12 Days of Casey - Day 4

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.

Day 4 of the 12 Days Of Casey is an episode of American Top 40, featuring the first half of Casey's second "All-Time Christmas Countdown" of the Top 40 Christmas Songs. Casey explains the rankings process:

Our rankings for the All-time Christmas Countdown are based on the AT40 staff's interpretation of thirty-three years' worth of surveys published by Billboard Magazine, including record sales, air-play, jukebox-play, sheet music sales, and continued popularity over the years. In our opinion, a fair ranking of the hit songs of Christmas.

This holiday countdown originally aired on December 22nd, 1973, when HERC was all of seven years old.  Maybe he heard it back then or maybe he didn't but thanks to Premiere Networks, he has heard a replay of that show.  The countdown contains lots of songs HERC had either forgotten about or never knew.  The average release year of the bottom 20 is 1956.

#	title	artist	year
40	The Happy Reindeer	Dancer, Prancer and Nervous	1959
39	Marshmallow World	Bing Crosby	1950
38	Santa Claus Is Watching You	Ray Stevens	1962
37	Santa and the Satellite (Parts 1 and 2)	Buchanan and Goodman	1957
36	Little Altar Boys	Vic Dana	1961
35	Merry Christmas Polka	Andrews Sisters	1950
34	Baby's First Christmas	Connie Francis	1961
33	Little Saint Nick	Beach Boys	1963
32	Merry Christmas Darling	Carpenters	1970
31	Snoopy's Christmas	Royal Guardsmen	1967
30	Pretty Paper	Roy Orbison	1963
29	Santa Baby	Eartha Kitt	1953
28	Mary's Boy Child	Harry Belafonte	1956
27	I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas	Yogi Yorgesson	1949
26	It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas	Perry Como	1951
25	Home For The Holidays	Perry Como	1954
24	Christmas In Kilarney	Dennis Day	1950
23	Lonesome Christmas (Part 1)	Lowell Fulson	1950
22	All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth	Spike Jones	1948
21	Merry Christmas Baby	Charles Brown	1948