Singing for the Lone(Ho)ly(days)

Dr. Elmo toasts “Here’s to the Lonely” with sincerity and bluegrass. To the dreamer!

Orioles doo wop like it’s 1949 with “(It’s Gonna Be A) Lonely Christmas“. Old time radio sadness.

Rapping breakups Scotty Sire (feat. Heath Hussar) celebrate their “Lonely Chrsitmas“. Calling it quits never rocked so good, bitch.

Merle Haggard doesn’t have you for Christmas. So this silent night has become a crooning country “Lonely Night“. He’s counting the months until he’s lonely again next year.

Otis Gibbs has a hard country “Lonely Mistletoe Night“, ‘cuz Mom’s out working extra jobs and the house, well, it’s so empty.

You’ll Never Walk(in’ in a Winter Wonderland) Alone

Moonglows slow the doo woo to lament “Just a Lonely Christmas” 1953 was just that cool.

Mud’s “Lonely This Christmas” has been covered by many, including Elvis (‘cuz it sounds like him already). Sean Jean & The LTF Carolers pick up the beat a little. More rockabilly thrashing. I dig Frank Hamilton‘s slow-mo approach. It’s like spoken word despair. But, then there’s the comedy Brit take: Pete Jones’s “Lonely This Christmas (Now I’m Getting Old)“. And the DJ mashup from Retrospec. Ouch.

More on this and “Lonely Christmas Call” happened on the blog before. Check it out.

Sylver returns us to moody, yet cheesy, pop with “Lonely X-Mas“. The causes: You’re not here with me. The cure: I can only wish that you were here. Case closed.

The Yule Logs retro rock “Christmas is Lonely (When You’re a Jew)” for obvious reasons. I mean, there’s nothing else to do.

I Drink (nog) Alone

Sofia Talvik’s tribute “A Carol for the Lonely” gasps and wanders like a lost soul. The cello gravitas deepens this folk country into a whole ‘other genre.

Aryah wails echoic gospel to the rafters in “Lonely on Christmas“. It’s not a spiritual crisis, as much as it is being on a break.

The Knights symphonize Prince’s “Another Lonely Christmas“, draining the funk and instilling the grandeur. An oddity to be sure.

Milan Tausch murmurs his “Lonely Christmas” about the Pandemic of 2020. Struggling symphonic.

Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadors brings twang to the party with his “Lonely Christmas Eve“. This is the ’60s, boys’n’girls. Jukebox country.

We’re (car)Ol alone

“Nobody Wants to Be Alone for Christmas” insist Tom & Penny. Could be a problem when they threw up on your fancy sheets. Funky rock.

The endless nature of “Another Lonely Christmas” has been addressed on the blog before. Return to sender.

Doesn’t mean cheesy pop won’t take a turn. Maan’s “Another Lonely Christmas (A Lady Christmas)” is jazzy, sultry, high pitched, and forgettable.

Chrissi Poland applies jazz more surgically to “Another Lonely Christmas in New York“. The Bossa nova backbeat gives the emotion a lift.

Kerr Donnelly Band go full Elvis on “Lonely Blue Christmas“. Someone please buy me a gift. Outstanding retro rockabilly.

Sick of Being Lonely (and fruitcake)

Joni (feat. 24K) apply disco-ed R+B to the problem of being “Alone” at Christmas. Should be makin’ love.

Hollering alt-rock Skindred hates being “Alone This Holiday“. Not sure who’s to blame in this brouhaha, but he’s getting the final word.

Sneeze-Guard goes PA shopping center announcement mode to declare “Alone On Christmas” is the new normal. It’s a wellness check with punk flavored pop.

Winter is naturally “Lonesome“. Flooded Cellar commiserates in garage folk.

Stuart Churchill has made a small enterprise for the topic “I Don’t Want to be Alone This Christmas“. It starts here with this Marty Robbins tribute in rockabilly. Then he tries out Roy Orbison with “Another Lonely, Lonely Christmas“. Slow country with a chaser of alcoholism. Whoa, buddy. Join a bowling league or sumpin.

