The Original Its Christmas Day By Dougie Campbell
This is a guest post from Dougie who wrote the song, "It's Christmas Day". I've often heard it said that Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without Christmas songs. Well, that's certainly the case for me. I'm Dougie Campbell and when I was at school I wrote a Christmas song. There was a competition in a local newspaper so I thought I'd have a go. I'd never written a song before, let aIone a Christmas one but I posted my entry off and waited. Sadly I didn't hear anything more about it so I assumed it didn't win! I was, however, pleased with the way the song sounded and asked my local primary school in Balfron, Scotland if they would be interested in singing it. They said 'yes' and they sounded great! The next thing I knew a local record company got wind of it and decided to release it as a single. A trip to a recording studio was on the cards for all the pupils at Balfron Primary School. It was a very small release but