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Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: RGMike on December 22, 2010, 11:14:19 AM
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last call for getting yer greetings recorded by AL...
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Nice idea but I'll pass. I'll have my sap with my pancakes, thank you very much.
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Nice idea but I'll pass. I'll have my sap with my pancakes, thank you very much.
You're a mean one, Mr S.
(http://holderbaum.educationextras.com/Grinch%5B1%5D.jpg)
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Nice idea but I'll pass. I'll have my sap with my pancakes, thank you very much.
You're a mean one, Mr S.
(http://holderbaum.educationextras.com/Grinch%5B1%5D.jpg)
what if I'm Jewish? or Kwanzish?
What about the children?! Has anyone thought about the children?!
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Nice idea but I'll pass. I'll have my sap with my pancakes, thank you very much.
You're a mean one, Mr S.
(http://holderbaum.educationextras.com/Grinch%5B1%5D.jpg)
what if I'm Jewish? or Kwanzish?
What about the children?! Has anyone thought about the children?!
As insinuated, I don't have a problem with the concept, but it just doesn't make for good entertainment, IMHO.
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last call for getting yer greetings recorded by AL...
I would do it but I can't even leave a decent voicemail without pulling a Bridget Jones...
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An odd lot of requests on FB so far, with some unclear on the "traditional" concept. (I like the new Paul Simon tune but I'm sure Rosalie has spun it a bunch and it doesn't really belong in this setting, methinks.) And I very nearly seconded the Mariah Carey suggestion -- "All I Want for Xmas is You" has grown on me over time and it's actually quite pleasingly retro. But I went with the Carpenters.
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An odd lot of requests on FB so far, with some unclear on the "traditional" concept.
Does my Do They Know It's Christmas? request count as a traditional holiday song? Yoicks. I guess I should read before I pull the trigger!
Anything but Madge's Santa Baby would be fine in my book...
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An odd lot of requests on FB so far, with some unclear on the "traditional" concept.
Does my Do They Know It's Christmas? request count as a traditional holiday song?
Yes it does; I'm talking about the *really* off-the-wall stuff people post, not to mention songs AL already played in the two recent holiday sets. But with 3 Xmas sets + a Winter one, we really hit the jackpot this year.
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last call for getting yer greetings recorded by AL...
I would do it but I can't even leave a decent voicemail without pulling a Bridget Jones...
No worries, I represented for the gang again this year. But you'll have to forgive me if I didn't give everyone shoutouts by name. I called in this afternoon at about 3pm, and I was sitting in my car in a Burgerville parking lot in Tualatin, so didn't really have a chance to jot down a list of names or anything. After my first run-through AL realized who I was (not too many cheesemakers from Oregon in her listening audience I guess), so she suggested I take another whack at it and I'm glad I did. The re-do was a bit more coherent, and I dropped in the name of our cheese biz, at her suggestion.
However, I'm kinda bummed that I also forgot to mention that I got my Xmas gift back in November when the Giants won the Series. Oh well.
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
Right backatcha, bub. I know I'm grateful for this forum, one of the (few) things that keeps me (semi-)sane. Cheers to all!
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
Right backatcha, bub. I know I'm grateful for this forum, one of the (few) things that keeps me (semi-)sane. Cheers to all!
I fully concur. Happy Holidaze everyone!
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
Right backatcha, bub. I know I'm grateful for this forum, one of the (few) things that keeps me (semi-)sane. Cheers to all!
I fully concur. Happy Holidaze everyone!
Thank you all for welcoming me into your inner sanctum of music geekdom! I adore this forum. Happy Holidays!!! :)
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
Right backatcha, bub. I know I'm grateful for this forum, one of the (few) things that keeps me (semi-)sane. Cheers to all!
I fully concur. Happy Holidaze everyone!
Thank you all for welcoming me into your inner sanctum of music geekdom! I adore this forum. Happy Holidays!!! :)
Ibid!
