Advent Calendar 2022

The subject of children's choirs on pop records is usually discussed from an aesthetic point of view, but, in my opinion, not enough energy is devoted to whether the children in question can actually sing or not. On songs such as ABBA's I Have A Dream or Paul McCartney's Pipes Of Peace, the children can sing. Maybe not all of them hit every note perfectly, but it's ballpark enough.

On The Supremes' Children's Christmas Song, however, they're seriously off. It would appear the children here all have some connection to Motown - Diana Ross addresses one of them as Berry, so I'm suspecting this to be Motown boss Berry Gordy's son, Berry IV - and no-one bothered to check whether they could sing or not. I have featured Jackie DeShannon's Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? in an earlier Advent Calender, and I thought that it couldn't get much worse than that. But in the children destroying the Supremes song, DeShannon's vocal back-up may very well have met its match.

Listen to Children's Christmas Song.

Or listen on Spotify, where I've created a playlist for this year's Advent Calendar.

The Spotify playlist for all the previous Advent Calendars is here. Note: The playlist is incomplete, as some of my calendar selections are just too obscure for Spotify.