[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Cary Ginell]

Wonder how many traditional songs he claimed he wrote on this one. Hey, Zimmerman! Use "Trad. Arr. by Bob Dylan." It only takes a few more spaces.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:38:52 +0000
> From: fnarf at comcast.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
> 
> That version, from the movie, of "Have Yourself" is great.
> 
> For me, it's "If We Make It Through December" by Merle Haggard. Faron Young does a nice version too. Or maybe Buck Owens's "Blue Christmas Lights". Or Kirsty MacColl and Shane McGowan battling over "Fairytale of New York". Hey, her dad Ewan made 78s, I think, for Topic Records, so it's almost on topic.
> 
> Bob Dylan's got a Christmas record out this year. It's pretty good in places, but jeez, his voice sounds like raking leaves on a gravel walk nowadays. He makes Tom Waits sound like Joan Sutherland.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:25:00 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
> 
> 
> > 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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