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I enjoy both these songs that are in number 3.

It was the John Lewis ad(The year when it got good) that got me into it first and then I fell for the other version for some reasons I love the music video.

The power of Love. Gabrielle Aplin and Frankie goes to Hollywood.

Coming in at Number 1 it's a classic and It has to be the original it's simply perfect. I don't need to say anymore.

The Pogues and Fairytale of New York.

Brilliant. Well done @freshpopcorn

You could try Christmas FM!

Right, about time I did this. I've had the list for ages but was waiting for laptop time as it would have been a pain on the phone!

So to kick off...it can only be.....Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade. Is it ever really Christmas until you've heard "IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!!" in Nolder's Black Country accent? So actually I'd clip that, play Noddy first and then go into the song...cos that's how you open a show!

Next up at number 9 is one of the songs that made this list that Christmas FM brought into my world...some people say Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend but this gal just wants...a Hippopotamus for Christmas!

I've never seen this video before, so of an age!

At number 7 now here's something from our favourite Argentinian Irish man...Chris de Burgh. There's something about his introduction to this song that always gave me goosebumps. Lots of cover versions....Celtic Women is atrocious but here's the man himself, all sweaty in concert...A Spaceman Came Travelling

And now it's time for that hidden gem. A Christmas Song we don't hear very often, and maybe with good reason.

This song came into my world via a selection box, remember when selection boxes were actually big and worth getting? This was a large square selection box, I think it came from my Grandparents. It was a Mars selection box and in the middle of the square was a black cassette with gold writing "Mars Christmas Hits" (isn't it amazing how we can sometimes remember unimportant details?). Anyway most of the songs were familiar but this one wasn't. This will forever be a selection box song for me, dreary and all as it is!

Here's David Essex with "A Winter's Tale"

Number 4, how could I leave this one out. This was the song of a generation, a song of action, a song with so many incredible voices. George Michael was my hero ( I was very young) and much as I hated Bono ,and U2, his lyrics here and the vocal performance are just iconic. They've remade/butchered this song many times but it will always be about the original for me. So here's Band Aid and Do They Know It's Christmas

Number 2...almost there....and I did mention I used to love George Michael so of course you knew this one was going to appear! Last Christmas confused me as a 7 year old, I couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't keep George Michael's heart and dump him so cruelly. I certainly wouldn't have!! Mind you none of that was anywhere near as brutal as the film that bore this name from a few years back. Atrocious doesn't come close.

Like A Winter's Tale, this song is about a break up and the genius in adding in a Christmas connection guaranteed that this one would be a success. Winter just wasn't specific enough 😉

Well that has flown by, thank you for "listening".

To sign off...well I have to remember it's Christmas and though not religious these days I was, like most of Ireland, brought up as Catholic. So I'm going to stick in something a little serious, a carol. The lyrics wish you a Merry Christmas..though I will never not hear "give a, give a, give a Garmin, give a, give a, give a Garmin" 🤣

But to break with tradition here's a magical instrumental version with a captivating video. I give you Carol of the Bells (with ne'er a bell in sight!)

Thanks folks, this has been fun!

Thanks! Have just gone back and corrected a load of typos 😂