"A Spaceman Came Traveling," Chris de Burgh (A&M)

From 1975, this is de Burgh taking David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and turning it into a Christmas song, in which the spaceman of the title's interplanetary craft was itself the Star of David. The last verse even includes a self-referential plug for the song, saying that it would begin playing again in 2,000 years. Give or take, of course. After its original release on the album Spanish Train and Other Stories, the song became a minor hit in Ireland and Canada and had a renaissance in 1985 after de Burgh had an international hit with "The Lady in Red."