h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Have this instead

http://www.oytotheworld.com/samples.html

Oh, that's definitely my kind of thing.

The wonderful Klezmatics (albums including 'Rhythm and Jews' and 'Jews With Horns') do a kickin' Christmas medley. I can't find it online just now - but I see they're currently engaged in The Woody Guthrie Happy Hanukkah Tour.

Aha! Here it is on Prarie Home Radio: http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/19991218/index.shtml

The one after the Medley - 'Man in the Hat' - is one of my favourites.

'Driving Home For Christmas' is the lowest of the low.

The best Christmas songs are surely Eric Idle's ' Christmas' and just about anything from Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson's seminal 'Kev's Kristmas Album'. Or s that just a hotelier's perspective on the season?

I found Eric Idle's song on youtube, but could find no trace of Kevin Wilson. Are there any examples on the net?

Infie

My mistake. I found some. Excellent!

There's plenty more on Last FM, my new favourite thing

I didn't hear Alexandra Burke's version of Hallelujah, but I did hear Mitch Benn being very angry about it on the Now Show. (I think Mitch Benn was angrier than Marcus Bridgestock in this edition.)

Gnomon, I tried to play the shoe song, but turned it off very quickly. Yargh!

TRiG.

Nothing wrong with silent Night. It should be sung in German with a guitar for accompaniment.

It struck me the other day that the person who wrote "Rudolph the Red Knows Rain, Dear" (can't bring myself to mention it directly) must have set out determinedly to compose the most mindless twaddle that could possibly be assembled into verse. S/He must have had a laugh when royalties started arriving, and when they continued year after year s/he must have wondered why s/he had ever bothered thinking about all those other lyrics s/he (no doubt) ground and polished with care.