{"id":17535,"date":"2015-12-19T10:41:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T15:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2016-12-06T06:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T11:34:56","slug":"a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2015-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2015-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"A <del>Quirky<\/del> Eclectic Christmas Mix (2015 Ed.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gRY6CL0kNo?rel=0\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"smalltext\"><em>[Video: Ana\u00efs Mitchell, &#8220;Song of the Magi&#8221;: a subtly subversive &#8220;Christmas carol&#8221; if I&#8217;ve ever heard one. (<a class=\"lyrics\" title=\"Lyrics: 'Song of the Magi'\" onclick=\"javascript:wopenScroll('https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/lyrics\/songofthemagi_anaismitchell.html', 'new', 425, 600); return false;\">Lyrics<\/a>)]<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 200px; padding: 1em; margin-left: 1em; font-size: 85%; border: 3px double brown;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><em>Want to visit the pages for earlier playlists, which include videos, other songs, and some background material not in the &#8220;official&#8221; list? Here y&#8217;go:<\/em><\/p>\n<table style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; font-size: 85%; border: 0;\">\n<tbody style=\"border: 0;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-music-playlist\/\" target=\"_blank\">2008<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-music-playlist-2009-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">2009<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2010-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">2010<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2011-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">2011<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2012-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">2012<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2013-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">2013<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2014-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border: 0;\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-light\" style=\"font-size:2em\">I<\/span>f you&#8217;ve visited <em>RAMH<\/em> at about this time in previous Decembers, you know (more or less) what to expect from this post. You probably don&#8217;t know it <em>all<\/em> though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For starters, I&#8217;ve moved the text listing of all songs &#8212; which was taking up way too much space in the post itself &#8212; into a separate pop-up window. If you&#8217;d like to keep the complete current songlist open for reference in a separate window while the music plays, use <a class=\"lyrics\" title=\"RAMH Christmas 2015 Songlist\" onclick=\"javascript:wopenScroll('https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/lyrics\/popoutsonglist.html', 'new', 525, 600); return false;\">this link<\/a>. (This is just a simple text list of song titles and artists, not an actual player.)<\/p>\n<p>One other (bigger) change here: the little audio-player gizmo has changed since 2014 (for reasons boring and technology-driven):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The song <em>titles<\/em>, alas!, now appear as grotesque file names rather than, y&#8217;know, good old English. You&#8217;ll still be able to glean the titles themselves, but still&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Play, pause, forward and reverse buttons &#8212; that stuff is still here.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;but the player now includes a &#8220;popout&#8221; feature, which opens up the player in a separate, smaller window of its own &#8212; good for tucking to the side, if you just want to keep the music in the background while you go off elsewhere on the Web.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, if you&#8217;re observant, you&#8217;ll notice a more standard, more obvious way to obtain the current track for yourself &#8212;\u00a0<em>without<\/em>\u00a0requiring the secret <em>RAMH<\/em> &#8220;decoder ring&#8221; trick I&#8217;ve provided\u00a0in the past.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enough of all that. Here&#8217;s the little player doo-dad. (Note that the post itself continues on below it &#8212; if you need something to read in the meantime!)