Messiah!

Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche. No
information about the cat, sorry

We Three Kings

Do you know The Roches' lovely

Christmas 

album, 

We Three Kings?

If not, get it now! Here is a YouTube clip of very poor quality, with some of the songs, but don't let that put you off.

Here's what I wanted to play:


For Unto Us a Child is Born - The Roches | Muziboo

But remember - "'E's not the messiah - e's a VERY NAUGHTY BOY!" 

Thanks for popping in. The salon is open for comments - tastefully decorated for the season.

Solstice!

Ho the Solstice! Light your fires and candles and wreathe your dwelling with winter greenery (as opposed to Mountain Greenery, one of the finest songs ever written. Don't believe me? Get a load of these rhymes - here. If you look on YouTube you'll find a surreal Mickey Mouse version, which I was going to offer, but they SING THE WRONG WORDS!!!!)





Continuing the theme of my favourite Christmas songs, let's have a
bit of  Jethro Tull,  with a fine example of Bad and Aggressive Miming from 1976.

And here's Greg Lake, bewildering some Bedouin. I don't know the date of the video, but it looks authentically '70s to me.






Whatever you are doing, may your solstice be bright. It may be the longest night, but remember that in the dark of winter lies dies natalis solis invicti - the birthday of the undefeated sun.

Thanks for popping in - do leave a comment in the salon.

Waes Hael!

Christmas!

Swedish Yule Goat. Bit small, isn't it?

Well, it's not far away. I have been mainlining Christmas songs in my singing groups (one of them since October) and I thought I'd share a few of my favourites here, after the rip-roaring success of The Bitter Withy. Panic ye not, no folk music here - we are in the popular music world.


I have few traditions at Christmas, and most of them have fallen by the wayside. I used to play two albums on Christmas morning. On a turntable, obviously. One song from each of those for you - first, from Phil Spector's Christmas album, here are The Ronettes singing Sleigh Ride. (I do like it when people post videos of artists singing a different song.)

And from Bing Crosby's White Christmas, here are Bing and the Andrews Sisters singing Mele Kalikimaka.

Isn't that festive?

And here we have what must be the greatest Christmas number 1 EVAAAH...(It's a peculiar video in many ways (note comment about the drummer) but as the only ones I could find from the 1970s were from Top of the Pops and rather sullied by the appearance of a discredited disc jockey, I couldn't bring myself to post any of them.) Are you hanging up your stockings on the wall? Have a dance on me. 

Thanks for popping in - hope to see you in the salon.