Baby baby bae, you know i don’t want no presents, no toys, no cash, no distractions, no trash…
It’s YOU only that i want.
Now, don’t run… this is a Mariah-free zone. We don’t play the overplayed.
But, back from the ‘Fifties and more was “You’re All I Want for Christmas” a monster hit recorded by Bing, Al Martino, Frankie Avalon, Sarah Geronimo, and Filipinos Rico J. Puno and Nora Aunor.
The Larks got an old timey rock ‘n’roll croon-y feel with “All I Want for Christmas.” Boy band doo coppers! Poetical!
Pretty a cappella from The Bobs warmly round the hearth espouses the need so gently, gently. “All I Want for Christmas” is sappy done right. (It’a about the friendship, babe.)
Down home country wants to sentimentalize as well. “All I Want for Christmas Dear is You” is a bit of a mouthful, but when pronounced faithfully gets you back in the house into her loving arms. Buck Owens knew it. So did Travis Tritt, Louis Mandrell, Clint Erb, Heart LeBlanc, The Playtones (mmm, honky tonky), Swiss Highwaymen, and Cajun Paul Dwayne. (Who are these guys?)
Updating the music, Casey Shea beatboxes the R+B sound with “You’re All I Want for Christmas.” Bubblegum, kids!
Even more modern, the dB’s garage the beat with that old fashioned too-many rock stars folk-harmonizing kind of sound we remember from the ’90s. “You’re What I Want for Christmas” wants you to want to like them.
Give the girls a turn! Judi Silvano goes whiskey club jazz with those loooo-ooong held notes singing “I’d Like You for Christmas.” She maintains her notes so long, Chanukah gets in there, too. Raise the highballs for that xylophone solo! Julie London sexied it up way back when. But, gee, she sounds like a Playboy cartoon.
Boogie woogie style from Foghat (!) sets a whole ‘nother mood for “All I Want for christmas is You.” Highsteppin’ and finger waggin’ would not be out of the realm of possibility here.
Cowboybilly rock is all i can think to call the Fleshtones’ “You’re All I Want for Christmas.” I hear Elvis, Gene Autry, with a hint of Thunderbirds. How you gonna resist?
Caro Emerald and Brook Benton over-orchestrate their latin lovin’ with “You’re All I Want for Christmas.” It’s cute and consensual.
