During the holiday season, the PA system at Philly’s Sesame Place has been known to play I Hate Christmas.
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May your streak survive for many years. Incidentally, I once made the dumb mistake of thinking Wham’s song was a cover of a Christmas song by Donny Hathaway. For that, I apologize to Mr. Hathaway (RIP).
I’ve always considered Nick Cave’s rendition a Christmas song. My parents don’t quite agree though. Not sure why?!?!
I always hated the line “somebody waits for you, kiss her once for me”
No Burl, find your own dates.
I do find Christmas joy in Wheatus rewriting their song “Teenage Dirtbag” as “Christmas Dirtbag”
I wish it would disappear like a wearwolf at sunrise (SWIDT) but noooo go into a supermarket or Target or ____ on the 26th & they’re frantically taking down the green foil candy & replacing it with red hearts for the next holiday (because champagne & silly glasses a week later don’t count) but they’re still playing that damned music that we’ve had to suffer with since before Halloween.
I mean some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what’s wrong with that? I’d like to know
'cause here we go… again…
Here’s an album of Christmas music for people who don’t usually enjoy Christmas music:
A bit off topic, holiday song-wise, but I wonder what the OP thinks of Burl Ives’ oeuvre in general? (For example his classic rendition of Goober Peas)
Ives did that Captain Kidd song on my list of songs sharing the names of famous people, didn’t he?..yes, yes he did. That song’s fine. I cannot say I’ve listened to much of Ives’ non-holly-jolly, non-Kidd output.
(I have also seen the film of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Mendacity!)
You all have reminded me that I haven’t watched The Christmas Can-Can yet this year. It’s sung by Straight No Chaser.
Impressive, Burl. Could smell mendacity and a high-tone skunk, despite the cigarette trees. There’s plenty more to know: just ask the FBI!
Thank God that link didn’t work for me.
Instrumentals are the go for Christmas:
What? No I Believe in Father Christmas?
Or Let’s Do It in My Twin Bed? Looky!
If you’re going to introduce people to SNC, at least introduce them to the song that made them really famous
Bastards.
They’ve just played Last Christmas … on the news.
Why ?
I don’t know, gf turned it down before the explanation.
Did you know the opening of “Linus and Lucy” was lifted directly from the opening of Beethoven’s piano sonata in E♭ major, op. 81a, “Les Adieux,” played backward and forward? They’re the “horn chords” - a sequence of a sixth, a fifth, and a third, played on valveless French horns using the overtone series, here imitated on piano. The three chords sounded like somebody saying “Lebewohl” (‘farewell’), which is why it’s called “Les Adieux.”
“Talent borrows; genius steals.”
@Slithy_Tove is the first to mention the FBI, which is connected to the blacklist and the controversy about Ives naming names (which ended other entertainers’ careers) to save his own skin.
From Wikipedia:
Ives was identified in the 1950 pamphlet Red Channels and blacklisted as an entertainer with supposed Communist ties.[18] In 1952, he cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and agreed to testify, fearful of losing his source of income. Ives’s statement to the HUAC ended his blacklisting, allowing him to continue acting in movies, but it also led to a bitter rift between Ives and many folk singers, including Pete Seeger, who accused Ives of naming names and betraying the cause of cultural and political freedom to save his own career. Seeger publicly ridiculed Ives for attempting to distance himself from many of the far left organizations he had supported.
And another article:
Burl Ives | Association for Cultural Equity
More useless trivia: Burl-denuncee folk singer Pete Seeger was the nephew of Alan “I have a rendezvous with death” Seeger.
Here’s two year old Pete in D.C. with his parents during an extended vagabond lifestyle. Pete would return years later to lead a crowd singing “Give Peace a Chance” outside the White House, although Nixon turned up the volume on the Redskins game to drown them out.
On the other hand, it kind of bothers me that Put a little love in your heart became a Christmas song because it was featured in Scrooged