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Christmas songs that aren't chrismas songs

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flytrap

My Favorite Things-Its from the sound of music, it has nothing to do with christmas (nobody wraps christmas gifts with brown paper and string)
Winter Wonderland-Song about winter, not Christmas
Baby its cold outside-Another song about cold weather, not christmas, this song has been overdone in recent years
Let it snow-not about Christmas
Angels among us-Alabama-Nothing about Christmas at all.
Thank God for kids-Oak Ridge Boys-Not about Christmas
The Gift-Jim Brickman
Jingle Bells
Marshmallow world-Dean Martin and others-Marshmallows have nothing to do with christmas. Halloween bonfire, but not Christmas
I've got my love to keep me warm-Dean Martin, etc.
Sleigh Ride-Leroy Anderson-"Theres a BIRTHDAY PARTY at the home of Farmer Gray-It says nothing about a Christmas party, but how many people ever roast chesnets and pass around the coffee and pumpkin pie at a birthday party? so maybe that could count as sorta christmasy.
The Hanukah Song-Adam Sandler-Not Christmas-duh!

any more suggestions?
 
It mentions Christmas very briefly, but some stations don't consider Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" Christmas. I have heard it played throughout the year.
 
A few more:

Kenny Loggins - "Celebrate Me Home"

Jewel - "Hands" (she recorded a "Christmas version" of it, with a choir and chimes, but the same lyrics)

Bob Carlisle - "Butterfly Kisses"


One song that I think should be played during the "holiday season" is Dream Academy - "Life in A Northern Town". It really sets a wintry mood with the wind whooshing sound effects and the line ""In winter 1963, it felt like the world would freeze, with John F. Kennedy and the Beatles."
 
satech said:
A few more:

Kenny Loggins - "Celebrate Me Home"

Jewel - "Hands" (she recorded a "Christmas version" of it, with a choir and chimes, but the same lyrics)

Bob Carlisle - "Butterfly Kisses"


One song that I think should be played during the "holiday season" is Dream Academy - "Life in A Northern Town". It really sets a wintry mood with the wind whooshing sound effects and the line ""In winter 1963, it felt like the world would freeze, with John F. Kennedy and the Beatles."
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Here's another:

"A Baby Changes Everything" by Faith Hill. It has more to do with giving birth to babies than
Christmas.
 
And how could I forget:

Thurl Ravenscroft - "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"

Vince Guaraldi Trio – "Linus And Lucy" (Jazz instrumental from "A Charlie Brown Christmas")
 
carolinaradio said:
It mentions Christmas very briefly, but some stations don't consider Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" Christmas. I have heard it played throughout the year.
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Right, I would consider that more of a "winter" song than a Christmas song. It was a hit in the winter months (1980-1981) But I hear it more in the winter months than I ever heard it in July. That said, a station in which I once worked had it in their "Christmas" rotation. I rarely, if ever, heard it there any other time.
 
Some AC stations continue to include some of these secular "Holiday" songs in rotation after December 25th, until New Year's Day. I think "Delilah" does this too.

I even once heard Joni Mitchell's "River" (which does mention Christmas in its lyrics) on a supermarket Muzak system in early February!
 
Light the Menorah-Hanukkah song=Duh!

-crainbebo
 
Dial Global standards has been playing a Bette Midler song asking, "What are you doing New Year's Eve".

They also play Bill Pursell's "Our Winter Love" just at Christmas, while Timeless Classics played a slightly different version by the same artist year-round.
 
I would love to hear some non-Christmas wintry songs played in the months of January and February. Does anyone else feel this way? ;D
 
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