The Fill In
Christmas Long Play: Why These Songs Never Leave Us
Aired on Tuesday 23rd December 2025, 6:00PM
Christmas music never really disappears. It hibernates for a while — and then it comes back, bringing the same songs, year after year. Unlike most genres, Christmas doesn’t make room by pushing songs out. Once you’re in, you’re in for life. That’s what makes this season feel like a musical reunion — old favourites, new arrivals, all co-existing peacefully for a few weeks.
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- 0:00Let There Be Drums
Sandy Nelson
Let There Be Drums
- 2:00A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Vince Guaraldi
Skating
- 3:00Shaved Fish
John & Yoko And The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- 04Last Christmas” / “Everything She Wants” Originally released as a standalone double A-side single
Wham!
Last Christmas
- 9:00New Light Through Old Windows (first album release; originally a B-side)
Chris Rea
Driving Home for Christmas
- 4:00Merry Christmas
Mariah Carey
All I Want for Christmas Is You
- 07Originally a charity single (later included on compilations)
Band Aid
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
- 21:00
Elvis Presley
Blue Christmas
- 20:00
Prince
Another Lonely Christmas
- 23:00
Sting
Gabriel’s Message
- 22:00
Paul Kelly
How to Make Gravy
- 23:00Brain Drain
Ramones
Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)”
- 28:00The Upsetter Shop Vol. 2 (first widely circulated release; originally a standalone single)
Lee “Scratch” Perry
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
- 27:00A Very Special Christmas (various artists)
Run-D.M.C.
Christmas in Hollis
- 27:00Funky Christmas
James Brown
Soul Christmas
- 16Single
Slade
Merry Xmas Everybody
