jamesg1213


..or do they?

In the '70's it was de riguer, but it seems to me that 'big name' acts stopped bringing out Christmas songs sometime in the '80's..or have I just missed them since then?

(Cliff Richard doesn't count btw...my rules )

It's because Kevin Bloody Wilson said it all really ;)

.......oh, and they're all a bit naff really, ain't they ?

I quite like naff songs at this time of year.

jamesg1213


I quite like naff songs at this time of year.

Here ya go then....

Well, there now..nothing wrong with that!

Straummy actually appears on a real record singing Merry Xmas Everybody
 
 
Check out me and a few of my chums in full voice HERE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Incidentally, I am the one that's slightly out of tune
 

I'm waiting for the Honey Boo-Boo Christmas album.  

craigb


I miss the Spike Jones album my Mom used to have...

I have the double LP of his music ... and that Indianapolis send off is great!
 
Also have Tom Leher and Ernie Kovacs! Both lovely, though Ernie has not a whole of music!

Hi,

i would like to do a Christmas song that makes fun of people that go for the syrup'y and commercial stuff ... and change the meaning to it ... as the sound of money.

Unffortunately, Vivian Stanshal is long gone, and I will have to do with anything else.

I resolved already that this Christmas Day, I will only play Bonzo Dog Band, Neil Innes, Eric Idle (and specially his CW satires in Rutland Times!), Grimms, Mike McGear, Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll of course, and that whole family of lovely lunatics! I long to hear that group of priests singing their way, and asking for the directions to the Army! And of course, Spike Milligan doing "I'm Walking Backwards for Christmas!"
 

 

 

Just my speculation and not really based on facts: 

I suspect the "secular" artists aren't doing as many Christmas songs because there are so many new ones done by Christian artists. 

but that means that if you don't listen to the "Contemporary Christian Music"  (CCM) genre then you won't hear the new Christmas songs, which is sad, because there are many new ones since the '80's and a lot of them are extremely well made.

a lot of times CCM will spill over into the "secular" music and will be played on the radio and other media distribution along with non-CCM music (there are several examples I could state and you might have heard some of the more popular ones that reached non-CCM charts even tho the songs themselves are actually CCM songs).  However, I can't think of too many Christmas songs which have bridged that gap.

MAYBE this one did...I'd bet it got airplay on non-CCM stations, but I don't know specifically how well it did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpkI7GW2V34

(careful, tho, it's s tear-jerker! )