It is not a guised effort by neo-hippies to get CEOs to sing Kumbaya around the campfire.
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It's been almost 40 years since Peter Allen, the boy from Oz, wrote "Everything Old Is New Again" so long that Bing Crosby was still around to sing it.
Then Dierks Bentley crowded around the laptop to sing a country song.
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Department stores are decorated, houses are lit, and all the little Hoos in Hooville are gathering around the tree to sing Hanukkah carols.
When young Jonah, a world-class singing prodigy, is turned down by a music school because of his Jewish connection normally, it is his blackness that brings trouble the family responds by gathering around the piano to sing Phrygian folk tunes: that'll learn them.
Many of us, well muffled up, have carried lanterns around our local area to sing carols to friends and neighbours.
In her spare time, she likes to dance and sing in her bedroom, meet up with friends and mess around on her computer.
If he's worried he didn't look it, smiling from behind his wrap-around shades as women dressed in the Somali flag sing traditional songs of welcome.
The first film, about a high school basketball star who falls in love with a girl and is torn between his on-court duties and his secret yearning to sing duets with her, was seen by 170 million people around the world.
At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, children will gather around what's described as a Pi Day shrine to sing Pi Day songs and perform Pi Day rites.
"People look at musicians, and everything they write or sing is part of their own life rather than something they've observed around them, " he says.
The most spectacular here is Jan Steen's unusually large, jovial christening feast ("As the Old Sing, so Twitter the Young, " from c. 1668-70) around a food-laden table.
After the players had stood around for about 20 minutes listening to Neath-born soprano Katherine Jenkins sing the Welsh national anthem, the British and Australian anthems were also belted out and Mitchell Johnson finally got the 2009 Ashes - the first Test in the sport's long history to be staged in Cardiff - under way.
Such sentimental versions of the familiar story remind us that carolling, like the pub sing-along, has always been a way of bringing groups of ordinary people together around a musical accompaniment, to enjoy each other's company and celebrate a festive occasion.
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