We lost one of the founding fathers of Rock 'n' Roll this year, Jerry Lee Lewis passing away at the age of 87.
There's been a lot of column inches written about Lee's wild and turbulent personal life but in purely musical terms his early work marked him out as a pioneer whose contribution to the early days of rock are incalculable. Even so Lee may well have disappeared from the pages of music history following the understandable scandal that followed revelations that his third wife was actually his 13-year-old cousin once removed, had it not been for an astonishing re-invention as a Country and Western star.
Between 1968 to 1977, Lewis became one of the biggest and most bankable C 'n' W stars in the world and its from that period that this Christmas song comes.