Post by plannine on Dec 7, 2006 9:01:12 GMT -5
Do you allow Xmas songs on your chart.
I tend to only if they are either "original" or such a radical arrangement from previous released versions, it sounds like a new song. Of course, a few may have made it because i never heard of the previous version.
So over the past 40+ years there only has been a couple to ever make my charts - many just made hitbound since with a Top 30 chart size, there wasnt room for many.
So the ones that made the chart or made hitbound........
John & Yoko (Happy Xmas),
The Royal Guardsmen (Snoopy's Christmas)
Beach Boys (Little Saint Nick),
Clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa" ,
Slade's Merry Christmas Everyone.
Roy Wood & Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday,
Elton John's Step into Christmas,
The Kinks "Father Christmas,
Bob Segers - Sock It To Me Santa,
Emerson Lake & Palmers "I believe in Father Christmas"
Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus And His Old Lady
Martin Mull - Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope
and album cuts,
James Browns "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto".
Vince Guaraldi (Christmas Time is Here from "A Charlie Brown Christmas),
A couple of songs from the 80's would have made it if i had been charting during that time...THE Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping, Was (not Was) Christmas Time in the Motor City, Christina - When Things Fall Apart, All I want for Xmas - Timbuk 3.
From the 90's only "Everybody Loves Christmas - Ronnie Spector & Eddie Money" would have made it.
And my top 3 christmas songs:
#3 on my Christmas list is Vince Guaraldi's Christmas Time is Here Again
The #2 song of the season
(from 1959 - before i started charting) is by Tom Lehrer
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(A Christmas Song).
Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly.
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say when.
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens.
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.
On Christmas Day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore.
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
Relations, sparing no expense, 'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
("Just the thing I need, how nice!")
It doesn't matter how sincere it is,
Nor how heart felt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry merchants,
May ye make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high,
Tell us to go out and buy!
So, let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
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...........but the #1 every year at this time:
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch by Thurl Ravenscroft
Now thats Xmas!!!!!
I tend to only if they are either "original" or such a radical arrangement from previous released versions, it sounds like a new song. Of course, a few may have made it because i never heard of the previous version.
So over the past 40+ years there only has been a couple to ever make my charts - many just made hitbound since with a Top 30 chart size, there wasnt room for many.
So the ones that made the chart or made hitbound........
John & Yoko (Happy Xmas),
The Royal Guardsmen (Snoopy's Christmas)
Beach Boys (Little Saint Nick),
Clarence Carter's "Back Door Santa" ,
Slade's Merry Christmas Everyone.
Roy Wood & Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday,
Elton John's Step into Christmas,
The Kinks "Father Christmas,
Bob Segers - Sock It To Me Santa,
Emerson Lake & Palmers "I believe in Father Christmas"
Cheech & Chong - Santa Claus And His Old Lady
Martin Mull - Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope
and album cuts,
James Browns "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto".
Vince Guaraldi (Christmas Time is Here from "A Charlie Brown Christmas),
A couple of songs from the 80's would have made it if i had been charting during that time...THE Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping, Was (not Was) Christmas Time in the Motor City, Christina - When Things Fall Apart, All I want for Xmas - Timbuk 3.
From the 90's only "Everybody Loves Christmas - Ronnie Spector & Eddie Money" would have made it.
And my top 3 christmas songs:
#3 on my Christmas list is Vince Guaraldi's Christmas Time is Here Again
The #2 song of the season
(from 1959 - before i started charting) is by Tom Lehrer
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A Christmas Song).
Christmas time is here, by golly,
Disapproval would be folly.
Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
Fill the cup and don't say when.
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens.
Even though the prospect sickens,
Brother, here we go again.
On Christmas Day you can't get sore,
Your fellow man you must adore.
There's time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four.
Relations, sparing no expense, 'll
Send some useless old utensil,
Or a matching pen and pencil.
("Just the thing I need, how nice!")
It doesn't matter how sincere it is,
Nor how heart felt the spirit,
Sentiment will not endear it,
What's important is the price.
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things.
God rest ye merry merchants,
May ye make the Yuletide pay.
Angels we have heard on high,
Tell us to go out and buy!
So, let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
Driving his reindeer across the sky.
Don't stand underneath when they fly by.
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...........but the #1 every year at this time:
You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch by Thurl Ravenscroft
Now thats Xmas!!!!!