Posted on 12/22/2022 1:02:20 PM PST by Red Badger
My least Favorite song is:
Jingle Bells and especially:
The Barking Dogs Jingle Bells
“Two underage Chinese prostitutes...”
Don’t like Silent Night? Oh Come All Ye Faithful? Joy to the world?
And add to that the fact that he insisted Linda be included in his songs, even though she couldn’t play an instrument and was pretty much tone deaf when it came to singing.
I still love most of his Wings stuff though, but I have to say it all would have been better if Linda was just sitting on the side nodding and clapping.
Anything with a great deal of melisma embellishment and bonus points if it is sung in a minor key. Christmas is supposed to be happy, so what’s with all the crappy renditions of things in minor keys?
Six female FBI Agents.
Give a shot a six.
How about this for seven:
Seven strippers a-stripping
Agreed. Eartha hit it out of the park, everyone subsequent, easily below par. And yes it was definitely tongue-in-cheek. Eartha’s voice, pardon the expression, raised the hair on any red-blooded American males neck, then and now. She was something. Lol.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Linda was ok in the beginning, like on the “Ram” album, which is still one of my all-time favorite albums.
Christmastime is Here from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Btw, I like the song, Jeff Buckley’s version is the best, just not at Christmas!
All we are saaaaaayyy-ing....
is give Jesus pants!
I still go with the John Cale "Shrek" version.
five na-ked pics?
Weird Al’s Christmas at Ground Zero. Originally just a goofy take on getting nuked on Christmas Day but since 9-11 Ground Zero is associated with the Twin Towers. Al
doesn’t perform it live anymore, out of respect for the victims. It’s also done in an annoying nasal voice. Usually don’t mind his stuff, like Jurassic Park and Amish Paradise.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It was an advertisement for Montgomery Ward for crying out loud.
“Christmas is supposed to be happy, so what’s with all the crappy renditions of things in minor keys?”
A lot of modern R&B-style singers can’t sing in a major key because their whole singing style is built on using the minor pentatonic scale for all those embellishments, and that doesn’t work too well over a major key. So if your singer can’t sing the song in the major key, the only thing the producer can do is change the song to a minor key.
Oh some old timer here telling us about one of Gene Autry's big ones without mentioning "Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer."
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