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Fifteen Days/Songs of Christmas Music Mixtape Draft - Links to final mixes in post #1 (1 Viewer)

Back online and will have more flexible time the rest of the week.

I'll make up one pick right now...

Round 10.xx  "Baby It's Cold Outside" by Zooey Deschanel and Leon Redbone

(wildcard)

No Christmas mix is complete without something jazzy that also has non-consensual undertones.  There might be more skilled vocal pairings out there but I like the unlikely blend with this pairing, and it's also a nod to Elf, a movie that gets played multiple times in our house every December, plus the occasional excursion to a local movie theater screening it.

 
12.2  -  Hallelujah Chorus  -  Mormon Tabernacle Choir

I can't believe no one has any version of this yet.  (Unless I've gone blind- in which case never mind.)

This is for the wildcard category.

 
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This is my list so far:

(2) picks from the following traditional carols:  
Away in a Manger, 
Silent Night: Paul Potts
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen: August Burns Red

(2) picks from the following pop standards:  
White Christmas: Mel Torme 
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Other songs from the traditional and standards category (excluding the 6 mandatory songs)
(1) traditional/religious carols (written before 1900) - Rebecca St. James: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
(1) pop standards (written between 1900 and 1963) - Ray Coniff Singers: Silver Bells

(3) Rock-era originals (written in 1964 or later)
Dwight Yoakum: Santa Can't Stay
Michael Buble: Holy Jolly Christmas
Rod Stewart: Red Suited Superman

(1) Instrumental - Epica: In The Hall of the Mountain King

(2) Wild card songs - excluding the 6 mandatory songs

(1) Sad/depressing/wistful/anti Christmas song - Capital Lights: His Favorite Christmas Story
(1) Child's Christmas - Kacey Musgraves: I Want a Hippopotumus for Christmas
(1) Novelty song - MST3K: Let's Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas
 
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Tom Servo said:
It was on the Epica Christmas album?
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OK.  It's a composition written by the Danish composer Edvard Grieg for use in a scene in Ibsen's Peer Gynt.  That scene has no associations with Christmas whatsoever.  I'm not trying to be a rules troll (that's a delicious pun for Ibsen fans, BTW).  Keep it if you like.  It's just kind of weird. 

 
Getting back on the lead lap with a mandatory pick

Round 12.xx "Jingle Bells" by the Brian Setzer Orchestra

(Jingle Bells)

How strange that the guy who became a pop star with songs like "Stray Cat Strut" is now best known for fronting a big-band Christmas tour, but I'm into it.  

I'm officially taking the 2002 version off "Boogie Woogie Christmas", but I want to acknowledge the 1996 version on the Jingle All The Way soundtrack.  Said movie isn't very good and not worth watching when so many good Christmas movies are available, but a few scenes from it were filmed right by where I was living at the time.  My parked car shows up in the background for an oh-so-brief moment in the first reel as Ahnold and Sinbad argue while walking down the street in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis.  The scene was filmed in the spring but I came home one day to see that town block all done up in Christmas decorations.

Like most movies filmed in the Twin Cities, at some point Mickey's Dining Car shows up.  Oh how those Hollywood types love Mickey's Dining Car.  Through some bizarre and creative editing, Jingle All The Way tried to put Mickey's (actual location, downtown St. Paul) in a southwest Minneapolis neighborhood.  The Mighty Ducks moviemakers would have you believe a single mom in south Minneapolis would commute to downtown St. Paul to work at a small, cheap diner.  Only Altman got it right - Mickey's is within walking distance of the Fitzgerald Theater where A Prairie Home Companion was performed.

 
So did anyone else watch "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"? Judging by its ratings, likely not. Anyway, in their one season they did a Christmas show that was pretty good and centered around Hurricane Katrina and featuring musicians from New Orleans. The performance of O Holy Night was a centrepiece of the show and was also made available afterwards with all proceeds going to charity (Tiptina's Foundation) - they highlighted this during the show. Anyway, for some reason it has stuck with me and when a couple years ago I started putting together my Christmas playlist, I went and sourced it out. It's just a really nice, warm sounding version of it, if that makes sense.

12.12 - O Holy Night - New Orleans musicians incl Trombone Shorty. Here's a download link if anyone is interested after listening -http://writingjunkie.net/sounds/Studio60-O-Holy-Night-NOLA.mp3 (right click and save as).

 
12.xx  Good King Wenceslas - Mel Torme - Traditional carol

My knowledge of the lyrics stops after the second line but the Velvet Fog's version of the carol keeps it swinging for another 4 1/2 stanzas.

 
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