It's on 'It's Christmas' on EMI (1989). Had this on cassette since 1990 but tracked the CD down a couple of weeks back. Got the single, but the mix is rubbish compared to this version...
@@domfjbrown75 I had the 'It's Christmas' LP with this version of December Will Be Magic Again. I didn't know until years later that there was another version. These days it's the other version that gets played. Can you tell me where this version comes from. Was it the original recording or an alternative take? I agree, it's the best version.
@@domfjbrown75 thank you for this. Was able to track down the cd because of your comment. Absolutely crave to hear this version each Christmas. Thanks!!
I am a straight male in my 40's, and I am not or will ever be ashamed to admit I am a Kate Bush Fan, in fact some of her music has helped me through some tough times in my past and I would like to thank Kate for this
straight male in my 20s here and kate was the first female artist i respected more than any other artist male or female. i never would have thought id be a diehard fan of a female artist but that doesnt even apply to kate she is a one in a century genius and havent found another artist that can match her songwriting or boundary breaking production sounds since
@@ferdiemiddleton8910why mention straight do you have to keep telling yourself and screaming from the rooftops I am straight who cares if your straight , Bi or gay or even a blue elephant Kate Bush is like by all sexes music is not about being straight or gay 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We grew up with Kate Bush's music and I feel privileged and a little bit special to have done so. The father away we get from these times the more genius you realise artists like Kate Bush were. I heard this song for the first time just a few years ago (I'm in my 50s now) and I'm shocked at how much we took for granted. Hearing music as impossibly magical as this and thinking it was normal! Seeing Kate in her PJs , warbling along, stroking her chair to a mesmerising cocophany of magic, aggression, drums and chanting in an ecclectic cadence of high and low vocals where your not entirely sure who is singing who: is she channeling the song? or fighting with her music? Either way, this isn't normal. There is no template for this. And she calls this a a Christmas song!? My middle sister passed away last year. I'm not sure but I wish she would have heard it. Maybe she ahead of me already, listening to magical ethereal music like this in a place where it would be considered normal..
we are lucky to be in the same lifetime as kate, she is beethoven level of timeless, but maybe thats what happens when you get a truley skilled artist that puts their art before profits or fame
It's not possible for me to love her any more... without actually bursting. Oh and can I just say that her line "Come to sparkle the dark up" is bliss isn't it.
The official release was a different recording (or at least a very different mix), and was released as a single. When the "It's Christmas" compilation was released, the person assigned to collect the tapes to assemble the compilation grabbed this recording from the Abba Winter Snowtime Special instead of the single version. If that mistake had not been made, we'd have never gotten this version on CD - and I'd never have been able to replace the audio on this video.
Ha, I can answer that, I'm the wife. He had put an ad in a local freebie music paper: "Kate Bush fan with record, videos, would like to meet other Kate Bush fans." I had been a Kate fan for a couple of years and hadn't met any other Kate fans in real life (only pen pals) so I answered the ad. We started off as friends and fell in love. Still both Kate fans. It's nice having someone who won't yell when you want to put a huge Kate poster up in the front hallway (and who'll take you to England!)
I spent a lot of money about 18 years ago to purchase a video cassette filled with rare video clips and this was one of them - but it was horribly degraded and hard to make out. But still, I watched it over and over, mesmerized by this version with the bongo drums and alarmingly magnetic performance by Kate. What a treat to see it so clearly for the first time.
This is one of my favourite Christmas songs, loved it when I saw it on TOTP and ever since, she has a uniquely evocative way with words and music, quintessentially English somehow.
Yes, I agree. This is my favourite Christmas pop song, but you never hear it on the radio any more (at least here in Germany), probably too excentric. I am glad to find it on YT, because it is not published on one of her records, as far as I know.
And here's to 2022, and Christmas 2023... One of these days this single will zoom back up the chart ti higher than 29 - but the world STILL hasn't quite caught up!
What an amazing performance! I have seen several times before but it is stunning. This artist has been a constant in my life since boyhood. Thank you Catherine xx.
