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Before you buy.
It's to the tune of 12 Days of Christmas, but it goes
something like... "The first thing at Christmas that's such
a pain to me... is finding a Christmas tree." And it goes on
and on telling about all the aggravating things about
Christmas... In-laws, hanging the lights ("One goes out, they
ALL go out!!!"), 5 months of bills, etc...
Cracks me up every year!! It's so true, and the people
singing/talking during the song do a great job!! Does anyone
else know what I'm talking about??
You're probably looking more for "traditional" songs in this
poll, but I can't narrow those down to one favorite -- I like
them all!
Tricia
July 5, 1973
step...@timken.com wrote in message <183E69D92S...@TIMKEN.COM>...
>
>I don't know who does it, or what album it could be found on,
>but our radio stations have played it every year since, oh,
>probably the mid 80s (??)...
>
>It's to the tune of 12 Days of Christmas, but it goes
>something like... "The first thing at Christmas that's such
>a pain to me... is finding a Christmas tree." And it goes on
>and on telling about all the aggravating things about
>Christmas... In-laws, hanging the lights ("One goes out, they
>ALL go out!!!"), 5 months of bills, etc...
>
>Cracks me up every year!! It's so true, and the people
>singing/talking during the song do a great job!! Does anyone
>else know what I'm talking about??
Yep. its the "12 pains of Christmas" by the Bob Rivers Comedy Corp. its the 1st
cut on the album "Twisted Christmas" 1987 Critique/Atco 90671. should still be
in print.
other goodies on the album include "We wish you weren't living with us" and
"the rest room door said Gentlemen".
This is hard to pick! The one that's been my favorite the longest is Silver
Bells. My favorite Christmas album is the Dean Martin one.....I love his Blue
Christmas and LET IT SNOW!!!!!!! I love snow!! : )
Sandy
Oil Impressionist wrote in message <7vcbnp$q8k$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
Nadine
Sandyfour <sand...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >What's your favorite Christmas Song? Classic Rocker and I are taking a
> >poll. You pick doesn't have to be from the 70s; just ANY Christmas
> >song!
> >
> >DLN Oil Impressionist
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Also, I love to hear Dean Martin sing ANYTHING Christmas, as I said in
response to Sandy's post!
Nadine
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> What's your favorite Christmas Song? Classic Rocker and I are taking a
> poll. You pick doesn't have to be from the 70s; just ANY Christmas
> song!
>
> DLN Oil Impressionist
> 9-61
I have also always been partial to "Sleigh Ride," "The Christmas Song" (aka
"Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"), "Silver Bells," the entire Charlie Brown
Christmas album, and let's not forget Bob and Doug MacKenzie's interpretation
of the 12 Days of Christmas!!
Liz
Oil Impressionist wrote:
> What's your favorite Christmas Song? Classic Rocker and I are taking a
> poll. You pick doesn't have to be from the 70s; just ANY Christmas
> song!
That's easy. Every song from Elvis's Christmas Album, particularly Blue
Christmas, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "I Believe in Father Christmas"
Tim
I've heard a version of "I'll Be Home For Christmas" by the Beach Boys. I
like the Beach Boys. I like "I'll be Home for Christmas"....
Combine the two, and I'll fall asleep. They drag it out so much that it
makes a good lullaby.
My thoughts...not quite on the right topic...maybe I'll post 'fave' songs
once I've read all of the posts.
Erin ">
Chandra wrote:
> It's a song we discovered recently. It's instrumental and I think it's the
> music to the song O little town of bethlehem. It's by Savatage and the
> song is called Christmas Eve, Sarajevo, 12:48. It's just incredibly
> awesome.
Is there a .wav file of that anywhere? Sounds interesting.
Tim
Hmm...ones I like, huh?
Ok, I've got the "TV Family Christmas" CD, and while "Can't you see it's
gonna be a Howdy Doody Christmas?" can grate <G>, I love "Christmas is My
Time of Year" by the Monkees or "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by the
Partridge Family. (thankfully, the Brady Bunch's contribution is "Rudolph"
and not "Frothty the Thnowman").
But Alvin & The Chipmunks Chrismas Song ("Me, I want a Huuuula Hoooop!")
will always take me back.
