9 in the UK chart, its highest position since 1985. Originally only in the chart for eight weeks, it has since amassed over 70. This is because downloads are now included in the UK Singles Chart whereas in past years this would have been impossible unless there was a physical re-release of the song. In 2007, the song re-entered the UK top 30 and reached number 22 on the Christmas chart. Ever since it has been included on many top-selling Christmas collections and received frequent airplay every Christmas. It was released on 25 November 1985 and was the Christmas number one for that year. Written by Bob Heatlie and produced by Dave Edmunds, it was the fourth and last number one single for Shakin' Stevens on the UK Singles Chart. Merry Christmas Everyone is a festive song recorded by Welsh singer-songwriter Shakin' Stevens. So if you like it, just download it here. You can’t help but get a wee buzz from that.Free Merry Christmas Everyone piano sheet music is provided for you. It’s become part of Christmas and I created it. The song lives on, it still gets played and people still enjoy singing it. And whether you like the song or not, I achieved what I set out to do with it. We went to number one for Christmas 1985, knocking Whitney Houston’s Saving All My Love For You off the top spot.Ī couple of years ago I was in a shopping centre where the song was playing and there were two girls in front of me singing along to it. They don’t tend to happen like that anymore, but at the time, you’d expect a Christmas song to be in the charts. I reckon I was lucky in that it was probably the last ‘traditional’ pop Christmas song out of the door. It all came together and sort of did the trick. I’d been playing about with a rhythm, a bit like the bass and drums on Nutbush City Limits and suddenly there was the start of the song. It started with the chord thing at the beginning as I was sitting at the piano. I spent a lot of time working on the song.
I produced the demo standing in my shorts, sweating away in a stifling hot, airless studio, rattling jingle bells in front of a microphone. Merry Christmas Everyone was written in the middle of a heatwave - which is unusual up here in Scotland. I’d already written Cry Just A Little Bit and Breaking Up My Heart for Shakin’ Stevens, so I had an opportunity to write something Christmassy for him. I set out to write a Christmas song because I wanted to write something that would live on forever, as Christmas songs do.
Bob Heatlie, writer of the Shakin' Stevens hit Merry Christmas Everyone, recalls how he put together an enduring classic.
It's the time of year where the nation begins to count down the days to Christmas, To get us in the mood, only a Christmas song will do.
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