John Lucas
I work with words.
Category: music
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Traditional Nordic Yule involves a lot of blood and fire. I think I’ll stick with eating rum balls and watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the 1966 original, naturally).
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The ’68 Comeback Special’s official title was Singer Presents…Elvis. Because there’s nothing more rock ‘n’ roll than a network TV production sponsored by a sewing-machine company.
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When Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane delivered the song its lyrics were a little darker than the ones we all know and love today: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas/It may be your last/Next year we may all be living in the past.”
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There’s really only one song I can think of that even comes close to capturing how weird and potentially frightening this entire Santa Claus thing is.
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Fun fact: there is no children’s choir on the track at all. In fact, every sound heard on the song was performed by McCartney himself.
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I wanted to kill two birds—two turtle doves, perhaps—with one stone today. Metaphorically speaking. None of our avian friends were harmed in the making of this blog post.
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I’m not going to apologize for this. I love the Jingle Cats unashamedly. Nor will I post a second video to make up for the fact that this is really a novelty song.
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However you spell the name of the Jewish holiday, it gives me an excuse to post Neil Diamond’s cover of the song Adam Sandler wrote about it.
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Lady Gaga has impressed me with plenty of her other songs, and I would go far as to describe her as a pop genius. Surely, “Christmas Tree” deserves another listen?
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Apparently today is National Ding-A-Ling Day, and also the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts of Taboo Day. Both of those things bring Chuck Berry to mind.
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