BuzzJack Favourite Xmas Songs countdown 2009

 

:naughty: B) :cheer: :D :yahoo:

 

Many Thanks to all of you who have taken the trouble in voting.....

 

Tonight I'm going to fairly quickly countdown up those songs that failed to reach the Final 30 (which as there was a four way tie for 30th means we go up to #34).

 

So the positions up to 34th are determined by the points accumulated in phase two of the game.

 

As I'm not going to countdown the Top 33 until tomorrow mid/late afternoon, I'll keep the thread open in case there are any last minutes voters THREAD IS ON LINK HERE

So finishing outside the Top 50 are:

 

90th Love On Layaway - Gloria Estefan 0

90th Spin Me a Christmas - Aqua 0

89th Black Snow - Ten Benson 2

88th At This Time Of Year - Craig Phillips 4

87th Thank God It's Christmas - Queen 7

86th Christmas Eve - Celine Dion 11

84th Lonely This Christmas - Mud 14

84th Jingle Bells - Basshunter 14

83rd That’ll Be Christmas - Thea Gilmore 16

 

80th Gaudete - Steeleye Span 18

80th Christmas Without You - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 18

80th When a Child is Born - Johnny Mathis 18

75th Carol of the Bells - Standard 19

75th Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano 19

75th Happy New Year - Abba 19

75th Hazy Shade Of Winter - Bangles 19

75th Wrap Myself In Paper - Magnus Carlsson 19

74th I Love Christmas - Fast Food Rockers 22

73rd Greatest Time of Year - Aly & AJ 23

72nd Walking In The Air - Aled Jones 24

 

70th December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas) - George Michael 25

70th Mistletoe - Colbie Caillat 25

65th Frosty The Snowman - Ronettes 28

65th 24 Decembre - Pizzicato Five 28

65th Christmas Day - Dido 28

65th Happy Birthday Guadaloupe - Killers 28

65th Perfect Christmas - S Club 7 28

62nd Just Don't Feel Like Christmas (Without You) - Rihanna 31

62nd Step Into Christmas - Elton John 31

62nd Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) (Coca Cola ad) - Melanie Thornton 31

61st Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Standard (Destiny's Child version) 32

 

58th A Winter's Tale - David Essex 33

58th It Beginning To Look A lot Like Christmas - Perry Como 33

58th Winter Song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson 33

57th Ding Dong Merrily On High - Standard (Celtic Woman version) 34

53rd In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield 35

53rd Christmas TV - Slow Club 35

53rd Goodbye England (Covered In Snow) - Laura Marling 35

53rd She Came Home For Christmas - Mew 35

51st Pipes of Peace - Paul McCartney 36

51st I Believe In Christmas - Tweenies 36

 

So all the above songs will have to be nominated next Xmas to take part in phase tw of the contest.

So counting down in groups of three:

 

50th 29th Under The Tree - Water Babies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqRmQQIuMag 37

 

48th Ne All Alone On Christmas - Darlene Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2mQXQjY130 39

 

48th Ne My Christmas Prayer - Saint Etienne

39

 

* Ne = new entry in the Top 50 compared to last year's contest.

47th Ne O Holy Night - Standard (Mariah Carey version)

40

 

45th Ne Don't Shoot Me Santa - Killers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwdEzYkT8c 41

 

45th 48th Sleigh Ride - Standard (including Spice Girls) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co7ZGOjGV4A 41

 

44th 43rd Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2 (Darlene Love original)

43

 

43rd Ne Have A Cheeky Christmas - Cheeky Girls

44

 

42nd 34th The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting ..) - Nat King Cole (Christina Aguilera & Celine Dion covers)

46

 

LOLZ. I'm not saying they're the best songs ever recorded, but did we really vote Queen and Mud below Aly & AJ, Basshunter and the Fast Food Rockers?

Lonely This Christmas is epic tbh.

I know I didnt vote in this and probably should have but how are Mud that low? Great song....

