2. 220 points

Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

 

In the runner up spot is the gorgeous I Believe In Father Christmas from Greg Lake from Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame.

 

The highest placed track from the 1970s, shame it could not go all the way.

 

 

 

 

 

Which means the winner is.....(predictably)

 

 

1. 267 points

The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

 

 

Not quite a landslide but a decisive win here. I have made my feelings known about this song already so I will shush, but here is your winner!

 

 

 

Full rundown:

 

1. 267 The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

2. 220 Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

3. 202 The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

4. 182 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

5. 172 John And Yoko And The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

6. 158 Saint Etienne - I Was Born On Christmas Day

7. 152 Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry

8. 146 Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (more votes)

9. 146 The Pretenders - 2000 Miles

10. 143 The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride

11. 140 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

12. 123 Wham! - Last Christmas

13. 112 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

14. 99 Chris de Burgh - A Spaceman Came Travelling

15. 95 East 17 - Stay Another Day

16. 93 Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas

17. 90 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody

18. 79 Joni Mitchell - River

19. 78 David Essex - A Winter's Tale

20. 77 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power of Love

21. 74 José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad

22. 68 Darlene Love - All Alone On Christmas

23. 58 The Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick

24. 54 Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

25. 52 Boney M - Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord

26. 49 Type O Negative - Red Water (Christmas Mourning)

27. 48 Low - Just Like Christmas

28. 47 Nat ‘King’ Cole - The Christmas Song

29. 44 Andy Williams - It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

30. 42 Queen - Thank God It's Christmas

31. 41 The Spice Girls - 2 Become 1

32. 40 Cliff Richard - Saviour's Day

33. 37 David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy (6 votes, one 15)

34. 37 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock (6 votes, one 13)

35. 37 Tori Amos - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (2 votes)

36. 33 Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24

37. 30 Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

38. 29 Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus And Lucy

39. 27 Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here

40. 25 Mary Hopkin - Mary Had A Baby

41. 20 Joan Regan - Must Be Santa

42. 19 The Residents - Fire (from the Santa Dog EP)

 

 

 

Thanks to all for voting and commenting!

 

 

Happy Christmas from myself, Sausage Rollo, Popchartfreak and dandy*

Great results for The Waitresses and Wizzard, such good tracks <3

 

Greg Lake just missed my top 20 but it's a lovely song.

 

No surprise at Fairytale Of New York, I've never loved it as much as everyone else but it's clearly a big favourite with most here, so fair enough.

 

Thanks Jester, interesting results - amazed Wham!, Mariah and Shaky all missed the top ten.

Edited December 24, 20231 yr by gooddelta

Thanks for this countdown.

 

I'm mostly a fan of low-known modern Christmas songs from 21st century, but like to introduce my top 10 from oldies.

 

1. Joan Regan - Must Be Santa (1960)

2. Mary Hopkin - Mary Had A Baby (1972)

3. Bjorn Again - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (1992)

4. Anne Charleston and Ian Smith - Old Fashioned Christmas (1989)

5. Twiggy - Winter Wonderland (1989)

6. Lynsey De Paul and Barry Blue - Happy Christmas To You From Me (1975)

7. Linda Bennett - An Old Fashioned Christmas (Daddy's Home) (1975)

8. Petula Clark - Christmas Cards (1954)

9. Rosemary Clooney and Gene Autry - The Night Before Christmas Song (1952)

10. Dana - It's Gonna Be A Cold Cold Christmas (1975)

 

Also as a big Twiggy fan I love this performance, even it's mostly Bing's song.

 

That's a fantastic top 10, I voted for all of them except Fairytale Of New York which I've never cared for.

'Fairytale Of New York' has always been and probably will always be my favourite Christmas song so correct winner <3 and it's nice that we have 2 fairly inspired songs rounding out the top 3 (not a surprise that they're BuzzJack favourites of course but refreshing to see Greg Lake and The Waitresses near the top of a Christmas song ranking given they don't ever get to be high up the pecking order in the charts, both excellent songs too).

 

I voted for all of the top 10 except Saint Etienne who weren't too far off. Excellent to see The Ronettes scraping in in particular, that's really worked its way up my affections in the last couple of years.

