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As it's winter...

There is no official start for any season. I like the Met. Office definition of Dec 1, Mar 1 etc.Anyway as it's this time of year - our favourite seasonal songs! What are they?By this I include hymns, carols, pop songs, parodies such as "Chipmunks roasting on an open fire, hot sauce dripping from their toes..." etc.So as no-one gets too over-excited I would suggest the omission of one Bing Crosby song - dream on!My favourites are: hymns - Adeste Fidelis (O come, all ye faithful) but not as rendered in Ealing Broadway a while back by a group of young men. I think they were RCs as they were it singing in Latin!Carols - I don't like many carols and even less do I like carol singers. Isn't that what chamber pots were invented for?Seasonal music - Winter Wonderland.Parodies - most of Bob Rivers renditions of popular carols and songs.

Alan Brainsby ● 6510d5 Comments

Thought your favourite would be White Christmas.

Gareth Gulson ● 6509d

Alas Gareth in these politically correct days "White Christmas" might be seen as a seasonal rallying song.Perhaps if the word white were changed to "snowy" or even "crystalline water ice precipitate" it might be better. This would upset the rhythm of the song but being PC it wouldn't really matter.The second line is atrocious "just like the ones we used to know."The ones!!! It should be "those"!I suppose the first word of the song - "I'm" - is also non-PC as it's singular and therefore non-inclusive.

Alan Brainsby ● 6509d

Could you re-write Rudolf please so that it does not discriminate against those poor souls who are nasally-challenged?

Sara Nathan ● 6508d

Good idea.It's strange to write a song referring to a symptom of a mite infection (which causes a reindeer to have a red nose). No doubt there are songs that allude to chancres and suchlike,  but amazingly I have never come across one.

Alan Brainsby ● 6508d

Fleas Navidad?

Marlene Plimley ● 6507d