Here's a few hours' worth of Detroit Christmas tracks (mostly Motown)

By Mike McGonigal

Dec 15, 2015 at 3:57 pm

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Last year I did this list of the top 15 Detroit Christmas songs on the Motown record label; it's here. This year, I thought it might be more fun and user friendly to just fill one page with a bunch of great YouTube links for Christmas songs by Detroit artists, and to "cheat" by posting a full album or two, for the purpose of playing this in your browser while you're at work more easily. It's nice to get in the spirit, and even nicer to do that with music that's not just the same old same old yule log.

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Mike McGonigal

Metro Times music editor Mike McGonigal has written about music since 1984, when he started the fanzine Chemical Imbalance at age sixteen with money saved from mowing lawns in Florida. He's since written for Spin, Pitchfork, the Village VOICE and Artforum. He's been a museum guard, a financial reporter, a bicycle...