Category: pop music

Karie Hillary is trying out a deep voice for her “Christmas Lullaby.” Then the flute reminds us how music should be. Off pop.

Lynne & Mike put the gentle in their “Christmas Lullaby.” Wistful and sweet slow pop.

Robbie Williams has a sly sense of humor with his symphonic “Coco’s Christmas Lullaby.” Great dad stuff.

The Hipwaders get sentimental in their “Good Night” song. Retro pop makes it palatable. And it’s for anyone you love, including us old people who have trouble with that anyways.

Kris and the Kringles return us to the thrilling days of kidsong: a metronome and a pretty female vocal. “Christmas Lullaby” counts us down with slow pop.

Rejojice programs Christ into their symphonic slow pop “Christmas Lullaby.” Close your eyes, He is King. You know the drill.

Rocking helps that One who’s in “A Cradle in Bethlehem.” Soft pop from The Lower Lights is nearly hypnotizing.

Weirding me out, however, are The Wizards of Winter skipping the beat and asking us to Fly Away in the strange Carrib recording “Christmas Lullaby.” Is it just me or should children not fly away on Xmas Eve?

These are starting to sound the same…

David Alley’s brass backup has his “Christmas Lullaby” all brazen and tinkly and cool. But this pop jazz fusion comes on strong for a lullaby.

Amber Cavanaugh blends goth with pop for a more novel “Christmas Lullaby.” A marching syncopation with electronic prodding. Wild stuff.

Loorah Loorah Loorah haunts many of these pieces, including Greg Doolan’s short/sweet “Christmas Lullaby.” Makes a point, though.

So let’s give him an encore (with Susan McRae and Ross Bogaart) serenading our droopy eyes with the somewhat country “Mary and Josep’s Lullaby.” It’s like they are reaching across the millenia to tell you their story.

Ten de Vils describes an actual child (chocolate in his fist) he wants to talk down with a lite pop “Christmas Lullaby.” This one does NOT want to sleep. Ding dang dong.

Let’s kick this sleepy time singing up a notch!

You want rap?! ZINZILÈ’s “Christmas Lullaby” provides! There’s sipping and sinking and crying, however. Watch out.

C.J. Ramone belts out the ’80s rocker “Christmas Lullaby” as a tribute to getting home on time to his baby.

The Langer’s Ball drive hard into “A Christmas Lullaby” (with just a hint of Celtic flute) to hush your mouths. Toorah loorah rock.

Nogu Svelo! sings “Christmas Lullaby” (Ногу Свело! – “Рождественская колыбельная”) as a Russian horrorshow of laughter and hiding from Santa. Industrial pop, translated into English for your convenience.

Santa won’t deliver gifts to your house if you– [1] Are naughty? pshaw, he’ll leave you coal! [2] Have no chimney? didn’t we just cover that?! [3] live in the Projects? we need to talk, you poor thing! The answer is– [4] If You’re NOT Asleep!!

One of the timeless proven methods to encourage somnolence is to sing to the wee ones. Rather than get to their feet and wave lighters, their response is to feel comfort and safety. Then saw logs. [I’ll be honest: i had no idea how many dozens of songs were Xmas lullabies! Figured i’d spend a week on these, but my posts for this entire month include only a fraction of what i found. Holy moly.]

A grand gathering of church choristers mellifluously harmonizing about why this baby king has no crown prolly wouldn’t put me down, but John Rutter and The Cambridge Singers’ “Christmas Lullaby” rises and rises to make its point. Hey Mary.

With a big holy holy holy lead in Danny O’Flaherty tenders his tenor simply to the Celtic mastery of “The Christ Child Lullaby.” Better’n church!

Jason Robert Brown’s musical ‘Songs for a New World’ yields the modernized hymnal “Christmas Lullaby” more about mother power, than sons of men. Solea Pfeiffer’s vocals soar into the rafters and beyond.

Christian pop from P.O.D. sanctifies the unplugged “Christmas Lullaby.” Gentle observations and homilies guide our nighttimes.

What size did the son o’ God sport for feet?

Keziah Kate Gwenaelle begins with “Velvet Stockings” for her family before waffling about her BMI, then eventually asking for God’s grace in this warbling hymnal. Probably read better in the original Czech.

Jeanne Dennis’s “Stocking for Jesus” is that bent kind of carol where righteousness supercedes tuneful music. Holy moly.

“The Third Noel (Christmas Crackas)” brings out The Three Prophets [feat. The Maynooth LGBT Communist Choir]. Despite Jesus not actually getting a stocking in year 0, this social commentary mentions all of that with a sweet beat to dance to.

A Christmas stocking is a marker of time. So’s death.

Kids shouldn’t go hungry at Christmas! comes the refrain for the minute-long punk sermon “Stocking Filler” by way of Popclaw. That kills.

“Christmas Stocking 2009” is soft spoken country sentimentality from Larry Heral about grampa’s stocking and what happened to it. Wah.

“The Devil’s Christmas Stocking” by Helen McCookerybook is a delightful bit of folk fluff wherein Santa and Satan get down to brass tacks and agree to disagree. (I’m thinking Satan didn’t get any stocking fillings.)

“The Angry Kid Merry Christmas Stocking Song” by, i presume, Angry Kid seems pop song pleased with his grisly stuffer treat. But i’m pretty sure somebody died.

Stuck! Did You Say Stuck?!

Encore: Ella Fitzgerald was tricked into recording the could-be-naughty “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney” back in 1950. Her class elevates it above your gutter double entendres.

Dave Rudolf’s “Santa Got Stuck in the Flue” is a grand country pop treatment over this distressing dilemma. What follows is a series of failed attempts to right this wrong. Funny.

More problem solving from Mighty Magic Pants. Kidsong “Santa’s Stuck in the Chimney” never quite figures it out.

POV from Santa interrupts the musical ‘A Don’t Hug Me Christmas Carol’ when he’s “Stuck in a Chimney.” Still jolly despite the squeeze. Polka pop.

Santa’s not the only member of the Christmas cast to need love!

Again! One of my favorite unrequited ballads is from The Rocket Summer about a delivery helper elf who sees HER one year Xmas eve, then returns again and again for an “Elf Creep.” It doesn’t end well.

Squeaky Z amateurs “Little Elf Dude” about some love that MIGHT withstand bad folk ballideering. Watch out for that BLUE ALERT slip at the beginning.

John Gannon’s “Elf in Love” is a tidy showtune of not-quite-successful trusting for subordinates.

Amy Spanger torch-sings (from ‘Elf, The Musical’) “Never Fall in Love with an Elf.” Buddy is erratic at best, so–yeah.

Youth on Track (feat. Ella and Daddy) jazz/pop improv their way around “Dancing with His Elf.” It’s a mess, but heartfelt.

Altogether now! WE ALL LOVE SANTA!

“Oh Santa (We Love You)” is Eden Riegel’s honkytonk adjacent easy listening call out to the Big Guy.

Dave Dudley quiets us down with a little story about “Reverend Deacon,” the pastor of a poor neck of the woods. He prays, the kids sing how much they love Santa, and happy materialism follows. Half spoken country.

Everybody shout out: “We Love Santa!” Why Michael Scott Dublin (feat. Michael Bates) punctuate the hard hitting blues pop with FM morning show sfx, we’ll never know. Zany, wot?