25 Days of Holiday Songs 2024: “Christmas In Vietnam” by Private Charles Bowens
Probably don’t lead with this at your holiday singalong.
Probably don’t lead with this at your holiday singalong.
if this was almost any other singer, you’d think to yourself what a sweet scene this song is painting. But this is Tammy Wynette, and in her songs, you don’t find love without also finding more turbulent feelings close by.
The Flirtations are Americans, but they’re much better known in the UK. Our loss!
After a hard day for my hometown, I’m choosing a song from one of my favorite times in 2024.
An actual presidential candidate, one who’d been up on the debate stage with the heavy hitters, dressing up as Santa Claus, spiking the punch and pretending to throttle one of the main characters, all to a parody version of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
Regis Philbin’s version of “Rudolph” goes way off the usual course; at one point he just starts naming famous New Yorkers.
I thought we could use a cheerful number in the middle of the countdown, and I think I got mixed up.
Why wasn’t there a sitar player at the first Christmas? Maybe there was and the drummer drowned them out?
Bob and Doug rattle off a Canadian version of the 12 Days of Christmas.
In this day and age, people get really confused when you say in a cheerful voice “my 13 year old has gotten really into Morphine!”