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Grex > Music2 > #103: Tim Ryan's Christmas Music item |  |
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bruin
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response 25 of 108:
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Dec 1 13:06 UTC 1997 |
There was also a parody of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" a few years
ago called "New Kids Got Run Over By A Reindeer," which lambasted New Kids
On The Block.
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tao
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response 26 of 108:
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Dec 1 17:54 UTC 1997 |
I prefer twisted Xmas Carols. NPR played one while I was parking my
car last week. I don't remember much of it, except this:
(to the tune of Feliciano's "Felice Navidad")
Police made me stop
Police made me stop
Police made me stop,
Show my licence, (etc)
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mcnally
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response 27 of 108:
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Dec 1 18:18 UTC 1997 |
Hmmm.. I guess I always knew there had to be people who liked
those novelty Christmas songs but I can't stand 'em more than
once or twice.
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void
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response 28 of 108:
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Dec 1 19:04 UTC 1997 |
my favorite twisted xmas carol goes like this:
you'd better not shout,
you'd better not cry,
you'd better not pout,
i'm telling you why:
santa claus is dead.
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jep
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response 29 of 108:
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Dec 1 22:14 UTC 1997 |
I enjoy Christmas, and I enjoy Christmas carols. My favorite that can
be sung by anyone is "Little Drummer Boy". My favorite that cannot is
"Jungle Bell Rock". (I don't know which version it is that I like so
much, but it's a female singer, it sounds very "choppy" and cheerful,
and I like it a lot.)
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tpryan
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response 30 of 108:
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Dec 1 23:16 UTC 1997 |
Crank up the volume on these:
Sleigh Ride - Phil Spector Rock & Roll version
Sleigh Ride - Arthur Feidler & Boston Pops (the one with the
the real whip cracks--sound even better on CD)
Father Christmas - Greg Lake or Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Nutrocker - ELP again
Rock & Roll Christmas - Gary Glitter (great rocking tune
totaly ignored by American radio)
Sad to listen to this year
John Denver & the Muppets
the Tiny Tim Christmas album (just out last year)
I've made it thru about a foot of Christmas CDs now, more
to listen to.
On the shopping list:
Christmas tunes on power tools
The new Special Olymipics CD. The first one had Bob Seger
with Little Drummer Boy & a Bryan Adams rocker.
Last Year, karaoke was slim on Christmas tunes, so I sang
"Little Town of Bethlaham" to "House of the Rising Sun". It works.
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beeswing
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response 31 of 108:
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Dec 2 05:22 UTC 1997 |
Santa Claus is dead... I love it. :)
I recall the New Kids Got Runover song...
"New Kids got run over by a reindeer
No more little brats for me to mock
No more loud annoying high falsettos
Now there's no more New Kids on the block"
I do love Spector's "Sleigh Ride" song.
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aruba
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response 32 of 108:
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Dec 2 07:11 UTC 1997 |
Re #29: That would be Barbara Streisand's version of Jingle Bells.
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bru
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response 33 of 108:
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Dec 2 19:31 UTC 1997 |
Hark! The herald Angels sing.
Hark the herald. Angels sing!
Hark the herald angels. Sing!
Which is correct? :-)
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void
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response 34 of 108:
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Dec 2 21:06 UTC 1997 |
"hark! the herald angels sing," i think. :)
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mcnally
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response 35 of 108:
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Dec 2 22:16 UTC 1997 |
yep, the herald angels are singing "Hark!"
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orinoco
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response 36 of 108:
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Dec 3 00:29 UTC 1997 |
Oh, I thought we were being ordered to hark, in order to hear the herald
Angels sing. In other words "Hark! The herald Angels sing," not "'Hark,'
the herald angels sing"
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mcnally
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response 37 of 108:
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Dec 3 04:45 UTC 1997 |
that too.
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aruba
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response 38 of 108:
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Dec 3 12:10 UTC 1997 |
Oh, go hark yourself.
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teflon
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response 39 of 108:
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Dec 3 20:02 UTC 1997 |
No, it's the first one...
"Hark! The herald tribune sings...Avertising Wondrous things!"
Advertising,sorry.
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tao
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response 40 of 108:
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Dec 3 21:08 UTC 1997 |
re 32 re 29: 'Jingle Bell Rock' 's singer sounds a lot like
Teresa Brewer, who has a poppy, perky kind of voice.
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goose
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response 41 of 108:
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Dec 4 17:16 UTC 1997 |
Ok, I hope someone here can help me. about two years ago late at night on
WEMU they played a christmas song that was sort of jazzy and I never called
to find out what it was. It was a vocal tune and the lyrics were about a
woman lying naked underneath the Christmas tree for Santa. I don't think it
was Earth Kitt (although it could be). Can anyone help me find this?
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teflon
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response 42 of 108:
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Dec 4 20:58 UTC 1997 |
Might it have been called "Santa Baby"?
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anderyn
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response 43 of 108:
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Dec 4 21:42 UTC 1997 |
I think it may be Eartha Kitt, and I'm sure I've heard it on Dr. Demento.
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tpryan
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response 44 of 108:
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Dec 4 23:10 UTC 1997 |
re41: New a couple of years was a single by Sarah Taylor &
Bill Mumy; "I've Got Some Presents for Santa" (CD single that is).
Sounds closer to what your where descrbing than Eartha Kitt's (or
Madonnas) "Santa Baby".
Yep, that Bill Mumy. The Robinson boy, Lenier, one of them
Barnes.
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albaugh
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response 45 of 108:
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Dec 4 23:59 UTC 1997 |
I thought it was "Hark, Harold the angel sings!" :-)
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lumen
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response 46 of 108:
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Dec 5 02:20 UTC 1997 |
A woman lying nude under the tree for Santa? Hmmmm....okay...
Anyone heard Jorge Jorgeson's Christmas tunes? He's that Scandinavian
character that sings "Yingle Bells," "Santa Claus at the PTA," "I Yust Go Nuts
at Christmas," to name the Christmas songs I can think of.
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tpryan
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response 47 of 108:
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Dec 5 02:37 UTC 1997 |
Yeah, it's Yogi Jorgesson. A character voice of Harry Stewart.
He did a variety of 'caratiture' voices, including Harry Kari (I think)
with Yogi being his most remembered. He did most of his work in
the 50's. One of our favorite Detroit DJs, Dick Purtan, starting playing
"I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas" on WKeeNeR 13 around about 1966-1968
reviving our memory of the tune, helping to re-popularizing it. He
still enjoys playing it a Christmast time to this day.
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omni
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response 48 of 108:
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Dec 5 06:22 UTC 1997 |
How old IS Dick Purtan anyways? Has it been that long? I remember Keener,
but since I lived on the lower east side, I didn't get a good signal. I
remember when he was at CKLW for a while, and I remember that song, too.
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tpryan
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response 49 of 108:
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Dec 5 23:11 UTC 1997 |
Dick Purtan was probably in his mid-20's when he arrived in the
Detroit market in 1965. My oldest Keener 13 music guide with Dick Purtan's
picture on the back is dated October 6, 1965.
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