Christmas No 1 odds and your personal favourite Christmas song

[Uncle Spielberg]

As a novelty check this out for the odds on the 2003 Christmas No 1.

Pop Idol 12 - 4/6 fav
Bill Nighy 6/1
The Darkness 7/1
Cliff Richard - 8/1
Avid Merrion - 12/1
Alex Parks - 16/1
Noddy - 25/1
Basil Brush - 33/1
Cheeky Girls - 33/1 - for Gunter

The form is with Cliff so 8/1 is worth a bet to beat the Pop Idols cynical money making ploy remake of Merry Xmas war is over.

My fav songs are - White Christmas - Bing, Last Christmas - Wham, Merry Xmas everybody - Slade, I wish it could be Christmas - Wizzard, Rock N Roll Xmas - GG

 

[Gwylan]

Bill Nighy? What's he doing there?

My personal favourite is Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses, although I also quite like the Bruce Springsteen version of Santa Claus is coming to town.

 

[tinx]

Fairytale in new york by the Pogues and Kirsty MaColl is my favorite xmas tune. I can't see anyone but pop idol getting the number one this year.

 

[Mr Popkins]

rockin around the xmas tree

its a classic

 

[JJ McClure]

Avid Merrion is doing a Christmas song?

Fairytale of New York by the Pogues is my favorite.

 

[Vinyl Richie]

my favourite past x-mas number one was East 17 wow-wee do they rock

Stay now
baby if you've got to go away,
don't think I can take the pain,
won't you stay another day?
STAY NOW (ding-dong-dong-ding-ding-dong)
(stayyyyyyyyyyyy)

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Stay another Day was a classic brilliant song , it was no 1 at Christmas but not a christmas song. Good call though

 

[CHAPPERS]

Fairytale in new york by the Pogues and Kirsty MaColl is my favorite xmas tune. I can't see anyone but pop idol getting the number one this year.

I used to do that Kareoke every week, needless to say i was Kirsty MaColl every time.

 

[tinx]

Stay another Day was a classic brilliant song , it was no 1 at Christmas but not a christmas song. Good call though

Wasn't that the song that kept Oasis - Whatever off the xmas number one spot.

 

[tinx]

A quality bit of Google searching:-

It was christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won’t see another one
And then he sang a song
The rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I’ve got a feeling
This year’s for me and you
So happy christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They’ve got cars big as bars
They’ve got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It’s no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold christmas eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of new york city
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the nypd choir
Were singing "galway bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day

You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last

The boys of the nypd choir
Were singing "galway bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you

The boys of the nypd choir
Were singing "galway bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day

 

[Vinyl Richie]

Stay another Day was a classic brilliant song , it was no 1 at Christmas but not a christmas song. Good call though

I thank you

look what I found!

1952 Al Martino - Here In My Heart
1953 Frankie Laine - Answer Me
1954 Winifred Atwell - Let's Have Another Party
1955 Dickie Valentine - Christmas Alphabet
1956 Johnnie Ray - Just Walkin' In The Rain
1957 Harry Belafonte - Mary's Boy Child
1958 Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
1959 Emile Ford & The Checkmates - What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For
1960 Cliff Richard & The Shadows - I Love You
1961 Danny Williams - Moon River
1962 Elvis Presley - Return To Sender
1963 The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand
1964 The Beatles - I Feel Fine
1965 The Beatles - Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out
1966 Tom Jones - The Green Grass Of Home
1967 The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
1968 Scaffold Lily - The Pink
1969 Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys
1970 Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knockin'
1971 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
1972 Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool
1973 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
1974 Mud - Lonely This Christmas
1975 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
1976 Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born (Soleado)
1977 Wings - Mull Of Kintyre / Girls' School
1978 Boney M - Mary's Boy Child-Oh My Lord
1979 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
1980 St Winifred's School Choir - There's No One Quite Like Grandma
1981 The Human League - Don't You Want Me
1982 Renee & Renato - Save Your Love
1983 The Flying Pickets - Only You
1984 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
1985 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
1986 Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite
1987 The Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
1988 Cliff Richard - Mistletoe & Wine
1989 Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas?
1990 Cliff Richard - Saviours' Day
1991 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives
1992 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
1993 Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby
1994 East 17 - Stay Another Day
1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song
1996 Spice Girls - 2 Become 1
1997 Spice Girls - Too Much
1998 Spice Girls - Goodbye
1999 Westlife - I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun
000 Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It?
2001 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman - Somethin' Stupid
2002 Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground

 

[Marc]

1973 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody - my fave!

 

[Vinyl Richie]

The Pogues aren't on that list (or am I just being blind?). Never the less bestest x-mas song around.



Anyone remember Reet Petite :dance:

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

From my era, the stand outs are Stay another Day - East 17, Bo Rap - Queen, Band Aid - do they know ?, Slade - MCE

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Pogues got to No 2

 

[Brady's Old Lady]

Pogues and Kirsty M - Greg Lake

Also there's a Simon and Garfunkel song "Silent Night/7 O'Clock news" which I always find quite moving.

 

[Braders]

Stay another Day was a classic brilliant song , it was no 1 at Christmas but not a christmas song. Good call though

how come its on every xmas album then


darkness to win , pop idols to lose badly (for totally ruining a john lennon classic)

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

How come ?.

Braders - the clues in the title of the song !.

 

[Sam]

noddy at 25/1 is good value!

 

[chez]

Last Christmas by Wham is my favourite but for humour value you cant beat "Santa Claus you ****" by Kevin Bloody Wilson.