Paul McCartney : Wonderful Christmastime
In December of 1979 Paul McCartney entered the U.K. charts with a new solo single, Wonderful Christmastime". The ear worm would peak at U.K.#6 and haunt every holiday season to come for four decades and counting, earning McCartney an estimated $15,000,000 so far. Not bad for a sng he wrote in ten minutes.
Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas" and Elvis Presley's "It Won't Seem Like Christmas ( Without You)" were also getting a lot of airplay in the U.K. and so was a song by New York rapper Kurtis Blow. His first single, "Christmas Rappin'", eventually sold more than 400,000 copies around the world. It is the first successful rap single by a major label. It also includes this enduring message:
Money could never ever buy the feeling
The one that comes from not concealing
The way you you feel about your friends
And this is how the story ends
Squeeze entered the Christmas blitz with the forgettable "Christmas Day". ( Added a link because the music video below isn't audible.
And finally there were The Greedies, Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham teaming up with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols, with "A Merry Jingle". It's a call back to the Glam Rock days and is probably the most fun of the featured singles.
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