Every Winter comes I always want to listen Kate December magic since I was young,although this song is not so known to Japan,but for me one of my enchantment song next to Whuthering Heights.
This was the song that I was introduced to Kate Bush with. It's the most beautifully unhinged piece of art I've ever witnessed, and Kate has continued to help me feel comfortable in my own skin ever since. Kate, wherever you are, you're incredible, my avant-garde Queen, I love you to pieces & back together again ❤
Beautiful, fun, creative, talented, unique. There are not enough adjectives to define someone as incredible as she is. My "favorite little witch". I will love Kate Bush forever.
Oh this brings back warm memories: Christmas, 1979, and I had a rental VHS machine installed, and this was the first thing ever recorded, followed by Kate's Christmas Special, and the 21st anniversary celebration programme for Southern Television. Happy times x
Kate's ballet foot on the chair is beautiful this is My favourite Christmas song I love you kate your talent is beyond words followed this classy lady all my life what an icon ❤❤❤🙏❤❤❤
Anyone else here in December 2020? Why is this song not in the UK top 40 this Christmas? Brits, you have a lot of explaining here to do to the world, and no, I do not mean Brexit...!!! Love you, Kate Bush 😍
Takes me back to childhood, when I was little, every year my mum would put on her christmas album cassette tape and this version of the song was on it. Stuck with me ever since. Listening again I totally forgot about that chanting at the start, when hearing it again, it took me back to my childhood
I admire the more advanced productions like Experiment IV & Cloudbusting but there's a lot to be said for a video that simply features Kate in her PJs. Thank you for sharing this. Think I'll watch it again right now.
She's a 50 year old mother. She doesn't spend 3 hours a day trying to maintain the body of an 18 year old like Madonna does - and frankly I wouldn't want her to. I'd rather have her spend the time working on music. That said, it's attitudes like yours that are the reason she didn't do any TV appearances or even interviews for the last album "Aerial" or any videos other than "King of the Mountain" (aka "the ELVIS video"). Thanks.
@@hazchem1 and through the desolation of the communist regime we will have placed ourselves in, by unquestionably believing this virus facade and destroying our freedoms, it will be my only solace when I think of how easily people handed in their rights.
@ratbsf Still have it too. I think I own Kate Bush my life. I really think that without the beauty she created and the worlds she opened to my young mind, I would never have survived an abused adolescence… Survived in the most literal sense you can imagine. I doubt she ever reads this, but nonetheless… Maybe, without her, I would not be here today. Wheteher that's a good or a bad thing, well, I'll let others judge !
Different version than the single. I prefer the single one frankly. But this is quite beautiful. Saw her on Saturday Night Live in 1978 and fell in love then. Still in love 45(!) years later.
Me too. I was a high school senior & was immediately smitten. She did Wuthering Heights and The Man With the Child In His Eyes. She was brilliant, of course -- like a female David Bowie (I said at the time).
I remember seeing this as my first taste of Kate's music at aged 8-9 with my dad and me saying how great it was. He agreed and 6 years later I'm still in awe of her talent
I love Kate and everything she has done. Some of her songs took a while to grow on me but when they did, they became huge favourites of mine. I think she's wonderful :)
Yes. I couldn't say it much better myself. I could go through this thing second-by-second, but..I'll save that kind of obsession for This Woman's Work.
those who dont "get" kate bush should really watch this video,i think its now my favorite of hers. who could of thought of dancing and never getting out of the chair but kate? she's a songwriters songwriter.
k8fan: ... and now I have another treasure to add to my collection. Thanks so much for your efforts on this video. It is a great deal of fun and puts a smile on my face.
Here we are are into a new month December time for the festive classic and novelty tunes to come out of the box ,get dusted off and get airplay. Wonder how many times I get to hear Kate's now timeless 1980 classic hit get played this month .Along with her all her other songs it's a classic masterpiece ,I'm glad I still have my copy of this on vinyl in its picture sleeve .
