December 22, 200717 yr Good to see Carrie climbing! I always hear that Britney song at work...its a shame it wasn't a UK single actually
December 22, 200717 yr Author =16 Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Dean Martin 62 Pts wJp8UvNGxI0 Dean Martin 1hVeuz0zkgk Frank Sinatra "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (sometimes also known as "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow", or less frequently as "Let It Snow"), a pop standard written by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne in 1945 and first recorded by Vaughn Monroe, became a huge popular hit, reaching #1 on the Billboard music chart the following year. Due to its seasonal lyrics, "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" is commonly regarded as a Christmas song. Yet despite its cheery, holiday feel, it is a love song that never mentions Christmas. One of the best-selling songs of all time, "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" has been covered countless times.
December 22, 200717 yr Author =16 (27) December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush 62 Pts -XjaMIO4INU Live version pfD7FzcjVyQ "Bongo version" mimed for Abba Snowtime TV Special "December Will Be Magic Again" was a between-album single by Kate Bush. It was released for the holiday season on 17th November 1980 and peaked at number 29 in the UK Singles Chart & #13 in Ireland. No promotional video was filmed for this single, but a version of the song was included on Bush's 1979 Christmas television special. "December Will Be Magic Again" was written in 1979, but not released until the end of 1980. In addition to the version on the single release, another very different cut exists (on CD) with bongos and slide whistles on the rhythm track. Neither have ever appeared on a Kate Bush album, except for the This Woman's Work box set but both managed to find their way on to various Christmas compilations in 1989.
December 22, 200717 yr Author 15 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams 67 Pts saNRnHHgS3Y Marks & Spencer TV Advert jNsp5fP7tB4 Audio only SJ879l4rRqc This track was a long forgotten song recorded by Andy Williams in 1963 for a Seasonal Christmas album, which bar the occasional cover by the likes of Garth Brooks & Amy Grant was lifted from obscurity in 2007 by a Marks & Specer's TV Advert. As a Result the song has become a UK Top30 hit.
December 22, 200717 yr Author 14 (17) Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses 68 Pts bP_WH4heId4 The Waitresses th9jQjzh0-g Spice Girls "Christmas Wrapping" (sometimes misspelled as "Christmas Wrappings") is a Christmas song recorded in 1981 by The Waitresses. It was first released on the 1981 various artists holiday compilation album A Christmas Record on ZE Records. The group then included the track on their 1982 EP I Could Rule the World if I Could Only Get the Parts. It has since been included on numerous holiday compilation albums. The song is narrated from the point of view of a busy single woman who is adamant that she will try to sit-out the exhausting Christmas period, not participating in the traditional Christmas activities (except for making dinner, see below). She reveals that, during the course of the year, she has attempted to meet up with a man she encountered in a ski shop the previous year. Despite the couple's attempts to meet, a succession of mishaps conspires to keep them apart. Finally on Christmas Eve, while the protagonist (after stating that A&P provided her with "the world's smallest turkey") is doing last-minute shopping for cranberries at a local convenience store, ends up running into the man after discovering that he, too, forgot to buy cranberries. This coincidence seems to hint that the narrator, and therefore the listener, shouldn't completely abandon their faith in the magic of Christmas. The song was covered by the Spice Girls in 1998 as a B-side for their single "Goodbye".
December 22, 200717 yr I forgot the Spicey covered Christmas Wrapping! :o Good to see Andy Williams as a high new entry :D
December 22, 200717 yr Author 13 (47) 8 Days Of Christmas - Destiny's Child 71 Pts ikOWQ9YIb-A The song was the title track of Destiny's Child's Christmas album released in 2001. A video was filmed for "8 Days of Christmas" and was released in the winter of 2001. It was directed by female music video director, Sanaa Hamri. All 3 members appear in Santa-like clothing at a toy store on a snowy day. Throughout the video the group shops for various gifts and in between cuts, Beyoncé rides on a carousel. At the end of the video, many children begin rushing into the toy store where the group gives out gifts.
