Covers
- Toyah Wilcox recorded the song for her 1982 ITV television special Pop Goes Christmas.
- Elaine Paige recorded the song for her 1986 album Christmas
- Human Drama in 1990
- Vertical Horizon in 2002
- Overview in 2008
- Canadian band Honeymoon Suite covered the song in 1989 for a compilation album titled Revellion, featuring WEA (now Warner Music Canada) recording artists. It was not featured on an HMS album until the 2006 collection Feel It Again: An Anthology which is now out of print.
- The chord progressions and much of the melody were adapted for "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1996 dark comedy song, "The Night Santa Went Crazy." The song is parodied in the style of "Black Gold" by Soul Asylum.
- Sarah Brightman recorded the song in 2008 for her album A Winter Symphony.
- Irish rock-group U2 recorded the song in 2008, for Bono's Product Red campaign to fight AIDS in Africa.
- The Swingle Singers recorded this song in 1994 for their album The Story of Christmas.
- 2008 Australian Idol winner Wes Carr recorded this song in 2009 for Sony Entertainment Australia's seasonal release Stars of Christmas.
- Six by Seven, included on UK radio station XFM's compilation "It's a Cool, Cool Christmas".
- Scottish Rock Band Big Country incorporated the song's main melody into their live performances of the song Fields of Fire.
- Icelandic Rock singer Eiríkur Hauksson performed a Christmas cover of the song with new Icelandic lyrics, recorded to the Christmas album Jól alla daga (English: "Christmas every day"), which was released in 1986.
- In 2011, it was recorded by Joe McElderry for his third studio album, Classic Christmas.
- Matt Nathanson in 2011
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Famous quotes containing the word covers:
“What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood. St. Peter’s cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with his black wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“Boys finding for the first time their loins filled with heart’s
blood
Widowed farmers whose hands float under light covers to find
themselves
Arisen at sunrise”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)