Dear Radio Station Program Managers,

[MickeyMouseGal]

As Christmas approaches and you prepare your play list of seasonal music, I would like you to remember one thing. Dan Fogelberg's "Auld Lang Syne" is NOT a Christmas song.

Thank you.

P.S. Don't even get me started on "The Christmas Shoes".

 

[CraftyMouse]

P.S. Don't even get me started on "The Christmas Shoes".

"The Christmas Shoes" =

Not only is it manipulatively sappy, it's downright depressing. And it really doesn't need to be played every 15 minutes.

Worst. "Christmas". Song. Ever.

 

[sunnyday123]

As Christmas approaches and you prepare your play list of seasonal music, I would like you to remember one thing. Dan Fogelberg's "Auld Lang Syne" is NOT a Christmas song.

Thank you.

P.S. Don't even get me started on "The Christmas Shoes".

It isn't? He says it snows while they're in the car getting buzzed...doesn't that count???

I seriously love that song. That one by Lorrie Morgan isn't a Christmas song either, but they play that to death. WHY is a dog biting one of her favorite things???

 

[TwinsinCA]

Actually the song takes place on Christmas Eve. So maybe that is close enough.

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

It isn't? He says it snows while they're in the car getting buzzed...doesn't that count???

It only counts if Santa and Rudolph are the ones buying a six-pack at the liquor store. Actually I'll bet those two can put away at least a case.

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

Actually the song takes place on Christmas Eve. So maybe that is close enough.

Nope, it doesn't count and neither does Streisand's "My Favorite Things".

 

[sunnyday123]

Actually the song takes place on Christmas Eve. So maybe that is close enough.

That's right!!! So it IS a Christmas song!!!! I love it and whenever it comes on the radio, I make everyone be quiet so I can listen.

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

I would rather stab myself in the ears with a pair of chopsticks than have to listen to "The Christmas Shoes". It is one of the WORST songs I've ever heard. It's so depressing. Christmas songs aren't supposed to be depressing.

 

[sunnyday123]

Nope, it doesn't count and neither does Streisand's "My Favorite Things".

That's the song I was talking about. And I googled the lyrics and dogs biting aren't some of her favorite things, but that song does annoy me. Ever hear her version of Jingle Bells? Remember ( ok I'm dating myself ) when you played your 45's on the wrong speed? That is what it sounds like. We listened to it one Christmas Eve after a bottle ( or two ) of wine and it was hysterical.

 

[3jsmommy]

Another vote for "The christmas shoes" as being cheese filled ear torture!!

 

[sunnyday123]

I would rather stab myself in the ears with a pair of chopsticks than have to listen to "The Christmas Shoes". It is one of the WORST songs I've ever heard. It's so depressing. Christmas songs aren't supposed to be depressing.

I turn that as soon as it comes on. I've only ever heard it whole once, and that was enough for me.
Didn't they also make it into a Christmas special??

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

They did with..oh geeze what's her name? She was in the Father of the Bride movies with Steve Martin and she's married to Braid Paisley I think. DH forced me to watch it last year because he LOVES "The Christmas Shoes" song. And it is just depressing dreck from start to finish. Urgh.

 

[lovesmurfs]

One of the radio stations up here has been playing Christmas music for a while now. Everytime I turn it on, it's someone else's rendition of "Jingle Bell Rock".

Yesterday morning, I listened in the morning, and it was JBR, another song, and JBR again. Sure, it's an okay and a fun song, but surely in the whole wide world of Christmas music, there are other songs that could be played, too!

Historically, Auld Lang Syne is a New Year's Eve song, not Christmas Eve? (although I think New Year's Eve is officially the 7th day of Christmas....)

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

There's one station here that does that with "Feliz Navidad". It's on constant repeat.
The first time I heard it, I thought the words were "Los perro annos y felicidad" and I was trying to figure out what a dog had to do with Christmas greetings.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I seriously love that song. That one by Lorrie Morgan isn't a Christmas song either, but they play that to death. WHY is a dog biting one of her favorite things???

Ummm... When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feelin' sad....I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don't feel....so.....bad. It's not a favorite thing....

I've always wondered why it's on the Christmas repertoire as well...

 

[JARNJ3]

Dan passed this year.

While I love all his music, I do agree that the following (including Auld Lang Syne) really isn't Christmas Music:

Favorite Things
The River
Baby Its Cold Outside

On another note, Dan did record an album (uh oh showing my age......) I mean CD of real Christmas songs......

First Christmas Morning

Track Listings

1. Bell Fantasy/Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Dan Fogelberg,
2. At Christmas Time
3. Winterskøl
4. The First Christmas Morning
5. This Endris Night - Dan Fogelberg,
6. Feast of Fools
7. I Saw Three Ships - Dan Fogelberg, Sandys, William
8. Snowfall
9. In the Bleak Midwinter - Dan Fogelberg, Holst, Gustav
10. Yule Dance
11. What Child Is This? - Dan Fogelberg, Dix, William Chatte
12. O Tannenbaum - Dan Fogelberg, Traditional
13. Three Kings - Dan Fogelberg, Hopkins, John [1]
14. Christ the King

 

[luv2nascar]

I heard it today too. It was horrible and I turned it off pronto

 

[Luv Bunnies]

They did with..oh geeze what's her name? She was in the Father of the Bride movies with Steve Martin and she's married to Braid Paisley I think. DH forced me to watch it last year because he LOVES "The Christmas Shoes" song. And it is just depressing dreck from start to finish. Urgh.

You're thinking of Kimberly Williams Paisley. She also plays the sister on According to Jim.

I just pulled up The Christmas Shoes on YouTube because I couldn't remember if I'd heard it before. OMG! I gotta buy my mom a pair of shoes to wear when she dies? What a horribly disgusting song! And the little kid's voice at the end? How sick!

 

[sdarwkcabemanmy]

That's it..I could see her face but I couldn't think of her name. She's so cute.

And yeah..the children's choir singing at the end just makes it that much worse. Bleh.

Makes me wonder who came up with this bright idea and what they were smoking?

What makes it worse is in the TV special, not only does he buy the shoes, but she doesn't wear them after she dies. He puts them on her, she dies, they have a funeral. Cut to a scene that's supposed to be like 10 years later and the boy (now a college age young man) goes out to her grave on Christmas Eve and lays the shoes on her grave. Apparently, he does this every year. He takes the shoes, lays them on the grave for a few days then goes and retrieves them. Or at least that was the feeliing I got.

And they're not even cute shoes. They are the buttugliest shoes I've ever seen.

 

[eliza61]

As Christmas approaches and you prepare your play list of seasonal music, I would like you to remember one thing. Dan Fogelberg's "Auld Lang Syne" is NOT a Christmas song.

Thank you.

P.S. Don't even get me started on "The Christmas Shoes".

First, do we even have station managers that make their own play list? I read that nowadays most stations are owned by the conglomerate Radio one and pretty much have a playlist forced fed to them. That's why there is no individuality in radio any more. You can drive cross country and hear the same ole songs. One of the saddest things to me is that I live in the Philly area and very rarely do you hear great Philly music unless you've got satellite (Hall & Oats, Patty Labelle, Harold melvin and the bluenotes, TSOP)

"The Christmas Shoes" =

Not only is it manipulatively sappy, it's downright depressing. And it really doesn't need to be played every 15 minutes.

Worst. "Christmas". Song. Ever.

When ever they invent a "way back machine", I'm personally travelling back in time and choking the life out of that man. I'll do the time before listening to that song. Hey, there's an idea, instead of capital punishment put a criminal in a cell and play "the Christmas shoes" 24/7 for the entire sentence.