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
Right backatcha, bub. I know I'm grateful for this forum, one of the (few) things that keeps me (semi-)sane. Cheers to all!
I fully concur. Happy Holidaze everyone!
Thank you all for welcoming me into your inner sanctum of music geekdom! I adore this forum. Happy Holidays!!! :)
Ibid!
Hear, hear! I enjoy keeping a connection to my past life in SF, and for that I am most grateful.
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
Right backatcha, bub. I know I'm grateful for this forum, one of the (few) things that keeps me (semi-)sane. Cheers to all!
Likewise, despite my being largely absent the second half of the year. ;)
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ahh, curled up in front of a warm iMac, and sharing the time with my friends!
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So nice to hear the Darlene Love version of Merry Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). The U2 version and others seem to have pushed this from the airwaves.
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So nice to hear the Darlene Love version of Merry Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). The U2 version and others seem to have pushed this from the airwaves.
Ditto Charles Brown's version of Please Come Home For Christmas, and the Eagles' remake.
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Wow -- starting with the Greatest. Christmas. Single. EVAH. is quite risky, AL. uber-BOS Darlene & Phil.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hJHDGO7PJL4/TMZ5SibBfPI/AAAAAAAAAvI/a_jqTP2CR74/s1600/phil!.bmp)
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"Christmas By the Bay" -- ?? -- very nice. BOS2 and If anyone can ID, even better.
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I was wrapped up all day, and didn't get to call in. I do want to say thank you to you all for your kind friendship.
Peace,
Geoff
Right backatcha, bub. I know I'm grateful for this forum, one of the (few) things that keeps me (semi-)sane. Cheers to all!
I fully concur. Happy Holidaze everyone!
Thank you all for welcoming me into your inner sanctum of music geekdom! I adore this forum. Happy Holidays!!! :)
Ibid!
Hear, hear! I enjoy keeping a connection to my past life in SF, and for that I am most grateful.
Likewise, I'm grateful for the presence of friends both old and new here in the Clubhouse. Merry Xmas from Gotham, everybody!
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"Christmas By the Bay" -- ?? -- very nice. BOS2 and If anyone can ID, even better.
The KFOG player says it's Tim Hockenberry, but this is the first time I've heard it. Nice sentiments and local ref's in a Tony Bennett-esque style, but a classic? Not yet.
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Yay! urth makes the airwaves. Free plug! Woo Hoo!
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Urth with the 10@10 club shoutout! Yee-haw!
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"Christmas By the Bay" -- ?? -- very nice. BOS2 and If anyone can ID, even better.
The KFOG player says it's Tim Hockenberry, but this is the first time I've heard it. Nice sentiments and local ref's in a Tony Bennett-esque style, but a classic? Not yet.
thanks for the cheese Jim!
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Yay! urth makes the airwaves. Free plug! Woo Hoo!
Keep crankin' out the cheese!
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Yay! urth makes the airwaves. Free plug! Woo Hoo!
It's official: The Annual 10@10 KFOG Xmas Card is one of the cheesiest things on the radio!
:)
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I like the Pretenders' version of HYAMLX - the first Very Special Christmas CD is very hard to beat, as Christmas albums go.
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All cheese, no sap! Merry Christmas Urth!
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I like the Pretenders' version of HYAMLX - the first Very Special Christmas CD is very hard to beat, as Christmas albums go.
I was watching That's Entertainment II last night -- I prefer Judy Garland's version that is included.
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I like the Pretenders' version of HYAMLX - the first Very Special Christmas CD is very hard to beat, as Christmas albums go.
indeed -- Madonna notwithstanding. BOS3 from me -- Chrissie has herself a merry little boytoy.
(http://the330.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/139e0_Chrissie_JP-2271.JPG)
Bad Foghead poetry is making me see Swellegant's earlier point, however.
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Ok that cat poem was, um, disturbing.
