This Christmas (Let's Be Friends)

Album: Circling Back (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • This call for unity at the holidays was the first single released by Vincent Poag, whose first efforts to make it in music came decades earlier. After starting a business and a family, he returned to music with his first album, Circling Back, in 2011.

    In a Songfacts interview with Poag, he said: "I love many of the Christmas standards but felt there was a void in terms of contemporary Christmas songs. I've always been moved by the Christmas season as it seems to bring out the best in people. My thoughts were, Wouldn't it be something if this frame of mind and spirit could be bottled to last all year?

    We have to get the scientists and drug companies on this but in the meantime, we can sing about it."
  • The video eventually tallied well over a million views on YouTube, providing valuable exposure for Poag. He said: "Hopefully the song and video were heartfelt. There are a lot of good people out there and there's good in everybody. The best Christmas present would be for people to be accepting of each other's differences. Songs and music have the power to help bring people together."

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