Billy Blagg
2:35 Sun Dec 20
Day 20 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman - The Legendary Shack Shakers
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I had a beautiful Carol lined up for the last Sunday of Advent but then we had yesterday evening's news and I thought 'Fuck it', I'm never gonna see anyone ever again, so let's rock it out with just the right amount of menace to see us all in hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9v9VUPJ7d4
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plankton
11:37 Sat Dec 19
Re: Day 17
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Thanks for the introduction to AutoHeart on Day 5, Mr Blagg. How the heck did I miss them? Brilliant stuff!
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Ronald_antly
8:35 Sat Dec 19
Re: Day 17
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Looks like Santa has brought Coffers a stutter for Christmas.
Or is it a stammer?
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Coffee
6:31 Sat Dec 19
Re: Day 17
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BBilly Blagg 6:30
Thanks, Billy! Appreciate the sentiment. :)
This surely deserves a place on next year's calendar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AxKgUKUpFc&fbclid=IwAR3eYInYYRSN2cuksq8mwyqstBGbcu6ojqS716-BCm3kG2e6qHx-kzY-LP8
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Billy Blagg
4:11 Sat Dec 19
Day 19 - I Don't Believe In Santa Anymore - Neil Innes
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Neil Innes - the ex-Bonzo and Rutle man who we lost just a few days after last Christmas - with a song from 1975's Rutland Weekend Christmas special. It's very Seventies...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPQypHnmUe4
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Billy Blagg
1:58 Fri Dec 18
Day 18 - I'll Be Home For Christmas - Kacey Musgraves & Lana Del Ray
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The last party Friday of Advent and ... well, nothing! ðŸ˜
So let's get emotional instead with Kacey Musgraves and the exquisite Lana Del Ray on a track originally recorded by Bing Crosby in 1943. I was going to take the opportunity to make some satirical jokes about Boris Johnson adopting this for the Nation, but this is so beautiful, I don't want to contaminate it.
Little Known Blagg Fact: Blagg Jnr has a chicken named Kacey after the Grammy Award winner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVEfKFlhDik
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Billy Blagg
6:30 Thu Dec 17
Re: Day 17
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Perhaps it's with my LP? I wish you'd told me Coff, I'd happily have sent you a Pud. A decent one too, not one from Poundland.
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Coffee
7:09 Thu Dec 17
Re: Day 17
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Like that! A clever video and one of the two definitive Christmas pop records - with Slade, of course.
!0 Dec looks like it's borrowed from Sgt Pepper.
13 Dec (take 3) brings me to another mysterious disappearance. Before Christmas last year, I returned from England with three splendid Christmas puddings. One, as always, we had with friends on Christmas Day. The second on New Year's Day. The third, however, disappeared. It was definitely in the house and the wife said she put it on top of the fridge, behind a load of junk (not her word) she keeps there. With no visit to the UK this year, there's also no Christmas pud. But those things keep for ever and last year's missing pud would certainly still be edible now. But where is it? NFI.
As for the missing LP, the only thing I can suggest, based on personal experience, is to look in narrow, flat spaces that might accommodate a record placed there late one night with the intention of filing it properly the next morning. Or inside a double LP.
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Billy Blagg
2:34 Thu Dec 17
Day 17
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Of course, you've heard it a million times before but there's a new official - and rather wonderful - animated video been released this year (that reminds you why it's still great) and a strange tale being told at:
https://blaggadventcalendarchristmassongs2020.blogspot.com/
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Coffee
8:49 Wed Dec 16
Re: Day 16 - Christmas Is - Dolly Parton feat Miley Cyrus
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Most people give generously of the benefit of their doubt to Christmas songs, ready to forgive bountiful lashings of kitsch and their frequent uber commercialisation. While appreciative of the sentiments in Ms Parton's words, this song does stretch that benefit to its furthest reaches.
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Billy Blagg
2:19 Wed Dec 16
Day 16 - Christmas Is - Dolly Parton feat Miley Cyrus
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As if you didn't love Dolly Parton enough, she then does something even more wonderful ...Wait? What's that? She donated $1m towards a Coronavirus vaccine? No, No, I'm talking about the fact that not only did she release a Christmas album but she called it - wait for it! - a Holly Dolly Christmas! How has it taken so long?
Unfortunately, that is the end of the good news as I find most of it a bit too twee - and I'm a man who likes a Christmas Twee (Groan!) - and it's rather too full of that rather tacky Vegas-style stuff including that breathy talking style that no-one really wants. There's nothing here to compare to Calendar 8 / Day 16 'Hard Candy Christmas' sadly.