I'm doing a great job of narrowing it down, aren't I? Nope, I just cannot
pick one. Aside from the ones I've already mentioned, I like "Riu Chiu" by
the Monkees, too. And, though I'll never admit it in front of my parents,
Mario Lanza has a good Christmas Album (heh, family tradition to listen to
Mario while decorating).
Erin - who wishes she could find Al Sherman's "12 Days of Christmas"
around... "And a Japanese transistor radio" <G>
Nadine
Tim <tben...@usit.net> wrote in message news:381A2F54...@usit.net...
Since I tend to go for the classics, I would pick Oh Holy Night. And
the whole Charlie Brown Christmas album. :)
Carrie
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Mom of Alexander David Castro born 8/8/97
--Never raise your hand to your children -
it leaves your midsection unprotected. -- Robert Orben
Tim
Bob the Baker wrote:
> Ahhhh....a man after my own heart!!!!
>
Joy
Joy
That ought to be easy to do with today's sampling technology.
1977...it came from Bing's last Christmas special, taped just before his death
and shown posthumously...
Dixon
"If there's anything that upsets me it's having people say I'm sensitive!"
--Barney Fife
Yes, I know the one. One of the singers is supposed to be Archie Bunker...
>You pick doesn't have to be from the 70s; just ANY Christmas
>song!
Dont' have to be from the 70's? Then my pick is "Christmas (Baby Please Come
Home)" by Darlene Love.
If it *does* have to be from the 70s, then I would go with "Someday at
Christmas" by Stevie Wonder. In 1989 I edited a video essay of this one for my
TV station, composed of clips of communism falling in various countries (i.e.,
the Berlin Wall coming down).
Wow, that's heavy! And you and Larry have similar Christmas song
taste! Christmas song tastes? Christmas songs taste? You know what I
mean!
Wow, all of you are coming up with GREAT titles! Keep 'em comin', cuz
we're gonna actually DO something cool with this thread in December!
DLN Oil Impressionist
9-61
> Dixon
> "If there's anything that upsets me it's having people say I'm
sensitive!"
> --Barney Fife
>
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Boy here goes. Please go inside the thread. If just any Christmas song then
ya gotta rock. Right?? Run Run Rudolph by Chuck Berry!! Also Merry Christmas
Baby by Elvis. Very bluesy that one.
recsec
Now back to the subject...
My favorite Christmas song is Christmas Time Again by Extreme
tied with Bing and David (Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy...
not sure what it's official name is)
It's hard to pick a favourite.. there are so many.
For fun I like...
12 Days of Christmas - Bob and Doug Mackenzie
Little Saint Nick - Beach Boys
Jamie
Nadine
Tim <tben...@usit.net> wrote in message news:381A5DC5...@usit.net...
Last Christmas ( Wham!)... no laughing lol
O come all ye faithful (Frankie S)
Coventry Carol
Angels we have heard on High
All kinda 'churchy' but I like the harmonies... I used to sing the
Gloooooria in excelis deo part of Angels when I was a kid in a kinda blur
because I loved it but didn't know the words.. made up my own lol
> What's your favorite Christmas Song? Classic Rocker and I are taking a
> poll. You pick doesn't have to be from the 70s; just ANY Christmas
> song!
>
> DLN Oil Impressionist
> 9-61
Rockin' Around The Christmas tree. We have the 45 and we play it every
year :o)
Hmm.. Now where's my 1976 Wish Book :o)
ho! Ho! HO!
What a great thread! Don't know which song to put on first. The
elves, unofficially of course, would put Bing & Bowie's 'Little Drummer
Boy' and ELP's 'Father Christmas' right up top. Lennon's 'So this is
Christmas/War is Over' is another great song, although its more of a
New Years song I find. Of course, any songs from 'the Grinch' are
always favourites around here.
If anyone could possibly need anything more to put them in the
Christmas spirit, there's a wonderful collection of kids Letters to
Santa at the EmailSanta site (Santa makes no money from this site --
the letters were just too great not to share. Had radio stations from
Alaska to Delaware and newspapers from NY Times to San Diego calling to
get more. Ended up putting out a daily 'press release' of Santa's Top
Letters that we'll have to do again this year).
