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“WHAT
MAKES CHRISTMAS ‘CHRISTMASSY’?”–
EX
MONKEE DAVY JONES ASKS 'THREE WISE MEN'
Santa
is still at no.1
How
to get 'It's Christmas' -
For
download: From December 15th, available from
iTunes [worldwide], Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon MP3 (on www.amazon.co.uk
just search for 'Davy Jones' in the MP3 section), Lala, Shockhound,
Groupie Tunes and Amie Street
Physical
sales: A limited edition CD is available only from
Amazon’s UK store, www.amazon.co.uk,
from December 1 (featuring the radio mix along with two Christmas
cracker remixes)
‘Chestnuts
roasting on an Open Fire’ or ‘Jack Frost nipping at your nose’?
What makes Christmas ‘feel Christmassy’?
From
Credit-Crunched Toy retailers keen to sell their goods to devout
Christians wanting to increase their flock for the Christmas Services,
marketing men and academics have argued for years over the icons and
tokens that surround Christmas. Is it a pagan Festival or a Christian
time to think of others? Or just an excuse to drink and eat too much
and argue with the in-laws?
Davy Jones,
one-time boy singer with The Monkees, decided to make a new Xmas song
for ‘the terrible year of 2008’, he sought the help of the men in
white coats.
Three songwriters
dubbed ‘three wise men’ researched the themes and ideas that
surround the holiday period with the help of the public, academics,
scientists and composers of previous hits, and now they claim to have
found the twenty things that really make Christmas so
‘Christmassy’.
Their results
were not an idle academic study, because they have put the top twenty
‘Christmassy things’ in a rocking new Xmas download by Davy Jones
of the Monkees, released worldwide on Monday 15th December 2008.
The writers,
Rikki Blue, Paul Clark and Stephen Irvine, used Google, Yahoo,
‘hits’ on websites, themes of popular tv specials and a specially
commissioned poll of music fans, and were surprised that the twenty
most popular aspects of Christmas included kids, Reindeer and parties-
and Religion.
“We wanted to
create the ultimate Xmas song that would chime with kids from London,
Moscow, Washington, Tokyo and Sydney- a real rock number that combines
what makes us feel good during the coldest most miserable part of the
year.”
The song features
the classic and the clichéd from sleighbells to a kid’s chorus. 10%
of the profits from the song will be going to help sick children in UK
hospitals.
Having created
‘the most annoyingly Christmassy Christmas song ever’ we needed to
throw in the twenty most popular Christmassy things and began a search
to see what makes Santa Rock’n’ Roll.”
“We found that,
despite becoming a more Secular society, at the heart of the twenty
most Christmassy things we found the core ingredients for a fun time-
from sweets and Carol singing to Bing Crosby.” Said Paul Clark, one
of the lyricists.
Before we all
rush to condemn the list as yet another cynical nail in the coffin of
the traditional Christmas of old, Davy Jones says to take it all with
a pinch of salt. “It’s a fun song and a real Christmassy thing. If
people ‘get it’ and it lifts them up at the end of a horrible year
that’s great. We’re just having a good time and reminding everyone
that Christmas is about laughter and family. Hopefully it will sell
enough for us to donate a decent sum to a UK children’s hospital, so
it’s in a good cause. It’s only rock ‘n’ roll – It’s
Christmas!”
The results of
the study show the twenty most popular things that we think are
‘Christmassy’ -
1.Santa/ Father
Christmas/ St Nicholas
2. Reindeer/
Rudolph
3. Toys
4. Sweets and
Xmas food and drink
5. Games with the
family
6. Cheer –
including alcohol
7. The Party of
the Year
8. Xmas
Rock’n’Roll
9. Church Bells
10. Sleighbells
11. Children
singing Carols
12. Bing Crosby
and White Christmas
13. Tinsel
14. Cards
15. Gifts
16.Being with
someone we love
17. Xmas or Yule
Tree
18. Nostalgia-
turning back the clock
19. Religion-
Christianity
20. Scrooge from
Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’
The composers,
who have released the song by Davy Jones as a worldwide download for
Christmas, incorporated the entire list into the lyrics- in the order
of popularity.
“We start with
Santa and his Reindeer and end with the ending of A Christmas Carol.
It’s a list of Christmassy – I’m just disappointed we couldn’t
fit in Father Ted’s classic special ‘A Christmassy Ted’. Now
that’s my idea of a modern ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’” said the
composers.
LYRICS TO
‘IT’S CHRISTMAS’ BY DAVY JONES
Santa’s tuning
up his band
Reindeer’s
revving up as planned
It’s here,
It’s Christmas time
Let’s make this
Christmas fine.
Toys and Sweets
and Games and Cheer
For the Party of
the year
This year we’re
really gonna have a ball
It’s Christmas
Come on it’s
only Rock ’n’ Roll
It’s Christmas
The Church Bells
ring out ding-a-ling
The sleighbells
ring out ting-a-ling
The children sing
Bing sing-a-ling
It’s Christmas
It’s more than
tinsel, cards and gifts to me
There’s someone
special sitting under Yule Tree
This year we’re
turning back the clock
It’s Christmas
Come on- Are you
ready to rock?
It’s Christmas
“And so, as
Tiny Tim observed….
God Bless us,
every one”
Lyrics © 2008
Blue/Clark/Irvine (P) 2008 Formative Records – used with permission
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