"Christmas Wrapping," The Spice Girls (Virgin)

A personality-oriented song like the Waitresses' original of this practically begs for comparison when somebody does a cover. Particularly when the culprits are the Spice Girls, doing what appears to be a slavish copy on the back of their 1998 "Goodbye" single. Poor Patty Donahue; bad enough for her to be dead without having one of her great performances strung up and tortured by this flock of screech owls. They also take a halfhearted stab at Phil Spector's "Sleigh Ride" on a couple of compilations. That song appears to be downloadable, but "Christmas Wrapping" is not, to my knowledge.