# What Christmas song would you love to hear again? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090 "2016-12-07T03:47:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/41 "2016-12-09T07:38:13Z")
If there’s going to be another one it should be this other [Darlene Love classic.](https://vimeo.com/97189077) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/42 "2016-12-09T09:07:28Z")
I’ll be Home For Christmas by Frank Sinatra or Michael Buble That song defines the holidays for me. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/43 "2016-12-09T12:46:08Z")
There is no Christmas song I desperately need to hear. Nowadays, it’s easy to find and hear any song I want to hear, whenever I want. But these are songs I love that I never hear on “Round the Clock Christmas Music” radio and that would be better than the dreck they keep recycling: "A Soalin’ " by Peter, Paul and Mary “Mary’s Boy Child” by Harry Belafonte “Nothing But a Child” by Steve Earle “It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way” by Jim Croce ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/44 "2016-12-09T12:47:47Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > One hears it very, very occasionally, usually on religious stations, but sometimes on regular stations. I’d love to hear more often > > _The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came_. I suppose it’s more properly an Advent song, but still… I rather like Sting’s version…and that’s not something I say often (his Dowland lute songs make me all stabby). I tend to favor the more miserable Christmas songs - “Please Come Home For Christmas” by the Eagles or Peter Warlock’s “Bethlehem Down” - so all the more saccharine fare is definitely off my list. ---
**Author:** ![eulalia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eulalia/32/457_2.png) [@eulalia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eulalia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/45 "2016-12-09T13:04:41Z")
I’m neither a New Yorker nor an Australian, but I keep playing Fairytale of New York and White Wine in the Sun. ---
**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 9, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/46 "2016-12-09T14:27:39Z")
[I Don’t Remember Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDdOCSUI6U) But then, I’m a huge fan of irony. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/47 "2016-12-09T14:57:59Z")
“Light of the Stable” recorded by Emmylou Harris (with Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton and Neil Young providing harmony). Beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/48 "2016-12-09T18:36:58Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > **DSYoungEsq:** That “Magnum” you linked is absolutely stunning. I’m kind of partial to the song by composer [Victoria](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeKvNxYMDxE) of the same name though. You mean the [Tomás Luis de Victoria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_Victoria) composition? Yes, that’s fairly commonly sung version, I think since it’s from the late 16th Century, not that far removed from the time frame when the chant was as-yet un-re-worked. He also has a very nice _O Vos Omnes_ that is often sung. 🙂 Should note that one of the things both the Victoria and the Lauridsen versions have in common is the hushed quality that predominates the music. I dislike choirs that do the Lauridsen at full volume; it misses the essence of the image. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/49 "2016-12-09T21:14:27Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xam01uaj6Vg/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGC8gZSg2MA8=&rs=AOn4CLBAw4973ju2_mYkwbqmpbGd5yaSTA "Barking Dogs - Jingle Bells") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xam01uaj6Vg) I’ve been known to listen to that on loop for… well, probably not hours, but quite a while. I’m aware that the song was originally not a Christmas song, but it is now, so whatevs… ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/50 "2016-12-09T21:28:54Z")
Slade’s **Merry Xmas Everybody** from 1973. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0A8KT365wlA/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-AoACoAKKAgwIABABGGUgXShSMA8=&rs=AOn4CLBM8f_vHsMCwaJGpDBDY8OfEXpA_A "slade - merry christmas everybody") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A8KT365wlA) It’s upbeat and optimistic. What’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/51 "2016-12-09T21:44:20Z")
[Ukrainian Bell Carol](https://youtu.be/HERnFfbcIxY) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/52 "2016-12-09T22:15:17Z")
The English translation of that, called “Carol of the Bells”, isn’t too hard to find. Though of course you’re not going to hear it very often in Ukrainian in an English-speaking country. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/53 "2016-12-10T01:29:21Z")
A lot of my favorite ones have already been mentioned ( **Hard Candy Christmas, Bob and Doug MacKenzie** ). My most favorite Darlene Love is **Marshmallow World**. The song I wish I heard more in general is **Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella** (I like hearing all sorts of versions of that one.) All of those I can listen to if I seek them out. One that I don’t know how to find is a version of **We Three Kings** that must have been more common when I was a kid – it was more of a simple, folk arrangement and slightly slower tempo than a lot of the current versions. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/54 "2016-12-10T01:49:30Z")
Robert Earl Keene’s [Merry Christmas From the Family](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg) is my only Must Hear Christmas song: _Little sister brought her new boyfriend, He was a Mexican, We didn’t know what to think of him, Til he sang Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad…_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/55 "2016-12-12T21:57:18Z")
Did you know Spinal Tap has [Christmas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEvMAmkDXvo) [music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImiY3B8LizE)? ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/56 "2016-12-12T22:05:23Z")
[Christmas NiGHTS](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpizvk_kqp85-pLwv1G0TpC1_WkyoS8Ju) [Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzaTAylx8RI) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/57 "2016-12-14T08:03:38Z")
I have always enjoyed the groove of Run-D.M.C.'s “Christmas in Hollis.” And I can’t help but be amused by the cash-grabbing cynicism of Stephen Colbert’s “Another Christmas Song.” ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/58 "2016-12-14T18:31:40Z")
I didn’t think I had anything to contribute, but then someone started playing “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” in the background. That song, plus the annoying little kid behind the voice, can DIAF. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/59 "2016-12-14T19:02:28Z")
**cwthree** , I think you have the wrong thread. This one is for songs that you _do_ want to hear. ---
**Author:** ![CoastalMaineiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@CoastalMaineiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoastalMaineiac)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/60 "2016-12-14T22:34:42Z")
Call me weird, if you want, but I actually like the [Grinch song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFUcLZExzlA), sung by Thurl Ravenscroft. Also, I haven’t heard “Mary’s Boy Child,” by Boney M on the radio yet this year, but that’s upbeat and catchy; I always enjoy that one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090.md?page=4)