"The Christmas Shoes" by NewSong by far is the most depressing Christmas song. It’s a story about a poor boy who wishes desperately to buy a shiny new pair of shoes for his mother who is going to die ...

(KXAN) — While there are many great Christmas and holiday songs, the hundreds and hundreds of them can’t all be winners. The following five Christmas tunes are among the most-hated, based on a comb ...

Some Christmas music is widely loved by multiple generations. Meanwhile, “The Christmas Shoes” by NewSong is a Yuletide tune that is as popular as it is despised. How did a song that seems innocuous ...

The holidays are hard, but they can’t be any harder than they are for Robert Gay, the kid who sang the infamous child solo in the widely detested yet inexplicably ubiquitous tearjerker “The Christmas ...

One of the most famous Christmas songs of the past 30 years is NewSong’s “The Christmas Shoes.” The tune, which has more of a narrative than most Yuletide songs, was adapted into a movie. Here’s how ...

Sir, I wanna buy these shoes for my mama, please. It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size. Could you hurry, sir? Daddy says there's not much time... We all know why the man agrees to buy ...

I don’t know how I escaped “Christmas Shoes” for such a long time, but I did. I didn’t hear it until this year, and yet, the fact that I’ve heard it umpteen times in the past three weeks at work where ...

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As many do who tune in to the radio during the holiday season, I’ve heard “The Christmas Shoes” many times – on the bus to school, in the car with my family, on Pandora playlists while cooking. The ...