Ex-monkee Davy Jones Gets Christmassy

Dec. 15, 2008 - PRLog -- “WHAT MAKES CHRISTMAS ‘CHRISTMASSY’?”–

EX MONKEE DAVY JONES ASKS 'THREE WISE MEN'

Santa is still at no.1

‘Chestnuts roasting on an Open Fire’ or ‘Jack Frost nipping at your nose’? What makes Christmas ‘feel Christmassy’?

From Credit-Crunched Toy retailers keen to sell their goods to devout Christians wanting to increase their flock for the Christmas Services, marketing men and academics have argued for years over the icons and tokens that surround Christmas. Is it a pagan Festival or a Christian time to think of others? Or just an excuse to drink and eat too much and argue with the in-laws?

Davy Jones, one-time boy singer with The Monkees, decided to make a new Xmas song for ‘the terrible year of 2008’, he sought the help of the men in white coats.

Three songwriters dubbed ‘three wise men’ researched the themes and ideas that surround the holiday period with the help of the public, academics, scientists and composers of previous hits, and now they claim to have found the twenty things that really make Christmas so ‘Christmassy’.

Their results were not an idle academic study, because they have put the top twenty ‘Christmassy things’ in a rocking new Xmas download by Davy Jones of the Monkees, released worldwide on Monday 15th December 2008.

The writers, Rikki Blue, Paul Clark and Stephen Irvine, used Google, Yahoo, ‘hits’ on websites, themes of popular tv specials and a specially commissioned poll of music fans, and were surprised that the twenty most popular aspects of Christmas included kids, Reindeer and parties- and Religion.

“We wanted to create the ultimate Xmas song that would chime with kids from London, Moscow, Washington, Tokyo and Sydney- a real rock number that combines what makes us feel good during the coldest most miserable part of the year.”

The song features the classic and the clichéd from sleighbells to a kid’s chorus. 10% of the profits from the song will be going to help sick children in UK hospitals.

Having created ‘the most annoyingly Christmassy Christmas song ever’ we needed to throw in the twenty most popular Christmassy things and began a search to see what makes Santa Rock’n’ Roll.”

“We found that, despite becoming a more Secular society, at the heart of the twenty most Christmassy things we found the core ingredients for a fun time- from sweets and Carol singing to Bing Crosby.” Said Paul Clark, one of the lyricists.

Before we all rush to condemn the list as yet another cynical nail in the coffin of the traditional Christmas of old, Davy Jones says to take it all with a pinch of salt. “It’s a fun song and a real Christmassy thing. If people ‘get it’ and it lifts them up at the end of a horrible year that’s great. We’re just having a good time and reminding everyone that Christmas is about laughter and family. Hopefully it will sell enough for us to donate a decent sum to a UK children’s hospital, so it’s in a good cause. It’s only rock ‘n’ roll – It’s Christmas!”

The results of the study show the twenty most popular things that we think are ‘Christmassy’ -

1.Santa/ Father Christmas/ St Nicholas
2. Reindeer/ Rudolph
3. Toys
4. Sweets and Xmas food and drink
5. Games with the family
6. Cheer – including alcohol
7. The Party of the Year
8. Xmas Rock’n’Roll
9. Church Bells
10. Sleighbells
11. Children singing Carols
12. Bing Crosby and White Christmas
13. Tinsel
14. Cards
15. Gifts
16.Being with someone we love
17. Xmas or Yule Tree
18. Nostalgia- turning back the clock
19. Religion- Christianity
20. Scrooge from Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’

The composers, who have released the song by Davy Jones as a worldwide download for Christmas, incorporated the entire list into the lyrics- in the order of popularity.

“We start with Santa and his Reindeer and end with the ending of A Christmas Carol. It’s a list of Christmassy – I’m just disappointed we couldn’t fit in Father Ted’s classic special ‘A Christmassy Ted’. Now that’s my idea of a modern ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’” said the composers.

LYRICS TO ‘IT’S CHRISTMAS’ BY DAVY JONES

Santa’s tuning up his band
Reindeer’s revving up as planned
It’s here, It’s Christmas time
Let’s make this Christmas fine.

Toys and Sweets and Games and Cheer
For the Party of the year

This year we’re really gonna have a ball
It’s Christmas
Come on it’s only Rock ’n’ Roll
It’s Christmas

The Church Bells ring out ding-a-ling
The sleighbells ring out ting-a-ling
The children sing Bing sing-a-ling
It’s Christmas

It’s more than tinsel, cards and gifts to me
There’s someone special sitting under Yule Tree

This year we’re turning back the clock
It’s Christmas
Come on- Are you ready to rock?
It’s Christmas

“And so, as Tiny Tim observed….
God Bless us, every one”

Lyrics © 2008 Blue/Clark/Irvine (P) 2008 Formative Records – used with permission


IT'S CHRISTMAS by DAVY JONES is available worldwide for download on i-tunes, Napster, LaLa, Amie Street, Shockhound and others.

A Limited Edition CD is available at www.amazon.co.uk