# Is "White Christmas" really the best Christmas song Evah?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 23, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375 "2006-12-23T20:13:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/21 "2006-12-25T23:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill]
Bah, that’s what I get for editing a post and not reading it carefully before posting. I _do_ find Frank’s version wistful, not at all “totally happy,” just a bit less somber than Garland’s.
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And Chrissie Hynde’s (my personal favorite) is better still.
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/22 "2006-12-26T03:16:40Z")
[QUOTE=DanBlather]
I vote for The Christmas Song and Santa Baby.
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I hope you’re talking about the original by Eartha Kitt and not that hideous Madonna version.
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### Author:  [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/23 "2006-12-26T03:36:53Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
I hope you’re talking about the original by Eartha Kitt and not that hideous Madonna version.
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Yes, definitely the original.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/24 "2006-12-26T17:56:17Z")
In spite of its being played to death, I’ve always liked _Christmas Wrapping_ by The Waitresses.
Two weeks ago was the tenth anniversary of Patty Donahue’s death at the age of 40.
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### Author:  [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/25 "2006-12-26T18:04:17Z")
Sideline question on the topic of holiday tunes: a lot of “Christmas” music is really just about winter: Jingle Bells, Frosty, Winter Wonderland, Let it Snow! and so forth. Do you play after Christmas, or no?
Also, is Auld Lang Syne too sad for New Year’s Eve sing alongs? My wife says it is. I think it is poignant and appropriate, if you know what the words mean, and don’t mind a little sadness as counterpoint to the revelry. There seems no better time to toast old friends and memories. I fear that the poetry of Burns will give way to some relentlessly upbeat sing-along by Pink, if we’re not vigilant.
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### Author:  [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/26 "2006-12-26T18:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill]
Little trivia about DMArk… he doesn’t read the OP very carefully. 😉
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I call foul, **Double-W**! 😉
In the OP you asked for something to back up the notion that “White Christmas” is the most popular Christmas song, and he tells you how it was such a monster hit in its day, they had to build a whole 'nother movie around it. How many songs can make THAT claim?
Now, the generation that made it a hit is dying off and disappearing mentally into senescence, most likely bringing about a change in the rankings, but it takes a while for public perception to catch upwith these things, IMO.
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### Author:  [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/27 "2006-12-26T19:43:05Z")
Well, MY favorite Christmas song is _Snowfall_ by the Manhattan Transfer. I suppose it could be played year-round but to me it’s always a Christmas song.
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### Author:  [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/28 "2006-12-27T00:53:22Z")
_The Little Drummer Boy_ has always been a song I didn’t care much for. I don’t mind it, I just don’t necessarily LIKE it.
But? Over the years, one of my favorite Christmas songs has become the duet by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. Bing Crosby sang the “base song”, _The Little Drummer Boy_, and David Bowie sang harmony with the added lyrics. I love love LOVE that duet.
I recently saw the video of the original singing of that song (courtesy of **voguevixon** ) and it is, as she said, pretty “cringeworthy.” BUT…the song, as they did it? I love.
I keep thinking I need to buy some CD or other that has it on there. So far I haven’t gotten around to it. But I’d listen to that any time of the year. I just LOVE it.
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### Author:  [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-white-christmas-really-the-best-christmas-song-evah/385375/29 "2006-12-27T01:37:04Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
Now see, I adore the movie _White Christmas_, but my favorite song is not the title tune, but rather _Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)_. I LOVE that song.
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My favorite song from the movie is Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me. Smoke-y.
(Got the DVD for Christmas. Yay!)
Susan
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