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Comments:
Stephen
2008-12-07 08:48:35
I'm right there with you on the Paul McCartney song.
Some additions for you to consider:
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - New Bomb Turks
Brown Christmas - El Vez
Listening to Otis Redding At Home During Christmas - Okkervil River
Annunciation Day/Born on Christmas Day - Ted Leo / Pharmacists
Christmas at the Zoo - The Flaming Lips
The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes
Mele Kalikimaka - Poi Dog Pondering with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
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Westbye
2008-12-07 14:46:11
I almost didn't see The Waitresses on there! Crisis averted.
Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters
What Child is This?/The Holly and the Ivy - Bing (1968, I believe)
Ain't no Hole in the Washtub - Ma and Emmet Otter
Buffalo Gals - George Bailey & Mary Hatch
and of course!
Blue Christmas - Elvis
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LisaMcC
2008-12-07 20:22:09
I actually can't do the Elvis version of "Blue Christmas," out of respect for my Ma, who to this day is still traumatized by a night out at a bar where the jukebox was STUCK on that song for, like, hours. She tells the story with a tinge of revulsion which makes me not want to listen to it ever again, either.
The Paula Kelley version of it is nice, though, and not just because I sing on it.
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ska-t
2008-12-07 23:20:11
i was regaled by grocery store muzak, yeasterday.. in particular, Paul McCartney's airhead dreck. i thought i was going to hurl an hour later. related?
James Brown's "Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year" is flat out testifying.
los Straitjackect's "Marshmallow World" is quite twang-i-licious.
and lastly... why am i not surprised that you included Root Boy Slim? (i went to his "Punk Prom" in a Goodwill tux, and got to shake his hand when he admired my "get up".
anointed by the Duke of Puke.
my legacy.
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Katie DeBonville
2008-12-08 14:39:42
I've always found the Crosby/Bowie duet oddly fascinating and a bit unsettling...
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Honey
2008-12-08 17:22:39
Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas - John Denver
No, I didn't make that up.
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Rebecca H.
2008-12-08 18:30:56
The Monkees, "Riu Riu Chiu"
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Spooney
2008-12-08 19:30:37
I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake (of ELP fame)is a nice one
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ska-t
2008-12-08 22:36:45
...oh, and Merle Haggard's "If We Make It Through December", if you need that bummer-Christmas feeling to take the edge off.
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Toddlington
2008-12-09 15:47:43
Don't forget that cheeseball classic, "Feed the World", o-lady o' the 80s.
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vikkitikkitavi
2008-12-11 00:39:45
Spooney stole my song. I don't believe he would know that song if it weren't for my 70s-tastic musical taste.
Oh, and you know the only reason that Paul McCartney made that crap song is because John Lennon had that huge Xmas song.
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vikkitikkitavi
2008-12-11 00:42:42
Oh, and please consider Nancy Wilson's "That's What I Want for Christmas."
You can hear it here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Nancy+Wilson/_/That%27s+What+I+Want+for+Christmas
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kellie b
2008-12-22 14:32:59
Been in Texas - so I am late chiming in:
"Merry Christmas from the Family" Robert Earl Keen. A classic.
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