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- Elvis Presley, ‘White Christmas’ (1957) Advertisement. Though Elvis is largely known for his hip-shakin’ rock’n’roll, his version of Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ is broadly faithful to the cockle-warming original – along with the rest of the covers The King recorded for his 1957 Christmas album.
- Jimmy Boyd, ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’ (1950) First performed by a 13-year-old Jimmy Boyd, this festive number unfurls like an chesnut-warming Disney classic – but don’t be fooled by its candy cane-sweet exterior.
- Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters, ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’ (1951) Advertisement. A bona-fide Christmas banger, ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’ has every single ingredient for success – from the old-timey jazz hands vocals to the raucous bursts of ”hahahah!”
- The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, ‘Fairytale of New York’ (1988) An Irish folk ballad with a leg-kicking céilidh dance-off in the middle, ‘Fairytale of New York’ begins with a night in a jail cell, and rapidly sweeps from the sentimental (“We kissed on a corner, then danced through the night”) to the downright dark (“Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed”) – with a lot of insult-slinging along the way.
The classic Christmas songs that have been banned or censored. Everyone loves the classics like Last Christmas and All I Want for Christmas is You, but a few Christmas hits are sure to...
- Jessica Knibbs
- “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” by Jimmy Boyd
- “Minuit, Chrétiens,” by Adolphe Adam and Placide Cappeau
- “Christmas at Ground Zero” by “Weird Al” Yankovic
- “Fairytale of New York” by The Pogues
- “White Christmas” by Elvis Presley
- “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” by Bing Crosby
- “Santa Baby” by Eartha Kitt
In 1952, a freckly 13-year-old named Jimmy Boyd introduced “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” to the world in his high-pitched Mississippi twang. Though listeners were supposed to realize what the song’s young narrator does not—that Mommy is actually kissing Daddy in a Santa suit—many were still scandalized by the musical marriage of sex and Christm...
Before “O Holy Night” became an English Christmas carol, it was a French carol called “Minuit, Chrétiens,” or “Midnight, Christians.” In the 1840s, a clergyman in the town of Roquemaure commissioned a new Christmas hymn from a local poet named Placide Cappeau (spellings vary), and composer Adolphe Adam set the words to music. The song debuted at a ...
With lyrics like “We can dodge debris while we trim the tree / Underneath the mushroom cloud,” “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 1986 single “Christmas at Ground Zero” made light of the nation’s collective Cold War anxiety—and, as such, was quickly forbidden from airplay. “For some reason, [radio stations] didn’t think it was appropriate to have a song about n...
Yankovic’s ill-fated spoof wasn’t the only contentious Christmas song born in the 1980s (thankfully, Wham!’s “Last Christmas” is free from controversy). The Pogues’s folksy duet “Fairytale of New York,” featuring Kirsty MacColl, quickly became a UK holiday classic after its release in 1987. Through the second half of this fairytale-turned-sour, the...
By the mid-1950s, Elvis Presley already had a reputation for corrupting American youth with his sexually charged rock ‘n’ roll music. So it’s not a complete surprise that some people took issue with his rendition of Irving Berlin’s chaste classic “White Christmas” on his 1957 Christmas album. Berlin himself spearheaded the movement to ban it from r...
A few bars of Bing Crosby’s baritone are enough to evoke nostalgia, and his 1943 hit “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” ups the ante by centering on the idea that some people—like soldiers—are only home for the holidays in their dreams. Worried that the song could damage British morale during World War II, the BBC refrained from broadcasting it altogethe...
In 1953, composer Phil Springer was skeptical when music executives asked him to create a Christmas song for a Broadway up-and-comer with an especially alluring voice: Eartha Kitt. “You don't write Christmas songs that are sexy,” he responded. “How are we going to do that?” As Springer told the Los Angeles Times in 2017, the execs advised him to “s...
On a Snowy Christmas Night Lyrics. About “Blue Christmas (2020)”. Producers Felton Jarvis & Steve Sholes. Writers Aaron Schroeder, Al Frisch, Billy Hayes & 31 more. Acoustic Guitar Elvis ...
Sony Music Entertainment's Legacy Recordings has released an all-new animated video for Elvis Presley's "Blue Christmas" to celebrate the holiday season! The first ever official video for the song follows three characters who are each navigating their way through the holidays, and it was created by New York animation studio MoSoMoS.
Dec 22, 2022 · Elvis’ 1957 version of Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’ was banned when a judge in Jacksonville accused the singer of “undermining the youth of America”.
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Dec 3, 2020 · Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will celebrate the 2020 holiday season with the release of the first official music video for Elvis Presley’s “Blue Christmas.”
