Wonderful Christmastime

"Wonderful Christmastime" is a 1979 Christmas song by Paul McCartney. McCartney's song enjoys significant Christmastime popularity in the UK and the US. The notable synthesizer riff was played on a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. The song was later added as a bonus track on the CD reissue of Wings' Back to the Egg.

Fellow ex-Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison had already released such numbers, and Ringo Starr made a Christmas album decades later. Of all of the former Beatle seasonal offerings, Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" and McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" have become two of a large number of popular Christmas songs played year after year.

[edit] Covers

Hip hop group De La Soul sampled "Wonderful Christmastime" on their track "Simply Havin'", off of their album AOI: Bionix.
Acoustic rock group Jars of Clay recorded a cover of the Paul McCartney song on their 2007 release, Christmas Songs.
Trance project S.K.Y. recorded two cover versions for the 2006 compilation S.K.Y. Presents Christmas Trance.
Christian pop group Jump 5 performed a cover, which appears on Radio Disney Holiday Jams 2.
Hilary Duff did a version of this song on her Christmas album Santa Claus Lane.
Singer/songwriter Tom Mcrae contributed a cover of this song on a mixed album called Maybe This Christmas Tree.
Canadian group Barenaked Ladies has a short synthesized instrumental cover (that segues into 'Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus') on their 2004 album Barenaked for the Holidays.