Dec 23
Good Show Sir Comments: I’m sure you’re all eagerly anticipating what Good Show Sir has in its Christmas sack. Just like this happy family:
Click for larger imageLet the holiday festivities commence! It’s all Xmas Organ Music! All the time!! There are no stops on our Christmas organ!
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Click for larger imageAnd for a palate cleanser, the King of Punk:
Click for larger image1. Let’s hang these balls on the tree!
2. The organ plays at Christmas … and Ken can’t turn it off!
3. Screw the Xmas lists … you’re all getting dogs this year!
4. I drink therefore I am
5. Nice day for a … White Christmas!
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December 23rd, 2023 at 9:16 pm
For full festive frolicks, here’s the first album in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FaoYB-APRY (‘Party’ is overselling it, as Side Two in particular is slow carols. But the celeste version of ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ is unexpectedly cheery)
and the second, remastered in Stereo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6XBgS75kLg (It sounds like Santa’s funeral, except when it goes uptempo and sounds like a 60s game-show. ‘Kringle’s Jingle’ goes for some unorthodox settings and could plausibly have been the soundtrack to an award-winning Polish cartoon from 1962. Or a festive sequel to ‘Eraserhead’)
The two-YouTube link limit means I’ll have to make a return visit….
December 23rd, 2023 at 9:34 pm
Round Two: prepare yourself for the golden voice of Christopher Bowes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr3jvHXiFyQ and one not on the album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnwTKPgHIJ8 All hail Zargothrax.
December 23rd, 2023 at 9:55 pm
1. “Yay! Father Innuendo has arrived with his tumescent bag!”
2. The organ plays at Christmas…and Ken Griffin is getting increasingly annoyed with the noise.
3. it is a little known fact that Lenny Dee trained a whole troop of poodles to feed him, clothe him, and bathe him.
4. “A playlist? You want to know what’s on my record? Listen, bitches, I’m the goddamn Christopher Bowes. Whatever I do is pure gold.”
5. Come On! I know covers of Christmas songs are Hot in the City, and bring in a lot of Mony, Mony, but knowing you did this commercial pap has a Bitter Taste.
December 24th, 2023 at 12:35 am
1) All pressings of this, w/3 different covers.
https://www.discogs.com/master/1047531-Domenico-Savino-And-The-Rome-Festival-Orchestra-Christmas-Party
2) He reached #2 on Billboards sales and jukebox charts in 1948. Yup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3YZD5RaFz0
3)Top 20 hit in 1955 for Mr, Dee. Suck my candy cane Griffin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmpUSE_uUL4
4) Ummmmm……BEANS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR6kOHccYRY
4) In the midnite hour she cried more more……BEANS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7diu_ZOPlg
December 24th, 2023 at 12:45 am
4) Mr. Bowes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR6kOHccYRY
December 24th, 2023 at 3:25 am
#5: I’m glad I’m not the only person to whom the “(It’s a Nice Day For a) White Christmas” song title occurred.
I keep threatening to write parody lyrics for that song (and how about “Dancing With My Elf”, while I’m at it?)….
December 24th, 2023 at 4:00 am
The poodle one is my most WTF. Are they his, and why are they on the cover if they are or aren’t? It says he’s “on the organ”, I hope the dogs aren’t part of some kind of terrible animal-abuse-with-mallets device.
Although Billy Idol is a WTF too. I remember the music videos.
December 24th, 2023 at 1:47 pm
2) Strange but true. This song reached #1 for seven consecutive weeks in 1948, an overdubbed vocalized version of a previous instrumental.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LubTyPNNPY
3) Compare the above with this song that hit the top 20 1n 1955.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmpUSE_uUL4
December 24th, 2023 at 2:04 pm
Checking out Billy Idol Xmas songs on youtube and this popped up. DJ Cummerbund – Rebel Navidad. A Christmas mash up of Jose Felicianos ‘Felice Navidad’. Now my favorite Xmas song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR6fJRwIo_U
December 24th, 2023 at 10:09 pm
I’ve been wondering about the awkward wording of the title of #2. It reads like the organ is playing itself, or possibly playing Ken.
Anyhow, happy Crimbo to all and to all a good night.
December 25th, 2023 at 4:11 am
GSS to Tat and fred for mucking up my Youtube history with that load of Yuletide nonsense. No doubt the YT algorithm will now provide me with many opportunities to “enjoy” new videos with highly curious content. All hail the algorithm.
The Feliz Navidad mashup with Rebel Yell was the clear winner, though.
Hopefully these records are all on the turntable spindle and ready to drop first thing in the morning, in this particular order, at the Tag Wizard’s house tomorrow.
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
December 25th, 2023 at 9:59 am
@Ryan: my favourite Yuletide nonsense would be Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire Walk With Me by Jherek Bischoff – “Classic Christmas songs in the style of Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks score”.
Plus it’s on Bandcamp, so it won’t trigger Teh Algorithm… ^_^
December 26th, 2023 at 3:30 am
@Leak: The mind boggles. I will have to listen.
December 26th, 2023 at 6:58 pm
Thanks @Fred for that earworm cleansers. I swear every shop is playing a different version of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” from any pop singer who can kinda carry a tune. The horror, the horror…
It wouldn’t be Christmas without this little beauty from the Canadian godfathers of comedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3aCw-RurOk
December 26th, 2023 at 9:00 pm
“Hey mom. what’s that under Santa’s sack? It’s sticking straight up like another clarinet!”
“Ok you kids go play outside now, mom and Santa have some things to discuss.”
Merry wonderful holidays to all @GSS!
December 26th, 2023 at 10:26 pm
@Emster: Well chosen, eh? sings theme song
@BC: I was just about to note that myself. That is one suggestive clarinet.
Is Christopher so sullen and drunk because whenever he’s called to play the organ, that square nerd Ken Griffin is there too? Is he wishing he could be on the Billy Idol record?
The happiest mammal in my house is the cat. He got one of those catnip bananas that are all the rage among felines, and doses himself a couple of times a day. I must say, I’m enjoying more quiet, what with him snoozing.
Loved the new Doctor, liking this round of “What If?”
December 27th, 2023 at 11:52 pm
@BC(#14):
All I can think, after reading your dialogue, is “I’m worried about that teddy bear….”
December 29th, 2023 at 6:33 am
@Hammy: Bear’s expression seems to confirm.
January 2nd, 2024 at 3:58 am
Happy New Year to all.
Watch out for more upcoming things like this soon:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=10017
since it’s the Year of the Dragon on Feb. 10th.
starts thinking about exactly which massive quantity of food to order