[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Royal Pemberton]

I'm sure Neil Diamond sounds like Andy Williams next to the rendition of LTB
on the first A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS CD....it's by Bob Seger and the Silver
Bullet Band.  Those albums are for a good cause (benefitting Special
Olympics) but there's a lot of really wretched combinations of songs and
performers on a number of them ('O holy night' done by....Tracy
Chapman!)....

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

>
> > Assimilation? You want true horror, listen to Neil Diamond's atrocious
> > mangling
> > of "The Little Drummer Boy" (a song whose original version still turns up
> > on
> > 78). I suggest playing that one full blast in all warring countries.
> >
> > dl
>
>
> Yow...talk about the "horrors of war."  Playing that record would be a
> lose-lose situation for both sides...or maybe win-win.    They'd all lay
> down arms in order to plug their ears.
>
> I think I hear that Hairy Simian Choir record of the song more each year
> than any other seasonal tune.  I'd enjoy it if it hadn't been beaten into
> my
> brain so often for so long.
>
> I don't really have an Xmas  fave,  but one which is dear to me is the Judy
> Garland movie version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."  The
> song
> and her interpretation capture more of the spirit of the Holidays than any
> other piece of music.
>
> Taylor
>
>
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