How about versions of "Baby it's Cold Outside"?
Dean Martin, dude. He wins.
Though the Bette Midler and James Caan version is pretty awesome.
My whole life just flashed before my eyes! I gotta get me a life!
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
juliana - Dec 16, 2008 9:53:46 am PST #195 of 6436
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Barb - Dec 16, 2008 9:54:31 am PST #196 of 6436
“Not dead yet!”
Ha! Love Ray and Betty.
I also like Dino's version with the chorus of women. Sounds like he trying to seduce the lot of them.
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2008 10:08:22 am PST #197 of 6436
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
How about versions of "Baby it's Cold Outside"?
I remember Buster Poindexter and (I think) Sigourney Weaver performing it on SNL once, and I was pleasantly surprised at how well they sang together.
Kathy A - Dec 16, 2008 11:13:53 am PST #198 of 6436
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I like the Ann Margret/Brian Setzer version. I'm also a big fan of the BSO's cover of "The Nutcracker Suite," the Nelson Riddle arranged version, which is on the same album.
I just saw this over at Crooks and Liars--a YouTube of "Come Together" sung by Cassandra Wilson and Diane Reeves. Really great!!
DavidS - Dec 16, 2008 12:41:05 pm PST #199 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm also a big fan of the BSO's cover of "The Nutcracker Suite," the Nelson Riddle arranged version, which is on the same album.
I really love Shorty Rogers jazz arrangement of the Nutcracker. It's sooooo fuckin' cool. I should post a few of those tracks. It's straight up West Coast Jazz so it sounds very compatible next to Vince Guaraldi.
P.M. Marc - Dec 16, 2008 1:16:54 pm PST #200 of 6436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I think we lost our Jingle Cats CD in the move.
Perhaps "lost" is the word. Either way, I couldn't find it and we don't appear to have the ripped version. It's like Paul performed a sneaky Jingle Catectomy on the music collection.
Sue - Dec 16, 2008 2:09:26 pm PST #201 of 6436
hip deep in pie
It's available on iTunes, Plei.
megan walker - Dec 16, 2008 6:45:40 pm PST #202 of 6436
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I can hook you up.
Cool
I've got so much Christmas music that I long ago got tired of hearing different takes on standards and have focused on finding new Christmas songs that are good.
I really only like carols. I'm interested in modern things like the Gorillaz parody, but I generally don't like songs about Santa, Frosty, or really anything that's not about, you know, Jesus. It's not for nothing that I've isolated all my Santa songs in one mix called "Santa Makes the Baby Jesus Cry". Which is odd for a secularist, but I suppose inevitable given that my parents never pretended there was a Santa.
Dean Martin, dude. He wins.
This x 10.
P.M. Marc - Dec 16, 2008 8:06:49 pm PST #203 of 6436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
But I own it, Sue! Or should! Repurchasing the bad things is bad! (It actually *is* Paul's, not mine. Despite him being the purger.)
I really only like carols. I'm interested in modern things like the Gorillaz parody, but I generally don't like songs about Santa, Frosty, or really anything that's not about, you know, Jesus.
This is mostly me. With the addition of melancholy stuff from the 1940s. But the preschooler, she loves the Frosty and the Jingle and the lot.
javachik - Dec 16, 2008 10:47:12 pm PST #204 of 6436
Our wings are not tired.
Yup. An Atheist here who loves the Jesus carols. Go figure. I also love the Adam Sandler Hannukah song.