# Christmas songs no one plays anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 19, 2015, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822 "2015-12-19T01:35:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/41 "2015-12-23T08:29:45Z")
Is the wonderful Pogues / Kirsty MacColl song [Fairytale of NEw York](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8) popular at all in the US? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/42 "2015-12-23T08:35:13Z")
Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming is one I have not heard in a long time. There used to be a radio station check of an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator performing a spoof of The Twelve Days Of Christmas that I have not heard since the 90s. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/43 "2015-12-23T16:48:12Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Is the wonderful Pogues / Kirsty MacColl song [Fairytale of NEw York](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8) popular at all in the US? Yep. And The Irish Tenors did a cover but left out the offensive part 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/44 "2015-12-23T17:45:06Z")
I haven’t heard [Turkey-Lurkey Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HMRZrVF2eU) in a while. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/45 "2015-12-23T20:44:24Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Which is really too bad, because the songs in Group 2, without exception, SUCK. > > They don’t suck because they are secular, they suck because they suck. I totally agree with you. And to the extent that they were at least tolerable in their suckitude once upon a time, they’ve been overplayed way past the point where toleration was an option. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/46 "2015-12-23T23:25:59Z")
“Santa’s Beard”-Beach Boys(did they ever play this in the first place?) “Christmas Time is Here Again”-Beatles “Thank God It’s Christmas”-Queen “Merry Xmas Everybody”-Slade(almost unknown in America, ubiquitous in UK and other places) “Mele Kalikimaka” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/47 "2015-12-24T04:51:08Z")
Does _Christmas Don’t Be Late_ ever play any more? (In particular, the Chipmunks version?) ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/48 "2015-12-24T06:58:04Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I haven’t heard [Turkey-Lurkey Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HMRZrVF2eU) in a while. Nonono, if you’re going to post this song, you should post [THIS version.](https://youtu.be/15S4M5EAG8Y) Terrible song, amazing dancing. Amazing. How Donna McKechnie’s head doesn’t just fly off, I’ll never know. We sing in a choir, so we sing lots of Christmas songs and carols. I also really like the Sufjan Stevens [Songs for Christmas](http://music.sufjan.com/album/songs-for-christmas) for mellow folky covers of some old favourites. ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/49 "2015-12-24T07:12:37Z")
I haven’t heard the dogs barking “Jingle Bells” for a while…nor National Lampoon’s “Kung Fu Christmas”. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/50 "2015-12-24T17:20:38Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > How does King Wenceslas like his pizza? > Deep-pan, crisp and even. I like this 😃 I know the tune but had to look up the lyrics. This must crack the kids up in church. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/51 "2015-12-24T19:17:04Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > “[I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dec9Jb_Ac4)” > > (I Dare any currently touring artists to sing this baby in a Christmas set…!) [LeAnn Rimes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wXZqLkKxQ) did it. > [@gigi](#): > > How does King Wenceslas like his pizza? > Deep-pan, crisp and even. Shouldn’t that be “Deepdish, crisp and even”? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/52 "2015-12-24T19:18:18Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Shouldn’t that be “Deepdish, crisp and even”? “Deep-pan” sounds like “deep and.” ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2015, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/53 "2015-12-24T21:19:20Z")
When I was a kid I had “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” and on the flip side, “Here Comes Suzy Snowflake.” I have since heard, on occasion, that hippo song, but I never heard Suzy Snowflake again. Nor, really, expected to. (But what I really loved about that record was that it was red, and you could see through it! You just don’t get records like that, these days.) Another thing I didn’t expect, when I was, say, 10, was that 50 years later I would still be hearing “The Chipmunk Song” or in fact see The Chipmunks on a billboard. Nope. Did not see that one coming. But there’s that billboard. It’s been up for a week. ??? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/54 "2015-12-25T14:21:33Z")
> [@botsgotme](#): > > I haven’t heard … National Lampoon’s “Kung Fu Christmas”. [Here ya go.](http://doorbell.net/sounds/kung_fu_xmas.mp3) How about [Mixed Nuts, Dr. John](http://doorbell.net/sounds/dr_john.mp3), or [White Christmas, Bob & Tom](http://doorbell.net/sounds/bob_tom_white.mp3), or [It’s Hard to be Jew on Christmas, South Park](http://doorbell.net/sounds/jew_on_xmas.mp3)? Here’s one I’ll be you haven’t heard, but might like to hear again: [It’s Christmas Time](http://doorbell.net/sounds/xmas_time.mp3). ---
**Author:** ![GloryDays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GloryDays](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GloryDays)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/55 "2015-12-26T05:30:02Z")
Do you see what I see. Beautiful song. Merry Christmas to all of you. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/56 "2015-12-29T06:08:17Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Does _Christmas Don’t Be Late_ ever play any more? (In particular, the Chipmunks version?) Oh, I hope not. I was spared this year, and I wish that boon on all humankind. ---
**Author:** ![Arizona\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Arizona\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arizona_Mike)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/57 "2016-01-08T15:36:14Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’ve heard that one several times on the local Christmas station this year, so it’s in rotation here at least in Chicago! > > “Good King Wenceslas” is the first one I thought of, too, although I do seem to occasionally hear it. It’s one of my favorite carols, for some reason. Me, too. The real King (Saint) Wenceslas was a good guy. It’s a song about charity towards the poor at Christmastime, of which we don’t have enough. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2016, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822/58 "2016-01-09T02:55:58Z")
I forgot to mention my obvious thought on this OP: “Dear Mister Jesus”. Which is a good thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-no-one-plays-anymore/740822.md?page=2)