<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid brown; width: 75%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>f you&#8217;re pressed for time, and\/or just don&#8217;t want to (re-)listen to the earlier years&#8217; selections, the similar gizmo which follows lets you listen to just 2015&#8217;s ten-song list, without having to fast-forward through earlier years&#8217; lists:<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid brown; width: 75%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\n\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"highlight\">\n<p><strong>Update: new feature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can now open the full playlist in a separate window with &#8220;shuffle&#8221; mode enabled. This will begin playing as soon as the popout window open. (Some mobile devices\/tablets disable the autoplay feature, though.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 300px;\">[popout font_family_1=&#8221;verdana&#8221; font_family_2=&#8221;lucida&#8221; tracks=&#8221;00_dialoguefromacharliebrownchristmas.mp3, 01_hodiechristusnatusest_anonymous4.mp3, 02_threespanishvillancicos_dadme_albricias_waverlyconsort.mp3, 03_homefortheholidays_perrycomo.mp3, 04_joytotheworld_mannheimsteamroller.mp3, 05_thehollyandtheivy_georgewinston.mp3, 06_oholynight_celticwoman.mp3, 07_12daysofchristmas_denvermuppets.mp3, 08_nuttyjinglebells_alhirt.mp3, 09_deckthehalls_theroches.mp3, 11_marysboychild_charlottechurch.mp3, 12_river_peyrouxlang.mp3, 13_variationsonthekanonbypachelbel_georgewinston.mp3, 14_thetoytrumpet_fiedler.mp3, 15_santababy_earthakitt.mp3,<br \/>\n16_rudolphtherednosedreindeer_mannheimsteamroller.mp3, 17_thewexfordcarol_celticwoman.mp3, 18_jinglebells_briansetzerorchestra.mp3, 19_isawmommykissingsantaclaus_jimmyboyd.mp3, 20_silentnight_cumberlandgapreunion.mp3, 21_colddarknight_samphillips.mp3, 22_bluechristmas_elvispresley.mp3, 23_godrestyemerrygentlemen_loreenamckennitt.mp3, 24_thechipmunksong_thechipmunks.mp3, 25_haveyourselfamerrylittlechristmas_franksinatra.mp3, 26_itcameuponamidnightclear_londonphilharmonicorchestra.mp3, 27_wintercreek_tonyelman.mp3, 28_toypackaging_saragroves.mp3, 29_marysboychild_harrybelafonte.mp3, 30_ringchristmasbells_rayconniffsingers.mp3, 31_digthatcrazysantaclaus_ralphmarterie.mp3, 32_thechristmassong_natkingcole.mp3, 33_itreallyis_indigogirls.mp3, 34_santaclausiscomintotown_johnnymercer.mp3, 35_babyitscoldoutside_deanmartin.mp3, 36_sleighride_ferranteandteicher.mp3, 37_shakanasantashakeit_bodolliswildmagnolias.mp3, 38_silverbells_neildiamond.mp3, 39_branledelofficiel_tavernerconsort.mp3, 40_carolofthebells_georgewinston.mp3, 41_nutcrackeroverture_tilsonthomas_philharmonia.mp3, 42_otannenbaum_vinceguaralditrio.mp3, 43_christmasonthemoon_troyhess.mp3, 44_iwonderasiwander_barbrastreisand.mp3, 45_jinglebells_franksinatra.mp3, 46_avemaria_alhirt.mp3, 47_christmasgumbo_artneville.mp3, 48_frostythesnowman_ellafitzgerald.mp3, 49_illbehomeforchristmas_deanmartin.mp3, 50_stillenachtheiligenacht_choirofkingscollege.mp3, 51_christmasiscoming_knightsong.mp3, 52_patapan_mannheimsteamroller.mp3, 53_thelittledrummerboy_viennaboyschoir.mp3, 54_haveyourselfamerrylittlechristmas_toriamos.mp3, 55_thefirstnoel_cumberlandgapreunion.mp3, 56_toysymphonyiallegro_isoloistidizagrebantoniojanigro.mp3, 57_venidfielestodos_liubamariahevia.mp3, 58_whitechristmas_corporalblossom.mp3, 59_oholynight_perrycomo.mp3, 60_oichechiuin_enya.mp3, 61_somechildrenseehim_georgewinston.mp3, 62_babyitscoldoutside_sheandhim.mp3, 63_winterwonderland_bingcrosby.mp3, 64_nuttinforchristmas_barrygordon.mp3, 65_gotellitonthemountain_mahaliajackson.mp3, 66_jinglebellrock_bobbyhelms.mp3, 67_thetwelvedaysofchristmas_rayconniff.mp3, 68_jinglebells_barbrastreisand.mp3, 69_lightofthestable_emmylouharris.mp3, 70_thenutcrackerfinalwaltz_bostonpops.mp3, 71_isawthreeships_mannheimsteamroller.mp3, 72_patapan_julieandrews.mp3, 73_fairytaleofnewyork_pogues.mp3, 74_twelvegiftsofchristmas_allansherman.mp3, 75_goodkingwenceslas_loreenamckennitt.mp3, 76_rudolphtherednosedreindeer_perrycomo.mp3, 77_rockinaroundthechristmastree_brendalee.mp3, 78_letitsnow_lenahorne.mp3, 79_jesujoyofmansdesiring_chloeagnew.mp3, 80_silentnight_sleepingatlast.mp3&#8243; captions=&#8221;Peter Robbins et al.; Anonymous 4; Waverly Consort; Perry Como; Mannheim Steamroller; George Winston; Celtic Woman; John Denver and the Muppets; Al Hirt; The Roches; Charlotte Church; Madeleine Peyroux\/k.d. lang; George Winston; Arthur Fiedler &amp; The Boston Pops; Eartha Kitt; Mannheim Steamroller; Celtic Woman; The Brian Setzer Orchestra; Jimmy Boyd; Cumberland Gap Reunion; Sam Phillips; Elvis Presley; Loreena McKennitt; The Chipmunks; Frank Sinatra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Tony Elman; Sara Groves; Harry Belafonte; Ray Conniff Singers; Ralph Marterie and His Band; Nat King Cole; The Indigo Girls; Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers; Dean