Far and away my favorite Christmas song. Period. No more to say.
Keep Christmas With You
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Monday, December 29, 2014
A hard left turn...
...into Obscurity Land.
Longtime Dee-troit dee-jay Tom Ryan had a beloved(?) character in the form of Count Scary. Even as a ten-year-old I was aware that he was a mere ripoff of Count Floyd, but here's a footnote I'd forgotten. It's Val, a relative of the Count, who was way too cool for school, lived in one of the Grosse Pointes, and wore a Lacoste cape. (It was the '80s, don't you know.)
Val Scary
Longtime Dee-troit dee-jay Tom Ryan had a beloved(?) character in the form of Count Scary. Even as a ten-year-old I was aware that he was a mere ripoff of Count Floyd, but here's a footnote I'd forgotten. It's Val, a relative of the Count, who was way too cool for school, lived in one of the Grosse Pointes, and wore a Lacoste cape. (It was the '80s, don't you know.)
Val Scary
Here's some merriment and jollity, boy howdy.
Brace yourselves. It's time for some aggressively peppy music. The Wayne King Orchestra and Chorus make "Happy Happy Joy Joy" seem like the soundtrack for seasonal depression. Now jingle!
Jing-a-Ling-a-Ling
Jing-a-Ling-a-Ling
Too much!
The year's Rankin/Bass specials are behind us, but this pair of songs is going to stick in your head until dang near Arbor Day. The Hellblinki Sextet with one of my wife's all time favorites...
Snow Miser/Heat Miser
Snow Miser/Heat Miser
Jacksons, Osmonds, Bradys, Partridges... Rhodeses?
They say there was once a Texas oilman. Rhodes was his name. Because he had a brood of seven children, and because it was the '70s, he did the only logical thing: he attempted to make them into a musical act.
And so one fateful day, The Rhodes Kids released "Rock 'N' Rhodes Christmas". Although it does tread into way-serious dirge territory, the lead track here is highly listenable.
Winter Wonderland
And so one fateful day, The Rhodes Kids released "Rock 'N' Rhodes Christmas". Although it does tread into way-serious dirge territory, the lead track here is highly listenable.
Winter Wonderland
It's time.
OK, kids. Here it comes. Pipe down, stop shuffling your feet, and prepare to groove. This is, without question, the best Christmas album of 2014, and yet the amount of play it got on the Big Deal Commercial Christmas Stations was either zero, or close enough to zero to count as a rounding error.
And that's a shame.
I'm not shilling here. I get nothing for promoting this album other than the happy thought of good music spreading across the land. But that said, it's a highly recommended purchase. (Even on December 29.)
It's the Blind Boys of Alabama and Taj Mahal.
Talkin' Christmas
And that's a shame.
I'm not shilling here. I get nothing for promoting this album other than the happy thought of good music spreading across the land. But that said, it's a highly recommended purchase. (Even on December 29.)
It's the Blind Boys of Alabama and Taj Mahal.
Talkin' Christmas
Mmmm. Pork tenderloin.
I was looking for my favorite version of this song. I asked my dad about it, only knowing the name of the song and a few others on the album. He said he had no recollection... and then within two minutes had come up with the name of the artist, the name of the album, the name of the label, the names of a couple of guys who had played on it, and that he'd once worked with the tuba player, who was brilliant, but not so much with the punctuality.
If you're ever looking for an explanation of how my brain works, you know whose genes are to blame.
Unfortunately, I still can't find Eddy Davis' rendition. Next year, maybe. Until then, here's the Hotlanta Trio.
Santa Claus Blues
If you're ever looking for an explanation of how my brain works, you know whose genes are to blame.
Unfortunately, I still can't find Eddy Davis' rendition. Next year, maybe. Until then, here's the Hotlanta Trio.
Santa Claus Blues
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