A change of pace .
From Wikipedia :
Pink Martini is a 12-member "little orchestra"[1] from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. They draw inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop. Band leader Thomas Lauderdale describes the band's sound as "music of the world without being world music. If the United Nations had a house band in 1962 hopefully Pink Martini would be that band." "My hope is that we’re creating exquisite musical wallpaper which can be turned up or down, and played on almost any occasion, from background music to a love affair to vacuuming around the house."[2]
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Darlene Love : All Alone At Christmas with E Street Band and Christmas Baby Please Come Home
From Wikipedia:
All Alone On Christmas" is a song written and arranged by Steve Van Zandt and recorded by Darlene Love with members of both The E Street Band and The Miami Horns. It was originally featured on the soundtrack of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.[1] It was also released as a CD single which included an instrumental version.
The third track on the single was a Christmas remix of The Capitols "Cool Jerk" which was also taken from the same film soundtrack. The single was influenced by Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and is recorded in the style of the Spector-produced Love song "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". The single featured a promotional photo of Love with the five members of the E Street Band who featured on the track.[2] A promotional video featured Macaulay Culkin "producing" as Love performed the song with The E Street Band and The Miami Horns. The song was also featured in the film Love Actually[3] and in the 2001 Italian film Merry Christmas.
During the first year of her run in the Broadway musical Hairspray, Love re-recorded the song using the show's cast and band as backup on the charity recording Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for A Cure Vol. 7. The song references Love's earlier holiday recording "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)". The song was covered by RuPaul for his 1997 Christmas album entitled "Ho, Ho, Ho".
Cool Jerk - Original ( The uncle sings it in the shower in Home Alone )
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Dr Strange and the Lovers - Santa's Brothers
Big thanks to Dennis Bell and his Golden Oldies web site . Check it out , you will be impressed and love it !
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
All I Want For Christmas Is You--- Mariah Carey
Yes , I know it is a lip sync but still a good show .It's Christmas
Monday, December 6, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
I'd Like To Give U One
Written by Barry Upton, the brains behind Steps, this cheeky song was a Christmas 2004 hit and has been remixed for 2005.
Feel Free to Sing Along , lyrics are included
Feel Free to Sing Along , lyrics are included
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving and Start of Christmas
Bobby " Boris " Pickett Monster's Holiday - Info from Wikipedia
and here is part of the version by Lon Chaney Jr .The Lonster warbles this Christmas ditty with colorized clips by Rockpainterx and Count Gamula at the Classic Horror Film Board
Pickett co-wrote "Monster Mash" with Leonard Capizzi in May 1962. The song was a spoof on the dance crazes popular at the time, including the Twist and the Mashed Potato, which inspired the title. The song featured Pickett's impersonations of veteran horror stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (the latter with the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"). It was passed on by every major record label, but after hearing the song, Gary S. Paxton agreed to produce and engineer it; among the musicians who played on it was pianist Leon Russell. Issued on Paxton's Garpax Records, the single became a million seller, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks before Halloween in 1962.[3] It was styled as being by "Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers". The track re-entered the U.S. charts twice, in August 1970, and again in May 1973, when it reached the #10 spot. In Britain it took until October 1973 for the tune to become popular, peaking at #3 in the UK Singles Chart.[4] For the second time, the record sold over one million copies.[5] The tune remains a Halloween perennial on radio and on iTunes.
A Christmas-themed follow-up, "Monster's Holiday," was also released in 1962 and reached #30 in December that year and is presented here for your listening pleasure.
and here is part of the version by Lon Chaney Jr .The Lonster warbles this Christmas ditty with colorized clips by Rockpainterx and Count Gamula at the Classic Horror Film Board
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