Chris Rea was one of the voices of my childhood. Every summer we used to make the drive from Birmingham up to Sunderland to visit my grandparents and one of the albums that we used to listen to in...
Today's entry on our musical advent calendar takes us back to 1973 and has been a perennial favourite ever since. It's definitely one of the most beloved Christmas songs of my childhood, and...
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town has a solid claim to being THE original Christmas hit. Originally released in two formats in 1934 - vinyl and sheet music - it sold over 130,000 copies within 24 hours...
Behind the door of today's advent calendar lie two entries for the price of one, like when you open the door and get two chocolates, or bite into your KitKat and get solid chocolate with no wafer....
Today's calendar entry is one of the very few modern versions of Christmas songs worth adding to your playlist. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) was originally recorded in 1963 by Darlene Love and...
Today's calendar selection seems, at first listen, to be a song about two lovers separated by a distance of 2000 rather snowy miles. Possibly not their finest work in terms of lyrics ('2000 miles is...
I am going to come right out with this - I love this song. I think it’s one of the best Christmas songs ever. However, I’m aware that it gets a massive bashing every year and is, for some reason,...
Behind today's advent door lies a much happier tune! Stevie Wonder's What Christmas Means To Me is practically bursting with Christmas Motown joy. Released in 1967 on the Someday At Christmas Album...
Jona Lewie's protest song Stop The Cavalry has become a Christmas staple and takes us back to a less chirpy Christmas theme, but is nonetheless a Christmas classic of its own with an important...
Today’s song takes us all the way back to the 1950s, and it sounds very much of that era as well. Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree was recorded in 1958 when Lee herself was -...
