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31 March 2008
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Recorded: July 1979
Producer: Paul McCartney
Released: 16 November 1979 (UK), 26 November 1979 (US)
Paul McCartney: vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion
Available on:
Back To The Egg (bonus track)
Paul McCartney ‘s festive single was recorded solo during the sessions for the McCartney II album. It was issued as a single…
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11.24pm
13 November 2016
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I was in the car today listening to the Christmas radio station and this song came on. I kept thinking to myself that it sounded an awful lot like Paul and was pleasantly surprised to find that it indeed was him. I can’t believe I have gone all this time not realizing this is a McCartney song! It’s a Christmas staple for me and was just wondering if anyone else adored this song!
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14 June 2016
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I was in the car today listening to the Christmas radio station and this song came on. I kept thinking to myself that it sounded an awful lot like Paul and was pleasantly surprised to find that it indeed was him. I can’t believe I have gone all this time not realizing this is a McCartney song! It’s a Christmas staple for me and was just wondering if anyone else adored this song!
I love this song! It’s very McCartney II esqe. It’s probably my favorite Christmas song.
@Joe said
Available on:
Back To The Egg (bonus track)
It’s also in the McCartney II archive edition.
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6.55am
17 January 2016
Offline I don’t care, it’s not officially the Christmas season until I hear this song and WHAM!’s “Last Christmas”. I know there are people who hate “Wonderful Christmastime ” but I will sing along every single time. Come at me, bro. 
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7.21am
18 April 2013
Offline Great song. McCartney does best at writing pop songs.
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20 August 2013
Offline I heard it at the shopping center in Collierville on Black Friday. Christmas time is NOW here again.
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8.05am
17 January 2016
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Let’s do this!!! Sing along now…. “Siiiimply haaaaving a wonderful Christmastime!”
Lift a glass, ahhhh don’t look down!
And USA Today hates this song:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/1…..happy-xmas
They also have a go at “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”. They can go have a seat right over there and deal with it. 
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8.38am
27 March 2015
Offline Absolutely love it. In fact, I’m thinking of buying this just to show everyone how much I love that silly crimble song 
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9.09am
17 January 2016
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Absolutely love it. In fact, I’m thinking of buying this just to show everyone how much I love that silly crimble song
Yes! DOOOO IT! I love it!
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5.11pm
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1 May 2011
Offline The Hippie Chick said
…USA Today hates this song:http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/1…..happy-xmas
They also have a go at “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”. They can go have a seat right over there and deal with it.
Oh, and bonus McCartney Chrimble Cheer: Rudolph The Red Nosed Reggae! Go You Tube it and dig it, mon.
Some of the arguments put forward are crap.
Worst lyric in Happy Xmas (War is Over): “And so this is Xmas/And what have we done/Another year over/A new one just begun.”
What is he doing, just reciting the calendar? I can do it to. “So it is Monday/And what has gone on/Another day finished/I hate this darn song.”
It’s a prompt to look back over the year and examine what you’ve/we’ve done and maybe do something else to change things.
3. ONE OF THE SONGS INVOLVES YOKO ONO
Enough said.
What a pathetic reason.
Lennon opens his song saying “Happy Christmas, Julian,” which a lovely tribute to his son and a nod to how most Brits wish people a nice holiday. Oddly though, he used the Americanized “Merry Christmas” throughout the rest of the song, maybe because he didn’t want to mix Happy Christmas with Happy New Year.
Or because ‘A Happy Happy Christmas’ or ‘A very happy Christmas’ would have been shit.
Lennon’s song, while impassioned, did not succeed in ending war.
Yeah, a song not solving an issue that has plagued mankind for thousands of years is a massive failure.
6. THE MOST AWFUL INTANGIBLE IMAGINABLE
The B-side to McCartney’s Christmas was called Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae. And it’s far, far worse than you think. Remember John Candy’s polka band in Home Alone? This is a song they’d have performed. It makes Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer sound like a lost track from The White Album .
‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae’ is a cracking tune, well worth playing at Christmas.
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5.46pm
14 June 2016
Offline Wow, they even bagged on Wings’s cute little Roudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Reggae. They need to chill.
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6.23pm
24 July 2016
Offline I must say, this is one of the few not shitty as hell Christmas songs I know and I prefer it over the other Beatles related Christmas songs.
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10.06am
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15 February 2015
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I’ll gladly join the ‘Wonderful Christmastime ‘ fan-club. It won’t feel properly Christmas till I hear it on the radio somewhere. It’s a dreadfully earwormsome little tune, but all in good fun. 
It verges from the sublime to the ridiculote
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11.38am
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18 March 2013
Offline Nice song, I wouldn’t be able to listen to it multiple times though because it gets a bit annoying whereas I can (and have) listened to ‘War Is Over’ like that.
Although I do agree with the whole Christmassy feelings you get when you hear it for the first time.
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3.12pm
2 November 2016
Offline Wonderful Christmastime definitely isn’t a bad song, but it gets very annoying very quickly for me. I’d probably love it if I didn’t hear it on the radio over and over in every single store I go into during the Christmas season.
3.21pm
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15 February 2015
Offline Well, one definitely couldn’t listen to it on repeat, but it’s got a wonderful Christmas-time vibe (pun intended). 
The Hippie Chick said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1-sXrdQtog
Did you note Faul’s appearance at 1:53? (Or Paul’s appearance, if you hold that that was actually Faul the whole time.) 
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6.25pm
18 June 2022
Offline At Christmas time, the top 10 singles get taken over by old Christmas songs
In honor of Paul’s 80th birthday, I propose we boost the playing of “Wonderful Christmastime ” to the top 10 and maybe higher during the 2022 Christmas season.
We can do this by maximizing playing and purchasing of the song during one particular week. The eaxt week is TBD.
If you are interested in helping with this goal, please be in touch asap. Contact me at wonxmas2022@gmail.com
We need a lot of volunteers and subject matter expertise in these areas:
-Social media influencer
-Fund raising
-Target week
-Strategies for maximizing chart position
Thanks, Chris
