That time of the year

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Kilted_John wrote:Tom,

Somewhere I have the same LP. Think we also have the CD version of it.

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John,
That's very interesting news! I'd love to get hold of a copy either of the vinyl or a CD version. If you could look up who produced them for me, I'd be grateful.
My aforementioned brother now aged 78 has lost his speech through a stroke and also some of his memory, so I suppose I can't get that info. out of him, now.

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pelmut wrote:[...] the recording machine looked like the illegitimate offspring of a telephone exchange and a cream separator and the microphones were almost certainly adapted telephone mouthpieces [...]
Well, that is a visual I shall be chuckling about for a few days; thanks for sharing it!
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Kirbstone wrote: John,
That's very interesting news! I'd love to get hold of a copy either of the vinyl or a CD version. If you could look up who produced them for me, I'd be grateful.
My aforementioned brother now aged 78 has lost his speech through a stroke and also some of his memory, so I suppose I can't get that info. out of him, now.

Tom
Tom,

Here it is on Amazon. First link on their site, btw...

http://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Festi ... 2+overture

eBay might be a better choice, since you might find a copy locally or in Europe that won't be expensive to ship.

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John,
you are a Star. I now remember the sleeve design with the cannon on it. I'll get myself a little Xmas pressie of the CD., the source to be assessed. As you rightly say, postage from Europe would be cheaper.

Thanks a lot.

Tom

EDIT: It certainly pays to shop around! I can't get on with Ebay, but Amazon US wanted a total of Eur 17-odd including shipping, Am.Ireland wanted Eur 18+ postage and Am. UK are winging it to me by Dec. 18th (usually sooner) for all of Eur 7.75.....Amazing!

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Tom,

Not a problem. Enjoy it...

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Big and Bashful wrote:There are two, no, three Christmas songs which I do like, most others either deepen my Christmas depression or make me vomit!
crfriend wrote:I only have fragmented memories of it, but many, many years ago an old roommate of mine and I worked up a decidedly satirical... derivative of "White Christmas".
While I do like Christmas, I can't stand the way the songs are played in stores beginning in late October, so that by Christmas they are SO tiresome. That plus the over-reliance on standard or sappy versions which are heard year after year for two months. Although I admire some of Bing Crosby's songs I now can't stand his "White Christmas", and probably the worst for me is Rudolph. (Those poor other reindeer are hardly mentioned any more, let alone poor Donder whose name is often misspelled Donner!)

Versions of the old standards can be refreshing if played by, for example, Mannheim Steamroller, music boxes, or mechanical organs. And, Carl, I remember livening things up by altering the lyrics such as "Jack Frost roasting on an open fire, chestnuts nipping at your nose…", "Frosty the Snowman went shopping at the mall, but the hot store lights were very bright and now Frosty's very small…", "You better not shop, you better not drive, don't take your car, I'm telling you why: no more parking spaces in town…" Didn't Tom Lehrer do something with carols?

When I was a kid we never put up Christmas decorations or listened to Christmas LPs until about the second week of December and got our tree about the 15th. That concentrated the season into less than a month and I think that made it more meaningful, at least for me.
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I agree that Xmas should be restricted to December. In our house I will be putting up the tree around 15th Dec.

I can't say I have noticed too much Xmas muzak in stores until December so perhaps some retailers are listening.

At home I have an iPod touch that has (among 1000 or so songs) some 50-60 Xmas songs including Judy Garlard wishing us all a Merry Little Christmas, The Pogues Fairytale in NY, Ella's Santa Clause got stuck in my chimney, The Darkness with "Don't let the Bells End" Bing and Bowie singing about a Little Drummer Boy among many others.

I also have some alternative Xmas songs such as "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzV9DIL_vrM
and Singalongasanta - a compilation of Christmas songs in a Cockney style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDpwpyzfZHA - quite dreadful really...
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Do you get "Merry Christmas Everybody" by Slade in the USA (or other foreign parts)? It is the start of my Christmas season when I first hear it played in a shop. That joyous day was yesterday. It was a huge hit in about 1974 and I inexplicably never tire of hearing it.
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Alastair,
I heard it on ""Black Friday" while taking a civlised pre-work coffee. It was in my head for the rest of the day and kept a smile on my face. I have a few songs that evoke memories of my youth and "Merry Christmas Everybody" is right there. O.K. it's not high art but it's highly listenable and entertaining.
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Strangely, I haven't heard Slade or Wizzard yet this year, they are two other Christmas songs on my "likes" list.
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A Fairy Tale Of New York By the Pogues and Kirsty McColl is the best xmas song ever :)
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skirtyscot wrote:Do you get "Merry Christmas Everybody" by Slade in the USA (or other foreign parts)?
I had never heard that piece before - and I was reasonably familiar with Slade a number of years (decades?) ago. Thanks for mentioning it; it can be found on YouTube.
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You poor things! It appears not to have been released in the USA at all. Apparently it earns £500,000 per year in royalties, even now. Could have been so much more!

Enjoy!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Xmas_Everybody http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg9bx3 ... body_music
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skirtyscot wrote:You poor things! It appears not to have been released in the USA at all. Apparently it earns £500,000 per year in royalties, even now. Could have been so much more!
For some odd reason, Slade never really got popular on these shores -- which is unfortunate as they were an incredibly talented group.

Even in the late '60s and early '70s (when I was still a wee lad) I was well tunneled into music that was considered "odd" in these here parts (I still have a shortwave radio in my arsenal, but it seems that the only thing on it these days are preachers) which allowed me to punch a bit higher than my weight in the more "intellectual" (or is that "bohemian"?) circles in secondary school. I rather doubt that it helped much in the field of computing, which was my primary passion, but it did help a little bit socially because otherwise I would have been an overt outcast and entirely shunned (and probably beaten senseless).
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I recommend a thirty +/- year old lp/cd by John McCutcheon called Winter Solstice. It is especially appropriate this year because it has the song 'Christmas In The Trenches' which is about the Christmas Truce of 1914. It is an outstanding album and highly listenable.

I also find myself dancing around a lot this time of year to Fleetwood Mac's 'Bare Trees' and 'Future Games', as well as old Fairport Convention records. They have that long nights, solstice feel to them.

Two more recommendations are jazz collection records. One is called Jingle Bell Jazz, and the other is Louis Armstrong and Friends 'What a Wonderful Christmas,. Both are fine collections containing both secular seasonal songs and sacred carols. Then, of course, there is always Vince Guaraldi with the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack...trite, perhaps, but I love it.
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