Have your say on your favourite Christmas song
Nov 3 2009 The Journal
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So this is Christmas...and The Journal wants to uncover the North’s favourite festive tunes.
We’re conducting a seasonal poll to discover the region’s top Christmas pop songs and Christmas carols.
Last year a contemporary classic that returns to the charts each year claimed our Yuletide number one spot.
Top of the pop tree was Fairytale of New York by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl.
Originally released as a single in 1987, it’s a raucous tale of a man locked up in a New York drunk tank remembering Christmas past.
But it’s the famous call and response sequence between lead singer Shane MacGowan and the late Kirsty MacColl, that sticks in the memory.
The group played the song – which romped home in first place with a massive 31.1% of the vote – during their annual Yuletide tour, calling in at Newcastle’s Carling Academy, earlier this month.
Second place went to Wizzard’s glam rock classic, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday. While third was the moody I Believe In Father Christmas, by Greg Lake.
The region’s favourite carol last year was Silent Night. Originally written in German as Stille Nacht, by the Austrian priest Father Josef Mohr, it was first performed in 1818. The region obviously prefers a peaceful carol, with In The Bleak Midwinter polling 11.7% of the vote in second place. Oh Holy Night came in third.
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