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6 unusual facts about Christmas music


CHMP-FM

Following the announcement, all Cool FM programs were immediately stopped and the station played continuous Christmas music for the rest of the year.

Junichi Inagaki

His 1992 ballad "When The Christmas Carols Play" (クリスマスキャロルの頃には Kurisumasu kyaroru no koro ni wa) was featured on the TBS drama series Homework (ホームワーク), and remains one of the most popular holiday songs in Japan.

KBXJ

The station returned to the air with a format of all Christmas music.

Step into Christmas

In 2009, "Step into Christmas" was the ninth most played Christmas song in the United Kingdom.

TheMusicLibrary.org

They formed The International Christmas song contest which received entries from around the world.

Waterfront Place, Brisbane

During the Christmas season, choirs and instrumentalists perform Christmas music.


CFLZ-FM

On September 20, 2013, at Noon, after playing "This Is What It Feels Like" by Armin van Buuren, CFLZ shifted its brand to the current 2Day FM 105.1/101.1, and began simulcasting on sister station CJED-FM, who dropped their adult hits format the previous day for a Christmas music stunt in anticipation of a new format.

Christmas Kisses

Christmas Kisses is an extended play by American recording artist Ariana Grande, and was released on December 17, 2013, as a festive collection of classic Christmas covers.

Christmas Tales

Christmas Tales is the fourth studio album and first Christmas album by the Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, it released on the November 23, 2012 in Norway.

CKLH-FM

CKLH begins playing Christmas music beginning in third week of November up until Boxing Day, as the station is usually the first in Canada on most years to go all-Christmas.

Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt

Julvisa, also known after the opening lines Giv mig ej glans, ej guld, ej prakt, is a Christmas song written by Zacharias Topelius in 1887.

Julklockor över vår jord

As "Julklockor över vår jord", written by Tommy Andersson and Ann-Cathrine Wiklander, the song is a Christmas song that Ann-Cathrine Wiklander recorded for the Christmas EP record "Min barndoms jular" in 1995.

Raska fötter springa tripp, tripp, tripp

Raska fötter springa tripp, tripp, tripp or just Raska fötter, is a Christmas song, originally published in Julklappen in 1901.

The Heart

In 2004 and 2005, the channel's regular format was temporarily replaced with a pop Christmas music format called "Holly" between Thanksgiving and Christmas; in 2006, Holly preempted XM's U-Pop channel instead and The Heart retained its normal format through December.

The Last Month of the Year

The Last Month of the Year is an album of Christmas music by The Kingston Trio, released in 1960 (see 1960 in music).

Trimming the Tree

Trimming the Tree is a Mannheim Steamroller album of Christmas music, released in 2007.

Vaggsång till Jesus

Vaggssång till Jesus, "Somna nu lilla barn" or "Vaggsång för en liten timmerman" is a 1971 Swedish Christmas song, with lyrics by Britt G. Hallqvist and music by Bertil Hallin.

WIPK

Having gone on the air in November 2011, right around Thanksgiving, it originally broadcast a radio format of all Christmas music, ranging from country to pop, to long-time classics, and even comedy ("Leroy the Redneck Reindeer", "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy", "Christmas Don't Be Late", "The Twelve Pains of Christmas").

Yuletracks

A folk music/Christmas music project by Greenwich Village Records, various artists appear on the album, lead by Martyn Wyndham-Read (who also was co-producer of the album) and Martin Carthy.


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Hampton String Quartet

According to the liner notes of their 1986 debut album, "What if Mozart wrote 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,'" the quartet was formed specifically for that album in response to RCA's desire to record chamber music arrangements of mostly-secular Christmas music.

Ray Stevens Christmas: Through a Different Window

Ray Stevens Christmas: Through a Different Window was the thirty-first studio album of Ray Stevens, released in 1997, as well as his first album of Christmas music.

Santa Claus is a Black Man

Film director John Waters included the song on his 2004 Christmas music collection, A John Waters Christmas, despite the wishes of the elder Vann, who rejected Waters's request because the auteur "is not considered mainstream".

Travis McNabb

In addition, he was the primary studio drummer on Sugarland's 2010 release "The Incredible Machine," as well as several tracks on their Christmas-music collection "Gold and Green."

WPRB

One of its disc jockeys, Jon Solomon, has hosted a 24-hour Christmas music marathon every year but one since 1988.

WRWM

As of noon on Christmas Day, WWFT dropped Christmas music and stunted again, repeating the tracks "Lonesome Road" by Dean Elliot & His Big Band and "Swans Splashdown" by Jean-Jacques Perrey.