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Ricochet Christmas Music Fight Club: The Final Battle for Eternal RCMFC Glory!
Like the Ricochet Movie Fight Club of happy memory and the Ricochet Dueling Book Club, the Ricochet Christmas Music Fight Club is a place for fighting to the death over who has the best answer to a selected question of the week. I’ve been post the RCMFC around Friday or Saturday each week between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Whoever’s answer gets the most likes wins!
The winner of the first four fights selected the question for the following week, but the winner of this fight will have only the reward of the eternal glory of winning this magnificent Christmas battle.
But, in addition to the joys of verbal combat, let’s remember that the RCMFC is meant to be a place for sharing beautiful Christmas music. Let’s have fun!
Last week’s battle saw MeandurΦ victorious with “G-d Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.” This week, MeandurΦ asks us:
What is the best non-Christmas song that was repurposed as a Christmas song?
You know what to do now: Answer the question, and fight about it!
(Reminders: Fight, but don’t be a jerk. And share some Christmas joy even if we are pretending to be fighting!)
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Oh yeah, well it has to be Louis Armstrong.
Why is there no love for the Cis Siberian Orchestra, huh? Why is that?!
Never heard of this before. Fascinating foundation of a lovely tune!
Ok, I’m putting in an official answer based on the traditional calendar:
“Veni, Veni, Emmanuel” or “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”!
And now I’ll lose the fight.
But . . . Handel and Beethoven deserve to win anyway.
Let’s just hope no one ruins it all by voting in “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things.”
Okay, . . . here’s one that comes to mind.
Chris Eaton’s Breath of Heaven, which did not start out as a Christmas song, . . .
But then Amy Grant made it into a Christmas song. (Or maybe someone else did it first)
And now it’s only the Christmas version I ever hear.
Great tune. Accent on chords & notes.
Similarly, there’s the atrocious Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, which has, I believe, 487 verses. I hate this song.
But then along comes Cloverton, and they made it into something I actually like.
Our worship team did this version at the Christmas Eve service a few years ago, and . . . chills, man.
Two more versions. I’m familiar with the Sara Groves cover . . .
This one is new to me, but I really like it:
LeRoy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride.
No, it’s the original that is wrong, and I hate it.
The original is a dirge, man!
It sure is. All 782 verses of it.
I liked it in the Justice League trailer.
I hate it everywhere.
– in a house, with a mouse….
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It’s one thing for Christian worship bands to make their own awful music, but they need to stop bastardizing other people’s songs.
Don’t care! : )
Martin Luther didn’t agree.
Another reason not to be Lutheran.
^cancelled
Used to be the only way we even got songs.
Copyright pretty much finished that off.
I would guess “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”, which Hugh Martin wrote originally for “Meet Me In St Louis”. But in later life, Mr. Martin became very devout in his Seventh Day Adventist fellowship, and wished to make his music more of a glory to God. So he re-wrote the song as “Have Yourself A Blessed Little Christmas” it was re-recorded by gospel artists.
I’m pretty sure this is going to be the undisputed winner.
The glory, it seems, will go to Percival.