GROOVE MUSIC LIFE VIDEO: Happy Holidays From The Groove Music Life!
We’ll start with, appropriately for this blog, Morning Musume’s legendary 60′s Christmas Medley:
…Followed by something to match the other focus of this blog from punk legends The Dickies. Trans-Siberian what?
A Tom Waits-ian take on “We Three Kings”, courtesy of Mojo Nixon, and done up for YouTube by this author, WPIX Yule Log style:
And speaking of Tom Waits, what would the holidays be without a Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis?
Here’s a skewed, ahead-of-its-time view of a commercialized Christmas from legendary pianist/satirist Tom Lehrer:
Here’s another number I’ve shared before, but with a different performance (the original SNL performance keeps getting kicked off of YouTube):
And as long as I’m digging in the crates, let’s hear from Yossi, Gocchin and Yasuda-chan:
Since we’re in the middle of Hanukkah this year, we’d be remiss to not play this little number:
…and finally, in the further interest of equal time, one for the Scrooges out there:
Happy Holidays, everyone!
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Abbie Lilburn
