Tag: Daily Dose of Christmas

Yo Yo Ma, Natalie MacMaster, and Allison Krauss team up on “The Wexford Carol”.

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Well, I spend much of this blog airing my grievances, so on to the Feats of Strength!

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OK, we can’t be serious the entire time we’re doing this, right? The video here is awful (the YouTube user posting it indicates that it’s from a well-used VHS tape), but the sound is passable. I actually saw the telecast on which Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, and Doc Severenson did this when it originally aired, and I’ve remembered little bits of it ever since. Here’s a divorcee’s take on “The Twelve Days of Christmas”.

“…and the place on the south of Italy!”

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Well, it can’t be all serious Christmas stuff all the time, right? So here’s a carol for those who worship the Old Ones.

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Diabetics should not watch this abridged episode of The Brady Bunch.

Yeah, I warned you. If you’re writhing about on the ground from a case of insulin shock, don’t blame me.

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Here’s a different version of “The Night Before Christmas”, as befits its narrator, John Cleese:

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As this year was The Year I Embraced the Beatles, here’s John Lennon.

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This comes from one of my favorite Christmas albums, by the Japanese New Age musician Kitaro.

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Ummmm…well, I knew I had to find something incredibly odd when searching YouTube for “Star Wars Christmas”. And did I ever. Here’s C-3PO teaching R2-D2 how to sing. I have no idea when this was made.

And as a bonus: The Twelve Days of Star Wars Christmas.

Oy!

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It seemed that the Christmas season in junior high and high school always somehow managed to involve a viewing of some version of A Christmas Carol. My favorite was the George C. Scott version, but the musical version Scrooge, starring Albert Finney, was also pretty fine. From that film, here’s the Ghost of Christmas Present confronting Scrooge with the realization “I like life!”

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