ARE YOU SICK OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC YET?

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WHAT MAKES MUSIC SOUND LIKE CHRISTMAS?

PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS 2 - CANDYMAN

There have been a few different Candyman songs but the one that I've always preferred is this:

GRATEFUL DEAD - CANDYMAN

I was searching for this on Youtube tonight and was looking in the wrong place.

I thought it was a Hot Tuna song but Hot Tuna performed Rev. Davis's version. Grateful Dead's song was written by The Dead band members Garcia and Hunter and Hot Tuna was formed as a side project by Kaukonen and Casady who were Jefferson Airplane band members. I used to get them mixed up a bit as they all probably did themselves what with living in the same times and places back in the '60s and '70s.

"Look out, look out the Candyman
Here he comes and he's gone again
Pretty lady ain't got no friend
Till the Candyman comes around again"

1970 on the excellent American Beauty album.

This will be a Christmas Day choice although I haven't told The Old Girl yet. It can go with dessert.

PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS

I've been looking forward to what music we will play on Christmas morning this year.
While we have no plans for a big Christmas bash and will not have a house full of guests this year - being just the two of us we plan to have a nice Christmas as, who knows, it might just be my last one.

No doubt The Food Curmudgeon, The Wine Guy, The Religious Curmudgeon and The Cultured Curmudgeon will all be making plans also but the responsibility for music will fall to me.

In the past we have had a tradition of putting on a mixture of classical, jazz and old popular classics  in the morning before a christmas lunch.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC

This year should be no different but I think that we'll pre-select (or at last I will and surprise The Old Girl) some 'tunes' that will set the mood.

One of them that I listened to this evening will be Enigma's Sadeness from the album Enigma MCMXC a D.

SADENESS

This provides the right amount of irreverence combined with voluptuous indulgence to start the day off.

I hope that Robert approves.