My Christmas Card To You, The Shooting Stars (OneGold)

Three British songwriters collaborated to write and produce this perfectly enjoyable 70s-sounding holiday song for 2009. The Stars are Mike Read, Elliot Frisby and Roy Wood -- yes, the author of "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," going for the Christmas market one more time, this time in service to the Shooting Star Children's Hospice, for which this single was released as a fund-raiser. I couldn't get my hands on it last year, but it appears to have migrated to the usual download sites this year. While Roy isn't singing lead on this, you can hear a little of his musical approach in the arrangement. Elliot Frisby solos on the B-side's acoustic ballad "Christmas Day."