Perhaps it would be interesting to have a trio of Gilmore, Kate and Tim Burton on a musical film animation project...and watch it whilst being stoned ^^ ..WOW what an emotional ride
Kate, like all songwriters, has some favorite chord progressions. The DVD "Hounds of Love: Under Review" features a piano player who points out that many of the songs are the same three chords. It's still brilliant.
Just these three. This was recorded specifically for the TV appearance, and only through a happy accident was it released on CD on the "It's Christmas" compilation.
Wonderful! I have a lot of Kate videos up here, but for the most part it's there for fellow fans, people who have loved her music for years. Nice to know that some folks have discovered her like this.
This is actually the original version Kate intended for a Christmas 1979 single, but Christmas snuck up too quickly it seemed, so the song was held over for the 1980 Christmas season, but was later re-recorded with lots of layers of sound. The single failed as no one was in a holiday mood with John Lennon's death in all the headlines.
Whose here December 24.
Thank you beautiful Kate x
Most underrated and under played Christmas song.
So true!
Really wish this version of the song was more widely available. So underrated.
It's on 'It's Christmas' on EMI (1989). Had this on cassette since 1990 but tracked the CD down a couple of weeks back. Got the single, but the mix is rubbish compared to this version...
@@domfjbrown75 I had the 'It's Christmas' LP with this version of December Will Be Magic Again. I didn't know until years later that there was another version. These days it's the other version that gets played. Can you tell me where this version comes from. Was it the original recording or an alternative take? I agree, it's the best version.
This is the only version I thought existed as it was on a mini disc (yes, mini disc) my parents had of Xmas songs they played every year
This is the only version I thought existed as it was on a mini disc (yes, mini disc) my parents had of Xmas songs they played every year
@@domfjbrown75 thank you for this. Was able to track down the cd because of your comment. Absolutely crave to hear this version each Christmas. Thanks!!
Kate Bush is simply the greatest British female artist of all time.
No mate shes the greatest female artist of all time by a mile
@@RAB-om9jy Totally agree :-)
Yes Kate Bush is ...
Period! Right there,
I 100% agree.
I am a straight male in my 40's, and I am not or will ever be ashamed to admit I am a Kate Bush Fan, in fact some of her music has helped me through some tough times in my past and I would like to thank Kate for this
straight male in my 20s here and kate was the first female artist i respected more than any other artist male or female. i never would have thought id be a diehard fan of a female artist but that doesnt even apply to kate she is a one in a century genius and havent found another artist that can match her songwriting or boundary breaking production sounds since
@@ferdiemiddleton8910why mention straight do you have to keep telling yourself and screaming from the rooftops I am straight who cares if your straight , Bi or gay or even a blue elephant Kate Bush is like by all sexes music is not about being straight or gay 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Join the club... she's my queen.
Only gay men like her usually?
You have no reason to be ashamed.
Most artists would just cover a Christmas classic, but she WRITES one of her own! And I love this video, she's performance art personified.
Very true... although in my opinion, those lesser 'Artists' you allude too, in no way deserve the mantle of 'Artist' at all!!
We grew up with Kate Bush's music and I feel privileged and a little bit special to have done so. The father away we get from these times the more genius you realise artists like Kate Bush were. I heard this song for the first time just a few years ago (I'm in my 50s now) and I'm shocked at how much we took for granted. Hearing music as impossibly magical as this and thinking it was normal! Seeing Kate in her PJs , warbling along, stroking her chair to a mesmerising cocophany of magic, aggression, drums and chanting in an ecclectic cadence of high and low vocals where your not entirely sure who is singing who: is she channeling the song? or fighting with her music?
Either way, this isn't normal. There is no template for this. And she calls this a a Christmas song!?
My middle sister passed away last year. I'm not sure but I wish she would have heard it. Maybe she ahead of me already, listening to magical ethereal music like this in a place where it would be considered normal..
we are lucky to be in the same lifetime as kate, she is beethoven level of timeless, but maybe thats what happens when you get a truley skilled artist that puts their art before profits or fame
It's not possible for me to love her any more... without actually bursting. Oh and can I just say that her line "Come to sparkle the dark up" is bliss isn't it.
