The North Pole record shelf
Magical instrumental Christmas music
Twelve hand-picked instrumental recordings — no lyrics to talk over, nothing to sign up for. Play them while the letter is read aloud, while the interactive delivery is on the television, or while the wrapping paper gets everywhere.
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Silent Nights
United States Air Force Band of the Rockies
Our signature track — the one playing quietly behind every interactive North Pole delivery. Warm, unhurried, made for a dark room and one small face lit by a screen.
Silent Nights
2:42 · GentleIn every deliveryUnited States Air Force Band of the Rockies
Our signature track — the one playing quietly behind every interactive North Pole delivery. Warm, unhurried, made for a dark room and one small face lit by a screen.
Christmas Prelude
3:18 · GentleUnited States Air Force Band of Mid-America
For the hour before the tree lights go on. Soft brass, no hurry, the sound of a house getting ready.
Coventry Carol
0:48 · GentleUnited States Air Force Band
Four hundred years old and still the most beautiful sad thing in Christmas. Short — play it while the letter is being read aloud.
Gesù Bambino
4:25 · GentleUnited States Air Force Band of Mid-America
Yon's old melody, played the slow way. Good for Christmas Eve, once the wrapping is done.
Carol of the Bells (Shchedryk)
2:24 · SparklingUnited States Air Force Heritage of America Band
The Ukrainian original, four notes turning over and over. The Bell Tower's official test piece.
Waltz of the Flowers
7:30 · SparklingUnited States Air Force Band
Tchaikovsky, from The Nutcracker. Seven and a half minutes of swirling — long enough to get an entire family into coats.
A Winter Prelude
5:15 · GrandUnited States Air Force Band
Snow arriving in slow motion. Put this on while the interactive delivery is casting to the television.
Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night)
4:08 · GrandUnited States Air Force Band of the Golden West
Adam's carol without a single word sung — all the swell, none of the karaoke.
A Christmas Overture
5:53 · GrandUnited States Air Force Reserve Band
Six carols stitched into one big cinematic sweep. The closest thing we have to opening credits.
Celebration of Carols
3:53 · PlayfulUnited States Air Force Band of the Rockies
Bright, busy and full of tunes everybody already knows. Excellent for present-opening.
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
3:51 · PlayfulUnited States Air Force Band of Mid-America
Jessel's march. Toy-shop music, and the unofficial anthem of the Workshop Floor.
Pat-a-pan
0:43 · PlayfulUnited States Air Force Band
A Burgundian drum-and-pipe carol from the 1700s. Forty-three seconds of pure marching-to-the-kitchen energy.
About these recordings
Every track on this page is an instrumental recording in the public domain — chiefly performances by United States military concert bands, whose recordings are free of copyright. You are welcome to play them at home, at a school concert or behind your own Christmas morning video. Credits and sources are linked beside each track.
A Christmas Storybook is the track you hear behind the interactive North Pole delivery, and it travels with every order confirmation email.