"It broke his little heart / When he found Santa hadn't come / In the street he envies all those lucky boys / Then wanders home to last year's broken toys / I'm so sorry for that laddie / He hasn't got a daddy." You can incorporate non copyrighted Christmas music into your YouTube videos, Twitch streams, advertisements and various other video projects. It was recorded by Cole in 1953, and he wrings every last drop of sadness out of a tragic tale about a young boy who didn't want much from Father Christmas, and got nothing. The real weepy in his catalogue of many Christmas songs, though, is The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot - a 1937 song originally made famous by Vera Lynn (it's her version you hear in the opening scene in Pink Floyd's The Wall). Nobody has recorded a better version of Bob Wells and Mel Tormé's The Christmas Song from 1945 (commonly known as Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) and his 1960 take on Silent Night is stunning, too. There's a natural mournfulness to Nat King Cole's gorgeous voice, making him a perfect singer for a melancholy Christmas smash. Not inappropriately, in 2009 - 21 years after its initial release - an original video was made for the song (above) in aid of a homeless charity. It becomes about trepidation as much as joyful expectation solitude and alienation as well as family and security. The imagery changes the feel of the song. Other images in the song are equally powerful and not very Christmassy - we see this man in a car alone, stuck in traffic, singing to someone who can't hear him, and glancing at another driver, also alone. "I'm driving home for Christmas / Oh, I can't wait to see those faces," it begins, but we never find out who those faces are. Who hasn't got into a car to drive, or be driven, home for Christmas and immediately sung the opening line to this 1986 gem by Chris Rea, which he once described as "a car version of a carol"? On a simple level, the song conjures up that lovely feeling - work done for the year, presents bought, bags packed, nothing left to do but visit loved ones, eat, drink and be merry.īut scratch the surface of Driving Home For Christmas and it becomes a far more mysterious - desperate, even - song. "It sees Christmas as part of the fallibility of human beings." As such, it's been recorded scores of times, including by James Taylor after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and by Sam Smith in 2014. "Seventy years after it was first heard, this song has a very, very strong appeal because it's doesn't see Christmas in an immaculately glowing light," says an interviewee in Soul Music. It was written in 1944 and, as revealed in above episode of Radio 4's Soul Music, the original opening lyrics were far bleaker: "Have yourself a merry little Christmas / It may be your last / Next year we may all be living in the past." Garland insisted they be toned down, and further lyrical amendments were made by Frank Sinatra when he was trying to find a way to include it on his 1957 album A Jolly Christmas. It's meant to be contemplative - expressing the sadness that Garland's character, Esther Smith, and her seven-year-old sister feel at moving away from their home - but it's intentionally open-ended and also something of a Second World War song. Louis - before, over time, becoming a songbook standard. Now get to listening, and have yourself a merry little Christmas now! Baby it's cold outside, so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow while the music plays.Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas has a very specific genesis - it was penned by songwriters Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane for Judy Garland to sing in the musical Meet Me in St. There's no place like home for the holidays either, so make sure to play your favorites throughout your home all season long, from "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to "Jingle Bells." Some on this list are some of the most played at every shop and on every radio station around, while others are some of the most beautiful but less commonly heard.
Whether you are into religious Christmas songs or country Christmas songs, traditional scores or new popular chart toppers, it's the most wonderful time of the year for a Christmas songs playlist.
In no time they'll have you rockin' around the Christmas tree, dreaming of a white Christmas, and telling your mom you'll be home for Christmas. So when it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and you hear that Santa Claus is comin' to town, hit play on these 72 tunes to have a holly, jolly time as you are baking up holiday cookies and decking the halls with your holiday decorating. Nothing brings on the merry, merry of the holidays quite like Christmas songs.
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