Posted on 12/16/2024 7:11:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Oy!
I’m absolutely with you on Baby It’s Cold Outside. I know it’s played like it is a Christmas song, but it’s really about a guy trying to convince his date to stay and sleep with him. It is even a bit creepy (say, what’s in this drink), implying that he might even be drugging her, or at the very least getting her drunk so she’ll put out. Not exactly the Christmas spirit in that one.
Nice. Just wish I could track down the original music video for it.
Looking into this, I guess she just decided to retire and disappear taking her music catalog with her. Her call, I guess.
The song was published in 1943 ... as you may recall there was a bit of a brouhaha going on back then, and a lot of men could only dream of being home for Christmas.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/world-war-2-christmas-photos
In 1943, Captain George Nabb Jr. of the 115th Infantry Regiment wrote a letter to his wife and young son, the National WWII Museum reports. “[I]t doesn’t seem like Xmas in the least,” he said, noting that they did, however, get the day off and a turkey dinner.
Nabb continued: “We all drank a toast just before dinner to our next Xmas in the U.S.A. I hope and pray we shall be there.”
Despite the hopes of Nabb and his fellow soldiers, it would be more than a year before many of them could return home for Christmas. Instead, they had to celebrate the holiday the best they could from the front lines.
The soldiers put up Christmas trees (this was true in both Europe and the Pacific, though the soldiers in the Pacific had to get creative), feasted on turkey dinners, and enjoyed Christmas care packages sent by loved ones at home.
“It was really the wrappings that I loved — the little personal touches of just your own,” Lieutenant Colonel James H. Polk wrote to his wife in 1944.
Merry Christmas, Darling - The Carpenters
Logs on the fire
Fill me with desire
To see you and to say
That I wish you merry Christmas (Merry Christmas, darling)
Happy New Year too
I’ve just one wish on this Christmas Eve (On this Christmas Eve)
I wish I’d eaten food
I wish I’d eaten food
Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Darling
“A recording of German Shepherds barking to the beat of Jingle Bells.”
The Jingle Dogs. Been many years, but the a guy was going around doing radio interviews accompanied by the Jingle Dogs (I’m sure not the originals). The station would play a clip of the recording etc. and do a short interview with the owner of the dogs. The recording is obviously just a collection of clips of dogs barking, strung together to emulate the song.
One of the DJs at the now defunct Atlanta station 99X got upset because the Jingle Dogs didn’t perform Jingle Bells live. The DJ actually thought the pack of dogs could bark/sing the song on command. He confirmed that DJs can be entertaining, but they are far from the sharpest tool in the drawer.
Not a Christmas song but I’ll tell you which song I despise more than any other the New Year’s Eve Auld Lang Syne song ! It is the most depressing sad song ever ever written. Don’t care for it one bit!
Little Drummer Boy and anything by Mariah Carey.
Elvis for Xmas--Mad Milo (1956). It contains excerpts from the following songs:
Best: Mannheim Steamroller “Silent Night” particularly when it was the sign-off song on Rush’s last broadcasts before Christmas.
Worst: My wife made sure I played the Christmas “Heardle” game the day they did “All I Want for Christmas is You”. She can be a cruel woman when she puts her mind to it.
“Real estate...”
For your consideration.. My niece and nephews “Bells of Christmas”.
https://youtu.be/HgsrItm-PmQ?si=5TALvzUPL1__J5b9
Let me clarify that: I dislike Little Drummer Boy and anything by Mariah Carey.
I’ve never understood the significance of it. Especially in YE OLDE SCOTTISH!...................
Favorite: Little Town of Bethlehem
Least favorite: Wonderful Christmas Time
There’s what appears to be a copy of the vid on one of the resulting Facebook links, just click the go-away box for the login and play it to see if it’s the right one. And check your freepmail.
“In Bethlehem” and “Sweet Baby Jesus”, both by Dave Barnes, are my two contemporary favorites.
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and all its ilk make me dive toward the channel button.
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