Anyway, looking at all the song titles and thinking of the letters has
certainly put everyone here into the Christmas spirit. I'll have to
sneak a few cookies in between the Hallowe'en candy (*wink*)!
Merry Christmas!
Santa Claus
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rmc
Erin,
I just got this on cd! Allan Sherman's "My Son, the Greatest". Amazon
has it in stock. :)
Carrie
(who also enjoys Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero")
DLN Oil Impressionist
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Dear Santa,
My husband and I would like to send our thanks to you for your great
reply to our survey/post in the alt.culture.us.1970s Newsgroup.
After all the years of writing to you when we were little, we always
knew you would answer us someday. (I'm 38 years old, but I'm balling
my eyes out as I write this to you! I still believe in you, Santa!)
Your choices for songs were great too. You really made our thread
something special with your letter. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas!
Oil Impressionist & Classic Rocker from the 70s Newsgroup
DLN Oil Impressionist
9-61
In article <7vfr57$65p$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
"I Believe In Father Christmas" has to be my favorate. It brings tears to my
eyes. I also love "Come Home For Christmas" by the Eagles.
Kelly
But my REAL favorite is a very, very obscure version of "Mary's Boy-Child" that
gets frequent radio air-play in Richmond, VA every X-mas on the am station WRVA
1140. It's the Harry Belafonte song done by a choir in either Jamaica or the
Bahamas. It's got bongo drums and is very danceable. It was recorded in the
60's or 70's and I have never seen it in stores. It has a groovy
counter-melody sung by this almost robot-like voice that's very deep. does
ANYONE have any idea what I'm talking about??
Noelle
ho! Ho! HO!!
Thank you for *your* letter Oil Impressionist! Sorry that it took so
long to write back (38 years! *wink*) but at least with the Internet
Santa can now catch up on some of his correspondence.
The elves really liked the thread and were wondering whether you would
mind if they 'borrowed' your idea and added a similar poll to the
website (hopefully it can be squeezed in for this year). They were
also talking about adding polls for favourite animated Christmas shows,
movies etc. etc. You've gotten them all excited about Christmas!
(Although usually its only visions of sugar plums dancing in their
heads! ho! Ho! HO!!) Of course, Santa's favourite poll would be the
one about the best cookies! (*wink*!)
> In article <381B2D46...@bellsouth.net>,
> Jason LeBouef <jleb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Oil Impressionist wrote:
> >
> > > What's your favorite Christmas Song? Classic Rocker and I are
> taking a
> > > poll. You pick doesn't have to be from the 70s; just ANY Christmas
> > > song!
> > >
> > > DLN Oil Impressionist
> > > 9-61
> >
> > Rockin' Around The Christmas tree. We have the 45 and we play it
> every
> > year :o)
> >
> >
> Which version of Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Jason? Since you
> said it was a 45, we're assuming you mean Brenda Lee. Is that right?
> Or someone else?
Sorry, it was Brenda Lee on the good old Decca label. flip side was Papa
Noel
I doubt there's ever been a duet of two more dissimilar artists, and
yet for some mad reason, it worked perfectly.
(np: David Bowie - Hours...)
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>>No contest. The David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet. I'm afraid I don't remember the
>>year, though
>
>1977...it came from Bing's last Christmas special, taped just before his death
>and shown posthumously...
Yeah, that makes it all the more eerie. Eerier still is that around
the same time, Bowie appeared on two other TV shows in the UK, Marc
Bolan's and Kenny Everett. Marc Bolan also died (in a car accident)
before the Bowie episode aired, and Kenny Everett later died too. So
for about a month there, it seemed like Bowie had the angel of death
hovering over him and everyone he worked with died shortly afterwards.
(np: Best Of Bowie 69/74)
> ho! Ho! HO!!
>
> Thank you for *your* letter Oil Impressionist! Sorry that it took so
> long to write back (38 years! *wink*) but at least with the Internet
> Santa can now catch up on some of his correspondence.
>
> The elves really liked the thread and were wondering whether you would
> mind if they 'borrowed' your idea and added a similar poll to the
> website (hopefully it can be squeezed in for this year). They were
> also talking about adding polls for favourite animated Christmas
shows,
> movies etc. etc. You've gotten them all excited about Christmas!
