Christmas Songs that Aren't Really Christmas Songs

I’ve heard this complaint before (here, probably) about Joni Mitchell’s “River” and I don’t understand the objection. It’s not like Christmas songs are certified or something.

That whore Annie Lennox included Dido's Lament on her Xmas album.

Last Christmas

Speaking of Last Christmas, Andrew Ridgely just appeared on the Rockefeller Center special and he looked like THE CRYPTKEEPER!! Jesus he looks old.

He also reminded us the song was released 40 YEARS AGO this year. Damn I'M old.

Winter Wonderland is a song about a season, not Christmas.

Baby, It's Cold Outside is about slipping a roofie into a drink, not Christmas

[quote]Baby, It's Cold Outside is about slipping a roofie into a drink, not Christmas

It may not be Christmas, but neither is it about drugging someone. Read all the lyrics. It's part of the flirtation, from a different time.

Sleigh Ride, Marshmallow World ...

That song from Willie Wonka

Fairytale of New York.

Jingle Bells was originally about Thanksgiving, wasn’t it? The word “Christmas” is nowhere in the lyrics.

OP, Carol for Another Christmas has become a Christmas song even though it’s not one.

It was played at the end of WPIX’s Yule Log broadcast, largely because Henry Mancini wrote and performed it for some overwrought Rod Serling special in the 60s. It was through that broadcast that it became a sort of Christmas song.

I’m not knocking it, by the way. It’s a beautiful piece of music.

"Let It Snow" has no mention of Christmas.

"River" by Joni Mitchell.

R&B artists’ “Christmas” songs from the 1970s onward.

R6 your Loesser fave?

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." I love Pentatonix, and I know this turned out to be one of the biggest songs of their career, but it has no business being on a Christmas album.

Frosty, the Snowman

Last year, one of the British music channels did a countdown of the best Christmas songs ever. The winner was "Too Lost in You" by the Sugababes. Just... no. Featuring in Love Actually doesn't make it a Christmas song.

In Sweden, "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "Bella Notte" are sometimes considered Christmas songs, because the 50s Disney special From All of Us to All of You airs on Christmas Eve there every year.

Joni's River opening lyrics are all about Xmas.

"It's coming on Christmas They're cutting down trees They're putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace..."

Jingle Bell Rock

My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music

Did you even bother to read the original post?

And "Turkey Lurkey Time" really IS a Christmas song, but I've not heard it on any of the Sirius XM Christmas channels.

"River" by Joni Mitchell

“I Wonder as I Wander” is a Good Friday/Easter song if anything. “Song for a Winter Night” is seasonal. “Toy Land”, “Little Altar Boy”.

Did anyone mention "River" by Joni Mitchell ?

I'll see myself out.

I remember in 1985, I worked in a small shopping mall which brought in school choirs to sing Christmas songs for shoppers during lunch hour the month of December. Most of them were pretty good, and one school choir in particular was very good - until they ended their Christmas songs with 'We Don't Need Another Hero' as the finale. Everyone was walking around the mall scratching their heads by the song selection. It pretty much ruined it.

“What Are You New Year’s Eve”, a rare NYE song and my favorite out of all the holiday songs: