The Christmas (film) is based on a song titled Donny Hathaway.
 In the early 19th century, Christmas festivities and services became widespread with the rise of the Oxford Movement in the Church of England that emphasized the centrality of Christmas in Christianity and charity to the poor, along with Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, and other authors emphasizing family, children, kind-heartedness, gift-giving, and Santa Claus (for Irving), or Father Christmas (for Dickens)
The song "What a Catch, Donnie", from Fall Out Boy's fourth studio album, Folie  Deux (2008), is named for Hathaway and mentions Roberta Flack, his writing partner

