The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping (Music Video)
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2014
- Clip video for Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses using some of their other videos and live performances. Originally taken from the 1981 album A Christmas Record on ZE Records.
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You’ll know the lyrics to this song off by heart if you work in retail...
It's never quite Christmas for me until I've heard this song ten or twenty times.
Perhaps the coolest bassline in the history of Christmas songs.
Tracy wormworth. She is amazing.
For a song that's about 35yrs old it still gets absolutely hammered in our house every Christmas 🎄 By me mainly, well always by me 😆
LOL
I bloody love this song :)
I want to come to your house for Christmas.
That was funny.
For us it's Jingle Bell Rock, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and THIS.
I just got back from 400 years in the future and they still play this tune around Christmas. Even the Aliens dig it..
Did the aliens help us trash the zombies, or is that still a thing?
Merry Christmas
How did the aliens manage the Trump wall??? LOL
@@David_Theisen C'mon, everyone knows they interfered to help him win the election. A wall is nothing to them.
Well thats good to know, I think we can all agree that a future with no music, is not a future worth living in
Most underrated Christmas carol in existence.
Totally agree with you this is an awesome Christmas song haha!
definitely... what's up with this video though, it isn't Debbie Harry... I'd be honored if some Blondie & Christmas music fans would take a listen to my acoustic piano & vocal performance of CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE on my YT channel. Live acoustic with no autotune or backing tracks. Thanks and seasons greetings.
It's amusing anyways.
The singer died 20 years ago?! God, bless her. She lives on in her hilarious singing of this classic. I love it.
One of my favorite Xmas songs. RIP Patty Donahue (March 29, 1956 - December 9, 1996).
Lead singer?
thespeez yep
Who would have thought...just one year younger than my mom and I was a teen when this song came out.
same
Was looking for the hilarious comment on this video I saw last year:
"They look like a bunch of strangers who met at a bus stop" :D
This song is one of my favorite Christmas songs. It's so unique and fresh, like decades later
This song is absolutely made by the bass playing of Tracey Wormworth. Thank you madam, you are a real musician.
The absolute best bass playing in the history of Christmas music. Hands down.
Listening in 2020 and beyond
It’s not Christmas without hearing this song! Still rocking it in 2017
2018!!!! :-)
Dec 18, and I've been listening to it since 1981 when I was 16, holiday tradition with me👍👍👍
It's the only Christmas song I need to hear! Guess I'm good now. Next: Cruel Summer.
2018 😝
Early MTV..thanks ..such vintage guitars..image boys..image 😃
Their style is so awkward and their beats are so off that it makes this song really interesting and a bop
This song was a staple of WPST FM radio out of Trenton, New Jersey, in the '80s. It's somewhat astounding to think that "Christmas Wrapping" is going on thirty-eight years old. It's an infectious sort of tune that _still_ comes into its own each year as Christmas draws closer. In the mid-'80s I had a set of stereo earphones installed inside my industrial hearing protectors so I could listen to WPST on the overnight (11 PM to 7 AM) shift. Back in the day this song was a morale booster working that overnight shift near to Christmastime.
Walking thru a shopping centre and this came on. I havent heard it in years, instantly shazzamed it and am now blasting it at home on the speakers with all 3 of my kids dancing and jumping around to it! What a classic.
The bass line is fucking great!
Really is.
Sure is Glenn,
Did you know Tracy Wormworth played the bass on this song. She's been the B52's bass player for a long time and she's played with many top artists as well. She's amazing!
She played guitar in David Lettermen's CBS orchestra for YEARS!
Not true, Ryan. Tracy Wormworth didn't play with the Letterman band. Her brother is the drummer in Conan O'Brien's band. (Full-time after Max Weinberg left.) But Will Lee was the bass player for the "World's Most Dangerous Band" during Letterman's entire run. Felicia Collins was the female guitar player in the Letterman Orchestra.
'80s new wave is one of the few ways that I still enjoy Christmas music. This song just rules!
This song is great for all the Grinch's and Scrooge's out there who deep down still believe in the magic of Christmas
Tracy wormworth was am amazing bassist. She created some pretty cool bass lines for these songs.
When I first heard this song playing at the mall, as a kid I thought that was Debbie Harry singing, but my dad told me, it’s a group called “The Waitresses” and he had this song on record.
