An attractive media executive quit her job few years ago and now writes only Christmas music. One of her songs I really like, it’s fun and catchy.
Here is an article about her from Billboard.
Here is the video link to my favorite song of hers.
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“December Song”-George Michael
I about split a gut reading this!
Yes, you just need to listen to KSHIT-FM. You’ll find Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, George Michael, etc… Also, every music star in the world will do an album with the classics, and probably include a few of their own composition.
Was it the Bob Dylan christmas song “Must be Santa”, which is so hilariously bad I love hearing it!
Seriously. v_v I like Sir Paul’s solo stuff a lot better than most people, but that one is horrible.
(A new mix that replaced the terrible synth with music that was less mired in the worst part of the 80s would at least reduce it to merely cloying.)
A local radio station is playing a Christmas carol marathon-stuff by Nat King Cole, gene Autry, Bing Crosby-most of the artists are long dead.
Some of my favorite Christmas music is from the last decade or so. We don’t hear more of it on contemporary pop radio, because commercial radio stations suck. And when I try to get others to accept that these songs are awesome and deserving of inclusion in the canon, they just roll their eyes at me. 
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[li]Santa’s On His Way by Asleep at the Wheel[/li][li]Better Days by the Goo Goo Dolls[/li][li]Donde Esta Santa Claus? by Guster[/li][li]Someday at Christmas by Jack Johnson[/li][li]The Christmas Song by the Ravonettes[/li][li]I Celebrate the Day by Relient K[/li][li]Maybe This Christmas by Ron Sexsmith[/li][li]Spotlight on Christmas by Rufus Wainwright[/li][li]Gift of the Magi by Squirrel Nut Zippers[/li][li]Sufjan Stevens album Songs for Christmas[/li][/ul]
Straight No Chaser basically did exactly that. They lifted out Macca’s vocal and put it into a less dated setting.
Looking that up…it’s definitely an improvement. But I’m a sucker for a capella music, anyway.
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, released in 1979.
Alas, no, it’s not by anyone ‘famous’ as far as I can tell. It’s very…generic. Bland collection of rhymes set to an unmemorable bland tune, you can’t even hum it, it’s so ‘meh’.
Does it have a part about free candy, by any chance? I caught a song on a holiday channel years ago that had a very similar construction to “Must be Santa” – at the end of each section, the singer would recap the previous sections in an ever-increasing chorus.
I’ve always given ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ a pass because it was the '80s, and people didn’t know any better.
The comment about the 80s when folks didn’t know any better got me to thinking about an even scarier era, the late 70s. …
There must have been some disco-themed Christmas tunes in the mid/late 70’s disco era. I was a teen/college kid then in the prime of the music nut period of my life and I don’t remember any. But there had to have been some. Anybody got any memories or search results?
Coming from the same horrific era there was a thing called the Star Wars Holiday Special Star Wars Holiday Special - Wikipedia . It had to have some seasonal music in it. A lot of George Lucas’ money has been spent burying all evidence of this crime against humanity. But maybe, just maybe some of the music has survived in our part of the galaxy.
Anyone? Bueller?
I give you “Twelve Days of Christmas” as performed on the Donny and Marie Osmond Christmas Special of 1979!
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I give you “Twelve Days of Christmas” as performed on the Donny and Marie Osmond Christmas Special of 1979!
[/QUOTE] Pretty horrific. You win.I saw that one as it was originally broadcast. Since I was 10 years old, it has been the “chicken in a banana tree” song.
“Christmas at the Zoo” by The Flaming Lips should be mandatory holiday listening; it’s funny and optimistic as well as being a bit sad and wistful too: kids love it. “A Change At Christmas”'is pretty cool, too.
This is from last year…
Ooo, did someone say “Seventies”??
This monstrosity has been getting heavy airplay this year for some reason. Nothing gets you quite in the holiday mood like seemingly random singing and assorted melodies jammed on top of a monotonous disco beat. Looking around online, it seems to be pretty popular…having missed out on the '70s myself, I don’t see the appeal at all.
Best Christmas song ever! Not many songs can make me laugh and cry.