Right now, we have on “A Calypso Christmas” - all Carribean holiday songs. Lots of fun. We’ve already listened to “Christmas with the Chipmunks” and Handel’s “Messiah”. On the playlist today:
“A Gregorian Christmas” (chants)
“Brian Seltzer and his Orchestra - a Big Band Christmas”
One of the Canadian Brass Christmas albums (don’t remember which one)
“A Punk Rock Christmas” (some really neat stuff if you like punk)
“Phil Spector’s Christmas Gift” (Motown)
And a bunch of generic Christmas compilations, heavy on Bing, Frank, Dean and Nat
A bunch of Xmas CDS sung by musical theatre people. My absolute favorite is “A Broadway Christmas,” which I recommend to everyone. There’s also “Home for the Holidays,” with the great Liza Minnelli/Alan Cummings duet of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” (Liza and Alan both gained fame in “Caberet” and have the same taste in men). The 2CD “Save The Children” collection, and the “Broadway Cares: Carols for a Cure” CDS from 1999 to present.
We have this one someplace in the stack. It will play a little later. Right now, it’s one of the sappy Barry Manilow Christmas albums - not bad, but thankfully, I only have to listen to him once a year
Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” and The Salsoul Ochestra’s “Christmas Jollies”. Basement Jaxx’s “Kish Kash” and Outkast’s “Speakerboxx/The Love Below” is also in the CD player.
WTF? Isn’t this the day we get to spend at home to escape Xmas music? Today I’m going to listen to the washing machine and my husband snoring on the couch.
I got plenty under the tree (about twice as much as I expected! And he wasn’t so little - :RIMSHOT:) I just can’t understand why anyone would actually want to listen to Christmas music after having it crammed down their throat for a month and a half almost every time you leave the house.
Right now I’m listening to “The Alligator Records Christmas Collection”, a bluesy sort of compilation: Deck the Halls with Boogie Woogie by Katie Webster, Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ by Tinsley Ellis, a nice fuzz-guitar version of The Little Drummer Boy, an amazing Silent Night on the harmonica, and more.
Later, “A Jazzy Christmas” with Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and even Mel Torme!
Go to the **NPR{/b] website, and find the search engine and type in the name Art Carney, then type in the fact that you “heard” this within the past week on All Things Considered, Then click search or go, or whatever.
What you will get is a story about " Steve Innskeep’s favorite Christmas songs" , and in this segment you will hear the late Art Carney do his rendition of “The Night Before Christmas” done in 1953, with just Art and a set of drums. He does it in 2:11 seconds (I think) and it sounds like rap before rap was cool.
Y’all gotta hear this! It rocks! Let me know what you think!
I woke up this morning, heard some horrid Christmas song on the radio, turned it off, listened to AFI’s cover of the Misfits’ “Halloween” just to be contrary. Oh, and I tried to learn “Jingle Bells” on my bass. Other than that, I didn’t listen to any music all day.