40 years and I still can't get enough of Kate.
Ну, не чудо ли ОНА?))
The most beautiful Christmas song I've ever heard.
An embodiment of all that is magical. 💜
The older I get the more I love her !. I've loved Kate since the age of 18 years old .🌹🌲🌹
The official release was a different recording (or at least a very different mix), and was released as a single. When the "It's Christmas" compilation was released, the person assigned to collect the tapes to assemble the compilation grabbed this recording from the Abba Winter Snowtime Special instead of the single version. If that mistake had not been made, we'd have never gotten this version on CD - and I'd never have been able to replace the audio on this video.
It only took me 34 winters to find the greatest Christmas song.....love it, also this slight different version!
I never tire of this song, Kate is absolutely adorable here.
Ha, I can answer that, I'm the wife. He had put an ad in a local freebie music paper: "Kate Bush fan with record, videos, would like to meet other Kate Bush fans." I had been a Kate fan for a couple of years and hadn't met any other Kate fans in real life (only pen pals) so I answered the ad. We started off as friends and fell in love. Still both Kate fans. It's nice having someone who won't yell when you want to put a huge Kate poster up in the front hallway (and who'll take you to England!)
I spent a lot of money about 18 years ago to purchase a video cassette filled with rare video clips and this was one of them - but it was horribly degraded and hard to make out. But still, I watched it over and over, mesmerized by this version with the bongo drums and alarmingly magnetic performance by Kate. What a treat to see it so clearly for the first time.
It's only November, but I could not wait any longer!
This is one of my favourite Christmas songs, loved it when I saw it on TOTP and ever since, she has a uniquely evocative way with words and music, quintessentially English somehow.
She can brighten up the dullest day. December 2018 is magic again after seeing this.
A haunting classic vintage beautiful song from Kate 😂
This makes me feel like a child again, excited for christmas
Me too 😁
such an eccentric yet magical woman. love it.
Yes, I agree. This is my favourite Christmas pop song, but you never hear it on the radio any more (at least here in Germany), probably too excentric. I am glad to find it on YT, because it is not published on one of her records, as far as I know.
@@lioba.94371 it is on the other sides cd.
@@chrissmith5832 Oh, thxs!
December of 2021 will be magic again - thanks to this beautiful song. Thank you, Kate! ♥️
And here's to 2022, and Christmas 2023... One of these days this single will zoom back up the chart ti higher than 29 - but the world STILL hasn't quite caught up!
Thanks so much for your work on this. It was a treat to be able to see.
What an amazing performance! I have seen several times before but it is stunning. This artist has been a constant in my life since boyhood. Thank you Catherine xx.
Every Winter comes I always want to listen Kate December magic since I was young,although this song is not so known to Japan,but for me one of my enchantment song next to Whuthering Heights.
This was the song that I was introduced to Kate Bush with. It's the most beautifully unhinged piece of art I've ever witnessed, and Kate has continued to help me feel comfortable in my own skin ever since. Kate, wherever you are, you're incredible, my avant-garde Queen, I love you to pieces & back together again ❤
Beautiful, fun, creative, talented, unique. There are not enough adjectives to define someone as incredible as she is. My "favorite little witch". I will love Kate Bush forever.
She's not a witch, a fairy, an elf, weird... She's creative, has musicals ideas, she's a songwriter composer producer.
Kate Bush is magic
I wish all a magic december ✨
Oh this brings back warm memories: Christmas, 1979, and I had a rental VHS machine installed, and this was the first thing ever recorded, followed by Kate's Christmas Special, and the 21st anniversary celebration programme for Southern Television. Happy times x
much, much better than single version. Listen to this until middle 90's
I bring out this song every year. Will follow Kate for another 30+years. (I wish I still had my hair crimpers)!! Shes 'Amazing'
Kate's ballet foot on the chair is beautiful this is My favourite Christmas song I love you kate your talent is beyond words followed this classy lady all my life what an icon ❤❤❤🙏❤❤❤
Anyone else here in December 2020? Why is this song not in the UK top 40 this Christmas? Brits, you have a lot of explaining here to do to the world, and no, I do not mean Brexit...!!! Love you, Kate Bush 😍
She is simply one of the greatest artists of all-time. Her gorgous persona is a added bonus!
