Ten advents ago, in 2013, we had twenty-four versions of White Christmas but since there are [checks] around 2,000 versions, we had to skip a few. One which we shouldn’t have missed out, except that in having done so I have an excuse to include it today, is from the Godmother of Gospel, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Her Wikipedia page tells me that she’s also the Godmother of Rock’n’Roll, having directly influenced Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and, um, Eric Clapton.

Clapton aside that’s an impressive line-up and while I’m going to say that this isn’t necessarily among her best recordings (you can go here for those), what it lacks in badass rock’n’rollery it more than makes up for in charm.