 

Thanks retro mods for running this, was good fun even if I did skip the nomination rounds :magic: merry Christmas all ~

Great Top 10 - I voted for them all except John & Yoko. Think it’s the slightly out of tune and out of time children’s choir that puts me off! ;)

Happy with those results - thank you for counting them down Jester and sorry the one you don’t like won!

 

Greg Lake in second is particularly lovely to see, it’s my favourite and I’m always surprised it doesn’t do better in the charts but it seems to have been forgotten in or fallen out of favour somehow.

 

Merry Christmas everyone x

Well The Pogues making up for their early survivor exit to triumph here (expectedly mind). I wouldn't consider my top Fave or even in my top 5 but it's still a good track imo.

 

Greg would be the preferable winner for me. Such a beautiful track it is and I wished both that and Waitresses had a chance at appearing in the official top 40 with the usual suspects.

 

Thanks for running these guys. Been fun to take part in!

Santa dog's a jesus fetus, pass it on....

 

More people really gotta watch A Charlie Brown Christmas based on this, that + the soundtrack is a festive ESSENTIAL

 

I’ve heard this but it really wasn’t part of my growing up!

The Residents robbed once more tbh. And Sir Sir Paul robbed as well, you people clearly have not been practicing all year long hard enough to appreciate this one x

 

Out of the two AlexRange tracks I actually kinda liked the Joan Regan one (I knew the Bob Dylan version of it already but this version was kinda cute).

 

The McCartney song would have sounded like the future in dec 79 with the synths and all but not now!

That's a fabulous top 5 :wub: all of them were within the top 10 of my votes. Boney M are much too low though -_-

 

Thanks mods for running this, Happy Christmas <3

Great top 3 there with the Pogues a worthy winner especially this year and Greg Lake my top scorer not far behind. The Waitresses never got into my votes but enjoy the track once a year I hear it!

Expected but excellent winner, what a shame the UK buying public couldn't do the same x Still my favourite Christmas song and I'm not sure that will ever change <3

 

The Waitresses and Greg Lake being 2nd and 3rd is brilliant too, it pains me how they're so underrated and little known these days and never do well in the charts, they are always some of my go to festive classics (I guess them not being so overplayed has helped x).

 

Thanks for running this guys, was great to follow!

Excellent top 10, I voted for them all. Thank you to the mods for running this, and happy Christmas!

Yes thanks for running this to all the mods, was a great read!

Correct winner and generally I feel like most of the ones I like were paid their dues so good results all round Buzzjack! :heart:

 

Thanks to all involved in hosting.

Thanks for organising this Jester and everybody for joining in and I will comment as I run through the results a bit late now. Merry Christmas all!

 

Paul McCartneys' Wonderful Christmastime is over-rated in the real world. His top Xmas songs are of course Pipes Of Peace and We All Stand Together. The sort of Crazy frogs that don't annoy!

 

Jingle Bell Rock quite high considering it was virtually unknown in the UK until it was featured in a film.

 

Nice to Saviours Day so high, more sincere than most of his many more annoying Xmas songs, though I quite like Little Town.

 

Bing & Bowie really shouldnt work, and yet it does.

 

Jose Feliciano almost top 20 is stunning because I genuinely had never heard it in my life until download era had it popping up and never going away since. I find it a bit "pass", OK but not special, but it's big in Spain so yay!

 

Great to see Boney M, Darlene x2 and Beach Boys almost in the top 20.

 

David Essex a major surprise. It is sweet, I liked it more at the time and just havent really noticed it much since.

 

Chris Rea should have been higher, that captures the essence of christmas more than most xmas records, and East 17 is not remotely festive in any way.

 

Mariah and Slade, clearly OD'd on Buzzjack! Ditto Wham and Shaky!

 

Great top 10, I could mumble Chris Rea and Brenda Lee should swap and the top 2 should swap, but splitting hairs really, it's a great result, and great taste everyone. If only the christmas charts every year looked like this top 10!!! :yahoo:

 

 

wish River had ben higher, that's the best Xmas song ever 3

 

but great winner with Pogues