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Mon Dec-06-04 09:29 AM
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What's your favorite Christmas Song? |
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Mine is "Santa Baby" as sung by Eartha Kitt. She makes it all sound so sexy.
As far as traditional I would say "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:33 AM
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1. Alvin wants a HUUULA HOOOP! |
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:35 AM
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2. I'm listening to the Alvin and the Chipmunk Xmas album right now |
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:36 AM
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3. Merry F'ing Christmas ... |
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That video that's been playing on the Comedy Channel, by Dennis Leary.
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:41 AM
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9. RE:"Merry F'ing Christmas ..." |
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:36 AM
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4. Rockin around the X-mas Tree.... |
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But growing up with my Crazy Mother did give me one thing... To me X-mas Music is the Beatles.
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:37 AM
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5. Pogues/Kirsty MacColl-Fairytale of New York |
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:39 AM
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Happy Xmas (War is Over) by John Lennon. It's so damn relevant this year that it makes me tear up every time I hear it!
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:40 AM
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Traditional: Joy to the World
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:40 AM
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8. Interesting bit of trivia about 'Merry Little Christmas' |
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Most versions of it now have one of the lines changed. The song was, as far as I know, written for Judy Garland to sing in "Meet Me In St. Louis," and there was a line:
Through the years we all will be together If the fates allow Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow,
The last phrase in most versions I've heard over the years has been changed to
hang a shining star upon the highest bough,
which I don't like as well.
Any time I see that movie, or hear the line as originally written, it almost makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. It darkens the song considerably, of course, and I'm sure that's why it's frequently altered -- but the 'muddle through' version is the one I like.
And my favorite is the one Mel Torme most famously did (there have been other versions), which I think is just called 'The Christmas Song' (starts out chestnuts roasting on an open fire).
I also like 'O Tannenbaum' sung in German -- we did it in high school, decades ago, and it was fun to sing. Of course, so was 'Hark How The Bells,' but that one's more fun to sing than it is to listen to!
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:45 AM
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11. Maybe the sadder version of the song reflected the mood |
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Since it came out during the war, even though the movie doesn't take place then.
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:53 AM
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13. I'm sure that was part of it. |
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"Meet Me In St. Louis" was typical of big-production movies of that era -- and I believe the neigbor boy, with whom Judy Garland's character was canoodling in the movie, was sent off the World War I in the plot, wasn't he?
That movie's on my list of 'movies that have Christmas in the plot that aren't Christmas movies' -- a friend of mine and I were putting one together, years ago. Maybe I ought to post that in the Lounge here, if I find it, or over in Pop Culture -- I had somewhere around a dozen titles on it when I gave up on it, but I always pull it back out around this time of year. You know, movies like 'Brazil' and 'Better Off Dead' that include Christmas as part of the plot, but they're not really Christmas movies? I think 'Meet Me In St. Louis' was the one that got my friend and me started on it, in fact. That or 'Holiday Inn,' the first one with the song White Christmas in it.
'Holiday Inn' is another WWII era movie that was a little darker than most, in fact.
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:58 AM
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17. I would like Holiday Inn for the Christmas scenes but |
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the scene where Bing Crosby sings as a slave in blackface ruins the movie.
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Mon Dec-06-04 10:26 AM
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19. Not nice, it's true ... |
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I never bought a copy of it for myself, I'd forgotten about that. Of course, there are lots of 'political disconnects' in those old, pre-civil-rights era movies. The depiction of women in many movies from that era makes me cringe, too.
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:45 AM
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10. Christmas Song - JethroTull |
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Christmas Song
Once in royal david’s city stood a lonely cattle shed, Where a mother held her baby. You’d do well to remember the things he later said. When you’re stuffing yourselves at the christmas parties, You’ll just laugh when I tell you to take a running jump. You’re missing the point I’m sure does not need making That christmas spirit is not what you drink.
So how can you laugh when your own mother’s hungry, And how can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong? And if I just messed up your thoughtless pleasures, Remember, if you wish, this is just a christmas song.
(hey! santa! pass us that bottle, will you? )
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:50 AM
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12. "Have yourself a shitty little Christmas" |
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:56 AM
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15. watch out for those three spirits on Christmas Eve |
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:55 AM
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14. Silver Bells, Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, Sleigh Ride, WinterWnderlnd |
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Mon Dec-06-04 09:57 AM
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16. GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER |
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Mon Dec-06-04 10:00 AM
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18. Please Come Home For Christmas |
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Bells will be ringing this sad sad news Oh what a Christmas to have the blues My baby's gone I have no friends To wish me greetings once again Cries will be singing Silent Night Christmas carols by candlelight
Please come home for Christmas Please come home for Christmas If not for Christmas by New Years night
Friends and relations send salutations Sure as the stars shine above But this is Christmas Yes Christmas my dear The time of year to be with the ones you love
So won't you tell me you'll never more roam Christmas and new Years will find you home There'll be no more sorrow no grief and pain And I'll be happy, happy once again Oh there'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain And I'll be happy, Christmas once again
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Mon Dec-06-04 10:43 AM
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20. "Cool Yule" by Steve Allen |
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From Coney Island to the Sunset Strip Somebody's gonna make a groovy trip Tonight, while the moon is bright
He's gonna have a bag of crazy toys To give the hippest of the girls and boys So dig, Santa comes on big
He'll come a-callin' when the snow's the most When all you cats are sleepin' warm as toast And you gonna flip when Old Saint Nick Plays a lick on the peppermint stick
He'll come a-flyin' from a higher place And fill the stockings by the fireplace So you'll have a yule that's cool
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Mon Dec-06-04 02:24 PM
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21. Carol of the Bells n/t |
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