50 years ago, my least favorite Christmas song was released, and it seems only proper to note it today, on the original artist's birthday.
Were it not for "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", I might actually spend time in stores and malls shopping at Christmas instead of hiding out with my CDs of the Cambridge Singers and the London Symphony. Brenda Lee has single-handedly made it impossible for me to listen to the radio at Christmas for fear of catching the opening bars of this grating song and not being able to flip the station quickly enough.
And now you have that nasally pseudo-pop tune funnelling into your head, don't you?
Ha.
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It's probably a regional thing, but the one that can get me to shriek while fleeing the room is "Dominick, the Italian Christmas Donkey," a novelty song from the '60s.
Ugh. (If you don't know it, I beg you, DON'T look it up.)
You have also accidentally qualified your taste in classical. John Williams conducted the London Symphony in 2002 in a recorded performance of songs that included "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." and many other annoying songs.
I have the luxury of attaching that particular piece of music to the title sequence of "Die Hard." It remains there, associated with a series of subsequent gun battles and explosions that bring me great joy every time I see them.
Oh, no. The opening sequence of "Die Hard" is to the tune of Jingle Bell Rock. An entirely different and MUCH more tolerable song. And you call yourself Mr. Hollywood. Hah.
Got me... i can't remember.
Never called myself "Mister Hollywood" ... I am building a home in Wyoming to get the holy hell out of Hollywood...
I will, however have to listen to "Rockin around the Christmas tree" and see if it makes me hate things. You may be right about it.
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