White Christmas was a bit blue...
It鈥檚 Brand New Country鈥檚 Christmas special tonight and I鈥檓 updating the blog during the news, which is the only five minutes of the show which doesn鈥檛 mention Rudolph, Santa, or the little baby Jesus.
I love the Christmas show but by the time ten o鈥 clock comes around even a mince pie guzzling, mistletoe thrusting, Christmas sap like me is ready to pack away the tinsel for another year. Well at least till Monday when we鈥檙e doing 鈥樷橝 soul Christmas鈥 as a theme on Get It On.
Some good tunes tonight. The wonderfully waif like Mindy Smith stole my heart with her version of The Christmas Song, and I can鈥檛 see past Elvis and Blue Christmas.
This year is the 50th anniversary of Elvis鈥 Christmas Album. There was controversy around it鈥檚 release when Irving Berlin wrote to radio stations to persuade them to ban Presley鈥檚 version of White Christmas on the grounds that it was 鈥渁 profane parody of his cherished yuletide standard鈥.
Good job he didn鈥檛 see my hip-thrusting version of Blue Christmas at the Radio Scotland listeners鈥 lunch a few years ago. It made Elvis seem as raunchy and profane as Daniel O鈥 Donnell and had a quite a few folk choking on their mince pies!
Don鈥檛 forget to let me have your suggestions for Christmas soul songs and join me on Christmas Eve for a fun show鈥
