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Good Evening or Good Night everybody and welcome to Christmas with Freshpopcorn.

I'm delighted to post in the thread mainly because I haven't a clue what's going on in the werewolves thread.

Well my opening number is

''Do they know it's Christmas time?''

This is mainly here because of the Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special.

It's one of my favorite Christmas Specials because of how realistic it with two families preparing and coming together at Christmas with all the ups and downs included.

Now it's time for Number 9.

This was released back in 1996 I hadn't even started school yet.

It's 2 become 1 by the Spice Girls. It made my list because I did some work experience in a supermarket in the 2000's and when this played I knew it was time to go home. It was honestly the best song ever back then and that's why it's on the list. It was also the Christmas when the pork crisis happened and their nearly was a shortage of ham's.

Moving onto number seven and I suppose I should say Good Morning to everybody now.

Happy Christmas/War is Over.

This takes me back to primary school when the whole school had to sing Christmas carols either in school or down town for charity. It was a favorite song at the time. I really knew Christmas was on the way when we began practicing them. I did love Christmas in primary school from Santa visits to Discos in later years. Those were really the most magically days of my life. The singing was terrible.

Now it's time for my hidden Jem song.

It's a song from the early 1990's All alone on Christmas by Darlene Love.

I often feel this isn't played enough but heard it a lot last year. I mainly know this because of Home Alone 2 and Kevin with his adventures in New York. In the music video and of course in Home Alone 2 you get to see the New York sky line with the twin towers. Back when it was released nobody would have imagined what would happened.

Onto Number 4 now and it's another strange one.

Gabrielle Out of Reach.

It's a song that I remember from Christmases when I was younger when it was played in the Bridget Jones Diary movie.

Yet another sort of weepie song at number two but this song just reminds of Christmas/Winter and it just makes me feel so cosy.

East 17 Stay Another Day.

I do have some honorable mentions and I could go on but this is a great song for Driving home for Christmas be it from Shopping, Work, Abroad, Family, etc. Thanks for listening here on boardsfm.

It's Driving Home for Christmas by Chris Rea.

Happy Listening

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At number 10 we have this one...my mother hates this song because it was number one at Christmas and still number one when I was born. She was fed up of being pregnant and "When a Child is Born" was just rubbing it in that I was overstaying my welcome in her womb 🤣

Talking about songs that radio stations brought into my life, number 8 is another one. This one I will always associate with the late Gerry Ryan. It was always nearly Christmas when he played this one, it's Frank Kelly's Christmas Countdown

This actually got into the charts in the UK and he made Top of the Pops, with an abridged version. This video is brilliant!! Frank Kelly was a genius!

Back to those radio songs again. For number 6..during Christmas of 2020 this song felt like it was played several times each hour on Christmas FM. And no wonder, in the midst of a bleak pandemic, facing a Christmas like none ever before, who didn't want to be transported to Hawaii? Mele Kalikimaka to you all!

Only the audio here.

Getting to the top 5 and still so many to choose from...changing my mind as I type...but here's my number 5. Driving Home for Christmas is something I've done almost all of my adult life. Loading up the car, like playing Tetris, to get everything to fit but still allow room for the stop at the florist to get flowers for my mother and a wreath for my grandparents grave. It's tradition. This song has always resonated with me, none so much as 2010 and the horrendous snow. I didn't get to drive home for Christmas that year, it was too dangerous, and it broke my heart every time I heard that song. It's still a song that says Christmas, because it's part of my Christmas so...get on with it Chris Rea!

Top three time...and these all hold a special place in my heart.

At number 3 we have the quintessential duet, Bowie and Crosby and this classic video. I hated The Little Drummer Boy in School but Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy just gave it new life, and musicality. I adore this song. I hope you do too.

And number 1...a classic. Another not so happy song with a Christmas motif but a classic it is. This is one of the songs that will identify the Irish people in the room anywhere in the world, no matter what time of the year. I've had a couple of magicial experiences where this has happened and it just brings you right back home. It can't be Christmas on an Irish radio station, real or virtual without....Fairytale of New York. The debates about the F word will eventually remove all the original versions from the internet, it'll be "you're cheap and you're haggard" everywhere we look. But for now enjoy it as it was meant to be.

Fantastic stuff @Caranica enjoyed that.

Have my list done so hoping to get time in the week to get it together and post.

Great thread. A couple of my favourites didnt show up yet, but I think there are still some people to go ? So might show up yet :)

I've only got about 7 favourite Christmas songs and some of them aren't technically Christmas songs.... :D