Exhibiting the same kind of yuletide herd mentality that damned a million Cabbage Patch Kids, Tickle Me Elmos, and Atari 5600s to a lifetime of basement closet servitude (or in the latter’s case, ten-to-15 years spent in water-logged boxes outside of the local (pre-eBay) Salvation Army or St. Vincent de Paul before earning its “cool” back through the dark forces of nostalgia and irony), parents all over the world (and seemingly all at once) committed the ultimate holiday sin by replacing their tried and true seasonal favorites with Mannheim Steamroller’s impossibly lame Christmas 1984 album.

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Dim those bright lights just a little bit today, because a star is missing from the firmament. That’s right, celebrity (and singer and actor) Robert Goulet has died at the age of 73, while awaiting a lung transplant.

So, while you’re raising a drink, feast on the AMG-sanctioned greatest hits of his 50-year career, which takes you all the way from Camelot to Pixar. (And for his best work, if not the most popular, check out the disc that includes two of his solid early-’60s LPs, Two of Us/Begin to Love.)

• If Ever I Would Leave You [from Camelot] (sample)
• C’Est Moi [from Camelot] (sample)
• What Kind of Fool Am I? (sample)
• Something’s Gotta Give (sample)
• Here’s That Rainy Day (sample)
• Make Someone Happy (sample)
• The Impossible Dream (sample)
• You’ve Got a Friend in Me [from Toy Story 2] (sample)