Now that we're in December, it's time for some holiday-themed Retro Videos of the Week. First up is husky-voiced British singer-songwriter Chris Rea's song "Driving Home For Christmas." It's a schmaltzy, jazzy pop song, kind of in a '50s crooner style.
Rea wrote the song nearly a decade before he recorded it, inspired by being stuck in traffic while driving home to Middlesbrough from London. Snow was falling, and he noticed how miserable all of the other drivers looked. Despite its tongue-in-cheek beginnings, it's a pretty standard Christmas song.
Though originally a B-side in 1986, it was officially released as a single in 1988 as part of a Christmas EP. It only reached #53 on the UK pop charts that year. However, as holiday songs tend to do (especially in the UK), it has appeared on the UK pop charts every year since 2007, and it actually went to #10 this year and last year.
The video is just shots of people driving on a Dutch highway while Rea and his backing band play in an snowy halo.
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