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!

  • Abbie Lilburn

    Some epic songs there, nice one! Totally loving the Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis