12 Days of Casey - Day 11

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 continue the 12 Days Of Casey with the top half of Casey's 60 Top Christmas Songs, originally broadcast across two weekends in 2005 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 (most of which are repeated from the first half of the countdown, including one which somehow ends up at #7) as well as the song's position on the December 20, 2014 Billboard Holiday 100 chart.

#	title	artist	year	Holiday 100
30	Home For The Holidays	Carpenters	1984
29	Feliz Navidad	Jose Feliciano	1970	8
	Believe	Josh Groban	2004
28	Winter Wonderland	Darlene Love	1963
27	Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree	Brenda Lee	1958	3
26	Same Old Lang Syne	Dan Fogelberg	1980
25	Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!	Frank Sinatra	1948	53
24	Happy Holiday / The Holiday Season	Andy Williams	1963	28
23	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen	Manheim Steamroller	1984
22	Sleigh Ride	The Ronnettes	1963	41
21	Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer	Gene Autry	1949	12
	Joy To The World / When Love Came Down	Point Of Grace	1999
	Christmas Through Your Eyes	Gloria Estefan	1993

#	title	artist	year	Holiday 100
20	Winter Wonderland	Dean Martin	1966
19	I'll Be Home For Christmas	Bing Crosby	1943
18	O Tannenbaum	Vince Guaraldi Trio	1965
	Up On The Housetop	Kimberley Locke	2005
17	Jingle Bell Rock	Hall & Oates	1983	63
16	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	Nat "King" Cole	1960
	Silver And Gold	Vanessa Williams	2004
15	Winter Wonderland	Eurythmics	1987
14	Jingle Bell Rock	Bobby Helms	1957	11
13	Merry Christmas Darling	Carpenters	1970	60
	What Christmas Means To Me	Jessica Simpson	2004
12	Winter Wonderland	Johnny Mathis	1958	73
11	Happy Xmas (War Is Over)	John & Yoko with the Plastic Ono Band	1971	19
	Carol Of The Bells	David Foster	1995	84

#	title	artist	year	Holiday 100
	Where Are You, Christmas?	Faith Hill	2000	35
10	Sleigh Ride	Leroy Anderson	1948	69
9	It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas	Johnny Mathis	1986	36
8	The Little Drummer Boy	The Harry Simeone Chorale	1958	78
7	The First Noel	Karla Bonoff	1995
6	A Holly Jolly Christmas	Burl Ives	1964	14
	Because It's Christmas	Barry Manilow	1990
5	White Christmas	Bing Crosby	1942	9
4	O Holy Night	Celine Dion	1998
3	It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year	Andy Williams	1963	10
	The Christmas Shoes	Newsong	2000	33
	Christmas Time	Backstreet Boys	1997
2	Do You Hear What I Hear?	Whitney Houston	1987
1	The Christmas Song	Nat "King" Cole	1946	4
	Here We Come A Caroling / We Wish You A Merry Christmas	Perry Como	1960

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