Martin; Ferrante and Teicher; Bo Dollis &amp; Wild Magnolias; Neil Diamond; Taverner Consort,Choir,&amp; Players (Andrew Parrott,conductor); George Winston; Michael Tilson-Thomas &amp; Philharmonia Orchestra; Vince Guaraldi Trio; Troy Hess; Barbra Streisand; Frank Sinatra; Al Hirt; Art Neville; Ella Fitzgerald; Dean Martin; Choir of King&#8217;s College,Cambridge; Knightsong; Mannheim Steamroller; Vienna Boys&#8217; Choir; Tori Amos; Cumberland Gap Reunion; I Soloisti di Zagreb &amp; Antonio Janigro; Liuba Mar\u00eda Hevia; Corporal Blossom; Perry Como; Enya; George Winston; She &amp; Him; Bing Crosby; Barry Gordon; Mahalia Jackson; Bobby Helms; Ray Conniff Singers; Barbra Streisand; Emmylou Harris; Arthur Fiedler &amp; The Boston Pops; Mannheim Steamroller; Julie Andrews; The Pogues (feat. Kirsty McColl); Allan Sherman; Loreena McKennitt; Perry Como; Brenda Lee; Lena Horne; Chloe Agnew; Sleeping at Last&#8221; text=&#8221;Pop Out to Shuffle!&#8221; shuffle=&#8221;y&#8221; autoplay=&#8221;y&#8221; pos=&#8221;rel-C&#8221;]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/allansherman_swinginlivers.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 33%;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/allansherman_swinginlivers.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Album cover: Allan Sherman's 'For Swingin' Livers Only!'\" \/><\/a><span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-light\" style=\"font-size:2em\">I<\/span> start putting the annual playlist together sometime around Thanksgiving. Probably unsurprisingly, over the next few weeks I do a lot of time-tripping, as I rediscover forgotten old favorite songs, and hear voices and arrangements I haven&#8217;t heard in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The name &#8220;Allan Sherman&#8221; may not ring a bell for you if you&#8217;re young. But for a time in the 1960s, especially, it seemed that he was everywhere on radio and TV. An unlikely pop star, he was rather an overweight, nerdy-looking, crewcut guy, frequently photographed wearing black-rimmed glasses. (In the album cover at right, the glasses have been transferred to the young lady sharing his &#8212; yes, it appears to me &#8212; scoop of liver <em>p\u00e2t\u00e9<\/em>, a classic Jewish-deli menu item. As for the title, it points not only to the illustration but to the title of a highly influential 1956 album by Frank Sinatra: <em>For Swingin&#8217; Lovers Only<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Sherman specialized in a musical genre with not a lot of adherents: parody. But unlike <a title=\"Earlier RAMH Post: Midweek Music Break: Stan Freberg\u2019s Musical 'Parodies'\" href=\"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/midweek-music-break-stan-frebergs-musical-parodies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stan Freberg<\/a>, say, or Weird Al Yankovich in our own time, Sherman preferred to lampoon not contemporary music, but <em>old<\/em> music &#8212; folk songs, familiar classical tunes, and so on. His shtick, if you will, was to transform these songs into comments on the mid-20th-century American middle class, particularly the <em>Jewish<\/em>-American middle class.<\/p>\n<p>So it was a little surprising, in a way, that Sherman &#8212; happily Jewish himself &#8212; would take on a <em>Christmas<\/em> song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Or maybe not surprising at all, at least as he did it. For the <a class=\"lyrics\" title=\"Lyrics: 'Twelve Gifts of Christmas'\" onclick=\"javascript:wopenScroll('https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/lyrics\/twelvegifts_allansherman.html', 'new', 500, 500); return false;\">lyrics<\/a> to his &#8220;Twelve Gifts of Christmas&#8221; (the fourth selection added this year, #74 overall) brilliantly limn the commercial kitsch of the era&#8217;s mass-produced consumer goods. I don&#8217;t think all the references are outdated, either. Yes: the Japanese surely have a better reputation for electronics nowadays than they did then, and the obviously joking reference to a &#8220;Japanese transistor radio&#8221; is almost as quaint as a Currier &amp; Ives print of people visiting Gramma&#8217;s house over a snowy hillside. But I&#8217;m certain that &#8220;a calendar book with the name of my insurance man&#8221; still rings of truth. And <em>Antiques Roadshow<\/em> sometimes seems to feature &#8220;a statue of a lady with a clock where her stomach ought to be&#8221; once a month. Good stuff, this song is, especially with lines so hilariously overstuffed with syllables (and with parenthetical spoken asides like, &#8220;And it comes in a leatherette case with holes in it, So you can listen right through the case&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Twelve Gifts of Christmas&#8221; was trotted out annually whenever radio DJs wanted to lighten the mood in their otherwise conventional holiday playlists. