Christmas Gems

The Christmas UK Singles Chart

Each year there is fierce competition for the No 1 slot in the UK Christmas Singles Chart.  While often not necessarily the best song will make it to the No 1 slot, the Christmas No 1s are remembered for years for their, often, truly awful content.  While we have had great stuff from the likes of Elvis and the Beatles in the No 1 slot for Christmas, and Queen with Bohemian Rhapsody, those of us old enough remember only too well 1969 and Rolf Harris with ‘Two Little Boys’ and 1971 Benny Hill with ‘Ernie’ (The Fastest Milkman in the West).

Just as we all thought it couldn't get any worse, it did.  Obviously anything by Cliff Richard and hands up all those who remember 1972, Little Jimmy Osmond and 'Long Haired Lover from Liverpool' and probably the worst Christmas No 1 of all time - the St Winifred's School Choir with 'There's no-one quite like Grandma'.  God only knows how many unfortunate Grandmothers had that little ditty under the tree on Christmas morning, and without so much as a sick bag or bucket to hand.

'Merry Christmas Everybody' by Slade made a refreshing change - in 1973.  Still hearing it in 2005 from the beginning of October onwards was something else - especially when a colleague at work brought in a fluffy reindeer which played the wretched song all day long.  We had to threaten to throw either her or the reindeer out of the window.

Sadly the best Christmas song of all time never made it to the No 1 slot, but it still gives me a tingle everytime I hear it.  Check it out here

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