December 22, 200717 yr Author 12 (18) Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie 72 Pts xzCE2EG3Gws "Stop The Cavalry" is a song written and performed by the musician, Jona Lewie. The song peaked at number three in the UK Singles Chart in December 1980, at one point only being kept from number one by two re-issues by the then recently-murdered John Lennon. The song was never intended as a Christmas hit, but the line 'Wish I was at home for Christmas' as well as the brass band arrangements made it an appropriately styled song to play around Christmas time. The song appears to be set at the front during a war in which the UK participated, although references to Winston Churchill, the Russian Tsars and a "nuclear fallout zone" mean that its exact chronology is uncertain. Lewie himself has desribed the song's protagonist as being "a bit like the eternal soldier at the Arc de Triomphe" - in other words, representing all soldiers in all wars (as evidenced by the line "I have had to fight, almost every night, down throughout these centuries") rather than any specific conflict. However, the song's promotional video is set in the trenches of the First World War. The song's melody is loosely based on a theme from Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 by Hugo Alfvén. "Stop the Cavalry" reached #2 in Australia behind Slim Dusty's 'Duncan'.
December 22, 200717 yr Author 11 (12) Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney 78 Pts 1YbT6GYKkrk "Wonderful Christmastime" is a 1979 Christmas song by Paul McCartney. It reached UK#6 in December 1979. McCartney's song enjoys significant Christmastime popularity in the UK and the US. The notable synthesizer riff was played on a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. The song was later added as a bonus track on the CD reissue of Wings' Back to the Egg. Fellow ex-Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison had already released such numbers, and Ringo Starr made a Christmas album decades later. Of all of the former Beatle seasonal offerings, Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" and McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" have become two of a large number of popular Christmas songs played year after year.
December 22, 200717 yr Author To recap so far: 50th Thank God It's Christmas - Queen 49th Please Come Home For Christmas - Bon Jovi (or Eagles) 48th Sleigh Ride - Standard (inc. S Club Juniors) 47th Step Into Christmas - Elton John 45th I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus - Beverley Sisters 45th Mr Hanky (The Christmas Poo) - South Park 41st I Was Born On Christmas Day - Saint Etienne ft Tim Burgess 41st In Dulce Jubilo - Mike Oldfield 41st O Holy Night - Standard (inc. Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys etc) 41st Winter - Tori Amos 40th Proper Crimbo - Bo Selecta 39th Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland 37th Hazy Shade Of Winter - Bangles 37th When A Child Is Born - Johnny Mathis 36th Lonely This Christmas - Mud 35th 2000 Miles - Pretenders 34th Mary's Boy Child - Boney M 33rd Baby It's Cold Outside - Tom Jones & Cerys Matthews 31st Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen 31st The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting ..) - Nat King Cole 30th Frosty The Snowman - Ronettes 29th Winter Wonderland - Standard (inc Eurythmics) 26th Have A Cheeky Christmas - Cheeky Girls 26th Mistletoe And Wine - Cliff Richard 26th Silent Night - Standard (inc. Enya) 25th Jesus Take The Wheel - Carrie Underwood 24th My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears 23rd I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake 22nd Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) - The Darkness 21st Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea 20th New Year - Sugababes 18th Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt (Kylie Minogue cover) 18th White Christmas - Bing Crosby 16th December Will Be Magic Again - Kate Bush 16th Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow - Dean Martin 15th It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams 14th Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses 13th 8 Days Of Christmas - Destiny's Child 12th Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie 11th Wonderful Christmas Time - Paul McCartney The Top 10 Songs Remaining consist of: All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey Do They Know Its Christmas? - Band Aid/2/20 Fairytale Of New York - Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon & Yoko I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard Last Christmas - Wham! Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin Stevens Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (Kim Wilde & Mel Smith cover) Stay Another Day - East 17 I'll reveal this Year's BuzzJack's Xmas Top10 on Christmas Eve (late afternoon/early evening). Will Mariah Carey remain BuzzJack's #1 Christmas song or can the Pogues with Kirsty MacColl take the top spot? In the mean time you are welcome to post your predictions of the Top10...
