Don We Now: top that

60% of heat loss is out the top of your head! Watch out for chilly climes: top up!

Perhaps that’s why Beth Sorrentino adds the odd improvisational “My Hat” number on Suddenly, Tammy!’s Christmas album. Despite the falalas this bad date song isn’t 4 Xmas.

Christmas in the Old Man’s Hat” is the busker’s cry for alms (you know: the goose is getting fat). From Noel McLoughlin, its Old World charm forces the entry to our listening now.

The Murples’ Magic Hat (Best Christmas Gift Ever)” has crowned our list before. A Halo Called Fred pop tune us this sci-fi story about transporting chapeaus to remind us how mysterious hats can be.

So let’s finish with the odder Julie Michelsen “The Magic Cat’s Christmas Hat.” The slow feminist folk livens up later, but stays wiccanly strange. Eventually it epics up and makes us see beyond our little lives. (Tambourine timpani scat!)