[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[Steven C. Barr]

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> 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.
>
On Elvis' first "Christmas Album," he did a really great 12-bar-blues tune,
"Santa Claus Is Back In Town!" I've learned the lyrics, and do the tune
around this time of year whenever I visit an "open stage blues jam" (which
are getting rarer out here in Oshawa & District...?!).

Steven C. Barr