I’ve never heard the Mirah Cary one either, but I do know of its existence.
It is actually quite good- but WAY overplayed.
And I’ve never heard Bink Krosby’s “Wild Chtistmas”…
I hadn’t heard Fairytale of New York until the other day when I watched the video on Youtube. And the only reason I did that was because people here were discussing it as a Christmas song. My impression: sort of a Christmas song, but certainly not the usual upbeat ones we’re used to. And way too many smoking cigarettes in the video.
Betty Garrett and Red Skelton gender-flipped it first (Neptune’s Daughter, 1949).
Speaking of “Fairytale of New York”, is there an NYPD choir, and do they have a recording of “Galway Bay” (and is it available on Spotify)?
I became curious on this point as well, so I looked it up-- according to this video, there was not an NYPD choir recording of Galway Bay, so this organization created it. From the video notes:
We created an NYPD Choir based on a Shane MacGowan lyric from the Pogues’ Fairy Tale of New York. Recorded the song and directed a music video for the Irish Museum of Emigration in Dublin. Thanks to a lovely cast, crew, Bridge Studios, and PublicHouse Agency in Dublin. RIP Shane.
Director: Michael Uys
Producer: Federico Negri
DP: David Dessel/Sam Henriques
Agency: PublicHouse
That version was written by Ed Kenney, who lived with kaylasmom’s aunt during the Eighties, and who once came to our house and made a big pot of shoyu chicken for us.
As @solost confirmed, the choir did not actually exist. For the Pogues video they drafted the pipe and drum corps. When you see them singing in the video, they were supposedly singing “The Mickey Mouse Club Theme.”
You’d be surprised how strict the North Pole Reindeer Union’s break rules are.
You’d be surprised how strict the North Pole Reindeer Union’s break rules are.