What’s your favourite Christmas song ( not carol )

The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole, then Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt.

Fairytale of New York. Or Driving Home for Christmas to honour Chris Rea.

As I was reading this the sad news about Chris Reading came on the news

Sorry last post garbled.

In his honour what about

Driving home ths Christmas by Chris Rea who died today

Fairytale of New York or a very catchy tune by Bing Crosby. I heard it on an advert last Christmas and it came on the radio yesterday as we were driving home. It's Mele Kalikimaka. It's the Hawaiian way of saying Merry Christmas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtdEufWBDo8

To honoue Chris Rea who died today wha

It’s just flash Ed up on my phone while I was reading this thread that Chris Rae has died . 😟💐

The only ones I like are Fairytale of New York, 2000 Miles by the Pretenders and Live Aid. I don't like any of the others particularly Santa Baby.

Oh that is sad * Greyduster*.

ginny

I like a lot of Christmas so gasoline difficult to chose a favourite.
I am quite surprised that so many love Fairy Tale of New York. We sing it in our choir and I hate it.
It is really a sad story and I usually think I’d like to leave the room when we get to it in the programme.

I love it. It is different from the usual Christmas songs, most of which I dislike. Mind you, I saw an interview with Shane McGowan's sister on TV who said that she can't listen to it now.

Feliz Navidad

Just heard Chris Rea has died. Very sad. Good to know that Driving Home for Christmas will away trigger memories of him.

Fairytale of New York.

Always Last Christmas for me, also Santa Baby but has to be Eartha Kit.

I wish it was Christmas Every Day?? Kill me now!

Bross Silent Night, beautiful!!

I love Christmas but I must be weird as I absolutely hate Christmas songs! There are only one or two I can tolerate. One is the above-mentioned one by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. (That could well be influenced by the fact I chatted to David for around 30 minutes back in 1989 and he was absolutely lovely).
I switch off when Slade start singing, and the same with Wham. I just wish there could be some new, more modern songs brought out at this time of year instead of the same-old, same-old stuff that we are force-fed with.

Gizzy, I have a version of I'll be Home for Christmas by Josh Grogan in which his singing is interspersed with messages from servicemen and women to their friends and families who they will not see at Christmas. It's very humbling.

Santa Baby by Madonna

Fairytale of New York

Walking Round in Women’s Underwear - Twisted Christmas

Driving home for Xmas .
Chris Rea.

Feliz Navidad

We enjoy most of the classic Christmas songs however, sung by modern artists and groups.

One of our favourites is The Motown Christmas Story ..

Silver Bells by Jim Reeves is my favourite. I will happily listen to it any time of the year.

Stop the Cavalry
O Tannenbaum (a reminder that life carries on through the coldest times)
Mary’s Boy Child

and

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

– but not, PLEASE NOT the sanitised version with Hang the Brightest Star Upon the Highest Bough! There are dozens of songs saying Here we all are, isn’t it nice. That one is about being forcibly separated at Christmas and just hoping, one day, we’ll be together, but “until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow”. That’s what the song is all about, and changing the words to get rid of that sentiment is just shallow. I walk out of shops when I hear them play that version!

I still love Do they know it’s Christmas? by Bandaid.

Oh holy night is very definitely a Christmas Carol.