# Modern Christmas Carols **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021 "2006-12-06T02:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/21 "2006-12-06T23:25:37Z")
[QUOTE=tarragon918] 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. [/QUOTE] Doesn’t have to be sung in a church to be a [carol](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/carol). ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/22 "2006-12-06T23:34:52Z")
“Last Christmas” by Wham! I’d love to see a group of carolers go around singing that one! ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/23 "2006-12-07T03:50:42Z")
[QUOTE=aktep] [The Little Drummer Boy (1958)](http://www.carols.org.uk/little_drummer_boy.htm) [/QUOTE] 1941. [http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/kkdavis.html](http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/kkdavis.html) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/24 "2006-12-07T03:55:23Z")
[QUOTE=Dooku] I was always partial to [Christmas Wrapping](http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00008NGI0001006/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_006/102-0201021-1403334), by The Waitresses (1981) [/QUOTE] Definitely. There’s also Martin Mull’s “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope” from around 1975. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/25 "2006-12-07T05:33:29Z")
Heh, touche, **Monte**. Okay, so now all I got is _Jingle Bell Rock_. Don’t throw any rocks at me, you all know that you like that song now! 😉 I tried to find out when “Carol of the Bells” was written, but couldn’t find much; it does appear to be from an old melody. It’s one of my favorites. To me, Christmas carols will always be associated with church, but that’s because of my upbringing - my father is clergy (Episcopal priest) and my mother was a church organist (many carols this time of year make me think of my Mom too–so it’s good, but also makes me feel sad). Just remembered: Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time.” ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/26 "2006-12-07T05:40:34Z")
[QUOTE=tarragon918] Heh, touche, **Monte**. Okay, so now all I got is _Jingle Bell Rock_. Don’t throw any rocks at me, you all know that you like that song now! 😉 I but that’s because of my upbringing - my father is clergy (Episcopal priest) [/QUOTE] No kidding?! Did he (or you) know Dr. Harper of St. John’s in DC? I was an acolyte (back in my Episcopalian days) when he was Rector. ---
**Author:** ![tarragon918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@tarragon918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tarragon918)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/27 "2006-12-07T07:50:43Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] No kidding?! Did he (or you) know Dr. Harper of St. John’s in DC? I was an acolyte (back in my Episcopalian days) when he was Rector. [/QUOTE] Sorry, **Monty**! Even though I live in the DC area, I didn’t grow up here–my Dad served in Delaware and PA (Philly area). He actually started out as a Baptist minister, then went to the Congregational church (those churches were in MI), then finally became an Episcopal priest in 1965. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/28 "2006-12-07T13:26:45Z")
Another good thread for plugging the Carols for a Cure Xmas CDS. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has released one a year since 1999, and they combine the old and the new. How can you not love the Full Monty doing “A Full Frontal Christmas”: By the chimney hung with care are my stockings and underwear It’s gonna be a full frontal Christmas this year. There’s nothing stirring in the house. Where is Santa? Where’s my blouse? I’m hoping for a full frontal Christmas this year. Well hello man, take the coat off that snowman for Frosty’s beginning to thaw. He’ll grin and bare it. Look at his carrot. Sing it: Fa La La La La La La. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/29 "2006-12-07T17:16:24Z")
I’m a huge fan of modern Christmas songs. 🙂 In addition to the Wham!, Paul McCartney, and The Waitresses tunes mentioned above, here are my favorites from my iPod: Run DMC – Christmas in Hollis The Kinks – Father Christmas Elton John – Step Into Christmas Billy Squier – Christmas Is The Time to Say I Love You The Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy’s Christmas Karen Carpenter – Merry Christmas Darling Sting – Gabriel’s Message Gary Glitter – Another Rock and Roll Christmas The Beach Boys – The Man With All The Toys The Beach Boys – Santa’s Beard The Beach Boys – Little Saint Nick Wizzard – I Wish It Could be Christmas Every Day Stevie Wonder – What Christmas Means to Me Stevie Wonder – Someday at Christmas Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas Emerson, Lake, & Palmer – I Believe In Father Christmas Blink 182 – I Won’t Be Home For Christmas ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021/30 "2006-12-08T01:48:13Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] “Last Christmas” by Wham! I’d love to see a group of carolers go around singing that one! [/QUOTE] I’ve seen that. Well, it was a staged group of carolers on a Japanese tv show, but it did look cool. Plus, I like the song. **Annie-Xmas** : Those lyrics look like they belong on the Twisted Tunes collection. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/modern-christmas-carols/383021.md?page=1)