[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Taylor Bowie]

We can all benefit good causes in our own way,  without having to listen to 
musical muck!

Christmas also reminds me of the Decca record of The Littlest Angel,  and...

This all reminds me of a story I heard from an LA friend with some show biz 
ties.  It may or may not be true,  but it should be true in any case.

Seems that Loretta Young was very strict on the set of her TV show about any 
cast or crew member using bad language.  At the beginning of the first 
rehearsal or run-through for each show,  she would repeat her instructions 
to the assembled cast and crew,  and remind them that if any of them used a 
bad word or profanity that they would have to drop fifty cents into a 
charity box which she kept handy.

One time there was a guest actor on the show who stood with the rest and 
listened to Loretta's speech.  When she was through,  he reached in his 
wallet and said   "OK,  Loretta,  here's ten bucks.  Now fuck off."


Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs


> 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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