Since it’s just about Christmas and I’m living overseas, I got to thinking, “I wonder what the new Christmas carols are here are and if they’re any good.” So, I put the question to the TM:
What are the best modern Christmas songs where you happen to be?
I’ll try to scare up some information for recent Korean songs of the season.
Sorry about the duplicate thread. Bizarre stuff happening across the ol’ IDL, I bet.
Monty, by “modern,” do you mean “20th Century,” “the past two years,” or something in between?
Good question! Perhaps anything written after that terrible annoyance about Rudolph.
When was it written?
Written in 1939 for the department store chain Montgomery Wards.
Everything You Need To Now About Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer
The story was written in 1939 - the song in 1949.
Sounds good (the date, not the song) to me. Let’s go with 1949 CE or later. Thanks, DMark.
Hmm…that just barely cuts off 1940s pop standards such as “White Christmas,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire).”
Let me offer up “Silver Bells” (1951).
Well, there’s that horrible The Chistmas Shoes song.
The local “all Christmas, all day” station plays that one too much, as well as Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”, which is only a christmas song in that it mentions Christmas Eve in the second line.
How about I want a hippopotamus for Christmas (1953)?
Do You Hear What I Hear? (1962)
God, I so want that hippopotamus to eat that child.
Nope. A hippo is a veg-e-tar-ee-an.
Well, what if the kid in question is…ah, I can’t make the joke. Not at Christmastime. :o
Hippos are responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any other animal. So be of good cheer.
Happy Christmas(War of Over) by John Lennon
Baby It’s Cold Outside - Bing Crosby
A popular Australian Christmas carol:
The Three Drovers, by William James.
I was always partial to Christmas Wrapping, by The Waitresses (1981)
The thread title reads Christmas Carols, but most of the songs mentioned are not really carols but Christmas-themed songs. Carol, to me, implies a song or hymn that might be sung in church, or maybe an anthem. I can do some searching for post-1949 Christmas carols or anthems, but if that’s not what you want, I can also look up some songs (I have a few in mind, but am not sure when they were actually written!).
So, I’ll be back later after I check on a few things!