As far as I know, “Shouldn’t Have given Him a Gun for Christmas” by Wall of Voodoo remains uncovered.
Looks like “The Bell that Couldn’t Jingle” by Herb Alpert (1968) was not only NOT a unique recording, but Bobby Vinton recorded it in 1964.
There are a goodly number: Cover versions of Fairytale of New York by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl | SecondHandSongs
KT Tunstall, Sinead O’Connor and Celtic Thunder I know I’ve heard of. The other artists, not so much.
But the flip side of “¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?,” “Ol’ Fatso” doesn’t seem to have been covered. The original got airplay; I heard it more than the A side.
Neko Case does a great version.
It doesn’t look like anyone but John McCutcheon (the song’s writer) has ever done “Christmas in the Trenches” (a story of the Christmas Truce of WWI).
Sadly, no. John McDermott and Seamus Kennedy have covered it, at least.
There are two pretty famous covers of “Happy Xmas (War is Over),” but I’ve never heard them.
How about “Father Christmas” by the Kinks?
Only three versions of the Snow Miser song I know of. The two films and Big Bad Voodoo.
Christmas in Hollis and Christmas Is, both by Run DMC.
And Wiki tells me there are covers of Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer, but in all my time walking the earth, I’ve never heard any of them. It’s Elmo and Patsy, and only Elmo and Patsy, as far as I’ve ever heard.
I despise that song.
But yeah, pretty much there are covers of every popular song.
I thought of that one (Cheech and Chong) this morning, why would anyone cover it, right?
Pretty sure there’s only one “professional” version of “Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo.”
Has anybody covered “Merry Christmas from the Family” by Robert Earl Keen yet? It’s basically the only Christmas song I like.
Or “A Lonely Jew at Christmas” from the same show.
To extend that, has anyone covered Adam Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song” or “Christmastime for the Jews” from SNL by Darlene Love?
I guess it’s time for my annual commercial for the Carols for a Cure CDs. Holiday songs sung by Broadway casts, with mnay original versions that have not been covered.
My favorite is Avenue Q’s The Holi-Daze.
Well, then count yourself tremendously lucky that you have therefore never heard what Ronan Keating and Moya Brennan did to it.
Montgomery Gentry, Jill Sobule, the Dixie Chicks, and many others.
I thought “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” would be one but I found it done by the original artist, Gayla Peevey in 1953 and then again by Kacey Musgraves in 2016.
How about “Little Sandy Sleighfoot”? It was done by Jimmy Dean in 1957.
Both at the top of my list of most hated Christmas songs.