# Christmas songs that don't need to be redone. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370 "2016-12-22T15:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/21 "2016-12-23T19:32:25Z")
Last Christmas by What-not need to be redone by any artist. A very 80s, happy Christmas song Christmas Wrapping-another 80s holiday tune by the obscure new wave band, Waitresses. I’m Getting Nothing For Christmas-Eartha Kitt does it best. Cold December Night-Michael Buble All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front by Nat King Cole. Santa’s Beard-Beach Boys Merry Christmas Darling-Carpenters, the ending multi vocal is kick ass. RIP Karen. Marshmallow World-Darlene Love Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee is the definitive version. Some I can think of now. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/22 "2016-12-26T22:08:29Z")
Andy Williams - It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/23 "2016-12-26T22:14:21Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > _Fairytale of New York_ by the Pogues. > > (C’mon, don’t tell me none of you weren’t thinking about it.) I wasn’t just thinking about it, I came in to post it. ---
**Author:** ![GinoC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f4b2a3/32.png) [@GinoC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GinoC)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/24 "2016-12-27T02:04:46Z")
The Burl Ives version of “Holly Jolly Christmas”. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/25 "2016-12-27T02:17:09Z")
Once “Must Be Santa” has been recorded by a Nobel laureate, does it need to be re-done? ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/26 "2016-12-27T02:45:34Z")
“This Christmas” by Donny Hathaway. ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/27 "2016-12-27T21:30:21Z")
The only one that I want to preserve is [Chrstmas Time is Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2xCQIQ97Dk) from Charlie Brown Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/28 "2016-12-27T21:34:36Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > Last Christmas by What-not need to be redone by any artist. A very 80s, happy Christmas song > Christmas Wrapping-another 80s holiday tune by the obscure new wave band, Waitresses. > I’m Getting Nothing For Christmas-Eartha Kitt does it best. > Cold December Night-Michael Buble > All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front by Nat King Cole. > Santa’s Beard-Beach Boys > Merry Christmas Darling-Carpenters, the ending multi vocal is kick ass. RIP Karen. > Marshmallow World-Darlene Love > Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee is the definitive version. > > Some I can think of now. I have never heard “Santa’s Beard,” but for me, the definitive Beach Boys’ Christmas song would be “Little Saint Nick,” which would not need to be remade by any other artist. ---
**Author:** ![Clawdio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d07c76/32.png) [@Clawdio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clawdio)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370/29 "2016-12-27T22:10:39Z")
Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band Over the past week I heard some group make a go at it, and they made it sound like elevator music. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-songs-that-dont-need-to-be-redone/775370.md?page=1)