America's Top Ten Christmas Special

America's Top Ten Christmas Special was a Christmas-themed episode of Casey Kasem's weekly television music countdown show, "America's Top Ten", based on his long-running radio program. It aired during the early 1980's.

Songs featured on the show:


 * Mahalia Jackson singing "Silent Night" from a television show in the 1960's


 * "Jingle Bell Rock" performed by Donny Osmond


 * Gene Autry's "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer"


 * novelty song "I'm Gettin' Nuttin' For Christmas"


 * Bing Crosby's "White Christmas", the number one song on this special countdown

Also profiled on the show was a kindly older gentleman, a philanthropist dressed as Santa, who was presented as a model of the Christmas spirit and the "real Santa Claus".

Casey Kasem also tells the story of the Christmas truce of World War I. In Kasem's narrative, a German soldier leaves his foxhole to sing "Stille Nacht", the original German version of "Silent Night", and the battle ceases as all listen. Then a French soldier stands to sing "Minuit, Chrétiens", the original French version of "O Holy Night".