4 posts tagged “christmas”
Last Thursday, a bunch of us sat around and watched the excellent Christmas special "Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas". It premiered the same year I was born-1977 on the fairly new channel HBO and contains some of the best songs ever made for a Christmas special.
My favorite song from the show isn't even about Christmas. It's almost a spiritual about death. The version posted here isn't from "Emmet Otter", but from the "John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together" special made two years later.
So here's John Denver and Jerry Nelson as Kermit's nephew Robin singing Paul Williams' "When the River Meets the Sea". Merry Christmas!
Justin Timberlake was excellent on SNL this weekend. I'm not a big fan of his music, but he's a gifted comedian. Case in point, this SNL Digital short he did with Andy Samberg:
Sorry, huge Color Me Badd flashback there!
This is from one of the "Carols For a Cure" CDs that Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS puts out each year. This song is about a guy who is both Jewish and Catholic and wants to find the perfect girl to spend the holidays with...
Happy Hanukkah!
Yes, it's "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as performed by the cast of Scrubs.