> (Although usually its only visions of sugar plums dancing in their
> heads! ho! Ho! HO!!) Of course, Santa's favourite poll would be the
> one about the best cookies! (*wink*!)
>
> Merry Christmas!
>
> Santa Claus
> ______________________________________________
> Hea...@EmailSanta.com www.EmailSanta.com
> EmailSanta proudly supports children's helplines worldwide
>
Certainly Santa! You may use the idea on your website. It belongs to
everyone, just as Christmas does.
By the way, your website is kewl!
DLN Oil Impressionist
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Sandy
ooooo....I love the Beach Boys, Erin!
Sandy
WOW, Dawna and Larry!..... Your thread was so awesome even SANTA had to
respond!! I'm so glad you guys are here! : )
Sandy
Nadine
Sandyfour <sand...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> By the way, your website is kewl!
>
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ho! Ho! HO!!
Thank you for the kind words! (Of course you wouldn't be saying that
just to stay on the 'Nice List' would you? *wink*)
Merry Christmas!
Santa Claus
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>It has to be David Bowie and Bing Crosby doing "Peace On Earth/
>Little Drummer Boy". When I first heard of its existence, I was utterly
>horrified at the prospect, I just couldn't see the two voices going
>together at all, and then when I heard it, I was blown away by how
>well it worked.
Gosh, Andrew, what a surprising choice for you ;-) Just joshing. I agree,
a truly wonderful blend of two "opposing" voices, it still makes me cry.
I would have a hard time narrowing it down so here are some faves:
Pretty Paper - Roy Orbison
An Old Christmas Card - Jim Reeves
I'll Be Home For Christmas - sung by anyone
Do You Hear What I Hear? - Harry Belafonte
A Marshmellow World - Bing Crosby
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Spike Jones
Christmas In Killarney - Dennis Day
Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms
Away In A Manger - Ed Ames
and just for fun, Elton John's Christmas single from the 70's, looky here,
I'm on topic! :-)
Ho, Ho, Ho (Who'd Be A Turkey At Christmas?)
Step Into Christmas
Cheers,
TD
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>Sorry, it was Brenda Lee on the good old Decca label. flip side was Papa
>Noel
Sorry? What are you apologizing for? No one else can hold Brenda's coat on
that song!!!
Dixon
"If there's anything that upsets me it's having people say I'm sensitive!"
--Barney Fife
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: At the top of my list are ELP's "Father Christmas" and Band-Aid's "Feed the
: Noelle
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This isn't my favorite, but I wonder why nobody has mentioned "Grandma Got Run
Over By A Reindeer". Or mabye I just missed the post.
Tim
I just stumbled across this group of people, and I have had a wonderful time
reading all of the threads. Sometimes I laughed so hard I nearly cried. For
the record, my favorite song is Mary's Boy Child by Bony M. There are so many
good ones though!!!
Dave Spiegel
Anyway... you reminded me of the Bony M Christmas album...I LOVE THAT
THING!!
Yes, do stay!! and yes, some day we've just got to get together, guys. Hey,
maybe we should all meet in Times Square this New Years Eve! Lets,
say.....right on the corner where the ball comes down! Shouldn't be too hard
to pick each other
out. I'll be wearing a funny hat and blowing a noise maker, K? On second
thought....
well, we have to do sometime! : )
Sandy
Maybe I will hang around, being born in 1962, the 1970's were the real
formative years for me. But try explaining those years to my kids!!!!
Dave
MartiDave <jun...@aol.combos> wrote in message
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Hey, Dave, please do hang around. The more the merrier! I was born in
'61, so the same goes for me. (If you can explain "those years" to me,
I'll be happy to try and explain them to your kids. :-0 )
And thanks for the Christmas song idea too!
As far as all of us meeting . . . I say that whomever among us makes
their first million or wins the lottery is the one who'll pick where
and when we meet, 'cuz they'll be paying for us all to travel there!
Okay<Dawna...HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS by Ray Connfif and either Burl ives or Gene
Autry's RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED EINED. And Bing Crosby--ap0ologies to Elton
John's CANDLE IN THE WIND but milliosn of coppies both used and unusued of
vinyl will vforever be sold by WHITE CHRISTMAS.
And anything the chipmunsk did.And GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY E REINDEER,.
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