Top Of The Pops Christmas

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Pretty good tracklisting for this one.  A few that haven't appeared on compilations before.
Would have preferred Band Aid II to Band Aid 30 though but pretty good.



Disc: 1
1. John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir: Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
2. Band Aid: Do They Know It's Christmas?
3. Bing Crosby: White Christmas
4. ABBA: Super Trouper
5. Mike Oldfield: In Dulci Jubilo
6. Elton John: Step Into Christmas
7. The Beach Boys: Little Saint Nick
8. Girls Aloud: Jingle Bell Rock
9. Mel & Kim: Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
10. Showaddywaddy: Hey Mister Christmas
11. The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping
12. Kurtis Blow: Christmas Rappin'
13. The Goodies: Make A Daft Noise For Christmas
14. Fat Les: Naughty Christmas (Goblin In the Office)
15. blink - 182: I Won't Be Home For Christmas
16. Girls Aloud: Sound Of The Underground
17. The Human League: Don't You Want Me

Disc: 2
1. Band Aid 30: Do They Know It's Christmas?
2. Chuck Berry: Run Rudolph Run
3. Hanson: Merry Christmas Baby
4. Stevie Wonder: What Christmas Means To Me
5. James Brown: Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
6. Jackson 5: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
7. Saint Etienne: I Was Born On Christmas Day
8. Gilbert O'Sullivan: Christmas Song
9. S Club 7: Perfect Christmas
10. Engelbert Humperdinck: Winter World Of Love
11. Tom Jones: Green Green Grass Of Home
12. Squeeze: Christmas Day
13. David Essex: A Winter's Tale
14. Chris De Burgh: A Spaceman Came Travelling
15. Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules: Mad World
16. The Flying Pickets: Only You
17. The Housemartins: Caravan Of Love
18. Donna Summer: Winter Melody
19. Boyz II Men: Silent Night
20. Dina Carroll: The Perfect Year

[Mic1812]

I bought this one as it was only £5.99.

It has the original 1947 version of White Christmas by Bing Crosby and the original 1975 version of A Spaceman Came Travelling by Chris De Burgh.

[Whitneyfan]

Which version of 'Rockin around the Christmas tree' is it? I'm always on the look-out for the original single version which had a spoken part at the beginning and end between Mel and Griff Rhys-Jones. Griff says something like he wants Bananarama for Christmas and Mel replies, "I can't help you there I'm afraid".

All of the compilations I've got that have it on omit these sections though.

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I wonder if they've included the "I can remember when Two Little Boys was No.1" bit. Now edited out every time the video is shown on music channels.

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Can confirm that the "Two Little Boys" line on Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree is intact, just the talky bits on the start and end are missing.

[Milliways]

I hate when they put songs on Xmas compilations just because they were #1 at Xmas even though they were nothing to do with Xmas!

[Shireblogger]

Was Fat Les really amongst the best 37 tracks they could find ? This really is a pisspoor effort, and it deserves to be slaughtered by Now Christmas.

[thehitparade]

Nov 24, 2016 0:54:26 GMT 1 Milliways said:

I hate when they put songs on Xmas compilations just because they were #1 at Xmas even though they were nothing to do with Xmas!

Why is 'Super Trouper' on there? That wasn't even a Christmas Number One, it peaked in early December. 

[Whitneyfan]

Nov 29, 2016 23:32:54 GMT 1 thehitparade said:

Nov 24, 2016 0:54:26 GMT 1 Milliways said:

I hate when they put songs on Xmas compilations just because they were #1 at Xmas even though they were nothing to do with Xmas!

Why is 'Super Trouper' on there? That wasn't even a Christmas Number One, it peaked in early December. 

'I have a dream' would have been a more suitable choice, I would have thought.