41st 25th Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWuKimtUEas 47

 

40th 18th Jesus Take The Wheel - Carrie Underwood

48

 

39th 39th Baby It's Cold Outside - Standard: Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li-m1T81xGw 49

Willie Nelson & Norah Jones version

38th Ne I Wish It Was Christmas Today - Julian Casablancas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz97VEY9S0w 50

 

36th 37th Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINRR5H0VKc 52

 

36th 41st Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Dean Martin

52

 

34th 14th It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams

54

 

34th Ne Just Like Christmas - Low

54

Snow Patrol cover

big fall for Jesus Take The Wheel, which doesn't remind me of xmas at all (it topped my personal chart in February 2006 :lol:) but I guess the subject matter of the song relates...

 

I HATE Lonely This Christmas, so glum and moody, it always depresses me :puke: glad it finished so low

The 18 (21) songs that qualified from Phase 2 for the Final 30 (33) scored the following points in this phase:

 

54

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61

61

61

61

65

65

67

70

72

73

76

76

83

84

86

89

91

92

105

113

117

 

I will reveal what those songs were tomorrow .....

 

Now "Wonderful Christmas Time" is one Christmas "classic" I can THOROUGHLY understand being so low.

 

It is the only thing preventing Mariah Carey from having the most irritating Christmas song of all time - this alone should have instantly null and voided McCartney's claim to be a musical legend. Horrific tosh.

Not really any shockers for me so far. although O Holy Night should be alot higher imo

33rd Re Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth - David Bowie & Bing Crosby 9

The track was originally recorded on 11 September 1977 for Crosby's 1977 television special, Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas. The pair exchanged dialogue about what they do for Christmas before singing the traditional song, "Little Drummer Boy", with a new counterpoint with original lyrics written for the special, "Peace on Earth". Bowie's appearance has been described as a "surreal" event, undertaken at a time that he was "actively trying to normalise his career". He has since recalled that he only appeared on the show because "I just knew my mother liked him." Crosby died just over a month after recording the special, which aired on 30 November 1977.

 

According to co-writer Ian Fraser, Bowie balked at singing "Little Drummer Boy". "I hate this song. Is there something else I could sing?" Fraser recalls Bowie telling him. Fraser, along with songwriter Larry Grossman and the special's scriptwriter, Buz Kohan, then wrote "Peace on Earth" as a counterpoint to "Little Drummer Boy". Crosby performed "Little Drummer Boy", while Bowie sang the new tune "Peace on Earth". This song was released by RCA in 1982 and bacame a surreal Xmas #3 hit.

 

32nd 39th Mistletoe And Wine - Cliff Richard 11

Sir Cliff Richard, a professed Christian, has had several hits with a Christmas theme.

This one was released in 1988 and reached #1 on the UK secular charts denying Kyle & Jason access to the #1 spot for a month.

His other Xmas themed hits are:

Little Town #11 - Dec 1982

Mistletoe and Wine #1 - Dec 1988

Saviour's Day #1 - Dec 1990

The Millennium Prayer #1 - Dec 1999

Santa's List #6 - Dec 2003

21st Century Christmas #2 - Dec 2006

 

31st 32nd Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea 14

Incredibly this Xmas sleeper classic only reached #53 in 1988; it only reached its chart peak 19 years later in 2007 at #33.

30th 33rd Proper Crimbo - Bo Selecta 21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqBF7TiyATo

Taken from the comedy programme, Bo' Selecta, in which Leigh Francis sings as Craig David and Michael Jackson (RIP) was an Xmas Top 10 hit in 2003.

The celebrities appearing in the footage were The 3AM Girls, Simon Amstell, Ade Adepitan, Richard Bacon, Chris Bisson, Melanie Blatt, Edith Bowman, Melanie Brown, Adam Buxton, Jimmy Carr, Joe Cornish, Terri Dwyer, Jenni Falconer, Kerry Katona, Caroline Flack, Kirsty Gallacher, Bob Geldof, Jade Goody RIP, David Gray, Holly Valance, Christine Hamilton, Harvey, Katy Hill, John Leslie, Chris Moyles, Dermot O'Leary, Denise Van Outen, Ozzy Rezat, Craig Phillips, Ben Shephard, David Sneddon, Kate Thornton and Matthew Wright.

 

29th 46th Silent Night - Standard (inc. Enya, Glasvegas) 22

"Silent Night" (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is the popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in German by the Austrian priest Father Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber. In 1859, John Freeman Young published the English translation that is most frequently sung today.