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s taken me this long to include it in <em>mine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em;\"><em>By the way, Allan Sherman did not live out his life happily &#8212; as I learned from <a title=\"Tablet Magazine: 'Allan Sherman\u2019s Last Laugh'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/theater-and-dance\/130689\/allan-sherman\" target=\"_blank\">this review<\/a> of a 2013 biography of him, <\/em>Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman<em>. It says, &#8220;Sherman was never exactly a rock star, but he managed to flare out like one, killing himself over the course of a decade with food, drink, drugs, sex, and heartbreak. He walked out on his wife and kids. His creative output turned to junk&#8230; Sherman died of a heart attack at 48, in 1973, with all his albums out of print.&#8221; In a word: <\/em>Sheesh<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-light\" style=\"font-size:2em\">T<\/span>his year&#8217;s list includes one other (to me) surprising addition: The Pogues&#8217; &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221; (1988).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I knew <em>of<\/em> the song. It&#8217;s become rather hard to ignore; it seems to have shown up on every &#8220;best Christmas songs of all time&#8221; list of the last few years. But I&#8217;m something of a stick-in-the-mud on some things&#8230; When I first saw it mentioned, and not recognizing the name of the band, I looked them up. <em>Oh<\/em>, I thought, <em>they&#8217;re <\/em>punk<em> rockers<\/em>. You could almost hear me sneering; punk is one musical genre which I have assiduously avoided from the outset.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I listened to it then &#8212; to a few bars of it, anyhow. Did not like the lead singer&#8217;s voice at all. Was depressed by the lyrics I heard. <em>Nope<\/em>, I thought&#8230; and crossed it off my list for good.<\/p>\n<p>So then the 2015 holiday season rolls into town, with the usual blitz of glitzy TV specials. (Allan Sherman would have loved them.) Among them this year: the really not very memorable <em>A Very Murray Christmas<\/em> (Netflix). In it, Bill Murray is joined by a bunch of pals in a rather weak storyline supporting their mostly forgettable crooning of Christmas songs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mostly<\/em> forgettable, I say. For one, Miley Cyrus was surprisingly listenable (although I still winced to <em>see<\/em> her).<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and for another, buried somewhere in the middle, was a scene in a New York City piano bar. Murray is at the piano, singing with Paul Shaffer, David Johanssen, Jason Schwartzman, Rashida Jones, and other cast members. And they&#8217;re singing a Christmas song I don&#8217;t recognize&#8230; a song whose lyrics (as the closed captions tell me) are a fair cut above the standard for TV-written Christmas music. &#8220;They\u2019ve got cars\/Big as bars\/They\u2019ve got rivers of gold&#8230; The boys of the NYPD choir\/Were singing &#8216;Galway Bay'&#8221;: <em>say what?<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em;\"><em>(For what it&#8217;s worth, you can <a title=\"YouTube: Cast of 'A Very Murray Christmas' singing 'Fairytale of New York'\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yYUjdzXTP5U\" target=\"_blank\">see that scene on YouTube<\/a>, for now. Gods know if it&#8217;ll still be there next year&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There followed some instant research (gotta love smartphones!). And then some further listens&#8230; and so here &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221; is, finally. You know what? It really did reward multiple playbacks, and now &#8212; sandwiched between Julie Andrews and Allan Sherman &#8212; it feels like a natural addition to the list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-light\" style=\"font-size:2em\">A<\/span>s always, whether you&#8217;re a familiar visitor here or an utter stranger, thanks for stopping by at <em>Running After My Hat<\/em>. Here&#8217;s to a wonderful couple of holiday weeks &#8212; and to a happy 2016, with lots of what we (think we) want&#8230; and maybe some nice surprises, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Video: Ana\u00efs Mitchell, &#8220;Song of the Magi&#8221;: a subtly subversive &#8220;Christmas carol&#8221; if I&#8217;ve ever heard one. 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