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basically every Elvis Christmas song

and no i'm not an Elvis 'fan'...but he sings the hell out of Christmas songs 🙂

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Had a hard time finding this one.  Not sure if the link will work, but this is Jimi Hendrix and Band of Gypsies practicing before their New Year's Eve gig at the Fillmore East in December 1969.  It's a medely of Little Drummer Boy, Silent Night and Auld Ang Syne, with a little Taps thrown in for good measure.  It's a little rough, as it is just a practice session that was not intended for release as a recording, but eventually was released a few years after Jimi's death.  Still, his mastery of feedback is incredible.  I'm usually a traditionalist when it comes to my Christmas music, but this is Jimi.

https://www.elsewhere.co.nz/fromthevaults/5423/jimi-hendrix-little-drummer-boy-silent-night-auld-lang-syne-1969/

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Probably already mentioned, but whatever. Cool to hear this and see Mele Kalikimaka posted everywhere out here. Also the tie-in to my favorite Christmas movie, Christmas Vacation, makes this my favorite.

 

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Merry Little Christmas is my favorite. I like most versions of it.  Last year Billie Eilish covered it on SNL and now i think I like her cover the best. 

 

 

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If you've never been to see these gals, put it on your "to do" list.  We've been twice, once for a regular show and once for the Christmas show.  Fantastic and easy on the ears (and eyes).  They can come and tuck me in and sing me to sleep anytime they want to. 

While we're across the pond, this may be a surprise to some.  Slade, yeah, those rockin' dudes, put this one and it became one of the GOATs.

Give it at least 40 seconds.

FYI;

Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade - Songfacts

MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY – SLADE | Official Charts

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On 12/2/2020 at 3:00 PM, Guest Lobo said:

Pos rep on the Ray Charles "That Spirit of Christmas."  I try each year to get into those standard classics by lame-ass white dudes, but give me this tune every time.  It's awash in soul and joyous awe.  Love that photo montage you posted, where's that from (besides youtube)?  Reminds me of that tear-jerker moment in an otherwise comedic classic, "Christmas Vacation" when Clark is watching those old home movies in the attic to this same song. 

Between that little B&W reel he finds and that photo montage you posted, reminds me not of the Christmases we had growing up, but of the ones I heard about growing up.  These legends of this era that happened before my time that I could still smell and hear.  Men in ties smoking cheap cigars fumbling together kid's gifts on Christmas Eve without spilling a sip of their drink.  All turn in unison to the camera as if to say, "What the hell do you want?  We're doing Christmas shit over here."  Indiscernible plates of food in the background, women in ugly glasses and hair up managing dozens of kids and stacks of dishes without losing the ash off their Winston Light 100.  A record player blasts out the standards in the background, some parade with Dick Clark on the 21" TV cart just out of frame.  Third cousins and friends of uncles whom you don't know, but your mother swears are as close to her as any brother or sister ever could be.  Deviled eggs out on the dining room table since noon, a friend of a friend who you thought was away at "College" comes in with a large ham, your older sibling gets to go move cars in the driveway at age 13 because the snow plow is coming through the next morning and some folks will be "resting their eyes on the living room sofa" later that night.  Boisterous laughter at jokes you already know at your young age are woefully off-color but fucking hilarious.  New girlfriends/boyfriends of relatives coming around the family for their first Christmas with this look of terror in their eyes, and you just look at the and wonder, "Isn't this what everybody's family Christmas" is like?  Somebody offers up a prayer, somebody brings up old shit, somebody falls down, somebody knows a liquor store in Cicero that's still open,  somebody goes to their car to get a new holiday song cassette tape, somebody goes out for a cigarette on the patio and never comes back in, somebody hands me a $5 bill, somebody can't find their coat on the pile in my parent's bedroom, and somebody cries because it's their first Christmas without their mom who passed last Spring.

 I look at photographs on my dad going off on his first Naval assignment right before Christmas of 1961.  I see photographs of my dad meeting my mother's family during the holidays of 1974.  I look at the photos and a even a few short home videos of our extended family gatherings in the 70's & 80's.  And I realize, there is no War on Christmas.  We just forgot how to truly celebrate the thing.  

Miss these epic diatribes.   Damn 

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