T(f)ire(place)d of Being Alone

The Heatless Among Us mock being “Alone on Xmas (Again)” with their satanic lite metal. Guys, you abandoned God first.

You can weep in the night, allows Len Francis Monahan, while “Being Alone for Crhsitmas“. Because no one’s there! Pretty easy listening with a bit of a country/Carrib beat.

Feels like every other week, raps lil Aaron in the modulated “Alone on Xmas Eve“. Desperation makes him almost change his monotone. Drugs help.Oh, and BLUE ALERT.

More lively rap from Mitch Murder (feat Santell), “Don’t Let Me Spend Christmas Alone” leans into R+B (and twee keyboarding!) for a hopeful moaning.

The Night Hobs get testy when they have “Christmas Alone“. Their affected vocals in this indie pop are tantrum-adjacent. So, perfect. Or, in their words: lame.

I Think We’re A(when out on the)lawn Now

Gentle club jazz explains how Cody Fry can be “Alone on Christmas With You“. It’s all in the bubble, babe.

“Alone on Christmas” has Gatlin Loranze (feat. Ashley LaRue) dancing on the bed with thoughtful alt-jazz. He sang/she sang.

Like Yesterday indies “We Might be Alone Tonight” as some young opportunity to ditch all the nonsense and focus on what’s important. But–Scaling out your bedroom window… on icicles?!

Dave Sweeney and the Kickin’ Mules holler an odd ballad about a drunk dad, late for Xmas, who is spiritually waylaid by the homeless, so lonely without family. “Cold Christmas” is an ’80s pop journey of questionable agenda.

Again with the icy windows, Robin & Linda Williams folk-strum “Together All Alone” about love in the stormy dark.

(Do You Be)Leave Me Lonely 

“All I Want for Christmas is to be Left Alone” is the manifesto for The Swaggerlies. I’m crossing the street away from you already, guys. Angry alt-rock.

The X-Misses get positively perky when “All Alone on Christmas“. Light rock with a mischievous wink at the cold.

This Fralphie Jenkins operetta, “Another Christmas Alone“, runs us all over town to no effect. Psychedelia set on ASMR.

Eric Clapton groks the blues, so his “Lonesome Christmas” is raw and funky.

Desperate, Kyle Dunnigan tells Santa “I’m Alone“, and asks for anyone at all to be by his side. Even his folks make excuses. Then this R+B pop takes an ugly turn.

Show Me the M(Santa’s Big Sc)ean-ing of Being Lonely

Patricia Vonne fuses rockabilly and American rock to complain about being “Alone on Christmas Day“. It’s a powerful message, ‘cuz she’s MAD about it.

Also thrashing, Stranglehold gargles out “Another Night Alone” with pissed off punk. I’m guessing… naughty list?

“This Christmas (I Just Want to Be Left Alone)” posits Fighting Kites with drawn out indie musicality. Suicide watch!

Why has everybody got someone but me on this Christmas day? gush The Fratellis in the Brit pop jeer turker “Lonesome Anti-Christmas Blues“. Hey, leave the holidays out of it!

Pinto Bennett saunters through the alt-folk of “Christmas Alone” as comfortably as you please. The rhymes are hard fought, but the lack of sentimentality is absolute. (Is this post-apocalypse?)

Lonely (Holi)Days, Lonely Nights

Brian Lim is counting down the months to be loved, but it’s time to be–you guessed it–“Alone on Christmas”. Tear jerking R+B (at quarter speed).

Drake BLUE ALERT raps “Away From Home” about basements, winds, and whatnot. Didn’t get what you wanted, that it?

One theory how Scrooge was humbugged comes from the flashback “A Child Alone“. A Christmas Carol 2015 Cast builds this showtune from sad singularity to soaring sorrow. Still, no excuse to declare widows and orphans should die.

“The Loneliest Christmas House” would be a MISS on my bucket list, but Gray Home Music diddles the banjo folksily to assuage the anguish.

Jim Backus backs this theory up with “All Alone in the World” from the ‘Mr. Magoo Christmas Carol’. Young Scrooge is here sung by Marie Matthews with musical-filler strength.