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Those city streets are CROWDED these days!
"Silver Bells", by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, was frequently referred to by Livingston as "our annuity." It is sung here by Colbie Callait:
Video posted by Rita Spencer
And here is the same song as sung by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in the movie for which the song was written, The Lemon Drop Kid:
Video posted by TCBNS.*
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A couple more for Chanukah!
Have another very traditional song: "Al Hanisim"; words from an extra paragraph inserted into the daily prayers on Chanukah (and Purim), melody by Dov Frimer, sung by Shira Kline:
Video by ShiraKline
Well. The lyrics for "Al Hanisim" are very traditional, anyway--as I said above, the words for this song are those of the introductory phrases of ( Read more... ) -
One songwriter, many Christmas songs
Johnny Marks made something of a speciality of Christmas songs--Wikipedia lists 26 Christmas and Christmas-show songs by Marks, and he named his music publishing company St. Nicholas Music. Here are some particularly well-known examples ( Read more... ) -
It's the first night of Chanukah!
In honor of which, I bring you two--yes, two!--Chanukah songs.
The first is "Candlelight," sung by the Maccabeats (in their first viral video):
Video by Uri WestrichThe melody is by Taio Cruz (although he thought it was for a song titled "Dynamite"), and he is not, to the best of my knowledge, Jewish. The parody lyrics, however, are by two ( Read more... ) -
So yesterday we had a Phil Spector-influenced song...
How about an actual Phil Spector song? "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector, sung by (a quite young) U2:
Video posted by Justin Duarte
And sung by the original singer, Darlene Love (with Patti LaBelle), just a year ago:
Video posted by The View
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This isn't only about old holiday songs, you know!
Here's a relatively new one--the Phil Spector-influenced "Underneath the Tree," by Kelly Clarkson and Greg Kurstin, sung by Kelly Clarkson:
Video from KellyClarksonVEVO
[I]n December, 2013, Clarkson told Jay Leno that she waited to do a Christmas album until [Kurstin] was available ( Read more... ) -
Here, have a Chanukah song (of sorts) for a change!
Click on over to my new blog for Tom Lehrer singing "Hanukkah in Santa Monica," among other things... (Go ahead, click--it won't close this window so you won't lose your place here!)
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Two more blogs are up...
Over on Blogspot/Blogger, here and here. Will get another out either tonight or tomorrow morning... *crosses fingers*
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If it's December
Well. I AM doing my usual December holiday music series, only I've moved it: https://jewishstereotypesmusic.blogspot.com/Read more... )
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