'Someday at Christmas' by Stevie Wonder
"Someday at Christmas" is a hopeful song that envisions a time when "guys won't be boys, playing with bombs as kids play with toys." The song was initially published as a single in 1966, and then as part of the album "Someday at Christmas" in 1967, while Wonder was still a teenager.
The Vietnam War was still ongoing, but massive anti-war rallies had yet to begin. Ron Miller and Bryan Wells penned the script.
Someday at Christmas has twelve tracks, including four cover versions of Christmas standards and carols and eight original songs, most of which were written by Ron Miller, his wife Aurora, and Bryan and Deborah Wells, and have since become modern holiday classics, such as the title track and "What Christmas Means to Me." The Supremes' Christmas album Merry Christmas had contained "Twinkle Twinkle Little Me" two years prior.
- Published in: November 27, 1967
- Composer: Stevie Wonder
- Genre: Christmas, R&B
- Link to listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaA7B9cu4kU
