Posted on 11/27/2001 4:59:09 PM PST by SamAdams76
Regards,
Do you mean Kathy Mattea?
Yes, I think you are right. The song is beautiful by no matter who sings it. I got it from Napster last year. Wasn't sure of the spelling. Thanks so much.
Odd. You must be playing it forward.
Oooh, that explains it! LOL
And your list is SPOT-ON!! Good going!
ps----on Kevin & Bean's KROQ Christmas cd of '99 (they are in L.A.---I am down here in the South, btw) one of the song parodies is that of Springsteen's "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town," and it's hilarious.
The "Boss" begins as the sleighbells jingle and the piano plays, "Hey, band, do you know what time of year it is? Yeah, it's Christmas time." And it is exactly like the famous live recording from the early 80's (my son and I saw him in concert in 85 at the height of his and of the song's popularity, but I digress...)
So the Boss goes on about how he was walking down the Boardwalk in Joizey, and the wind was whipping yadayada, and it was so cold and he didn't have a coat, and here he saw coming down the boardwalk a homeless guy with an old coat and trousers that were about to fall down. So Bruce thought, gee at least *I have a belt.
So as the two reach each other, the Boss seems to take pity on the homeless man's falling pants, and says, "So I saw his pants, and I had a belt, so I took my belt off---" and of course you expect him to say he gave the belt to the homeless guy---but instead he says,"and I wrapped the belt around my hand, beat the sh*t out of the homeless guy and got his coat..."...It goes on, but that was the funniest part.
I keep some antidotes: Tom Lehrer's "Christmas Song" and Weird Al Yankovic's "Christmas at Ground Zero" usually work, but particularly severe cases call for a shot of "The Night Santa Went Crazy".
"Mary's Boy Child"
That would be Eartha Kitt, one of the "Batwomen" I believe. That song has to be 40 years old by now. Madonna did a more recent version that appeared on the original "A Very Special Christmas" compilation charity album from 1987 that sounds almost identical. She (Eartha) had a follow-up Christmas song called "This Year's Santa Baby" which is pretty lame.
There are many versions of "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" but the better ones are hard to find. My favorite version is by the Harbor Kids and there is even a rarer version that I have on a tape from 1979 that is outstanding. The DJ never credited the song (bastard!) and I've been trying to figure out who did it ever since. It's sung by a woman, slowed down, and has some really haunting and eerie sound effects. I must have downloaded fifty different versions of "Happy Xmas" last year off Napster looking for that particular version.
Agreed. That causes me an almost physical pain.
Yep. My wife bought me the first one as a gift a couple of years before Rush started playing it as bumper music. It never gets old.
BTW, The coolest Christmas CD ever is "Six String Santa" by the incomparable Joe Pass.
Both are traditionally done by little boys with annoying voices, or by women pretending to be little boys with annoying voices. Ugh.
Excellent choices (for annoying songs). You must be thinking of the Jimmy Boyd version for "I Saw Mommy Kissing" and the old Spike Jones version of "My Two Front Teeth." Both annoying as hell but my kids love them. I do have one version of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" that I don't mind hearing, and that is by the Jackson Five (from 1970). That little Michael sure knew how to sing. Too bad he grew up to be such a freak.
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