Music Man

Best Christmas song?  Guaranteed to cause dissension.  My view is that the criteria should be that the song can stand independent of its original performer.  Which I'm afraid rules out songs like "Last Christmas" (great song, but can you imagine it being done by anybody other than Wham, or at the very least in the style of Wham?).  Same goes for "I wish it could be Christmas every day", "Merry Christmas everybody" and such like.  So we're thrown back on the "standards", and for what it's worth, here in the traditional reverse order, are my top five.  At number five "Winter wonderland", at four "Let it snow", number three "Have yourself a merry little Christmas", the runner-up "The Christmas song" and the winner - what else could it be but "White Christmas".