David Bowie & Bing CrosbyPeace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy (Picture Disc)

Two worlds folding into one unlikely melody. Crosby holds the old-world 'Little Drummer Boy' line while Bowie weaves the aching 'Peace on Earth' counter-melody above it, their voices meeting in a hush that shouldn't work but does. Taped just weeks before the crooner's death, the duet hovers between eras, awkward and gorgeous at once. A pop curio worth spinning every December.