Love Songs & Life Soundtracks

This Christmas

It’s beginning to look alot like Christmas…

Did you read that as a singing Michael Bublé? I did and I’m not even sorry!

You know it’s that time of year, when they thaw out Mr Christmas and drag him out of his cave.  I love a good Christmas song!

In the 80s and 90s, we were stuck in a tired bubble of Slade, Shakin Stevens, Elton John and Wizzard.  If you wanted your list to appear cooler, you added Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses and Fairytale of New York by the Pogues; featuring Kirsty MacColl.  Brenda Lee, Wham, Chris Rea and Band Aid, would round off the average radio set nicely. 

You couldn’t get through a festive season with my grandparents, without a bit of Bing, maybe a dash of Nat King Cole and even a drop of Johnny Mathis.  In shops, you would hear every possible Christmas related track available.  Guaranteed some Boney M, Cliff Richard and even The Ronettes.  Never really grasped the seasons greetings of ‘Stop the Cavalry’ or the rather dramatic ‘Thank God it’s Christmas’ but to each their own!

I can’t hear Jingle Bell Rock without thinking of the opening credits to Lethal Weapon.  I’m one of those weird people that totally believe that this and Die Hard, are Christmas movies!! 

My mum had a Christmas album by Alexander O’Neal, called My Gift to You – on vinyl!  Also that year in 1988, Bros released their version of Silent Night.  I was 9 and I still love that song.

1994 welcomed, the now considered old, ‘Stay Another Day’ and ‘All I want for Christmas is you’.  Since then we have had a sprinkling of new life into the Christmas mix.

  • Let it Snow – Boys to Men
  • Every Year, Every Christmas – Luther Vandross
  • 8 Days of Christmas – Destiny’s Child
  • One More Sleep – Leona Lewis
  • Baby it’s Cold Outside – Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé 

As Mariah Carey did in 1994, many more artists aren’t just putting out a Christmas song, they are making entire Christmas albums.

Michael Bublé,  Kelly Clarkson, Sia, Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, PJ Morton, Tori Kelly, Carrie Underwood and John Legend; to name a few.

In these strange times and ever changing circumstances, playing some Christmas tunes; helps me remember what time of year it is.  It may not always feel like it.  It definitely doesn’t look like it but it is still Christmas.  

We are far apart from those we love.  We are not celebrating how we want to.   On the day that our Christmas was officially cancelled in the UK, I leave you with one of my favourite Christmas songs.  It helps me remember all the good times that were and will be again. .

It will get better.  Merry Christmas to you all. 

This Christmas – Chris Brown 

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