Let's build a Straight Dope Christmas Spotify list

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On my list…it’s one I always make sure to listen to at least once during the season (much to my wife’s chagrin). Working on the other two now.

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You may or may not be aware that most of those places are gone now: No more Schweggman’s, no more K&B, no more McKenzies :cry:

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OK, my full list of 3:

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas - Bob and Doug McKenzie
  • Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love
  • Snow Day - Toby Lightman
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A distinctly varied mix:

Christmas List:

I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas - Gayle Peevey
Please Come Home For Christmas - Eagles
Hey For Christmas! - Baltimore Consort / Custer LaRue / John Playford

Honorable Mention:

Bethlehem Down - Philip Warlock (composer). There are lots of performances of this; which one you pick is entirely up to your personal taste. The Kings Singers or Voces8 do a clean, tight ensemble version, but there are performances by bigger choirs with more echo that also appeal.

Riu Riu Chiu - Monkees (may be just listed as “Riu Chiu”)

The Way-Too-Early Christmas Song - Paul and Storm

Not on Spotify:

The Christmas Monkey - Dulces Voces

In fact I can’t find the damn thing at all on the internet, which makes me sad. No relation to the Curious George song.

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Great idea. All of these are on Spotify.

I Want an Alien for Christmas by Fountains of Wayne
Party for Santa Claus by Lord Nelson
Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) by The Darkness

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I think 12 Days … by Straight No Chaser and Oh Come … by Twister Sister fall into the traditional carol category.

Latest stats: 33 songs for 1 hour 53 minutes.

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Green Chri$tma$ by Stan Freeberg
Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt (don’t even THINK of the “Madonna” version - she’s off key for half the song)
Santa Lost a Ho by the Christmas Jug Band

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How about this one:

I can’t think of any more just yet. But I will look (or listen).

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  1. Dwight Yoakam, Santa Can’t Stay
  2. Sia, Snowman
  3. Bob Dylan, It Must Be Santa
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couple more oldies to go with Eartha and Dino:
Louis Armstrong - Christmas in New Orleans
Lou Rawls - What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

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I don’t have Spotify so can’t tell you if these are on there but they are on Amazon music:

Chiron Beta Prime, Jonathan Coulton
White Wine in the Sun, Kate Miller-Heidke (not the Tim Minchin version. Puke)
The Night Santa Went Crazy, Weird Al.

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How about Wizzard - Rock n Roll Winter

(Although it was released in spring and it says “Sorry - the word ‘spring’ wouldn’t fit” on the label)

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My top three are:
The Whirling Dervishes version of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”
Bjork, Jólakötturinn
Harry Belafonte, The Baby Boy (aka The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy)

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Being an Old Time Radio nut, I absolutely have to add ‘The Night Before Christmas’ from the Fibber McGee and Molly show. I’ll also claim 'Driving Home for Christmas. by Chris Rhea.

Can’t decide on a third song to add though, there are a lot of other good ones out there. Maybe Münchener Freiheit ‘Keeping the Dream Alive’, which is an honorary Christmas song here and probably no one else will pick it.

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I don’t Know What Christmas Is - The Old 97s (from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special)

Not Another Christmas Song - Blink-182

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I don’t do much Spotify, but have a subscription to Deezer, and this is my Christmas playlist:

For those too lazy to click:

Father Christmas - The Kinks
Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues
Xmas In February - Lou Reed
2000 Miles - The Pretenders
We Sing Hallelujah - Richard and Linda Thompson
Jesus Christ - Big Star
Gaudete - Steeleye Span
River - Joni Mitchell
Jingle Bells - Michael Bublé
Mistress For Christmas - AC/DC
Christmas - The Who
The Power Of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Merry Christmas Baby - Chuck Berry
Run Rudolph Run - Chuck Berry
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - Aretha Franklin
Must Be Santa - Bob Dylan (but you MUST watch the video for this one)

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It’s an episode not a song so I can’t add it. Do you want to pick another?

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Are you going to pick three for the Straight Dope List?

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It was released on record (actually as a 3-disk album), so I’d have thought it would be available. TBH I don’t do streaming, I save copies of any tune I like so I can’t check on Spotify. edit: If the King’s Men version isn’t available, the Fred Waring version might be.

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Sure, sorry I missed this restriction. As some of my favorites have been already picked, I choose:

2000 Miles - The Pretenders
We Sing Hallelujah - Richard and Linda Thompson
Jesus Christ - Big Star