For being written off as devil's music in its misspent youth, rock and roll sure has contributed its share of Christmas standards to the yuletide canon.

This is Elvis doing Christmas his way, setting the scene with a stutter of "I'll ha-ha-have a Blue Christmas without you." There's nothing especially merry about this particular Christmas, either, as a broken-hearted Elvis sulks about the one that got away and references Bing Crosby's yuletide classic with a sigh of "You'll be doing all right with your Christmas of white, but I'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas." Released in 1957, it's slower and sadder than Ernest Tubb's 1950 original (on which there's no hint of that opening stutter).

source: azcentral.com