The song has been recorded by over 300 artists, particularly successful in hit versions by Enya (sung in Irish), Andrea Bocelli, Stevie Nicks, Bing Crosby, Mahalia Jackson and an acoustic version by American R 'n' B group Boyz II Men.

 

28th 37th 2000 Miles - Pretenders 24

"2000 Miles" is a song by The Pretenders released in 1983 as the preceding single to their 1984 album, Learning to Crawl and peaked at UK#15. Many artists have covered the song, including Coldplay, Sheryl Crow and KT Tunstall.

25th Ne It Doesn't Often Snow At Christmas - Pet Shop Boys 25

It Doesn't Often Snow at Christmas was first released as an exclusive fan club single in 1997. Now it's rerecorded in 2009 as part of the 5 track Christmas EP it limped into the UK Top 40 at #40.

 

25th 28th Mary's Boy Child - Boney M 25

First recorded by Harry Belafonte in 1956, for his album An Evening with Belafonte. An edited version was subsequently released as a single, reaching #1 on the UK charts in 1957. One of the most famous covers of the song is from the German based disco-group Boney M from 1978, "Mary's Boy Child - Oh My Lord" returned the song to the top of the UK charts.

It has also been recorded by The Brothers Four, Charlotte Church, Greg MacDonald, Nat King Cole, The Lettermen, The Merrymen, Jim Reeves, Rolf Harris, Kiri Te Kanawa, Al Bano and Romina Power, John Denver, Harry Connick Jr, Roger Whittaker, The Little River Band, The Three Degrees.

 

25th 42nd I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake 25

This song was written by the Emerson, Lake & Palmer member in protest at the commercialisation of Christmas, it reached UK#2 behind Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. It has been covered by Toyah Wilcox, Elaine Paige, Sarah Brightman, U2, and most recently by Six by Seven.

24th 22nd Winter Wonderland - Standard 30

"Winter Wonderland" is a Christmas time pop standard written in 1934 by Felix Bernard (composer) and Richard B. Smith (lyricist). It has been recorded many different times by such artists as Bob Dylan, George Strait, Tony Bennett, Karen Carpenter, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Eurythmics, Elvis Presley, Goldfrapp (featured video), Cyndi Lauper, Darlene Love, Johnny Mathis, Ozzy Osbourne, Dolly Parton, Frank Sinatra, Stryper, Jason Mraz, the Cocteau Twins, Selena Gomez & The Scene, Macy Gray, and the Italian singer Enrico Ruggeri.

 

23rd 20th Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt (Kylie Minogue cover) 32

"Santa Baby" was originally sung and recorded in 1953 by Eartha Kitt. The song was a huge hit for Kitt in the USA. It has been covered by Maria Muldaur, Everclear, RuPaul, Kate Ceberano, Taylor Horn, Shakira, Madonna, Jhene, Macy Gray, Natalie Merchant, Faith Evans, Boney James, Kylie Minogue, The Pussycat Dolls, Lina, LeAnn Rimes, Kellie Pickler, Mae West, Taylor Swift, and this year by Sugababes 4.0 (featured video).

 

22nd 25th My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears 35

"My Only Wish (This Year)" is the only Christmas single by American singer Britney Spears, released at the time only to radio. Released in November 2000, the single is best known for being Spears' only original Christmas song as it is not a cover of a traditional holiday tune.

21st 13th Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) - The Darkness 38

This innuendo led track famously got pipped to the Xmas #1 spot in 2003 by the Tears For Fears cover taken from the Donnie Darko movie "Mad World".

 

20th Ne Once Upon A Christmas Song - Geraldine McQueen 39

Peter Kay's hilarious spoof reality music show character and nemesis of Simon Cowell scored "her" second top 5 hit of 2008 again co-written to the music of Gary Barlow with this track that quite literally does what the lyrics say. Far better than any X-Factor winning song IMHO.

 

19th 16th December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush 40

"December Will Be Magic Again" was written and originally recorded in 1979 by Britain's greatest female singer/songwriter and national treasure, but not released until the Christmas season of the next year on 17 November 1980. The single peaked at number 29 on the UK Singles Chart, but due to its early release date had slipped before the Christmas week. No promotional video was filmed for this single, but an alternate recording of the song was performed on Bush's 1979 Christmas television special. Currently a certain Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta has been performing parts of this song on her piano during her American leg of her Monster Ball tour.