THE 2024 CHRISTMAS PARTY LIVE: The Story Behind The Song (Christmas Edition)

Wrapping up the show for 2024, Clairsy & Lisa broadcast LIVE from the Broken Hill Hotel with our beloved listeners and special guests to join in on the fun.

In The Story Behind The Song we dive into that Christmas song: 'All I Want for Christmas Is You', by Mariah Carey.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Colusey and leases The Story behind a Song Christmas Edition. Oh,
the story behind the song Christmas Edition. There's no surprise,
It's all I want for Christmas? As you It needs
no introduction, but what is the story behind the song.
It's Mariah's fourth studio album. It was her first holiday album.
It was called Merry Christmas. Funny Way came out in

(00:24):
nineteen ninety four. It's written and produced by Kerry and
Walter Afanasiev.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thirteen, the song was released.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
As the lead single from the album Let's Hear From
Mariah On the inspiration I.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Put on It's a Wonderful Life. I was up in
a little tiny bedroom upstate New York with a Cassio keyboard,
a little keyboard, and I was just playing the d
the Little Poet and just started thinking about, like, what
are my favorite Christmas things? What did I love? What
are the things I wished I could have had as
a kid for Christmas? And like, my Christmases weren't great

(00:58):
as a little kid, and my mom really tried, but
there were some other forces that just weren't great, and
so we dealt with it. But like I was just like,
how do I do this? Because I've always loved Christmas
so much. I just wanted to make it a festive moment.
I wanted to make everybody just be like, it's Christmas.
This is like I'm going to be happy. Like I

(01:19):
think what I did as a kid is I pushed
through the sadness and was like, we're going to be festive,
Like if nobody else is gonna bestive, I don't be fastive.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
You want to be fastive at this time of year.
You want to get an she's actually and you're first
off when you're making a lot of money out of it,
which we'll talk about. But Walter Affadesia, as you mentioned lace,
he was not the name of the eighties with baby Love.
Not if he was upsessed, he was baby Love. He
was he was the dude okay. And he worked on
the first six Mariah albums and he was a Grammy
winner because he produced My Heart Will Go On for

(01:49):
Selene Dion. So he knows his way around a song
this blake. So he's Walter talking about the simplicity of
the song with Mariah.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Musically, it wasn't that great big deal effort on all
of up for Christmas. Is it's a very very simple arrangement.
It's a it's in fact, it's so simple that at
the time I thought it was overly simple, and I
really didn't like it. So the oversimplified melody, I guess,
made it so easily palatable for the whole world to go,

(02:15):
oh yeah, I can't get that out of my head.
I'm going to be letting out a huge secret out
of the bag here. But that entire song is just
me at the computer. So and the only other thing
real on there is the vocals.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, you mentioned money. Mariah could happily live off this
one song for the record for the rest of our days.
Forbes says Mariah pulls in millions of dollars every single
year for it. It's generated over eighty million dollars in
royalty since it's nineteen ninety four release, and that's US
so one hundred and twenty five million Aussie dollars. It
has sold in excess of sixteen million copies and counting.

(02:52):
I imagine it'll sell a few.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
More, make a few more this week thanks very Christmas shopping.
I would imagine