This is my slightly revised and expanded edition of secular pop songs that seize on Christmas in one way or another for their own artistic purposes. Here they are in chronological order of release along with notes that might help place them. Noel Paul Stookey (Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary) adapted and arranged A Soalin with Elena Mezzetti and Tracy Batteast including Christmas references – using God Rest Ye Merry,
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With Christmas coming today at week s end, I hesitated to post these videos in a Sunday Morning Coming Down post so far in advance of the holiday. Having done this annually over the past few years, I think the time has come today. I want to revisit a few of the secular pop songs that seize on Christmas in one way or another for their own artistic purposes. Here they
Home for Christmas
With Christmas coming up on Friday this week, I hesitated to post these videos in a
Sunday Morning Coming Down post yesterday so far in advance of the holiday. On second thought, the time has come today. I want to revisit a few of the secular pop songs that seize on Christmas in one way or another for their own artistic purposes. I’ve added one new selection to last year’s lineup. Here they are in chronological order of release along with my notes on them.
In the video below Johnny and Edgar Winter perform the Charles Brown number “Please Come Home For Christmas” (1966). It was originally issued as a single b/w “Santa Don’t Pass Me By” by Jimmy Donley on the Meaux Sound Memories label (the Donley recording is also accessible on YouTube, but pass it by). As I access it on Napster, the Winter brothers’ recording is included on Johnny’s album