\"Lonesome Christmas\" is a song written by Lloyd Glenn and peaked at #7 on the R&B charts the same year.
Lowell Fulson (March 31, 1921 -- March 7, 1999) was a big-voiced blues guitarist and songwriter, in the West Coast blues tradition. Fulson was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also recorded for business reasons as Lowell Fullsom and Lowell Fulsom. After T-Bone Walker, Fulson was the most important figure in West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s.
Fulson was born on a Choctaw reservation in Atoka, Oklahoma to Mamie and Martin Fulson. He stated that he was of Cherokee ancestry through his father but also claimed Choctaw ancestry. His father was killed when Lowell was a child, and a few years later he moved with his mother and brothers to live in Clarita and attended school at Coalgate.
At the age of eighteen, he moved to Ada, Oklahoma, and joined Alger \"Texas\" Alexander for a few months in 1940, but later moved to California, where he formed a band which soon included a young Ray Charles and the tenor saxophone player Stanley Turrentine. Fulson was drafted in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy until 1945.
Fulson recorded for Swing Time Records in the 1940s, Chess Records (on the Checker label) in the 1950s, Kent Records in the 1960s, and Rounder Records (Bullseye) in the 1970s. He wrote \"3 O'Clock Blues\" (B.B. King's first hit), \"Reconsider Baby\" (a blues standard), and \"Tramp\" (co-written with Jimmy McCracklin and recorded by several artists). His 1965 song \"Black Nights\" was his first hit in a decade, and \"Tramp\" did even better, restoring him to R&B stardom.
A show entitled California Blues: Swingtime Tribute opened in 1993 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California, with Fulson, Johnny Otis, Charles Brown, Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy McCracklin and Earl Brown. Fulson's last recording was a duet of \"Every Day I Have the Blues\" with Jimmy Rogers on the latter's 1999 Atlantic Records release, The Jimmy Rogers All-Stars: Blues, Blues, Blues.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Lowell Fulson among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
A resident of Los Angeles, Fulson died in Long Beach, California, on March 7, 1999, at the age of 77. His companion, Tina Mayfield, stated that the causes of death were complications from kidney disease, diabetes, and congestive heart failure. He was the father of four and grandfather of thirteen. Fulson was interred in Inglewood Park Cemetery, in Inglewood, California.
I'd love to spend this Christmas sitting by the fire with you
I'd love to spend this Christmas sitting by the fire with you
I'm so happy for the moment that we share the whole day through
Jingle bells is ringing children playing out in the snow
Jingle bells is ringing children playing out in the snow
They'll be turkey on the table Christmas presents on the floor
Everyone seems so happy seasons greeting fill the air
Everyone seems so happy seasons greeting fill the air
Santa Claus is spreading Christmas presents everywhere
When I go shopping there's one thing I'd like to do
When I go shopping there's one thing I'd like to do
Send a pretty present signed with all my love to you
I won't be home to help you decorate the Christmas tree
I won't be home to help you decorate the Christmas tree
I'll be thinking about you and I hope you'll think of me
I know you look so lovely standing beneath the mistletoe
I know you look lovely standing beneath the mistletoe
I could hold you and kiss you tell you why I love you so
I'd love to spend this Christmas sitting by the fire with you
I'd love to spend this Christmas sitting by the fire with you
Drinking eggnog with fruitcake just like we used to do
I know I won't be with you baby on that happy holiday
Yes I won't be with you on that happy holiday
I can wish you a Merry Christmas in an old and fashioned way
