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A newborn king does not want the gift of drum music. Trust me.
Durango Herald ^ | December 18, 2015 | Alexandra Petri

Posted on 12/19/2015 9:13:48 PM PST by TBP

The Little Drummer Boy is a bigger villain than the Grinch. The Grinch at least has some sort of heart-size condition and soul-gunk problem that he can blame for his lack of basic compassion. What excuse does the Little Drummer Boy have for his behavior? None.

The Little Drummer Boy is just a plain old jerk. Specifically, the kind of jerk who insists on telling us about a time he showed up at a party without a gift and made everyone there miserable by playing what he thinks was a sick drum solo.

But he cannot just tell us. Instead, he constantly interrupts his own narrative with twee drum noises so that it takes longer.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: christmassongs; littledrummerboy; parumpa; pum
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To: CrazyIvan
Agree. Should have soothed the baby Jesus with bagpipes.

I am having visions of a stop motion Rankin and Bass "Little Bagpipe Boy" Christmas special and I have no way to stop screaming.

I finally figured out why I hate Little Drummer Boy so much.

1. It is an annoying song.
2. Everyone in the music industry has done a cover of it.
3. Radio Christmas movie has an even distribution across all songs produced.
4. Therefore half of the songs on any radio station playing Chrismas music are some version of Little Drummer Boy.

Fortunate my current job doesn't have music over the speaker system and I haven't been in stores much, so I wasn't parum-pum-pummed out by Thanksgiving this year.

21 posted on 12/19/2015 9:57:51 PM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: Daffynition
I love all the Christmas carols, whoever sings them ....but this one song can get me out of the Christmas spirit faster than seeing hilLIEry’s face.
Suppose the little drummer boy had grown up to be Mongo Santamaria? ;)

(Sweetheart, I'd have loved being serenaded by his conga drumming when I was a babe . . . of course I didn't have to grow up to be the Messiah, but still . . . ;) )

22 posted on 12/19/2015 10:00:01 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
he IS a part of Americana for better or worse.

Yeah, for worse, just like most political "entertainers". A tin eared communist. (Born in the USA my @$$)

23 posted on 12/19/2015 10:01:11 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: KarlInOhio

Have you ever dug down to find out why you think it is annoying. It challenges some preconceived idea of yours? Maybe your pride would begin to be bruised?

The idea of the humble gift given and received with love is very very old. This is why the song has been a perennial. Quibbles about what a sinless babe might or might not do in such a situation are beyond the point... and even there, one could argue that if the babe was caught in the right mood, yes he would like it.


24 posted on 12/19/2015 10:01:17 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: TBP
B.B. King, "Christmas in Heaven"
25 posted on 12/19/2015 10:02:36 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: Billthedrill; CrazyIvan; Kirkwood; TBP; Salamander; Darksheare
Well, there are drummer boys...

And then there are *Drummer Boys!*

26 posted on 12/19/2015 10:02:50 PM PST by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: TBP
After seeing this post I had to look up my favorite version and listen to it over and over. As a former drummer, I've always liked this song. Danke

Trommelmann by Marlene Dietrich

Frohe Weihnachten

27 posted on 12/19/2015 10:03:45 PM PST by Daaave (Gunter glieben glauchen globen)
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To: TBP

I actually like “The Little Drummer Boy” by the Harry Simeone Chorale (1958).


28 posted on 12/19/2015 10:05:33 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: shibumi

Playing with Livan, opening for Alice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sat8rgNp3kw

Seven gave me a mangled, split, beat up drumstick and Alice, a cane.

It was my night to have sticks thrown at me.

Best night of my life.

:D


29 posted on 12/19/2015 10:08:52 PM PST by Salamander (It's your world, but it's my street....)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

>> “Carol of the Drum”... written by the American composer Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941.

As far as history goes...that ain’t very far.

If it’s not recorded in the Bible, where else would you look...The Bethlehem Post?


30 posted on 12/19/2015 10:09:10 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: TBP
If you don't like "The Little Drummer Boy," maybe you'll like To the Revolutionary Jesus on His Birthday a Communist Chrietmas carol sung by Ernst Busch, who also sang Stalin, Friend and Comrade and The Song of the [Socialist Unity] Party
31 posted on 12/19/2015 10:14:17 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: shibumi
And then there are drummer boys . . .

Ginger Baker

Cozy Cole

Joe Morello

Mongo Santamaria

Michael Shrieve, Mike Carabello, Jose Arias

Clyde Stubblefield

32 posted on 12/19/2015 10:14:54 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: Fiji Hill

Is this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfk5nOnDQuI


33 posted on 12/19/2015 10:17:31 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Billthedrill

“Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer”.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Just heard tonight, that song has sold 11,000,000 copies.


34 posted on 12/19/2015 10:36:01 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: teeman8r

I remember a version when I was very young where arab looking dudes storm his home and murder his family. He was so angry they had to paint a smile on him.


35 posted on 12/19/2015 10:38:32 PM PST by enraged
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To: TBP

I’ve always loved the song you bunch of Scrooges.

It’s White Christmas and all those secular songs I don’t like—At least the kid was trying to so something for the baby Jesus—Giving all he had, like the widow in the Temple.

To each his own, I guess.


36 posted on 12/19/2015 10:38:46 PM PST by moonhawk (What would he do differently if he WAS a muslim?)
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To: TBP

Why would you post this?

My least favorite song is whatever I want it to be.


37 posted on 12/19/2015 10:44:24 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: Billthedrill
"I GOTCHER FIGGY PUDDING RIGHT HERE!!!"

Try a bit of Soul Cake instead

38 posted on 12/19/2015 10:52:20 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: BluesDuke; shibumi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttZIyNf6TS8


39 posted on 12/19/2015 10:57:21 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It’s a wonderful, serious Christmas Story that actually includes the birth of Jesus. In context, the song is lovely.

And then Rankin/Bass sold out and produced 20 holiday horrors.


40 posted on 12/19/2015 11:03:52 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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