[78-L] It's all music to me

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> I'll have to find this for my sister, who for years threw a Christmas Eve 
> shindig and played the Elvis album every time.
>
> Michael Biel wrote:
>   
>> Right after the Central Time Zone candle lighting, Radio Hannukah played 
>> a great Elvis impersonator singing "Blue Ha-Nu-Kah". 
>>     
>
>   
I didn't get to the XM fast enough to see the performer's name.  I think 
it is the same one who also does a fantastic Nat King Cole "The Hannukah 
Song".  Watched D.L. Hughly's CNN comedy show last night when he 
commented that since Jews wrote the best Christmas music, like Mel 
Torme's "Christmas Song" and Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", he was 
commissioning a  Jewish composer to write a Kwanza song.  He had the 
composer of "Avenue Q" Jeff Marx do a Kwanza song.  Until I saw how his 
name was spelled I was wondering if he was related to that goniff Johnny 
Marks who stole Robert L. May's story and spent the rest of his life 
pretending the he had invented the character and story of Rudolph the 
Red Nosed Reindeer.  But another case of a Jewish composer of Christmas 
songs, almost 20 of them.

They're playing a Chipmunks take-off "The Ballad of Mendel Gonzolazs" by 
Freddie and the Fro . . ." (that's as far as the display goes).  Just 
googled it, Freddie and the Froy Boys, and the Elvis and Nat is not 
listed on the CD.  But sampled a Manilow takeoff from it.  There's a 
page of Hannukah comedy records  http://www.mistletunes.com/hanukkah.html

> She also foisted the Jingle Cats disc on me (it's carefully hidden away, I 
> hope). 

When did you start drowning cats?  If I have to hear Christmas songs, I 
rather hear them from the Jingle Cats.  Or maybe by a Klezmer band.  
However I am in the middle of trying to upload a version of "O Holy 
Night" that will end Christmas songs forever.  It is the RCA Victor 
Personal from 1929 of a 12 year old boy.  Oy vey.

> One year she also played "Pachelbel's Greatest Hit" and my father turned 
> to me and said "Where did we go wrong?"
>
>   

Shoulda made a left turn at Albuquerque. 
> Happy Harmonicas, y'all!  dl

Likewise, I'm sure.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com