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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: RGMike on December 19, 2005, 11:22:00 AM
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back to the "Xmas in Frisko" feed, at least until the KPOO Soul Show at noon.
Another Bob Rivers song I'd never heard: "Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire".
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personal fave: Red Peters and his Swingin' Hamsters -- the uncensored version of "Holy Shit, it's Christmas", which in a bleeped version was a KFOG staple for a couple of years.
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On to KPOO -- where Judge is in a disco mood with Donna Summer-does-Barry Manilow, "Could it Be Magic".
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ooo! the BeeGees version of "You Stepped into My Life". A nice rarity.
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Stan Freberg's "Green Christmas" on SOMAfm just finishing up--it sounds truer and truer every year. Particularly with the current administration.
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South Park's brilliant take on "Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel". Marc Shaiman is some sort of genius.
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Stan Freberg's "Green Christmas" on SOMAfm just finishing up--it sounds truer and truer every year. Particularly with the current administration.
So cool! I like this.
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Xmas in Frisko again. Spinal Tap's "Xmas With the Devil"!
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Xmas in Frisko again. Spinal Tap's "Xmas With the Devil"!
I'm totally hooked!
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Those "Xmas in Frisko" folks just LOVES them some Partridge Family! This may be their most-played album.
and just for Geoff: "O Come All Ye Grateful (Deadheads)"
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FYI, Stan Freberg's Green Christmas is airing on Xmas in Frisko right now, 11:20am on Wed.
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FYI, Stan Freberg's Green Christmas is airing on Xmas in Frisko right now, 11:20am on Wed.
and some hair tonic on a pear tree...
Brilliant and hilarious, and the irony is, a Jew made a record which Bill O'Reilly would agree with.
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FYI, Stan Freberg's Green Christmas is airing on Xmas in Frisko right now, 11:20am on Wed.
I caught most of it. It brought me way back, to listening to my family's Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder, to stuff we recorded from James Gabberts original FM station (what were the call letter?)
Firesign Theatre definitely influenced by this +40 year old track.
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another Xmas discovery: the Soul Shack website (new to me) has a Souls Xmas Special available here:
http://www.soulshack45.com/id17.htm
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Here's one I hadn't heard on the Xmas in Frisko channel before:
If We Make It Through December
The bad news? It's Alan Jackson's version, not Merle's. Booo. Still a rather sobering take on the holiday season though, regardless of the singer.
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I switched to 'LNG in hopes of some Lawn Guyland Xmas cheer -- and got the Cowsills' summer anthem, "Indian Lake".
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I switched to 'LNG in hopes of some Lawn Guyland Xmas cheer -- and got the Cowsills' summer anthem, "Indian Lake".
Now that's a record sleeve you couldn't do today:
(http://bapresley.com/silverthreads/picturesleeves/indianlakeusa.jpg)
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I switched to 'LNG in hopes of some Lawn Guyland Xmas cheer -- and got the Cowsills' summer anthem, "Indian Lake".
Now that's a record sleeve you couldn't do today:
(http://bapresley.com/silverthreads/picturesleeves/indianlakeusa.jpg)
"at Indian Lake/you'll be able to make/the way the Indians do..."
which my 13-year-old's ears heard as "...you'll be able to MATE..." and I thought "Do Indians do it differently than the rest of us?"
hmmm... b/w "Newspaper Blanket"? an early song about homelessness?
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hmmm... b/w "Newspaper Blanket"? an early song about homelessness?
'Zactly. A horribly maudlin and amusingly ill-thought-out essay. The lyrics, for your cringing pleasure:
Newspaper Blanket
(Cowsill / Cowsill)
Sad old man nobody loves him
Every morning I would see him sleeping in the dew
He never noticed me as I passed by
I'd walk by slowly staring at the holes worn through his shoes
Wondering how he managed to get by
Sad old man nobody loves him
Sad old man has no place to stay
And nothing to claim but a broken down park bench
And a newspaper blanket on a cold winter's day
The afternoon would come; I'd see him begging by the square
While I was in the crowd without a mind
And had I been alone, I would have told him someone cared
But it never bothered him for he was blind
Sad old man nobody loves him
Sad old man has no place to stay
And nothing to claim but a broken down park bench
And a newspaper blanket on a cold winter's day
Sad old man how long will you be here
Sad old man how long can you stay
For if you should leave who'll take care of the park bench
And the newspaper blanket would be left by the way
LSD's a helluva drug.
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hmmm... b/w "Newspaper Blanket"? an early song about homelessness?
'Zactly. A horribly maudlin and amusingly ill-thought-out essay. The lyrics, for your cringing pleasure:
Newspaper Blanket
(Cowsill / Cowsill)
Sad old man nobody loves him
Every morning I would see him sleeping in the dew
He never noticed me as I passed by...
LSD's a helluva drug.
"I saw him sleeping in the rain
Raindrops falling on him..."
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CG-ing for the time being. First hearing this season of the Bowie/Crosby "Drummer Boy". Still one of the most bizarre pairings ever.
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back to "Xmas in Frisko" in time for Freberg's brilliant "Xmas Dragnet"
"Some folks call 'em green onions but they're really scallions..."
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ah, sweet Lou (Rawls) doing an ulltra-smooth version of "Merry Xmas Baby".
preceded by one of my new faves of the season, a woman named Eva Moon (?) doing a punk Hannukah song called "Light the Fucking Candles!" LOL!
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My last Xmas song o' the week: Cher's disco cover of Darlene Love, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". Talk about your War on Xmas...
BTW, It appears to be a duet, but Cher's partner isn't identified. Appropriately, they're gonna follow it with Pansy Division's "Homo Xmas".
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT...
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My last Xmas song o' the week: Cher's disco cover of Darlene Love, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". Talk about your War on Xmas...
BTW, It appears to be a duet, but Cher's partner isn't identified. Appropriately, they're gonna follow it with Pansy Division's "Homo Xmas".
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT...
Yeah, I heard that, and also wondered who else was singing. Peace, out soon for me too. UPS will be here soon to pick up the last desperate packages, and I'll go home and take a nap and eat some stollen.
mmmm....fresh stollen!
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My last Xmas song o' the week: Cher's disco cover of Darlene Love, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". Talk about your War on Xmas...
BTW, It appears to be a duet, but Cher's partner isn't identified.
It's Rosie O'Donnell, believe it or not. (It's on Rosie's CD, which I reviewed during my stay at RadioSpy in Orange County -- flashback!)
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Everybody dance. Clap your hands.
Disco rules.
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Everybody dance. Clap your hands.
Disco rules.
I was never much of a fan of this kind of music, but hearing young'uns like Harry Connick and Michael Buble (sp?) do this kind of music make me appreciate Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra a lot more.