December 24, 200717 yr Author OK, The Remaining BJ Top10 Xmas Songs is coming very soon, but just before I start the Top 10 Countdown, here is my all-time Favourite Xmas Song not featured in the Top50: b0RYxx18KEg Low - Just Like Christmas (2005)
December 24, 200717 yr Author 10 (08) Stay Another Day - East 17 (82 POINTS - 14 votes, 1 1st & 1 2nd) V4jLfCjlYD0 East 17 ZM58qZXVv5M Girls Aloud Stay Another Day is a single by British boy band East 17. It was the band's most successful single, giving them their first and only #1 hit single in the UK Singles Chart (famously denying a certain Mariah Carey song being UK#1), and was also the Christmas #1 of 1994. The track was covered 8 years later in 2002 by Girls Aloud as the B-Side to their debut single, that year's Christmas #1, Sound Of The Underground.
December 24, 200717 yr Author 09 (09) Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin Stevens (121 POINTS - 87 votes, 17 votes, Highest: 1 4th) X_rYo4lT-eM Shakin Stevens A6aPlnlI5DU Atomic Kitten Merry Christmas Everyone was a popular song by Shakin' Stevens (UK#1 in 1985). Written by Bob Heatlie and produced by Dave Edmunds, this was Shakin' Stevens fourth and final number one on the UK singles chart. It was originally going to be released in 1984 but was postponed a year because of the release of Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas. Shaky had previously made Xmas #2 in 1982 with a cover of "Blue Christmas" originally made famous by Elvis Presley. He also reached #19 in 1990 with "The Best Christmas Of Them All" and #34 in 1991 with "I'll Be Home This Christmas". Lyrics: Snow is fallin, all around me Children playing, having fun It's the season, love and understanding Merry Christmas everyone Time for parties, and celebrations People dancing, all night long Time for presents and exchanging kiss's Time for singing christmas songs We're gonna have a party tonight I'm gonna find that girl Underneath the mistletoe, we'll kiss by candle light Room is swaying, records playing All the old songs we love to hear All I wish that everyday was Christmas What a nice way to spend the year We're gonna have a party tonight I'm gonna find that girl Underneath the mistletoe, we'll kiss by candle light Snow is fallin, all around me Children playing, having fun It's the season, love and understanding Merry Christmas everyone Merry Christmas everyone Oh merry Cristmas everyone Snow is fallin, all around me Children playing, having fun It's the season, love and understanding Merry Christmas everyone Snow is fallin, all around me Children playing, having fun It's the season, love and understanding Merry Christmas everyone Snow is fallin, all around me Children playing, having fun It's the season, love and understanding Merry Christmas everyone Merry Christmas everyone Merry Christmas everyone
December 24, 200717 yr Author 08 (11) Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (111 POINTS, 21 votes - 1 1st & 2 3rd) sU7JoaK9lcQ Brenda Lee (1962 UK#6) 6gR9MsnET_w Kim Wilde & Mel Smith (1987 UK#3 for Comic Relief) jtpHNlwgCLQ Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus) (2006) "Rockin' around the Christmas Tree" is a Christmas song, written by Johnny Marks and recorded by Brenda Lee in 1958 on Decca 9-30776. Although Decca released it in both 1958 and again in 1959, it did not sell well until Lee became a popular star in 1960; that Christmas season, it hit #16 on the Billboard pop chart and turned into a perennial holiday favourite. Lyrics: Rocking around the Christmas Tree at the Christmas party hop Mistletoe hung where you can see Ev'ry couple tries to stop You will get a sentimental feeling When you hear voices singing "Let's be jolly; Deck the halls with boughs of holly" Rocking around the Christmas Tree Have a happy holiday Everyone's dancing merrily In a new old fashioned way Rocking around the Christmas Tree Let the Christmas Spirit ring Later we'll have some pumpkin pie and we'll do some caroling You will get a sentimental feeling When you hear voices singing "Let's be jolly; Deck the halls with boughs of holly" Rocking around the Christmas Tree Have a happy holiday Everyone's dancing merrily In a new old fashioned way
December 24, 200717 yr All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey Do They Know Its Christmas? - Band Aid/2/20 Fairytale Of New York - Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John Lennon & Yoko I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard Last Christmas - Wham! Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin Stevens Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee (Kim Wilde & Mel Smith cover) Stay Another Day - East 17 All of those except Brenda Lee and East 17 i think have been in the top 40 this year, with John Lennon just dropping out this week
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