# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/61 "2016-12-14T22:53:16Z")
I never miss a chance to go on about Over the Rhine’s excellent album _Snow Angels,_ consisting almost entirely of original Christmas songs, all of them good. This is a standout for me: [“Darlin’ (Christmas is Comin’).”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Zu95cHK2U) ---
**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, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/62 "2016-12-14T23:05:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > **cwthree** , I think you have the wrong thread. This one is for songs that you _do_ want to hear. Gah, that’ll teach me to post from my phone. I’ve flagged my post. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/63 "2016-12-14T23:16:11Z")
[The Christians and the Pagans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_KiHRHwaAs) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/64 "2016-12-14T23:28:16Z")
[To Drive The Cold Winter Away.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXpLJIFli44) (Seasonal, not explicitly Christmas.) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/65 "2016-12-15T15:13:25Z")
> [@CoastalMaineiac](#): > > Call me weird, if you want, but I actually like the [Grinch song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFUcLZExzlA), sung by Thurl Ravenscroft. Doesn’t everyone? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/66 "2016-12-15T16:57:32Z")
> [@cwthree](#): > > 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. In the other Christmas songs thread, someone assumed that the little girl voice on “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” was fake. (It was by the 10-year-old Gayla Peevey.) The “Two Front Teeth” singer, on the other hand, was the [guy on the left.](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d7/30/59/d73059ba493ccb09833003e7c776210a.jpg) (George Rock, with Spike Jones on the right.) ---
**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 15, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/67 "2016-12-15T17:18:01Z")
The high-school concert I saw last week included “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”, and it was probably the best song in the whole concert. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/68 "2016-12-15T17:34:26Z")
The Band with “[Christmas Must be Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5bKtRU0Q6c)”. Though very simple, it’s one of the most moving xmas songs I’ve heard. I don’t know if it’s the words themselves, the spacey delay on the vocals or the timing of the lines in the chorus, but this one hits hard. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Dolly Parton’s _Hard Candy Christmas_. When my radio stations switch over to Christmas music around this time, I stop listening to them…except for just quickly checking in case they’re playing this song. Yep, Love it. “I won’t let… sorrow bring me way-down.” ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/69 "2016-12-17T02:04:07Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3e3osJtLdk) The Christmas episode of New Girl (of all things) reminded me of this great one. I think my love for it was partly influenced by it playing over [the opening credits of Gremlins](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzv2Ha_mMnQ). I caught her on the last year Letterman had a Christmas show, liked it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/70 "2016-12-17T06:37:18Z")
Not a song, but yesterday a recording made me grin. There’s a certain record of Christmas songs that’s been making the rounds since at least the 60s. I think it was made by the chorus of a school; not a professional thing, in any case. Hearing that particular run of Spanish classics in IKEA was unexpected 🙂 and I certainly like it better than most of the stuff whose singers I can name. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/71 "2016-12-17T21:08:52Z")
I like Christmas music. Better the closer you get. Solemn songs (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) and beautifully sung songs (Pentatonix, Bing Crosby) preferred. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/72 "2016-12-17T21:13:25Z")
> [@cwthree](#): > > 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. The guy who wrote that (as a novelty gift for his nieces and nephews) copyrighted it, never thinking he would ever make a penny from it, and when a DJ played it a few years later as a joke and the phone lines lit up, that’s when the ball got rolling. The song made him wealthy. He was inspired to do so when he substitute-taught in a 1st grade classroom shortly after WW II, and IIRC 16 of the 22 kids had no front teeth. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/73 "2016-12-18T11:35:44Z")
Green Chri$tma$ by Stan Freberg. **Chronos** , is your version of _The Holly and the Ivy_ perhaps perforned by Maureen McGovern? (Can’t link from my tablet, sorry.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/74 "2017-12-24T22:29:30Z")
Bumped. Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé blow the roof off with a duet of “All I Want for Christmas Is You”: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFvRf8PfpKw) And here she is doing the song as Carpool Karaoke with James Corden (and some other folks you may recognize, too): ['All I Want for Christmas' Carpool Karaoke - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJExBXRorA) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/75 "2017-12-25T01:46:37Z")
Of the many holiday songs that our Gay Men’s Chorus has performed over the years, one of my favorites has been [“Deck the Halls in 7/8”](https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrC5pagWEBaJkQAUXQ0nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByYXI3cnIwBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDNA--?p=deck+the+halls+in+7%2F8&vid=f40157194be57a21794ea27bafc6222c&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.ukp9uTmd5KsTE3NtnqCjbAEsCo%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D168%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8NE7k9N4G4A&tit=Deck+the+Halls+in+7%2F8&c=3&h=168&w=300&l=89&sigr=11bitl50h&sigt=10lcqdquc&sigi=12r085nqd&age=1426213115&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&type=tv_appfocus1_ff&tt=b). I’m sure most of the audience had no idea it was any different from the usual arrangement. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/76 "2017-12-25T01:48:46Z")
CD’s we play over and over every year: Vince Vance and the Valiants. Their song “All I Want for Christmas is You” (not the one Mariah Carey and countless others sing) is “our song” and I’ve never heard it done better. Michael Card _The Promise_ Joseph’s song is breathtaking. Straight No Chaser. “12 days of Christmas” morphs with “Carol of the Bells” and “Africa” Jimmy Buffett _Christmas Island_ I never heard this before this year when the church choir sang it. We went through it many times before I could sing it without crying. “Christ Is Born”: [Christ Is Born - Shofar - YouTube](https://youtu.be/uVcF_buD0NI) ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/77 "2017-12-25T02:00:34Z")
A no frills version of O Holy Night. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/78 "2017-12-25T02:00:48Z")
[Little Bolero Drummer Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYABZra1AE0) [Christmas Time is Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIRA7KWRBWM), by David Benoit [In Gabriel’s Garden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lqytJcDKlI&list=PLD1lxl2zyccfhCdLW5QjdWuMWTuGxzNha) album by Wynton Marsalis. You don’t have to like him, but he plays a mean baroque horn. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090/79 "2017-12-25T19:38:54Z")
> [@Patx2](#): > > A no frills version of O Holy Night. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gTFG_nvreoI/maxresdefault.jpg "O Holy Night | Carols from King's 2017") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFG_nvreoI) ---
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Probably the sappiest song ever written, but I still like to hear it on christmas. Christmas Shoes [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GJcPVB-we7g/maxresdefault.jpg "NewSong - The Christmas Shoes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJcPVB-we7g) Why don’t they ever play this song during christmas? Good King Wenceslas [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cVoANsKnlLs/maxresdefault.jpg "Bing Crosby - Good King Wenceslas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVoANsKnlLs) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-christmas-song-would-you-love-to-hear-again/774090.md?page=5)