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I like the Pretenders' version of HYAMLX - the first Very Special Christmas CD is very hard to beat, as Christmas albums go.
indeed -- Madonna notwithstanding. BOS3 from me -- Chrissie has herself a merry little boytoy.
(http://the330.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/139e0_Chrissie_JP-2271.JPG)
Bad Foghead poetry is making me see Swellegant's earlier point, however.
I think I saw those two at Beale and Market Streets yesterday.
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Yay! urth makes the airwaves. Free plug! Woo Hoo!
It's official: The Annual 10@10 KFOG Xmas Card is one of the cheesiest things on the radio!
:)
damn! missed it! Will have to hear replay.
I think the Pretenders' version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is one of the best. Perfect mix of song, vocals, and melancholy/sweet guitar tone.
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BOS4 Eartha. When I was a boy, we had us some DIVAS! None of this Christina Aguilera/Lady Gaga shit.
(http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/m/eartha_kitt_jazz_festival_280408/eartha_kitt_5126826.jpg)
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Yay! urth makes the airwaves. Free plug! Woo Hoo!
The plug was AL's idea. I did one take, but when I finished she suggested I take a second whack at it and call out the creamery by name. Glad I did--the second one was much more coherent.
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Ok that cat poem was, um, disturbing.
Yeah, more than a little self-serving. And what did it have to do with Christmas again?
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speaking of cheese...
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speaking of cheese...
I just recently got turned on to the Will Farrell spoof of Bing & Bowie. Have y'all seen it?
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speaking of cheese...
I just recently got turned on to the Will Farrell spoof of Bing & Bowie. Have y'all seen it?
no
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VHM to Der Bingle and Herr Bowie.
Has AL played Lennon's Happy Xmas (War is Over) in either of the preceding holiday sets?
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Here's my annual BOS for Greg Lake...
and here's my annual wish that next year we get to hear the much less over-produced version on ELP's Work II album.
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Here's my annual BOS for Greg Lake...
and here's my annual wish that next year we get to hear the much less over-produced version on ELP's Work II album.
I really like the U2 version off last year's Starbucks Love CD. Very sparse and pretty.
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speaking of cheese...
I just recently got turned on to the Will Farrell spoof of Bing & Bowie. Have y'all seen it?
no
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOwX5G7OpY
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Ok that cat poem was, um, disturbing.
Yeah, more than a little self-serving. And what did it have to do with Christmas again?
yeah, he lost me at "poop"
The David Bowie/Bing Crosby thing is always welcome, but I would have liked that setup intro dialog they do, too.
Love the Greg Lake I Believe in Father Christmas, but it's not necessarily a feel-good sing-along carol, innit?
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BOS John and Yoko!
Gotta get in the car myself and scoot.
Later, Y'all!
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speaking of cheese...
The guy at RCA who suggested "why don't we put that silly little Bowie/Crosby duet out as a single. Maybe it'll sell a couple copies" musta got a big bonus.
BOS5 Greg Lake. The Congress Christmas we get we deserve.
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The David Bowie/Bing Crosby thing is always welcome, but I would have liked that setup intro dialog they do, too.
in that case you really got to check out the YouTube link I just posted. John C. Reilly is Bing & Will Ferrell is Bowie, and they totally nail it...and you gotta stay with it to the very end.
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This is an awful thingfor me to say, but "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" gets WOS for being a holiday Katrina.
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BOS John, Yoko and the Harlem Community Choir.
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This is an awful thingfor me to say, but "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" gets WOS for being a holiday Katrina.
You're right -- that *is* an awful thing to say. ;) But half this set was XmasTrinas. At least we avoided "Feliz Navidad".
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Love the Greg Lake I Believe in Father Christmas, but it's not necessarily a feel-good sing-along carol, innit?
in which case you probably wouldn't welcome Tull's "A Christmas Song" or the Kinks' "Father Christmas" either...
..but I would.
