The Band sang a Christmas song?
Yes indeed, and here it is. “Christmas Must Be Tonight,” from their 1977 album “Islands”. Huh. I don’t have that album even in vinyl. How can this be?
Archive of entries posted on December 2012
Sing, choir of angels
The things you learn from Wikipedia. For example, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is entirely self-funding through album sales. It’s been around since 1847, and its weekly radio show has been on for 83 years. Its broadcasts have won Peabody and Emmy awards. They sing pretty well too.
Seen elsewhere
via Mark Evanier, an old “Seasons Greetings” sight gag from CBS.
Got snow on the ground?
Diana Krall sings “Sleigh Ride” from her 2005 album “Christmas Songs“. This is fascinating: ASCAP says in a news release dated December 12 of this year “Since October 1, 2012, ‘Sleigh Ride’ has aired more times than any other holiday song this season.”
Time, gentlemen, time
We have to go back a long long time (the 18th century) for this carol. Here’s “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” sung by Loreena McKennitt on her 1995 EP “A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season.”
LaPierre and the NRA bet badly
Can there ever have been a spokesman for a national lobbying group who misread the tea leaves more spectacularly than Wayne LaPierre of the NRA today? Amid calls for new controls on guns and access to guns, the man gave a press conference today in which he advocated placing armed guards in every school, saying …
Them chestnuts keep cookin’
Ladies and Gentlemen, Nat King Cole! From his album “The Christmas Song” recorded in 1961. As usual, when I post a video of a singer singing this song, I also post a link to Mark Evanier’s wonderful story of four Christmas carolers and their unexpected meeting with the song’s co-composer, Mel Tormé at the Farmer’s …
Bowled over? Nah.
BYU v. San Diego State today at 8:00PM EST on ESPN. It’s a home game for SDSU; it’s played in the same stadium (Qualcomm) in which the school plays all its home games. On the other hand, BYU’s defense is very good, allowing only 14 pts per game (for reference, #1 Alabama allows 10 pts …
Blizzard of ’12?
In light of the snowpocalypse Brian Williams was so het up about on the NBC Nightly News this evening, here’s Chicago playing “Let It Snow” from 1998’s Chicago 25, live on the Today Show in ’98 before Katie Couric went to CBS to do the evening news. She did that for five years and left …
Ulterior motives? Them? Nah, surely not!
Fix the Debt is another group of deficit scolds made up of CEOs and other Very Serious People (it includes Simpson and Bowles, among others) who are advocating the destruction of the social safety net in order that America’s debt and deficits be balanced. Part of its “Core Principles” reads: In order to develop a …
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