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| An excellent cynically downbeat Xmas tune. For those who grew up with Schoolhouse Rock and identify the voice of Bob Dorough with Saturday morning television and not with jazz, you'll most certainly have a "WTF?" moment when first hearing this. Its style is all but identical to the 'Multiplication Rock' songs he would write 10 years later. | - Stavro Arrgolus |
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| According to Jack Chambers (Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis), when Columbia wanted Davis to contribute a song to the 1962 "Jingle Bell Jazz" album, Davis complained to Dorough, "What the f*ck am I supposed to play for them? ‘White Christmas’?" (Stavro Arrgolus) |
| Bob Dorough (1923-2018) was one of the many contributing vocalists and writers for Schoolhouse Rock. (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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| Song Lyrics: |
Merry Christmas
I hope you have a white one, but for me, it's blue
Blue Christmas, that's the way you see it when you're feeling blue
Blue Xmas, when you're blue at Christmastime
you see right through,
All the waste, all the sham, all the haste
and plain old bad taste
Sidewalk Santy Clauses are much, much, much too thin
They're wearing fancy rented costumes, false beards and big fat phony grins
And nearly everybody's standing round holding out their empty hand or tin cup
Gimme gimme gimme gimme, gimme gimme gimme
Fill my stocking up
All the way up
It's a time when the greedy give a dime to the needy
Blue Christmas, all the paper, tinsel and the fal-de-ral
Blue Xmas, people trading gifts that matter not at all
What I call
Fal-de-ral
Bitter gall.......Fal-de-ral
Lots of hungry, homeless children in your own backyards
While you're very, very busy addressing
Twenty zillion Christmas cards
Now, Yuletide is the season to receive and oh, to give and ahh, to share
But all you December do-gooders rush around and rant and rave and loudly blare
Merry Christmas
I hope yours is a bright one, but for me, it's blue (Stavro Arrgolus) |
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Current Rating
8.4
(5 votes)
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| Played on 21 shows: |
 | 12-23-22, #MMS-247 | | 12-17-16, #KMCC-T12-08 |
| 12-11-21, #AOTA-211211 | | 12-10-16, #AOTA-161210 |
| 12-19-20, #AOTA-201219 | | 12-10-16, #KMCC-11-07 |
| 12-21-19, #AOTA-191221 | | 12-14-13, #AOTA-131214 |
| 12-08-18, #AOTA-181208 | | 12-22-12, #AOTA-121222 |
| 12-31-17, #KMCC-T24 | | 12-09-12, #MMS-160 |
| 12-23-17, #AOTA-171223 | | 12-18-11, #MMS-147 |
| 07-26-17, #ISGD-17-31 | | 12-10-11, #AOTA-111210 |
| 01-23-17, #KMCC-11-10 | | 12-11-10, #MMS-135 |
| 12-26-16, #MMS-209 |  | 12-15-91, #91-50 |
| 12-24-16, #KMCC-11-08 | | |
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fiogf49gjkf0d Not around here, they don't. Gotta go to those giant places where they have nothing but cheap Chinese crap ..and no selection to speak of. I forget what those dumps are called..
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fiogf49gjkf0d Do any kind of record stores still exist? :-(
Tim P. Ryan:
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Found on the 1989 Rhino CD Hipsters' Holiday, which still may be stocked at better record stores. The collection of songs range from 1946 to 1967.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Found on the 1989 Rhino CD Hipsters' Holiday, which still may be stocked at better record stores. The collection of songs range from 1946 to 1967.
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