A Musical Advent, Day Two

[vr_trakowski]

Santariffic, Harry Connick Jr. and Lucien Barbarin, What A Night! A Christmas Album.  Please right-click and save if you want to listen. 

This is a very saucy piece if one listens closely.  We tend to think of Santa Claus as a sexless character, for oh so many reasons, but this song plays up his appeal on several levels, and it's great fun as well as unusual.  Apparently Mr. Connick wrote it, but it's Mr. Barbarin who takes the role of Santa, and his sly humor is spot-on. 

Far from slender/How lucky Mrs. Claus is  Hee! 

Everyone's got crushes/Someone call a copper
Everybody blushes/For the big show-stopper

It's a sort of mirror-view, in a way, but still very accurate. 


**PLEASE NOTE: I am a Christian.  This may be reflected herein.  If this offends you, please do not read.**

Comments

[boubabe14.livejournal.com]

I just picked up this CD last weekend on sale at Target. Oh, how I love Christmas music. I grabbed so much from You and Ming the past few years :-) My iPod Christmas playlist is up to 4 days worth now :-) Another recent addition was Straight, No Chaser's 2 CDs. Yummy!

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! I love the Twelve Days one on that, it's hysterical--and on my list for this thing.

Mr. Connick is one of those whose non-holiday albums I will also purchase.

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

P.S. That is SUCH a great icon.

[boubabe14.livejournal.com]

Alison made that a few years ago and I snatched it! My icon making abilities are pretty limited.

Gotta love Harry's voice, although Neil Baby is always stealing my heart away with his. Speaking of Neil, he's coming to the Verizon Center in DC on June 14th, and I think I'm grabbing a ticket in the morning when they go on sale. I'll be in town to see my nephew get married that weekend.

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

Excellent!! If you have any free time let us know--there can always be a meetup!