I can't listen to The Waitresses without wishing that more bands these days had sax players
+steve hardman I know. Just about every hit song in the 80's and early 90's had a sax solo in it.
+steve hardman shame the leader died in the 90s, lung cancer :(
+plezx29 she was a chain smoker.
Abinash Mishra I didn't know that
+steve hardman Brass is class, but sax to the max.
Just because I'm a grumpy old man doesn't mean that pop songs weren't better in the '80s.
They were better.
They were better by a damn sight in the 80s. They weren't 'focus group tested for marketing and sales.'
They weren’t necessarily better. The good ones are the ones that get remembered.
The bass playing in this song confirms your statement.
+Shen Doodles
Yeah, but there were a shipload🚣 of "good" ones!! 😀🎄🎅
Christmas Wrapping
The Waitresses
Bah Humbug, now that's too strong!
'Cause it is my favorite holiday
But all this year's been a busy blur
Don't think I have the energy
To add to my already mad rush
Just 'cause it's 'tis the season
The perfect gift for me would be
Completions and connections left from last year
Ski shop encounter most interesting
Had his number but never the time
Most of '81 passed along those lines
So deck those halls Trim those trees
Raise up cups of Christmas cheer
I just need to catch my breath
Christmas by myself this year
Calendar picture, frozen landscape
Chill this room for twenty-four days
Evergreens Sparkling snow
Get this winter over with!
Flash back to spring time saw him again
Would have been good to go for lunch
Couldn't agree when we were both free
We tried, we said we'd keep in touch
Didn't of course 'till summertime
Out to the beach to his boat
Could I join him?
No This time it was me
Sunburn in the third degree
Now the calendar's just one page
Of course I am excited
Tonight's the night I've set my mind
Not to do too much about it
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Hardly dashing through the snow
'Cause I bundled up too tight
Last minute have-to-dos
A few cards, a few calls
Because it's RSVP
No, thanks No party lights
It's Christmas Eve, gonna relax
Turn down all of my invites
Last fall I had a night to myself
Same guy called, Halloween party
Waited all night for him to show
This time his car wouldn't go
Forget it, it's cold, it's getting late
Trudge on home to celebrate
In a quiet way unwind
Doing Christmas right this time
A&P has provided me
With the world's smallest turkey
Already in the oven, nice and hot
Oh damn! Guess what I forgot
So on with the boots
Back out in the snow
To the only all night grocery
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
In the line is that guy I've been chasing all year
'Spending this one alone, ' he said
'Give me a break, this year's been crazy'
I said 'Me too, but why are you
You mean you forgot cranberries too?'
Then suddenly we laughed and laughed
Caught on to what was happening
That Christmas magic's brought this tale
To a very happy ending
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
That bassist has some busy fingers on this one!
2:10 The way that shot pulls in on the bass player, who smiles. Love it :D
This is literally my favorite Christmas song 🎄
Merry Christmas and we miss you Patty Donahue, gone way too soon.
smoked too much
I quit cause in new York $ 10.00 a pack, new York is highest taxed state
OMG...this is a classic. I love the song because the beat is so catchy. This song stayed in my head all day.😊
Jerome Sears same
Aren't the pretenders from somewhere in ohio
The Waitresses sang the theme for the one-season cult series,"Square Pegs."I bought the '45 in 1983.
The baseline is sick as hell. Still rocks in 2019. :)
This is my favorite Christmas song ever omg🎅🏼☃❄️
+Angie Bittinger mine too and you NEVER hardly hear it on the radio at least in my area.
One year later, I've been hearing this song on a daily basis at Starbucks.
the first time I heard this song was at an American Eagle in the mall a week before Christmas. It really put me in the mood to do some shopping.
35 years old. 1980s Xmases were the best.
Davin Dx agree 👌👌
I'll drink to that!
this song is absolutely TIMELESS
The bass in this is savage
Tracy Wormwood!!! She played with B-52s (Love Shack) and Sting, among many others. Kind of ironic that she was the only female instrumentalist in The Waitresses!!!
Agreed! Fantastic bass playing
@@Stiglr Thanks for that! That is bass played the way a true bassist plays and not a guitar player slapping a note that matches the chords.
This best Christmas song of all time the saxophone, guitar, bass guitar, drums, lyrics, patty's voice and the harmonica everything about the song was and still is so on point!!
