That’s a lot of hula hoops
December 12, 2023 6:26 AM Subscribe
One christmas novelty hit is still making money —its influence on modern licensing, Motown records, and what the composer’s kid still hears in it. Steve Knopper interviews Ross Bagdasarian Jr. for Billboard.
Good place to plug Kacey Musgraves’ A Very Kacey Christmas as a permanent addition to the list of all-time great Christmas albums alongside the Elvis and Nick Lowe (Quality Street) albums. It’s a great mix of originals and covers including the one in the FPP, and a non-aggravating version of I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas. Great range of moods, great singing, great arrangements. Heavy rotation in this house !
posted by caviar2d2 at 8:45 AM on December 12, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by caviar2d2 at 8:45 AM on December 12, 2023 [1 favorite]
Good place for a commercial for the 1980 album Chipmunk Punk.
posted by box at 10:48 AM on December 12, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by box at 10:48 AM on December 12, 2023 [2 favorites]
It's one of those songs, like Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer, and (max 5 seconds) the barking doggos, that instantly take me back to being little and hearing something that I knew was for me, not grownups. Even in the distant dinosaur-filled past there was a lot of "kids" music that we kids knew was made to instruct us, to send a message, or to clean our filthy little minds, not simply to entertain. Also when I was very little I assumed that the voices were from some real small person, like the little people in The Wizard of Oz, only jazzier.
posted by winesong at 12:45 PM on December 13, 2023
posted by winesong at 12:45 PM on December 13, 2023
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