Amahl! That one had slipped my mind. I went to school with a guy who had sung Amahl--several years before I met him. I tracked that version down, and it's always been my gold standard.
Anytime is good for A&OL.
I'm sure this has been asked and answered in Music, but what cheesy favorite recordings make up your list of Christmas music, or holiday music?
We had a four-hour reel-to-reel tape with some of the songs from Amahl, some Charlie Bird, Glen Campbell, Julie Andrews. But Tennessee Ernie Ford and We Three Kings and Oh Come, All Ye Faithful announced the holiday season in our house.
but what cheesy favorite recordings make up your list of Christmas music, or holiday music?
On the cheesy end, I grew up with the Harry Simeone Chorale's Little Drummer Boy LP that my folks bought at the gas station.
But that
does
have Thurl Ravenscroft doing all the low stuff, so that's cool.
Of course, now I've got a berjillion xmas records and make mixes of just things like Beatnik Exploitation Christmas Songs. (Seriously. I made that mix).
I, uh, really don't like Love, Actually. That's as mildly as I can put it.
Ayup. (My feelings towards that film can best be summed up as "STAB STAB STABBY HATE STAB")
I love your themed mixes. I still have a Spy Jazz tape around here somewhere.
Our r2r wasn't all cheesy, but therer was a goodly portion of fromage on there.
I'm reminded that I loved S1 Bones, and the Christmas ep was a favorite. I've never regretted abandoning ship in S2, but S1 was a good romp.
Beatnik Exploitation Christmas Songs. (Seriously. I made that mix).
I *have* that mix. LOVE it.
I'm watching Better Off Ted on Netflix On Demand and it is hilarious.
I am now also sad that there are only 13 episodes.
Christmas music: Do They Know It's Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Adeste Fideles, Little Drummer Boy sung by the Supremes.
Nothing else. Okay, you could slide some more hymns past me, but I don't
love
them.
I, uh, really don't like Love, Actually. That's as mildly as I can put it.
Ayup. (My feelings towards that film can best be summed up as "STAB STAB STABBY HATE STAB")
There was a very good reason why I didn't see it when it came out, and now I'm realizing that it's good I haven't bothered to correct that.
Laurence Housman's "Cloak of Friendship" is my one true Christmas story. If interested, you can find it here: [link]
There was a very good reason why I didn't see it when it came out, and now I'm realizing that it's good I haven't bothered to correct that.
I, too, have never seen it. Don't have an urge to, either.
I've always loved the David Bowie-Bing Crosby version of Little Drummer Boy. And there is an Emerson Lake and Palmer Xmas song, I think it's called Father Christmas but I'm not sure. Anyway, very powerful pull for me, that song.
