[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Cary Ginell]

Fats Waller's "Swingin' Them Jingle Bells" is great, hot, swinging stuff. We mustn't forget "Christmas Dragnet" by Stan Freberg, "Christmas Time Blues" by Casey Bill Weldon, and something I heard a high school choir do last week: "The Twelve Days After Christmas." In this song, we find out what happened to all those annoying, exotic gifts - the French hens got turned into chicken soup, the pear tree got torched, the five golden rings turned green, etc. 

Cary Ginell

> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:54:51 -0800
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
> 
> Gotta be Santa Claus Is Coming To Town for dance bands,  right?
> 
> I have heard an Art Landry (?)  Gennett of Jingle Bells which is pretty damn 
> good and there are plenty of dance records of that...so it's one or the 
> other of those two tunes.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> 
> > Which were the most recorded (secular) American and English Christmas 
> > songs
> > before WW II in the jazz and dance band and popular vein?
> > Kristjan
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