I was late to this song, made aware of it in 2004 in the Flashback: The Best Holiday Collection? But Henry Kapono’s Merry Christmas to You is on my Holiday playlist, and it should be on yours.
Here’s Henry Kapono performing a live version of this Christmas classic in support of the Marines’ Toys for Tots program.
Okay, okay, not strictly Christmas, and I’m not too familiar with other religious Holiday traditions, but I do enjoy Adam Sandler’s Chanukah Song (Parts 1, 2, and 3). So you won’t be mistaking Adam’s rhyming skills with that of Emimem, but educating listeners about Chanukah he does. And if you had to rhyme “Chanukah,” I bet “playing the harmonica” and the “Seattle Supersonicas” sound pretty darn good.
Take it away Adam…
Seriously, I don’t know what this song about other than the hook, “last Christmas, I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away.” What else is there to know? George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in their prime.
For a more upbeat tempo of this classic, I like the Jimmy Eat World version.
So what are some of your favorite Christmas songs? These are the songs you have to hear to get into the Holiday spirit. Here’s one of my favs, The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. This unlikely duo create pure magic.