December – a popular holiday song this time of year – Wonderful Christmastime by Paul McCartney
This was recorded during the sessions for the McCartney II album, where Paul once again retreated to his farm and laid down all the tracks himself.
Interesting facts about Wonderful Christmastime & Paul McCartney
This continues to receive substantial airplay every year. “The song is what we in the industry call an evergreen, because it gets played all the time,” explained entertainment attorney Bernie Resnick.
Although the members of Wings do not feature on the song, they do appear in the song’s music video, which was filmed at the Fountain Inn in Ashurst, West Sussex.
McCartney is the wealthiest rock star ever. His estimated worth over $1.5 Billion, and He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful musician and contemporary songwriter in history.
Martin Sheen, John Spencer, and Stockard Channing of The West Wing covered this for the NBC Celebrity Christmas album in 2000. Also Eli Young Band recorded a version on the 2011 compilation The Country Christmas Collection. Their cover peaked at #33 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in January 2012.
McCartney performed the song on the December 15, 2012 episode of Saturday Night Live.
This information was provided by Songfacts.com
Merry Christmas Terry……xxkat
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Merry Christmas kat! 🙂
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Happy holidays! xx
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Thank you Lynn, Happy Holiday to you and your wonderful family. 🙂
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Xxxxx
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Always lovely. Thanks for the Sir Paul. And Merry Christmas to you, Terry. 🎄
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Merry Christmas Van! 🙂
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Sorry late on this response Cindy, your comment went to spam. I appreciate you very much – happy day my friend. 🙂
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Happy Christmas 🎄 I love this song too.
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It is a good song – Merry Christmas Amanda!
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What a lovely song ! Happy Christmas to you. Hope you had a good one 🙂 x
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Thanks Lynne, the ‘big’ day was low keyed – perfect! Hope you have a wonderful week ahead. 🙂
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Low key is good 🙂 Thank you, you have a good week too. 🙂
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I’m a day late, but I do enjoy this song – I heard it the other day on the radio, just listening to the Christmas tunes. It always makes me smile!
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No problem being a day late – I understand. Not much longer and the Christmas tunes will be put away for another year. Have a great week Sarah. 🙂
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I *may* sometimes break out the Christmas songs in summer. Just a taste – I like them so much, I don’t want to limit them to a month or so.
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There is nothing wrong with that. I have heard some radio stations that will play them in the middle of summer. 🙂
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My kind of stations!
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Haha! I also do that a lot! 😄 Christmas songs are so great! My whole family does the same 😉 it only gets weird when a friend’s around and I burst out with “we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a. ..” You should see their faces! 😉
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Ha! I bet it’s awesome. They just don’t know what they’re missing!
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It really is 😉 I should take a pic next time! So glad to know I’m not alone with this 😄 Have a great day Sarah and Happy New Year! xxx
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Sir Paul is awesome. Great selection for Christmas!
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Aw yes, I totally agree! Thanks for reading and commenting – I hope your day is well my friend. 🙂
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Merry Christmas and have a great time, I love The beetles, they r all times favourite
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And a Merry Christmas to you as well. 🙂
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