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What is your least favorite Christmas song?

joebtsflk1 said:
We should have a poll....but as for me, it's a toss up between "Santa Baby" and "Favorite Things."

On second thought, it's "Santa Baby." While I hate "Favorite Things" as a Christmas song, it's OK in context as one of the numbers in "The Sound of Music."
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Radio programmers be like, 'Huh? What mean 'Fa-vo-rite Things' no is Criss-muss song? We play forever!'
 
Another bad one. "Ho Ho Ho" by The Chipmunks. It was released in 2008, but I never heard it until Friday Morning when Allan Camp the Music Director/Morning Show Co-Host on Entercom's Lite 100.5 WRCH in Hartford played it. He said it was the first time the station played the song. All new songs by The Chipmunks suck. All the new songs by The Chipmunks sound like they used auto-tune on them.
 
"... lifting weights."

I've not heard that one before. Witty. Witty, indeed.
 
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I like to hear Roger Whittaker sing but "The Holly and the Ivy" sounds like it was done by Mannheim Steamroller, yet the KKOV list of songs played doesn't mention them or whoever it is messing up a perfectly good song.
 
This doesn't fit any existing topic but I suppose if one gets tired of hearing the same song over and over, it doesn't help if America's Best Music somehow plays two different versions of the same song within a few minutes of each other. It has happened twice today, though in one case it was the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of "Little Drummer Boy" which was technically a different song.
 
blackgold said:
Finally, I'm not too hot about the Nat "King" Cole/Natalie Cole version of "The Christmas Song." I prefer the solo versions by the respective singers.
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No, no, no. Maybe if they had done it when both were alive, but you don't tinker with Nat's "The Christmas Song". Not even with Sinatra. That's who KKOV was playing. WNAM plays the same thing as KKOV most of the time.
 
vchimpanzee said:
...but you don't tinker with Nat's "The Christmas Song".
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Ah...but which version of Nat's "Christmas Song?" Personal preference is the original but Nat recorded it three different times I believe.

Similar question: which of the two versions of The Carpenters "Merry Christmas Darling?"
 
vchimpanzee said:
This doesn't fit any existing topic but I suppose if one gets tired of hearing the same song over and over, it doesn't help if America's Best Music somehow plays two different versions of the same song within a few minutes of each other. It has happened twice today, though in one case it was the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of "Little Drummer Boy" which was technically a different song.
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Natalie was a small child when her father was alive!
 
Another one for Jingle Bells by the Barking Dogs. I heard the same song done by cats and even rats which I have to admit that one kinda of shocked me since having pet rats I didn't know rats could "sing". With the exception of Alvin & the Chipmunks no animal should be on recordings of any kind.

I guess chalk this one up PC correctness but Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad. I myself like that song but here in Denver I heard people saying one is racist if they don't like that song.
 
hamster said:
Another one for Jingle Bells by the Barking Dogs. I heard the same song done by cats and even rats which I have to admit that one kinda of shocked me since having pet rats I didn't know rats could "sing". With the exception of Alvin & the Chipmunks no animal should be on recordings of any kind.
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Check this review, starting at about 22 minutes, of the Jingle Cats, along with something even scarier: Jingle BABIES!!! : https://youtu.be/kQ4Zxvpz14U?t=1328 :eek:

There's nothing scarier in this than the clip of a mountain scene with a giant baby at about 34 minutes!!! :eek:
 
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anotherguy said:
Check this review, starting at about 22 minutes, of the Jingle Cats, along with something even scarier: Jingle BABIES!!! : https://youtu.be/kQ4Zxvpz14U?t=1328 :eek:

There's nothing scarier in this than the clip of a mountain scene with a giant baby at about 34 minutes!!! :eek:
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This reminds me of "Santa Baby". It used to be at my radio station we had to record the local schools Christmas concerts and we did that for years and every concert was the same when it comes to "Santa Baby". A girl come out wearing a coat and takes iit off showing the audience that now she is wearing a bikini and she is singing Santa Baby and the boys would scream catcalls, "woohoo", "Oh baby" and the like. The last year I did the concerts ( 2007 ) I found a copy of the 1996 concert for one school and I played that instead. Not one complaint !!
 
hamster said:
Another one for Jingle Bells by the Barking Dogs. I heard the same song done by cats and even rats which I have to admit that one kinda of shocked me since having pet rats I didn't know rats could "sing". With the exception of Alvin & the Chipmunks no animal should be on recordings of any kind.

I guess chalk this one up PC correctness but Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad. I myself like that song but here in Denver I heard people saying one is racist if they don't like that song.
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I was 10 yo when I first heard "Jingle Bells" by the Barking Dogs. I thought they were being tortured.

ixnay
 
anotherguy said:
For me at least there's one exception, which is the version by the Christian band White Heart. But I'll admit that I don't like the versions of it or other religious Christmas songs by secular performers who don't even pretend to be Christians, which I've mentioned before. I like a lot of Bruce Springsteen's music, but not his version of The Little Drummer Boy.
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I love Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". It first saw daylight as the b-side of "My Hometown" IIRC.

ixnay
 
vchimpanzee said:
No, no, no. Maybe if they had done it when both were alive, but you don't tinker with Nat's "The Christmas Song". Not even with Sinatra. That's who KKOV was playing. WNAM plays the same thing as KKOV most of the time.
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Actually, it's Mel Torme and Bob Wells' "The Christmas Song," but Nat King Cole recorded the most famous version of it.
 
ixnay said:
I love Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".
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An almost note-for-note ripoff of The Crystals' version from 1963, right down to Clarence Clemons' sax solo. Not exact, but very very close.
 
KeithE4 said:
An almost note-for-note ripoff of The Crystals' version from 1963, right down to Clarence Clemons' sax solo. Not exact, but very very close.
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I agree. As I recall, it originally was not an official release, but from a radio broadcast of a concert.
 
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