candidate: All I Want for Christmas Is You may also refer to : " All I Want for Christmas Is You " ( Vince Vance & The Valiants song ) , a 1989 song by Vince Vance & The Valiants ( lead vocal : Lisa Layne ) " All I Want for Christmas Is You " , a 1966 song by Carla Thomas " A Christmas Love Song " ( music : Johnny Mandel and lyrics Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman ) The first line of the lyric reads " All I Want for Christmas Is You " , and recordings may be mislabeled with this as the " title " .