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Love the Greg Lake I Believe in Father Christmas, but it's not necessarily a feel-good sing-along carol, innit?
in which case you probably wouldn't welcome Tull's "A Christmas Song" or the Kinks' "Father Christmas" either...
..but I would.
Right there with ya. Cheers.
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Has AL played Lennon's Happy Xmas (War is Over) in either of the preceding holiday sets?
Ah, I thought not.
Gaz, I agree that HX(WiO) def. falls into the Katrina category by any definition. But I think certain songs are ones need to be heard, they're a touchstone of the holidays, and hearing them triggers a dose of seasonal sentiment, at least in me.
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BTW, just heard from the Princess of Cairo -- she's in Memphis, as it turns out, but will be in SF for New Years.
And I must say this is my first Xmas in a number of years without KPIG, which is usually a lot of fun at the holidays -- they are missed.
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Love the Greg Lake I Believe in Father Christmas, but it's not necessarily a feel-good sing-along carol, innit?
in which case you probably wouldn't welcome Tull's "A Christmas Song" or the Kinks' "Father Christmas" either...
..but I would.
no, I do like them a lot, in fact. (Kinks can do no wrong, in any case)
I was just commenting on the tone of "I Believe in Father Christmas" -- in the middle of all this "passing around the coffee and the pumpkin pie" we get with the super-sweet traditional songs, we get hit with this powerful message about lost innocence and the commercialization. It completely fits and deserves to be heard, just as "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" needs to be heard over and over (as urth points out).
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Happy holidays to all of you. You mean a lot to me! I listened to the set but just got to the computer. I hope we have the chance to get together next week. Maybe SF on Thursday?
I am jetting up to SF momentarily. Hopefully lunch at Public House and shopping at Dugout store. :D
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Thurs in SF would be perfect for me too, I'm in the City that day.
Merry Christmas, everyone! Don't forget yo' Hot Sweet Cocoa:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/23/DDQF1GQK90.DTL
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The David Bowie/Bing Crosby thing is always welcome, but I would have liked that setup intro dialog they do, too.
in that case you really got to check out the YouTube link I just posted. John C. Reilly is Bing & Will Ferrell is Bowie, and they totally nail it...and you gotta stay with it to the very end.
hilarious! thanks....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOwX5G7OpY
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And I must say this is my first Xmas in a number of years without KPIG, which is usually a lot of fun at the holidays -- they are missed.
I'm with you on the PIG-lessness of it all. It was nice to luxuriate in the PIG on our annual trip to Pacific Grove earlier this month, but kind of sad knowing I'd have to leave, and I use to be able to listen all the time!
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Happy holidays to all of you. You mean a lot to me! I listened to the set but just got to the computer. I hope we have the chance to get together next week. Maybe SF on Thursday?
I am jetting up to SF momentarily. Hopefully lunch at Public House and shopping at Dugout store. :D
My daughter has heavily hinted I should go to the dugout store and get some bobbleheads. Supposedly Wilson, Posey, and Timmy holding the trophy
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12/23/10- Thursday! The Annual Tradition: KFOG's Season's Greetings Radio Card !
Starring Phenomenal Fogheads from near and far!
1. Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
2. Charles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas
3. Aimee Mann - I'll Be Home For Christmas
4. Tim Hockenberry - Christmas By The Bay
5. Chrissie Hynde - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
6. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
7. Burl Ives - Holly Jolly Christmas
8. David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy
9. Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas
10. John Lennon Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Here's Tim Hockenberry's "Christmas By The Bay"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AD_WkwCAHs
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was driving around doing some shopping this afternoon, listening to Karel on Green960 (sometimes I can't take too much of him) and he was going off on the history of many Christmas carols. I had remarked earlier here about the melancholy of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" but didn't reallly know the history of the song. Turns out, the song is deeply steeped in hard times, and looked up the history of the song when I got home.