So I'll leave you with 'Christmas Is' - one of the better tracks - where Ms P is feat'ed with Miley Cyrus but urge you to look up 'Hard Candy' too by going to the 2014 calendar (link via the landing page above)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za-eum8I4f0
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easthammer
2:03 Wed Dec 16
Re: Day 15 - Christmas Island - Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters
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Billy, it seems it is not impossible to get a visit to Christmas Island in these Covid times,
CP from wiki
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the government opened parts of the Immigration Reception and Processing Centre to be used as a quarantine facility to accommodate Australian citizens who had been in Wuhan, the point of origin of the pandemic.[47] The evacuees arrived on February 3.[48] They left 14 days later to their homes on the mainland.[49]
So how would you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island?
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Mex Martillo
5:13 Tue Dec 15
Re: Day 15 - Christmas Island - Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters
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Billy, I’ll pass your message on to the girls and see if I can treat them to some more of the count down this weekend.
Yes, house is open to you on boxing day. Mind you, you will have to sign my copy of your book. Perhaps give us a reading! Fun place to be for sure. Sad there’s no West Ham game for us to indulge in.
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ironsofcanada
11:30 Tue Dec 15
Re: Day 15 - Christmas Island - Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters
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Billy Blagg 2:12 Tue Dec 15
Nice
Very Mele Kalikimaka (year after it looks like)
Decent version of the latter at the of end (29 minutes or so) this old radio program. Fun version of a Christmas Carol.
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/boxcars711/episodes/2019-12-17T00_00_00-08_00
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Billy Blagg
11:28 Tue Dec 15
Re: Day 15 - Christmas Island - Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters
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Mex Martillo 7:46 Tue Dec 15
None taken Mex. When I first started this lunacy the idea was to find BAD Christmas records and intersperse them with ones that most people wouldn't have heard of that were really good (IMHO).
That's really gone out of the window for the most part and what I do try to do now is find a mixture from all genres - good, bad, indifferent - and make each year flow into some sort of whole (although I fully understand the vast majority would prefer it to be a HOLE).
I've just had a quick look at the first three days and I'm surprised Macy didn't go down better and I can't see how anyone can dislike Miller, but I fully understand most have things they like and don't want to listen to anything else. Frankly, it's the way most radio works and that's pretty successful. So if you want to hear Wham! - and it's one of my favs too - then there's plenty of opportunities to do it!
Happy Christmas to you and the family anyway. I'm assuming it's still ok if I pop round for drinks on Boxing Day. I'll leave the records at home.
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Mex Martillo
7:46 Tue Dec 15
Re: Day 15 - Christmas Island - Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters
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Not sure if I should tell you this Billy?
I haven’t been doing the calendar and on Saturday night I tried to do it starting at Dec 1st playing a few Christmas songs to the family. Did not go down well and I only got to Dec 3rd! Must say, I quite liked the Glen Millar start. My daughter said the Dec 2nd was the best of the 3, the misses didn’t like any. I was kind of obliged to stop, but did get agreement to try a few more before Christmas.
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normannomates
2:48 Tue Dec 15
Re: Day 15 - Christmas Island - Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters
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Cheers billy
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Billy Blagg
2:12 Tue Dec 15
Day 15 - Christmas Island - Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters
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How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island? / How'd ya like to spend a holiday away across the sea? / How'd ya like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island? / How'd ya like to hang your stocking on a great big coconut tree?
Well, Tough!
You're in Tier 3 now m'lad so pull that mask up, put those plastic gloves back on and get inside - and I don't wanna see you again outside your front lawn until at least Good Friday.
Capische?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulXsbTywNKI
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Billy Blagg
2:10 Mon Dec 14
Day 14 - Ho Ho Hopefully - The Maine
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The Maine hail from Arizona and in 2008 released an EP called '...And a Happy New Year' from which comes 'Ho Ho Hopefully'. There's an official video version but the sound is better on the EP for some reason.
'Ho ho hopefully this holiday will make us believe that / We're exactly where we're supposed to be'
Good God! I hope not!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xse01FV7zBI
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easthammer
1:55 Mon Dec 14
Re: Day 12 - A Cold December - Erin Bode
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Al Green very good enjoyed that.
Erin Bode I have never heard of but note her name is an anagram of Ed Obrien but the song was definitely not Radiohead in drag
Thanks, Billy
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