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- Mar 2008
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- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
I used to do a Xmas class teaching English in businesses in Madrid where I played a selection of songs while introducing them to mince pies. Invariably they chose Lennon as the winner so I would make them justify it while arguing that Wizzard was better (also allowing me to illustrate West Midlands accents)
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Originally posted by Duncan Gardner View PostAye even by early 70s standards it's pap- but with a certain charm that reminds me of school discos
(I thought I’d edited my previous post to make sense. Now it makes none whatsoever.)
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- Mar 2008
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- Black Country Green Belt
- Crusaders FC, Norn Iron, not forgetting Serendib
- Blueberry vodka Jaffa cake on marzipan base
Teachers at my primary school (and probably everywhere else in the country) were not best pleased with their colleagues in the Black Country area.
Something to do with a spelling bee. Because I love you, mother: we are invariably excited currently
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Originally posted by Felicity, I guess so View PostLennon's simple lyrics probably helped. I remember trying to explain the line does a ton up on his sleigh from Slade with little success
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Originally posted by Hot Orange View PostBob Stanley was.
(I've set the work Christmas quiz this week, and been struggling for questions beyond the obvious ones, I'm not usually so up on who was born on what day).
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1 Last Christmas - Wham
2 Stay Another Day - East 17
3 A Winter's Tale - David Essex
4 I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
5 Fairytale of New York - Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
I think TonTon is the only other person I know who agrees with me about A Winter's Tale, but more fool everyone else
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View Post
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Originally posted by Hot Orange View PostBob Stanley was.
Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View PostSo were Dido, Annie Lennox, and Shane MacGowan so there are the makings of an unlikely Christmas super group coming together for "We Were Born on Christmas Day".
(I think I'm right in saying that we can add our own Bordeaux Education to this list? Maybe...)
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostAnd, would that he were still alive, Noel Redding.
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Originally posted by E10 Rifle View Post1 Last Christmas - Wham
2 Stay Another Day - East 17
3 A Winter's Tale - David Essex
4 I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
5 Fairytale of New York - Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
Released twenty-six years ago, it still feels to me like the last festive pop 'standard' as well. (I'm open to having that disproved, however.)
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
I'll give a small nod to Stay Another Day - not exactly a Christmas song, but cleverly re-worked to pick up all those yuletide dollars.
Released twenty-six years ago, it still feels to me like the last festive pop 'standard' as well. (I'm open to having that disproved, however.)
Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me (currently No. 11, dates from 2014)
Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree (16, 2013)
Leona Lewis - One More Sleep (25, 2013)
Coldplay - Christmas Lights (49, 2011)
The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) (77, 2003)
Excludes re-workings of old songs - yer Bubles, Biebers, Cullums, Sam Smiths etc, and songs from very recent years by e.g. Katy Perry and Sia, which haven't had long enough to prove their staying power yet.
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Oh and honourable mention to Jose Feliciano's 1970 Feliz Navidad, which seems to have risen out of relative obscurity in recent years, without there there being a single compelling reason for it (it was Buble-d in 2011 but still took took a few years to stand on its own).
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Originally posted by Walt Flanagans Dog View PostAriana Grande - Santa Tell Me (currently No. 11, dates from 2014)
Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree (16, 2013)
Leona Lewis - One More Sleep (25, 2013)
Coldplay - Christmas Lights (49, 2011)
The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End) (77, 2003)
But that might be that they've not yet had the same longevity - and by the same token, it may just be the old man in me speaking.
(I always thought that that Darkness effort was utter gonads. But then I largely thought that of them anyway.)
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
I'll give a small nod to Stay Another Day - not exactly a Christmas song, but cleverly re-worked to pick up all those yuletide dollars.
Released twenty-six years ago, it still feels to me like the last festive pop 'standard' as well. (I'm open to having that disproved, however.)
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