Jose Feliciano

Make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen, the Christmas season doesn’t officially begin until you hear Jose Feliciano sing, “Feliz Navidad” over the radio. I checked on Wikipedia and Feliciano initially performed his version of this song in 1970 (it just seems a lot longer than that to me). And so many of my favorite Christmas carols just won’t be the same with a lot of the great singers of these holiday tunes now in Crooner Heaven, i.e. Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Dean Martin, Robert Goulet, John Lennon, Karen Carpenter, and most recently, Andy Williams. Call me an old geezer, but Christmas doesn’t quite seem the same anymore without these “legends” around to belt out these songs.