To Me	Jessica Simpson	2004
58	Grown Up Christmas List	Amy Grant	1992
57	Step Into Christmas	Elton John	1973
56	Santa Baby	Madonna	1987
	Ave Maria	Barry Manilow	1992
55	I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	John Cougar Mellencamp	1987
54	The Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth	Bing Crosby with David Bowie	1977
53	Snoopy's Christmas	The Royal Guardsmen	1967
52	Joy To The World	The Supremes	1965
51	Santa Claus Is Coming to Town	Bruce Springsteen	1981	26

#	title	artist	year	Holiday 100
50	Silent Night	Stevie Nicks with Robbie Nevil	1987
	Silver And Gold	Vanessa Williams	2004
49	Last Christmas	Wham!	1984	5
48	The Chipmunk Song	The Chipmunks	1958	76
47	Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)	Gene Autry	1947	58
46	Silver Bells	Gloria Estefan	1993
	Christmas Time	Backstreet Boys	1997
45	Please Come Home For Christmas	Eagles	1978	37
44	Little Saint Nick	The Beach Boys	1963	51
43	All I Want For Christmas Is You	Mariah Carey	1994	2
	Where Are You, Christmas?	Faith Hill	2000
42	Blue Christmas	Elvis Presley	1957	23
41	Frosty The Snowman	The Ronettes	1963
	O Holy Night	Josh Groban	2002
	The Night Before Christmas	Carly Simon	1992

#	title	artist	year	Holiday 100
40	Wonderful Christmastime	Paul McCartney	1979	17
39	You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch	Thurl Ravenscroft	1966	50
38	We Need A Little Christmas	Percy Faith	1966
	The Christmas Shoes	Newsong	2000
37	Caroling, Caroling	Nat "King" Cole	1960
36	Christmas Time Is Here (vocal)	Vince Guaraldi Trio	1965
	The Christmas Song	Michael Bublé	2003
35	Do They Know It's Christmas?	Band Aid	1984	74
34	Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental)	Vince Guaraldi Trio	1965	38
33	Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas	Pretenders	1987
	The First Noel	Karla Bonoff	1995
32	Christmas Canon	The Trans-Siberian Orchestra	1998	20
31	Deck The Halls	Manheim Steamroller	1984

grayed out songs are the Extras in the sequence they were broadcast and are not included in the playlist below while the green titles are the ones currently unavailable via Spotify