My general observation is that most songs that are hated are really just overplayed.
TLDB has a message of someone seeing others give their best as gifts. He has nothing to offer but his drumming and it is well received. I’d place it in the middle of the pack for holiday music.
I’d even tire of OH I YUST GO NUTZ AT KRISTMAS after awhile.
I gather the lyricist was unfamiliar with newborns.
I know, I know, it’s a bloody miracle; the infant is a bloody deity (and his own father); the bloody barnyard critters were musically talented; bloody angels floated nearby, yada yada. But the magi wouldn’t show up till later. WE THREE KINGS and SILENT NIGHT are quite misplaced.
You both seem unaware that Jack Halloran re-arranged it and recorded it the year before Simeone. Simeone practically stole it, adding finger cymbals, adding his name to the credits, and changing little else.
I cannot tell whether the child on Christmas Cookies vol 3 is laughing, crying or singing. Maybe all three. I had never heard the strange Marlene Dietrich version which made me wonder what other songs are on CCv3 , but google this time did not help.
“Sammie put his mother’s head in the collection plate at the Highway Baptist Church in Trune. They were singing ‘Give of Your Best to the Master’ and it was the nicest thing he had.”
That derives from The Infancy Gospel of Matthew, doesn’t it? Yet the Church suppressed all the infancy gospels. I sense a conspiracy. Should I search all the NT apocrypha for mention of a drummer?
Of course the whole virgin-birth-of-deity trope, like the trinity-with-a-savior trope, were [del]plagiarized[/del] abstracted from earlier belief systems. How many births of gods by human women were painless? Was Jehovah, formerly the Baalite war god, being extra kind with Miryam? A surplus of miracles, sure, why not.
I think we have established that some people do not like TLDB and that this is a valid opinion. If it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t. But we have also established that TLDB is not among the worst Christmas songs by any measure, and to believe otherwise is NOT valid. Rumpa pum pum!
Oh yes, and on the mid century media console we played Christmas albums like Sing Along With Mitch and Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra Santa Claus is coming to town, and Nat King Cole’s The Magic of Christmas. I would love to feel that special childhood excitement again in anticipation of Christmas day. LDB was a favorite back in the day.
Holy crap, why are all these people having orgasms!?!! I couldn’t make it 30 seconds into this video! Do they always make these faces when they sing??? It’s probably good music, but the visuals are too ridiculous to endure.