[78-L] The Christmas Songs

[David Lennick]

Amazing how some songs that were originally heard only in context have become 
ubiquitous..yesterday I heard Thurl Ravenscroft's sub-basement basso bellowing 
all over K-Mart. A five pound bag of wet mice goes to the 78-eller who 
identifies the tune (see below).

I've also heard Louis Armstrong's "Cool Yule" twice in supermarkets.

Absolutely nobody played Feliz Navidad when it first came out. That one took a 
couple of years to catch on.

As for that whiney piece of sh*t from the Charlie Brown Christmas, I kept 
hearing that on PA systems for a couple of years and trying to figure what it 
was and who it was and why anyone in their right mind would inflict it on us. 
Depressing, horribly performed, not in the least stimulating to shoppers. 
Finally I recognized it as something from a program I watched in its first 
incarnation and which I thought was lousy then and time has not changed my opinion.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Actually there is more.  The previously discussed Little Drummer Boy's
> first xmas season was 1958.  Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime"
> is 1979.  And John and Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is 1971.  
> 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Christmas Songs
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Date: Fri, December 18, 2009 1:45 am
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> the odd thing is that there is only one fairly recent addition
>> ..."Jingle Bell Rock" 
> 
> That one was 1957. Here are some newer than that.
> 
> Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (1958)
> Chipmunk Song (1958)
> Run Run Rudolph (1958) 
> Do You Hear What I Hear (1962)
> Christmas Time Is Hear (Charlie Brown Christmas 1965)
> You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (1966)
> Feliz Navidad (1970)
> Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer (1979)
> All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey 1994)
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
>