Retro Video of the Week: "Mistletoe and Wine" by Cliff Richard

This week's holiday-themed Retro Video of the Week comes from one of the UK's most successful pop stars of all-time, Cliff Richard.  Despite his massive success in the UK, he is one of those artists that, for whatever reason, never quite caught on the U.S.

Anyway, among his 14 #1 songs on the UK pop charts was his 1988 Christmas tune "Mistletoe and Wine," a relatively schmaltzy song that was originally written for a musical called Scraps, which was an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl.  Richard's version topped the UK pop chart for four weeks, and though it was released in late November 1988, it sold an impressive 750,000 copies by the end of the year, making it the best-selling single in the UK in 1988.

The video features Richard walking through an apparent snowbound English village, complete with classic Christmas soldiers.  At least everyone is escaping their impending death or frostbite by singing.