# What's your "NOW it's Christmas" song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620 "2012-12-10T17:32:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/1 "2012-12-10T17:32:04Z")
Every year the radio stations go to 24/7 Christmas music right around Thanksgiving but for me it’s not Christmas until I hear Alving pining away for his hula hoop. What song makes you say, “Okay,\* now\* it’s Christmas?” ---
**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 10, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/2 "2012-12-10T17:33:38Z")
“[Christmas Wrapping](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I)” by the Waitresses. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/3 "2012-12-10T18:22:50Z")
‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ by Slade – but it must be heard off air, by chance, via a crap sound system (ie, heard coming from a garage forecourt as I’m walking by, or in a shop). The 9 bazillion times it appears on television shows doesn’t count. Not quite the same thing, but as far as I’m concerned, this is the best Christmas program after Doctor Who > **[TV listings guide](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/)** > > TV Guide and Listings for all UK TV channels; BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and more. Find out what's on TV tonight here. I don’t listen to the radio or actively seek out the videos on youtube, so this is my annual viewing of Shakin Stevens and Jona Lewie et al. Last year they debuted the missing-believed-wiped David Bowie Jean Genie during the broadcast! There’s the usual rubbish that gets played every year, but they do dig out some interesting things as well. I was afraid it wouldn’t be on this year due to all the Savile/Travis folderol here. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/4 "2012-12-10T18:31:55Z")
Bing Crosby and David Bowie’s duet of [Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADbJLo4x-tk). I finally heard it night before last, playing as background music to the local TV guide channel. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/5 "2012-12-10T19:03:38Z")
Nat King Cole’s [The Christmas Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5s8h2d1RK8). ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/6 "2012-12-10T19:30:32Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “[Christmas Wrapping](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I)” by the Waitresses. Darn, you got it in one! ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/7 "2012-12-10T19:48:16Z")
[Father Christmas, the Kinks.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni04_SF-HRQ) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/8 "2012-12-10T19:53:02Z")
“So This Is Christmas,” by John Lennon. I’m in tears by the end of the first verse. I get the same feeling when I listen to the theme from _A Charlie Brown Christmas._ ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/9 "2012-12-10T20:28:55Z")
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which is perhaps the only 100% Christmas song I like. (Omitting the usual children’s jingle-jangle stuff, which must simply be tolerated.) When I finally hear a radio station or music system play it, it’s Christmas. And then they’ll play “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” at which point I have to find a reason to put on my dark glasses and say, “No, I think I got some dust in my eye.” \*Every \*time. ---
**Author:** ![expectopatronum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/expectopatronum/32/173_2.png) [@expectopatronum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/expectopatronum)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/10 "2012-12-10T20:32:54Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “So This Is Christmas,” by John Lennon. I’m in tears by the end of the first verse. > > I get the same feeling when I listen to the theme from _A Charlie Brown Christmas._ nitpick: the lennon song is “happy xmas (war is over)”. that one’s mine, too. the charlie brown song is a close second. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/11 "2012-12-10T21:38:07Z")
Maybe “Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron” or “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch”. But half the time my Xmases don’t feel terribly Xmassy anyways. EDIT: Apparently it’s actually “Snoopy’s Christmas”, the follow-up to the aforementioned song. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/12 "2012-12-11T00:58:48Z")
The dogs barking “Jingle Bells”!🆒 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/13 "2012-12-11T01:08:06Z")
Serious song: _Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas_ Not so serious song: [_Everywhere It’s Christmas (Beatles fan club record)_](http://youtu.be/b1zvoVi3fCU) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/14 "2012-12-11T02:19:12Z")
“Grown-up Christmas List”. Yeah, I tear every damn time I hear it. I’m a sap, what can I say? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/15 "2012-12-11T02:22:45Z")
“Skating” by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/16 "2012-12-11T03:50:56Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > And then they’ll play “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” at which point I have to find a reason to put on my dark glasses and say, “No, I think I got some dust in my eye.” \*Every \*time. If only in my dreams… Yep, _every_ time. Bing Crosby’s **White Christmas** is the song that really means Christmas to me though. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/17 "2012-12-11T04:40:31Z")
Another vote for Father Christmas- ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/18 "2012-12-11T05:01:44Z")
Carpenters’ _Merry Christmas Darling_. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/19 "2012-12-11T05:16:56Z")
_Feliz Navidad_, by Jose Feliciano. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620/20 "2012-12-11T19:19:25Z")
Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Canon”. That was one of my favorite classical pieces as it is. To hear it with that lovely children’s choir is phenomenal. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-now-its-christmas-song/643620.md?page=2)