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I’m curious, how do atheists feel about Christmas songs/movies? Are you ok with this?
I have Mitch Miller's collection.
I have songs by Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
I don't know if you remember, but in the late 1960s early 1970s, K-Mart used to produce a Christmas album exclusively for K-Mart.
The one year they had Johnny Mathis, the Vienna Boys Choir (best arrangement of Little Drummer Boy I've ever heard), Steve somebody and Edie Gourmet, Jimmy Dean, Dean Martin and others. Every year was different big-name musicians, but same basic songs with different arrangements and they were fantastic.
Those albums were delightful and I'd do just about anything to get my hands on them.
The stuff I hear now sucks. I don't want anything to do with it.
As far as movies, I never liked any of them (except one), but I was keen on TV shows like Rudolph and the [original] Grinch and Charlie Brown.
Like everything else in the USA, holiday music has falling standards of quality. For most of the year, store radio has bland music with long ad breaks. At holidays, the music may be worse than the ads. I take that as a suggestion to leave the store and shop somewhere quieter. Then I see news about dying retail.
I have songs by Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
I don't know if you remember, but in the late 1960s early 1970s, K-Mart used to produce a Christmas album exclusively for K-Mart.
The one year they had Johnny Mathis, the Vienna Boys Choir (best arrangement of Little Drummer Boy I've ever heard), Steve somebody and Edie Gourmet, Jimmy Dean, Dean Martin and others. Every year was different big-name musicians, but same basic songs with different arrangements and they were fantastic.
Those albums were delightful and I'd do just about anything to get my hands on them.
The stuff I hear now sucks. I don't want anything to do with it.
As far as movies, I never liked any of them (except one), but I was keen on TV shows like Rudolph and the [original] Grinch and Charlie Brown.
For your listening pleasure. The Vienna Boys Choir Little Drummer Boy
Pretty well -dome churnemout Xmas (hapholtide) annual release. It just makes me prefer to have a celebration whenever there is a need, and not have one that marshalls the marks into saluting a particular political or religious flag and emptying their wallets.
For your listening pleasure. The Vienna Boys Choir Little Drummer Boy
That's a different arrangement and it sucks.
Arranging is the art of taking a song and performing it differently. Listen to In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel and then listen to Jeffrey Gaines' version (Jeff's is better).
When Jo Stafford was with Paul Weston and Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson, their songs were brilliant because Weston and Wilson knew how to arrange songs to bring out the best in the performer.
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It's Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormet. He was her husband.
Ah, good, it would have taken me months to figure out Steve's name.
Maybe this makes me a bad atheist, but Christmas is probably my favorite time of year, and I love Christmas music too. All kinds. Add in the movies and the lights, and it makes for an awesome time of year.
I have songs by Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
I don't know if you remember, but in the late 1960s early 1970s, K-Mart used to produce a Christmas album exclusively for K-Mart.
The one year they had Johnny Mathis, the Vienna Boys Choir (best arrangement of Little Drummer Boy I've ever heard), Steve somebody and Edie Gourmet, Jimmy Dean, Dean Martin and others. Every year was different big-name musicians, but same basic songs with different arrangements and they were fantastic.
Those albums were delightful and I'd do just about anything to get my hands on them.
The stuff I hear now sucks. I don't want anything to do with it.
As far as movies, I never liked any of them (except one), but I was keen on TV shows like Rudolph and the [original] Grinch and Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown reminds me...I have the wonderful “Charlie Brown Christmas” with the incomparable Vince Guaraldi...aaaaand Elvis’ first and best Christmas album (a wonderful mix of “Blue (blue blue blue) Christmas” and great gospel standards)...aaaaand “A Motown Christmas” and “A Phil Spector Christmas” and “Ella Fitzgerald Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.”
Maybe this makes me a bad atheist, but Christmas is probably my favorite time of year, and I love Christmas music too. All kinds. Add in the movies and the lights, and it makes for an awesome time of year.
Me, too.
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It is nice to know that my Bad Upbringing has not been in vain.