Everybody put on your red pajamas and do the Kate Bush armchair dance!
This used to be played every year when i was younger on my mum's christmas complitation. I used to love it, even if it slightly scared me!
Takes me back to childhood, when I was little, every year my mum would put on her christmas album cassette tape and this version of the song was on it. Stuck with me ever since. Listening again I totally forgot about that chanting at the start, when hearing it again, it took me back to my childhood
a beautiful,almost ignored,christmas song!
Nostalgic and a classic from Kate Bush
This is my absolute favorite Christmas song, love it
Imagine waking up on Christmas morning, and finding Kate Bush, in pajamas, near your tree. Talk about a happy Christmas!
I admire the more advanced productions like Experiment IV & Cloudbusting but there's a lot to be said for a video that simply features Kate in her PJs. Thank you for sharing this. Think I'll watch it again right now.
Anyone else here in December 2020?
Me ! I got this Single in 80 still have it } and Kate He gives a Lesson in how to be as Sexy as Hell while Sitting in a [ Very Nice ] Chair !
I'm here every December! It's not the holiday season without Kate's Magic. 😍😍😍
Yep! This was the defining Christmas song of my childhood. So mystical and slightly creepy. Nothing beats this one
She was at least 30 years ahead of her time.... It's fantastic...
300 years lol
Utterly fabulous.
I've always been fascinated with Kate's music. It blends so whimsy and nostalgia captures the essence of the song 💖
She's a 50 year old mother. She doesn't spend 3 hours a day trying to maintain the body of an 18 year old like Madonna does - and frankly I wouldn't want her to. I'd rather have her spend the time working on music.
That said, it's attitudes like yours that are the reason she didn't do any TV appearances or even interviews for the last album "Aerial" or any videos other than "King of the Mountain" (aka "the ELVIS video").
Thanks.
I'd love Kate Bush to live for ever. The world will be such a sad place without her...
Happy Katemas! ❄️🎄❄️
This video was a huge source of inspiration a couple of winters ago. The lady is magical.
Really nice music, a superfeminine and rather funny women with lots of humour. She must be a joy to be with, albeit very to herself it seems.
So do I this version is my favourite Kate Bush song 👍
Listening and watching in July, just because....
2018. In the gym. Pumping some iron: -
What you listening to mate?
Kate Bush 50 Words For Snow.
Eh??????
:)
tom spud NO WAY!! I was in the gym listening to this song today!! Great taste Tom. 👏🏼😁
I listen to it on the treadmill! Always gives me a turbo-charge
Nice one Tom! Fuck em.... those other plebs can crack on with their Junglist/Gangsta Rap shit...
@@rnw2739 Man alive. That was a quick 2 years. 2020. Not in the Gym. Shut for C-19. But...... 50 Words For Snow is still on!
@@hazchem1 and through the desolation of the communist regime we will have placed ourselves in, by unquestionably believing this virus facade and destroying our freedoms, it will be my only solace when I think of how easily people handed in their rights.
Seeing Kate Bush stoned out of her mind dancing is all I need to alleviate my depression for the moment
Beautiful ... wish my you tube Bowie interpretations where this good ... so cool.
what a pro man...Kates posessed by spirits with impecable taste and excellence....top dog
Kate Bush is adorable. A love Kate Bush. She is fantastic...
@ratbsf Still have it too. I think I own Kate Bush my life. I really think that without the beauty she created and the worlds she opened to my young mind, I would never have survived an abused adolescence… Survived in the most literal sense you can imagine. I doubt she ever reads this, but nonetheless… Maybe, without her, I would not be here today. Wheteher that's a good or a bad thing, well, I'll let others judge !
