# Christmas songs - so many questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [December 23, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994 "2025-12-23T22:03:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/161 "2025-12-31T00:54:27Z")
I’ve never heard the Mirah Cary one either, but I do know of its existence. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/162 "2025-12-31T01:08:25Z")
It is actually quite good- but WAY overplayed. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/163 "2025-12-31T01:57:24Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I’ve never heard the Mirah Cary one either, but I do know of its existence. And I’ve never heard Bink Krosby’s “Wild Chtistmas”… ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/164 "2025-12-31T09:40:29Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > Well, I’ve managed to never hear Last Christmas. > > Ditto. In fact, I don’t think I’d ever heard _of_ it. I hadn’t heard _Fairytale of New York_ until the other day when I watched the video on Youtube. And the only reason I did that was because people here were discussing it as a Christmas song. My impression: sort of a Christmas song, but certainly not the usual upbeat ones we’re used to. And way too many smoking cigarettes in the video. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/165 "2025-12-31T12:56:03Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Selma Blair and Rainn Wilson also recorded a gender-flipped version (as a Gap ad, of all things): Betty Garrett and Red Skelton gender-flipped it first (_Neptune’s Daughter_, 1949). > [@griffin1977](#): > > No I was talking about the well know Irish folk punk Christmas song “The (homophobic) F-word in Fairy Tale of New York. Speaking of “Fairytale of New York”, _is_ there an NYPD choir, and do they have a recording of “Galway Bay” (and is it available on Spotify)? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/166 "2025-12-31T13:21:41Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Speaking of “Fairytale of New York”, _is_ there an NYPD choir, and do they have a recording of “Galway Bay” (and is it available on Spotify)? I became curious on this point as well, so I looked it up-- according to this video, there was not an NYPD choir recording of Galway Bay, so this organization created it. From the video notes: > We created an NYPD Choir based on a Shane MacGowan lyric from the Pogues’ Fairy Tale of New York. Recorded the song and directed a music video for the Irish Museum of Emigration in Dublin. Thanks to a lovely cast, crew, Bridge Studios, and PublicHouse Agency in Dublin. RIP Shane. > Director: Michael Uys > Producer: Federico Negri > DP: David Dessel/Sam Henriques > Agency: PublicHouse [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W3cUjMpLoUA/hqdefault.jpg "NYPD Choir - Galway Bay - An Ode to Fairytale of New York") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3cUjMpLoUA) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/167 "2025-12-31T14:19:16Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > (Although I _do_ like “[Numbah One Day of Xmas](https://youtu.be/M0n9SnuvX28?t=47)”.) That version was written by Ed Kenney, who lived with **kaylasmom** ’s aunt during the Eighties, and who once came to our house and made a big pot of shoyu chicken for us. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/168 "2025-12-31T17:38:29Z")
As @solost confirmed, the choir did not actually exist. For the Pogues video they drafted the pipe and drum corps. When you see them singing in the video, they were supposedly singing “The Mickey Mouse Club Theme.” ---
**Author:** ![schnebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@schnebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnebs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/169 "2026-02-15T22:20:35Z")
> You’d be surprised how strict the North Pole Reindeer Union’s break rules are. ---
**Author:** ![schnebs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@schnebs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnebs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994/170 "2026-02-15T22:23:24Z")
> You’d be surprised how strict the North Pole Reindeer Union’s break rules are. > [@Shoeless](#): > > Half a dozen deer with Rudy to lead” – what happened to the other two? Reindeer sausage? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-so-many-questions/1025994.md?page=8)