The Southern Ontario/WNY Radio-TV Forum » What christmas songs do you wish CHFI played?

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 · October 30, 2026 4:11 pm

Here's my list of songs CHFI should include but they probably won't.
Old toy trains.
I'm gettin nothin for christmas.
Dominic the donky.
Marry's boychild by jose feliciano.
John mcDurmut's christmas songs.
Its christmas by the rovers.
Christmas in kilarny.
Christmas pipes by celtic women.
Roger whitiker's christmas songs.
Reda macNeil's christmas songs.
More religious carols and traditional crooner christmas songs.
Ave maria.
And the 12 pains of christmas.
Give me your list of songs CHFI should play but won't.

mace · October 31, 2026 5:51 am

Twelve Pains of Christmas, definitely plus Linus And Lucy

Walter · October 31, 2026 8:42 am

None.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 · October 31, 2026 9:25 am

There just programming it rong.
You want no joy on the radio?
None of us would be saying that if CHFI had more variety in there christmas playlist and did'nt play the same old songs.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 · October 31, 2026 9:28 am

mace wrote:
Twelve Pains of Christmas, definitely plus Linus And Lucy

Star used to play this one.
They also played the chimney song by bob rivers also.
Star was the only 1 I knew that played others.
Santa must be polish by bobby vinton, dominic the donky, and all I want for christmas is my 2 frunt teeth the original version.

Paul Jeffries · October 31, 2026 10:06 am

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:
They also played the chimney song by bob rivers also.

Bob Rivers also penned this little seasonal ditty. Pretty sure this didn't make the CHFI Christmas playlist.

PJ

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 · October 31, 2026 4:48 pm

Paul Jeffries wrote:
Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 wrote:
They also played the chimney song by bob rivers also.
Bob Rivers also penned this little seasonal ditty. Pretty sure this didn't make the CHFI Christmas playlist.

PJ

The snowflakes would complain about this one.
The CBSC would get a complaint about CHFI if they played this one.
So many of his christmas songs, as funny as they are, probably could'nt air theese days.

Last edited by Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 (October 31, 2026 4:49 pm)

Radiowiz · October 31, 2026 5:28 pm

CHFI is just a cookie cutter station. Whatever music test they did was probably done once in one place many years ago. Then they just press repeat and the same songs over and over.
What's good for Toronto, is good for Kitchener, Ottawa and other places where there is a Rogers station playing Christmas music. (give or take, with room for a new song here and there)

Ale Ont · October 31, 2026 8:24 pm

I am pretty sure Rogers does not have a station in Ottawa that plays Christmas music.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 · October 31, 2026 9:50 pm

Radiowiz wrote:
CHFI is just a cookie cutter station. Whatever music test they did was probably done once in one place many years ago. Then they just press repeat and the same songs over and over.
What's good for Toronto, is good for Kitchener, Ottawa and other places where there is a Rogers station playing Christmas music. (give or take, with room for a new song here and there)

Audacy owned star, but they still let star have variety in there playlist.
Standard, then astral owned EZ rock, but they still had more variety than CHFI does.
Stingray owns VOCM, but VOCM has the most christmas music variety in canada.
Rogers has no excuses, there just making excuses to be boring.

Radiowiz · October 31, 2026 11:49 pm

Ale Ont wrote:
I am pretty sure Rogers does not have a station in Ottawa that plays Christmas music.

Heh, I am corrected indeed! Somehow I thought Rogers Kiss 105.3 was the station that goes all Christmas there,
but I am indeed Wrong. It's Bell's Move 100 that does that. Thanks for spotting my error.

In other markets though, the Roogers Christmas cookie cutter is very much alive. What's good for one market is good enough for another.

Ale Ont · October 31, 2026 11:55 pm

You know what is funny about Move 100 going all Christmas? They won't announce the date in advance. I guess only C-SIS knows.

Shorty Wave · November 1, 2026 9:01 am

I think my favourite Christmas song is “I Believe in Father Christmas” by the late Greg Lake. It isn’t the usual Christmas saccharine and I enjoy the music, very English sounding! I know AM740 plays it a bit around the Big Day and other stations probably do as well. It was used in a commercial here years back, which surprised me at the time since it wasn’t that well known in Canada.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 · November 1, 2026 10:23 am

Here's 1 of my favourites, I know CHFI will not play it, but its werth sugjesting to Rogers.
And, its cancon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDd_zapXTj8

Paul Jeffries · November 1, 2026 1:58 pm

Shorty Wave wrote:
I think my favourite Christmas song is “I Believe in Father Christmas” by the late Greg Lake. It isn’t the usual Christmas saccharine and I enjoy the music, very English sounding!

Mine too! There's actually two versions of that song, I prefer the one with the symphonic ending.

Another one of my favourites is Elton John's "Step Into Christmas." It's a really fun-sounding song and to the best of my knowledge, there's no cover version of it out there anywhere (at least not any well-known covers), so it doesn't wear out its welcome near as much as other Christmas favourites.

Oh yeah, this is also another favourite of mine...

PJ

Ale Ont · November 1, 2026 6:12 pm

I like "Rock and Roll Christmas" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 · November 1, 2026 7:46 pm

Paul Jeffries wrote:
Shorty Wave wrote:
I think my favourite Christmas song is “I Believe in Father Christmas” by the late Greg Lake. It isn’t the usual Christmas saccharine and I enjoy the music, very English sounding!
Mine too! There's actually two versions of that song, I prefer the one with the symphonic ending.

Another one of my favourites is Elton John's "Step Into Christmas." It's a really fun-sounding song and to the best of my knowledge, there's no cover version of it out there anywhere (at least not any well-known covers), so it doesn't wear out its welcome near as much as other Christmas favourites.

Oh yeah, this is also another favourite of mine...

PJ

Both I beleev in father christmas and step into christmas, CHFI play them.
The muppits and john denver's version of we wish you a merry christmas, the last time I heard that on radio was on EZ rock or star 102.5.
Same with there version of the 12 days of christmas.
John denver also does this one which I love.
There's other versions of this one also.
Youtube link below.
The version I will link of this heartfelt song is not john denver's because I could'nt find his anywhere on youtube.
Its by a singer named daniel oh donnal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcw44CiYqKw

Last edited by Scarboroughbluffsradiof99 (November 1, 2026 7:47 pm)