Me too, I understand completely, she got me through it too x
Different version than the single. I prefer the single one frankly. But this is quite beautiful. Saw her on Saturday Night Live in 1978 and fell in love then. Still in love 45(!) years later.
Me too. I was a high school senior & was immediately smitten. She did Wuthering Heights and The Man With the Child In His Eyes. She was brilliant, of course -- like a female David Bowie (I said at the time).
The drums on the normal version kill it for me, but then I first heard the version here when I got 'It's Christmas' on cassette in 1990...
I remember seeing this as my first taste of Kate's music at aged 8-9 with my dad and me saying how great it was. He agreed and 6 years later I'm still in awe of her talent
Lovely Kate ☺️ good video good song
I love Kate and everything she has done. Some of her songs took a while to grow on me but when they did, they became huge favourites of mine. I think she's wonderful :)
Christmas songs in August. What fun!
Easily my favourite version of this...I love her daftness ♥️♥️
Yes. I couldn't say it much better myself. I could go through this thing second-by-second, but..I'll save that kind of obsession for This Woman's Work.
those who dont "get" kate bush should really watch this video,i think its now my favorite of hers. who could of thought of dancing and never getting out of the chair but kate? she's a songwriters songwriter.
Kate Bush unique vocals are superb 😂
Love this song only found it recently cant stop listening to it I've always loved kate too
Simply incredible
k8fan: ... and now I have another treasure to add to my collection. Thanks so much for your efforts on this video. It is a great deal of fun and puts a smile on my face.
thats lovery. and its wonderful you share a love of the best female artist this country has EVER produced
Here we are are into a new month December time for the festive classic and novelty tunes to come out of the box ,get dusted off and get airplay. Wonder how many times I get to hear Kate's now timeless 1980 classic hit get played this month .Along with her all her other songs it's a classic masterpiece ,I'm glad I still have my copy of this on vinyl in its picture sleeve .
Listening to this song is magic again.
now it's Christmas... thanks Kate!
Perhaps it would be interesting to have a trio of Gilmore, Kate and Tim Burton on a musical film animation project...and watch it whilst being stoned ^^
..WOW what an emotional ride
Best version ever. 😊
wonderfull, wonderfull goddess Kate Bush ! Historic monumental recording !
Absolutely unique, gorgeous and totally captivating. A fan for years and always will be.
a wonderful, beautiful, mysterious (etc) human being. and one of my very fave Kate 7"s. Thanks so much for the hard work, its appreciated!!!
Oh, to be back in 1980 when I was 11 years old and bought this single with the fab cover with the lion and the moon!!! Innocent days! :)
Amazing
Kate, like all songwriters, has some favorite chord progressions. The DVD "Hounds of Love: Under Review" features a piano player who points out that many of the songs are the same three chords.
It's still brilliant.
Love this song very nostalgic
Kate 💖💖💖
Just these three. This was recorded specifically for the TV appearance, and only through a happy accident was it released on CD on the "It's Christmas" compilation.
Loved this song very atmospheric my late partner koved it
This is fantastic. Kate is just marvellous. Words can't describe.
Wonderful! I have a lot of Kate videos up here, but for the most part it's there for fellow fans, people who have loved her music for years. Nice to know that some folks have discovered her like this.
I just LOVE the melodic twists and turns in this song.
WHAT A GENIUS!!
I love how this song takes off and soars, and oh, to be that chair!
Thankyou and well patched from scant sources. And thankyu for the lyrics
seeing this vid for the first time .... in December 2019
Yay!! Me too.....!!! 🐷
@@1960dave1960 me either, dear piggy
I'd like to say thank you for doing this. December will be magic thanks to this and your hard work!
magical creature... thank you, for all the Beauty...
This is actually the original version Kate intended for a Christmas 1979 single, but Christmas snuck up too quickly it seemed, so the song was held over for the 1980 Christmas season, but was later re-recorded with lots of layers of sound. The single failed as no one was in a holiday mood with John Lennon's death in all the headlines.
I love this song.....now and forever.
I haven't heard this since I was a kid - thank you very, very much for posting it :-)