DECEMBER POLL
Top 3 Classic Holiday Songs
Proportional RCV Election
Did you know that multiple winners can be chosen in one contest using ranked choice voting (RCV)? This type of voting is often referred to as proportional RCV or single transferable vote (STV).
This year, we are choosing the Top-3 Classic Christmas songs using this method. To learn more about proportional RCV, check out the Types of RCV page.
Classic holiday songs can bring back memories and help us make new ones! Many songs are considered classics. This month’s poll includes just 8 of the 100s we considered. Help us choose the 2021 top three favorite classic holiday songs for our RCVRC community this season.
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MEET THE CANDIDATES
All I Want for Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
Hailed by The New Yorker as "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon," this Mariah Carey classic is playing all over town these days!
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby first performed this classic song about a snowy holiday on December 25, 1941, just weeks after Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano
Feliciano penned this song while he was missing family at Christmas. The song brings back memories of celebrating Christmas Eve with his brothers, eating traditional Puerto Rican foods, drinking rum, and going caroling.
The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
This song is the smoothest of jazz sung by the iconic Black jazz artist Nat King Cole. The song appeared on Cole’s only full-length Christmas album that he ever recorded.
Blue Christmas - Elvis
Performed by Elvis Presley, who was once deemed “unfit for family viewing” by TV personality Ed Sullivan, this song evokes a sad time of unrequited love during the holidays.
Rocking around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee recorded this song when she was just 13 years old! The instrumental version of the song also appears in the 1964 television special “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
Gene Autry’s version of this beloved song about a reindeer trying to find his place in the world held the #1 spot on the Billboard pop singles chart the week of Christmas 1949 and sold over 2.5 million copies in the first year.