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The song spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in December 1973 and January 1974, [4] and cracked the Top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. [5] "If We Make It Through December" was the No. 2 song of the year on Billboard's Hot Country Singles 1974 year-end chart. [6]
In a statement, Derry said "The songs I’ve chosen to cover are all between 100-200 years old. I wanted to pay respect to the original songs by keeping the melodies and lyrics the same but changing the structure, tempo and chords." adding "My family are quite festive. We play Christmas music from 1 December until Boxing Day.
It has inspired songs such as Rob Paravonian's "Pachelbel Rant" and the Axis of Awesome's "Four Chords", which comment on the number of popular songs borrowing the same tune or harmonic structure. [1] [2] "Four Chords" does not directly focus on the chords from Pachelbel's Canon, instead focusing on the I–V–vi–IV progression. [3]
Peaked at No. 50 on Billboard 's Hot Country Songs chart in January 2009 and at No. 36 on Billboard 's Holiday Digital Song Sales chart in December 2012. [228] "Footprints in the Snow" Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys 1946 Peaked at No. 5 on Billboard 's Most-Played Juke Box Folk Records chart in December 1946. [88] "Frosty the Snowman"
As a result, many Christmas Carols can be related to St Stephen's Day (26 December), St John's Day (27 December), Feast of Holy Innocents (28 December), St Sylvester's Day (31 December), and the Epiphany. Examples of this are "We Three Kings" (an Epiphany song), and "Good King Wenceslas" (a carol for St. Stephen's Day).
The song was featured on the 12" single of "Experiment IV" and later on the second of two CD editions of the "Moments of Pleasure" single in 1993 and had a slightly different mix. In 2005 the song was included on Elton John 's Christmas album, Elton John's Christmas Party .
In fact, the original song was sung with "fot, fot, fot", from the verb "fotre" instead, a less polite verb with the same meaning. [3] When Pecanins first documented the song, he changed the lyrics to "fum, fum, fum", thought to be more acceptable to a broader audience. [1] Other sources have suggested a more innocent meaning to the lyrics.
"This Christmas" is a song by American soul musician Donny Hathaway released in 1970 by Atco Records. [3] The song gained renewed popularity when it was included in 1991 on Atco Records' revised edition of their 1968 Soul Christmas compilation album [4] and has since become a modern Christmas standard, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers reporting that it was the ...