{"id":7973,"date":"2010-12-23T06:58:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:42:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:42:52","slug":"a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2010-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/a-quirky-eclectic-christmas-mix-2010-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quirky<\/del> Eclectic Christmas Mix (2010 ed.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just the latest in an annual series<\/a>…<\/p>\n

All I’m going to do for the music portion here, as before, is just add<\/em> ten songs (and pray that, over time, I won’t blow the little WordPress audio-player thingie out of the water). For the first time, I’m including a couple of newer<\/em> songs. But I don’t want this to turn into a “Christmas music never heard before or, maybe, since<\/em>” post — so will keep things nice and traditional for the most part.<\/p>\n

As before, these artists and numbers appear, back-to-back, in the playlist:<\/p>\n

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  1. Peter Robbins et al.: dialogue from A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Anonymous 4: Hodie Christus Natus Est<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Waverly Consort: Three Spanish Villancicos – Dadme Albcrecias<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Perry Como: Home for the Holidays<\/li>\n
  5. Mannheim Steamroller: Joy to the World<\/li>\n
  6. George Winston: The Holly and the Ivy<\/li>\n
  7. Celtic Woman: O Holy Night<\/li>\n
  8. John Denver and the Muppets: The Twelve Days of Christmas<\/li>\n
  9. Al Hirt: Nutty Jingle Bells<\/li>\n
  10. The Roches: Deck the Halls
    \n— 2009: —<\/strong><\/li>\n
  11. Charlotte Church: Mary’s Boy Child<\/li>\n
  12. Madeleine Peyroux\/k.d. lang: River<\/li>\n
  13. George Winston: Variations on the Kanon<\/li>\n
  14. Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops: The Toy Trumpet<\/li>\n
  15. Eartha Kitt: Santa Baby<\/li>\n
  16. Mannheim Steamroller: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/li>\n
  17. Celtic Woman: The Wexford Carol<\/li>\n
  18. The Brian Setzer Orchestra: Jingle Bells<\/li>\n
  19. Jimmy Boyd: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus<\/li>\n
  20. Cumberland Gap Reunion: Silent Night
    \n— 2010: —<\/strong><\/li>\n
  21. Sam Phillips: Cold Dark Night (lyrics<\/a>)<\/em><\/li>\n
  22. Elvis Presley: Blue Christmas<\/li>\n
  23. Loreena McKennitt: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (may be my favorite addition to this year’s list…)<\/li>\n
  24. The Chipmunks: The Chipmunk Song<\/li>\n
  25. Frank Sinatra: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas<\/li>\n
  26. London Philharmonic Orchestra: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear<\/li>\n
  27. Tony Elman: Winter Creek<\/li>\n
  28. Sara Groves: Toy Packaging (lyrics<\/a>)<\/em> (…and this may be my favorite for grins)<\/li>\n
  29. <\/em>Harry Belafonte: Mary’s Boy Child<\/li>\n
  30. Ray Conniff Singers: Ring Christmas Bells<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Note:<\/strong> The playlist goes automatically from start to finish, once you click the little Play button. To fast-forward to the next number, once a song is playing you’ll find a little fast-forward button to the right of its progress meter. And a fast-rewind to the left, for that matter.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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    <\/p>\n

    Do you remember the first time you heard the “Barking (or Singing) Dogs Jingle Bells” thing? Me neither. A shame; according to The Atlantic<\/em><\/a>, we may have missed the remaking of music as it passed us by:<\/p>\n

    It’s time we give the Singing Dogs their due. Created in Denmark in the early 1950s by a self-taught ornithologist and released in the U.S. in 1955, the record marks a turning point in how we listen to music…<\/p>\n

    The record was the work of Carl Weismann, a pioneer in bird song recording who convinced Danish State Radio to furnish him with some decent equipment.<\/p>\n

    Dogs often chased Weismann from private property during his field recordings, leaving the day’s results marred by angry barks. On a lark, he took razor to tape to edit out the barks and then painstakingly spliced them together. He tweaked tape speeds to correct the pitches. The arduous process of achieving even a simple melody probably shortened many composers’ forays into tape music. (Today, it just takes a few minutes with the right apps.)…<\/p>\n

    Music recordings at the time were considered mere substitutes for live performances; for many listeners, this was the first music they had heard that could exist only as a recording.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    All of which makes it almost mandatory to include the video:<\/p>\n

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