Goddamn, how could this song have escaped me all these years??? I thought I had an encyclopedic knowledge of 80s music. Guess not. This song is outstanding. I just heard it tonight for the first time. Smh.
The Christmas song with the best bass line ever.
Patty. RIP... Miss ya babe.
Who listening this song in 2019?
This is a classic!
Me! Patty Donahue lives forever. What a sweetie! xx
yeah, ya wanna fight about it?!
My 3 year old is obsessed with this song and I’m pretty sure I’ve watched this video at least 300 times🤣
So sad Patty's not with us anymore. Best fucking Xmas song ever!! Bass line is thee shit!!
+Doug Steele Dig it, Brother! Used to play back in the day. A bass track like this is why a cat chooses bass...shine on!
Agreed..If only all bass lines were as musical.
gonna throw in the term muscular, too. :-)
Aiight. Muscular.
This reminds me of many a Chic bass line and especially 'I Want Your Love'.
When I'm feeling the pressure, of the massive list of everything that I gotta do between work, outside decorating and gift shopping and wrapping and all else...I hear this song and some how it calms me, and raises a little spirit in me...absolutely one of my Christmas favorites!
i saw them back in the day in my hometown (Dayton, Ohio) fantastic show !!
The only Christmas song I seek out each year, great voice and. Kickass brass. RIP
I remember seeing the band in Manhattan in the 80s. Blown away with sounds then and now!
I always liked this song and felt the kind of relief sung about in the beginning one year when I wasn't able to "go home" for Christmas until the actual day, but then the city, and the two states I would be traveling was hit by a huge snowstorm on Xmas Eve. After talking with mom and agreeing I should come home when I could, the pressure of the holiday was off. I built a snowman in the backyard (at age 30), helped some neighbors shovel, and then baked cookies, listened to Xmas songs (including this one) and read. Previously I had spent (and enjoyed) every Xmas with family and pretty much have since, but that year was one of my faves.
My favorite Christmas song of all time.
I've had this song stuck in my head since Christmas and have finally found the song
Saw them perform this back in the day. Awesome !
RIP , Patty. You make me miss New Wave so much!
One of my favourite Christmas songs. It takes me back tp the 80's. Just showed this video to my wife and she likes it. Got to hear it during the holiday season.
One of my top 3 xmas songs evvvvah. Pure genius.
Always liked this one. The sound, the story the song tells. And hearing it reminds me of working part-time in the Foodtown and the A&P (has the pride in me with the world's smallest turkey!) food stores and this song would come on the speakers. Always seemed to be on Christmas eve, snowing, everyone rushing, the store pure madness and christmas trees being sold in the parking lot amongst strung up lights. Lots of great memories. Oh, and love the sax.
Merry Christmas!
Great 80s memorys of this song
This song is pure Joy!!! Merry Christmas everyone remember make Christmas the way you want it. And to all of our loved ones and great friends who are no longer with us...We love you and will never forget you!!! Merry Christmas y’all.
Every 1980s new wave and rock artists should have made Xmas music so we would not drown in the cesspool of r&b Xmas songs.
tis is the bestist christmas song forever
And the bassiest!
My fave Christmas song
Such an awesome bassline !
One of my Christmas faves - fab!
OML the nostalgia is unreal I wanna literally cry.
this has me thinking about how fun The Waitresses' first album was. I began listening to KROQ (Southern California) around 1981, and The Waitressess' first album,
"Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful' was released in January of '82. At the
time I was taking comedy improv workshop classes at the Groundling
Theatre on Melrose Ave., and right next to the theater was ground zero
for Punk and New Wave music - Vinyl Fetish Records. That's where I
purchased The Waitresses' first album.
I was only 3 years of age then...mmm
god I miss vinyl fetish and amoeba records they were the best!
What, with *that* bass line? (Tracy Wormworth was *killin'* it!!) Every year!!!! I absolutely hate Xmas, but I love this tune!
Greatest bass line of any Xmas song ever!
So sad... She smoked herself to DEATH. WTF!!! She left us with this Xmas perfection.
This is one of my favorites! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
More Tracy Wormsworth on bass...unsung hero, fantastic x
Omg I still have this album and every song is great
I went out and bought this Christmas of 1982, in Bremerton WA!!!!! Loved the whole album! :)
Love this song!
probably one of the best and most playable out of season christmas songs ever
one of my fav christmas songs!:]
gotta love that bass line!