The song was written while Martin was vacationing in a house in Birmingham, Alabama, that his father Hugh Martin[3] designed for his mother as a honeymoon cottage. The house was located in the Southside section of the city, across the street from Hugh's mother and right beside her aunt. The song first appeared in a scene in Meet Me in St. Louis, in which a family is distraught by the father's plans to move to New York City for a job promotion, leaving behind their beloved home in St. Louis, Missouri just before the long-anticipated Louisiana Purchase Exposition begins. In a scene set on Christmas Eve, Judy Garland's character, Esther, sings the song to cheer up her despondent five-year-old sister, Tootie, played by Margaret O'Brien.
The sentimental setting of the tune in the finished scene owes much to the understated orchestration by Conrad Salinger and musical direction of Georgie Stoll.
However, when presented with the original draft, Garland, her co-star Tom Drake and director Vincente Minnelli criticized the song as depressing:
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last,
Next year we may all be living in the past
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, pop that champagne cork,
Next year we will all be living in New York.
No good times like the olden days, happy golden days of yore,
Faithful friends who were dear to us, will be near to us no more.
But at least we all will be together, if the Fates allow,
From now on we'll have to muddle through somehow.
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now.
Though he initially resisted, songwriter Hugh Martin made several changes to make the song more upbeat. For example, the lines "It may be your last / Next year we may all be living in the past" became "Let your heart be light / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight".[5] Garland's version of the song, which was also released as a single by Decca Records, became popular among United States troops serving in World War II; her performance at the Hollywood Canteen brought many soldiers to tears.
In 1957, Frank Sinatra asked Martin to revise the line "Until then we'll have to muddle through somehow". He told Martin, "The name of my album is A Jolly Christmas. Do you think you could jolly up that line for me?" Martin's new line, "Hang a shining star upon the highest bough," has since become more widely recognized and sung than the original phrase. Martin made several other alterations, changing the song's focus to a celebration of present happiness, rather than anticipation of a better future.
Although the 1957 rewrite is the most familiar to listeners today, the Judy Garland lyrics have been recorded by a number of artists, for example Ella Fitzgerald (in Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas), and James Taylor.
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Here's Tim Hockenberry's "Christmas By The Bay"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AD_WkwCAHs
Hearing it again last nite I've decided it's quite a lovely song. There's also a song called "Christmas in San Francisco" by Barry DeVorzon (yes, the guy who did "Nadia's Theme") that KFRC used to play but I've never been able to find it anywhere.
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BTW, any reason why this thread has been "stickied" to stay at the top?
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BTW, any reason why this thread has been "stickied" to stay at the top?
I didn't do it, at least not on purpose! I'll poke around.
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BTW, any reason why this thread has been "stickied" to stay at the top?
I didn't do it, at least not on purpose! I'll poke around.
I may have accidentally made this topic sticky. For the moment, the only fix I could find is to remove all sticky settings. When I tried to go back and re-invoke stickiness, the old topics returned to their sticky state. I can't yet figure out how to turn just one off!
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Happy holidays to all of you. You mean a lot to me! I listened to the set but just got to the computer. I hope we have the chance to get together next week. Maybe SF on Thursday?
I am jetting up to SF momentarily. Hopefully lunch at Public House and shopping at Dugout store. :D
My daughter has heavily hinted I should go to the dugout store and get some bobbleheads. Supposedly Wilson, Posey, and Timmy holding the trophy
The bobbles abound and are quite nice. Beautiful orange and gold bows on huge tree at front of store. To my dismay, the Public House is no more. Turned into Mijita mexican which just wasn't right for yesterday. Momos was not open so I ended up at Paragon. OK, not what I hoped for.
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There's also a song called "Christmas in San Francisco" by Barry DeVorzon (yes, the guy who did "Nadia's Theme") that KFRC used to play but I've never been able to find it anywhere.
OMFG -- while looking for something else, I stumbled across it! It's quite sweet:
http://www.mp3-codes.com/play/1176035/It's_Christmas_Once_Again_In_San_Francisco_-_Barry_Devorzon