The Holiday Fest 2025

Today's Fest is all you want.  Two completely different songs titled, "All I Want for Christmas is You" -- and both wonderful.

The first is the one that most people think of, Maria Carey's song.  Though this is her version only in part, it's from an utterly joyous "Carpool Karaoke" with James Corden and a sleigh full of singers, vibrantly edited together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJExBXRorA

The other is a great song from Vince Vance and the Valiants, which he wrote five years earlier in 1989.  They had a huge country hit with it, and made a nice music video of the song, but the video features a model filling in to lip-sync the soaring, raspy vocal by lead singer Lisa Layne.  So, instead, I thought I'd post her in concert, front-and-center on her own.

(Side note:  It was her choice not to appear in the video -- except for a small cameo -- because she thought people might think there was an actual romance going on between her and Vince Vance.  They still do perform together -- there's an audience-recorded video of the full group doing the song in 2019.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXWwhh7agI