RIP Patty and everybody knows this is the best Christmas song
Patty was great, sorry that she left us so soon. Early 80s classic, never gets old. Christmas Wrapping Forever!
one of the few Christmas songs I love
I watch this every year.miss her too much
It's not officially Christmas without hearing this song, Patty.
My all time favorite Christmas song!
rolled a blunt to this and laughed my ass off
Thank You Akron, Ohio!, This enhances my UK Christmas, R.I.P. Patty.
Best Christmas song ever. Still listening to it in January!
A new-wave Christmas! This is one of the modern staples of contemporary Christmas season music. This period ended sometime after the mid-1990s. After that period, any other Christmas song made just doesn't cut it and is not made to be memorable....or not listenable!
What a fun song!!! I'm so happy this was in my recommended! I am obsessed with Christmas and love odd funky 80's stuff as well! Merry Christmas !
Best Xmas song ever
Absolutely
This is one of the few Christmas songs I will listen to any time of year lol
I first heard this on the your moms house podcast and it’s been stuck in my head ever since! I like it😁
Congrats on finding the name of the song that you couldn’t remember the name of but love
The best Christmas song ever! Merry Christmas Patty in heaven!
My husband plays this song for me around this time of year. This was about twenty years ago, and he's still doing it! He knows this is my favorite Xmas song. The reason is, that, I thought I was going to be alone for the rest of my life until I met him!
I read in the comments below and that's sad how Patty Donahue passed away at age 40 from lung cancer [smoking]
A very sad end to lead singer Patty Donahue. Passed away at the age of 40 on 12/9/96 from lung cancer. Poor lady smoked herself 2 death. A very heavy cigarette smoker. Gone so soon and so young. May she RIP.
Didn't know that,that is sad.
40 is rare for a smoker to get lung cancer.
I know of 2 people who never smoked and got it -- one guy was 30.
Bender!
So glad I quit this year
I’m 78 and still smoke...surgeon general lied!
Bah Humbug, now that's too strong!
'Cause it is my favorite holiday
But all this year's been a busy blur
Don't think I have the energy
To add to my already mad rush
Just 'cause it's 'tis the season
The perfect gift for me would be
Completions and connections left from last year
Ski shop encounter most interesting
Had his number but never the time
Most of '81 passed along those lines
So deck those halls Trim those trees
Raise up cups of Christmas cheer
I just need to catch my breath
Christmas by myself this year
Calendar picture, frozen landscape
Chill this room for twenty-four days
Evergreens Sparkling snow
Get this winter over with!
Flash back to spring time saw him again
Would have been good to go for lunch
Couldn't agree when we were both free
We tried, we said we'd keep in touch
Didn't of course 'till summertime
Out to the beach to his boat
Could I join him?
No This time it was me
Sunburn in the third degree
Now the calendar's just one page
Of course I am excited
Tonight's the night I've set my mind
Not to do too much about it
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
But I think I'll miss this one this year
Hardly dashing through the snow
'Cause I bundled up too tight
Last minute have-to-dos
A few cards, a few calls
Because it's RSVP
No, thanks No party lights
It's Christmas Eve, gonna relax
Turn down all of my invites
Last fall I had a night to myself
Same guy called, Halloween party
Waited all night for him to show
This time his car wouldn't go
Forget it, it's cold, it's getting late
Trudge on home to celebrate
In a quiet way unwind
Doing Christmas right this time
A&P has provided me
With the world's smallest turkey
Already in the oven, nice and hot
Oh damn! Guess what I forgot
So on with the boots
Back out in the snow
To the only all night grocery
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
In the line is that guy I've been chasing all year
'Spending this one alone, ' he said
'Give me a break, this year's been crazy'
I said 'Me too, but why are you
You mean you forgot cranberries too?'
Then suddenly we laughed and laughed
Caught on to what was happening
That Christmas magic's brought this tale
To a very happy ending
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas
Couldn't miss this one this year
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Love this song and love just about everything from the OGWT!!!!
i LOVE THIS record!!!!!!!
One of my top 3 favourite chrimbus songs. Cracking bass line!
Real good Christmas song.
May this song and her memory live on past 2018
Merry Christmas Eve from NY 12-24-18