on the road. The next thing I know when calling back to New York is that it's all over the radio and much to our surprise it leaps over our heads and hits all the cities where we're heading and all of a sudden we're back on an upswing again." Legacy In 2005, Guardian journalist Dorian Lynskey called the song "fizzing, funky dance-around-the-Christmas-tree music for Brooklyn hipsters". In 2012, the Daily Telegraph writer Bernadette McNulty called it "one of the most charming, insouciant festive songs ever". The AllMusic reviewer Andy Hinds called it "one of the best holiday pop tunes ever recorded". During the 2016 Christmas season, it re-entered the singles chart at number 96. The song appears in numerous holiday-music compilations, including The Edge of Christmas, Dr. Demento's Holidays in Dementia, and Now That's What I Call Christmas!: The Signature Collection. The song has been used in films including The Tomorrow War (2021) and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022). Each festive season, Butler makes a donation to the Akron-Summit County children's library in the name of the first person to tell him they heard "Christmas Wrapping" on the radio. Covers "Christmas Wrapping" was covered by the British pop group Spice Girls as a B-side for their 1998 single "Goodbye", with lyrics altered to include a reference to British supermarket chain Tesco instead of the American chain A&P. It has also been covered by Save Ferris (with lyrics altered for a Jewish perspective), Kate Nash, the Front Bottoms, the Donnas, Summer Camp, the cast of the Broadway musical Wicked, Miranda Cosgrove covered the song for the movie Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh, comedian Doug Benson, Martha Wainwright, the cast of the TV show Glee (with Heather Morris on lead vocals), Disney Channel star Bella Thorne, Haim, and Electric Six. British/Irish girl band the Saturdays covered the song for the film Get Santa. Kylie Minogue recorded the song with Iggy Pop for her 2015 album, Kylie Christmas. Sinkane, studying a Masters in composition, produced a cover for Christmas 2020. It featured Nancy Whang (LCD Soundsystem) singing lead, Nick Millhiser (Holy Ghost!) on drums, and Money Mark (The Beastie Boys) on Moog. Profits from this release went to The Food Bank for New York City. Track listings and formats UK 7" Vinyl "Christmas Wrapping" – 3:55 "Hangover 1/1/83" – 4:30 UK 12" Vinyl "Christmas Wrapping" (Long Version) – 5:23