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Speaker 1: Coleersey and Lisa's the story behind a song. Christmas Edition.

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Speaker 1: It is the Christmas edition. In fact, we are going

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Speaker 1: with well, look, it's my favorite Christmas song. You do

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Speaker 1: love it, but they haven't chosen it just because it's

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Speaker 1: my favorite Christmas song. But it doesn't hurt. But it's

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Speaker 1: lots of people's favorite Christmas song and it is indeed

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Speaker 1: Chris Rears driving Home.

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Speaker 2: For Christmas absolutely a beautiful voice.

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Speaker 1: Chris wrote this song in nineteen seventy eight, ten years

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Speaker 1: before he released it. Actually he said he was had

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Speaker 1: to get home to Middlesbrough from London's Abbey Road studios,

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Speaker 1: and his wife had come down to drive him home

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Speaker 1: in her Austin Mini to save money because it was

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Speaker 1: cheaper to drive than travel by train, and his record

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Speaker 1: company wouldn't cough up the money for the train.

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Speaker 2: Oh Christmas, Scrooge.

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Speaker 3: It's a great story because my wife used to drive

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Speaker 3: down in Morris thousand, picked me up and drive me

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Speaker 3: all the way back to Middlesbrough and it was snow, snow,

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Speaker 3: snow oliwhere by one point near Nottingham we are to

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Speaker 3: with it for a snowplou to come. Got completely used

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Speaker 3: to and I'm writing this thing about cheering up. Never mind.

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Speaker 3: You know, this piece of paper went in some box

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Speaker 3: I don't know, and it just stayed there somewhere in

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Speaker 3: the vault, and someone used it as a B side.

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Speaker 3: And I've never used to have conversations about what was

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Speaker 3: the B side. It didn't bother me at all, you know,

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Speaker 3: I didn't really think anyone played them. Mainly, I would

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Speaker 3: have fun with B sides because no one was bothered

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Speaker 3: what I did. And then this thing was picked up

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Speaker 3: by DJs. Don't ask me why. I have no idea

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Speaker 3: it wasn't. The pennies with the promotion went into it.

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Speaker 3: What look, now, get a lot of holidays out of

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Speaker 3: it now?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely like you said, you said it's your favorite Christmas song,

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Speaker 2: but so many people think the same way. And he's

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Speaker 2: renowned for being wonderful guitarists with that great throaty voices

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Speaker 2: you can even talking about. But it's got such a

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Speaker 2: sweet sound or a sweet melody, isn't it? This one?

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Speaker 1: Well, we actually wrote it for someone else. They wrote

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Speaker 1: it for Van Morrison.

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Speaker 3: Max and I had an idea that we should maybe

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Speaker 3: send it to Van Morrison because he used to often

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Speaker 3: do like a semi kitch, you know, when I'm cleaning

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Speaker 3: windows type thing, and we thought he'd do it great.

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Speaker 3: That's why it's in that key, because it's Van Morrison's key.

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Speaker 3: I think the main thing about it was I was

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Speaker 3: a happy chap in them days, and I think there's

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Speaker 3: something infectious in it. A lot of people tell me

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Speaker 3: that that there's something disarming about it because old Ree

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Speaker 3: is yank in a way.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's been covered by various people over the years.

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Speaker 1: Gavin James and Michael Ball and Joe mckildery and Tiny

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Speaker 1: Hadley driving.

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Speaker 3: Home for Christmas when I'm moving down their line.

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Speaker 1: Spot and it's been so long, boot Out will be

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Speaker 1: there to sing this song that's Chinese version. Does anyone

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Speaker 1: else hear a bit of like like a deep boy? George?

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Speaker 2: Well, he's always had that great soul voice, hasn't he,

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Speaker 2: Which we know George has got the stuff. I register