Simpsons Christmas Boogie: Artists' 'holiday' versions of their own songs

Like when Earth, Wind & Fire re-recorded "September" as "December"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCWhwdnCd0

Others?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-hWZGIWe_U

Royal Guardsman: "Snoopy's Christmas"

Sugarcubes / JAMC version of “Birthday” is called “Christmas”, but I guess it’s just the original with Reid bros guitars and “hey hey hey hey” on the chorus.

Black Sabbath, Christmas Merry Christmas

https://sonicboomspacemen3.bandcamp.com/track/things-like-this-a-little-bit-deeper

>>>>

https://sonicboomspacemen3.bandcamp.com/track/i-wish-it-was-like-xmas-everyday-a-little-bit-deeper-feat-dean-britta

Xmas Macarena, Xmas Ketchup Song, Xmas Coco Jambo all summoned

"Takin' Care Of Christmas"

checking out xmas macarena right now. it is certainly something.

the reverse of this is Darlene Love recording a non-xmas version of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkbkTZfZCxY

Woah, never knew about that.

One of the more inexplicable ones is my beloved Dar Williams' just-released "Santa Version" of her cover of "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight," from her most recent album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klMBFFNO_XE

"Santa's Goin' To Kokomo"

xp I’m so tired of stuffing all these socks. I’ve been wrapping presents and baking round the clock ????

Meet me at the North Pole don’t be late ???

lol I am NOT going to listen to that

I'm just a Christmas dirtbag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4swdGWL8QfQ

They are credited to different writers, but "Run Run Rudolph" by Chuck Berry is basically "Little Queenie" with different lyrics.

Just read this in the guardian - going the other way

It must have been love by roxette was originally written as a Christmas song - called ‘It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)’

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/15/how-roxette-made-it-must-have-been-love-coulthard-formula-one

I actually love "Gee Whiz, It's Christmas" even more than "Gee Whiz."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyfAZFvcmJM

It's usually the track I go to after playing Joni Mitchell's "River" around Christmas time. It's tough finding a good transition out of Mitchell's song since it's so desolate, and for whatever reason, Thomas's hit is usually the best one for me.

Then there's the Royal Guardsmen doing the Christmas take on their Snoopy hits, but I don't need to hear that again.

(ah, missed the earlier Guardsmen mention)

Seems to be a great tradition of combining Christmas with yearning, whether it's someone far away, someone you wish was close to you but isn't, or someone you miss who's gone and never coming back. The aforementioned songs, but also "2000 Miles," "Christmas Wrapping," "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," "Another Lonely Christmas," etc.

Empty Stocking Blues, Merry Christmas Baby

here's this so i can stop polluting this thread with nonsense

imaginary christmas versions of existing songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbyZd-uB4PI
Gary Walker - Santa's Got A Brand New Bag

sorry thread title says "of their own songs" ...

I was thinking that James Brown must have done a song or two like this sometime?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRBLAHjkTo