Originally Posted By WDWdreamin Just listened to Christmas Shoes. It's not even good music. But it's about helping a boy buy shoes for his mom who might die at any time??!! I'm glad my radio stations do not play it. Geez. It's much worse than "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and "All I Want for Christmas Are My Two Front Teeth" and the hippopotamus one, and the donkey one, and "I Yust Go Nuts" and Alvin's hula hoop song.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I just re read this thread and oh my, I still haven't watched "Meet Me in St. Louis." Whoops, where has the time gone? "Christmas Shoes" "Favorite things" still my top two "time to change the station" songs.
Originally Posted By DlandDug My rant this year is artists who trash perfectly good Christmas classics. I don't mind "homage" versions. But it's the direct remakes, first of all, that I dislike. Barry Manilow's note-for-note of Bing Crosby's "Jingle Bells" tops the list. Just play the original. It's better. Somebody has also done a note-for-note of the Drifters' "White Christmas." I don't think it's the Michael Buble/Shania Twain duet version. Maybe. But if you're going to simply sing the same song in the exact same way, why bother? Then there's the bad versions that should die. Topping that (for me) is Madonna's "Santa Baby." In the hands of a sophisticate like Eartha Kitt, this is a smart, funny "anti-carol." Sung as a pouty baby it's just creepy. And the song that sparked this year's rant: Michael Buble's "duet" version of "White Christmas" with... Bing Crosby. It's a single. And it's just so... stupid. They basically took a recording of Bing, added a random selection of phrases by Buble (sounding like he was singing along to the car radio), and then laid it all over a new orchestration. DREADFUL.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Then there's the bad versions that should die. Topping that (for me) is Madonna's "Santa Baby." In the hands of a sophisticate like Eartha Kitt, this is a smart, funny "anti-carol." Sung as a pouty baby it's just creepy.<< Amen!
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002R4GRFY/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk1" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ..._dp_trk1</a> Not sure if this will work. If not, google "Bob Dylan Christmas" and take a listen. I get the giggles every year. I believe the proceeds went to charity and good on him but still a hoot to listen to
