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Ricochet Christmas Music Fight Club: The Incredible Second Fight!
Like the Ricochet Movie Fight Club of happy memory and the still-living 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 plan to post the RCMFC around Friday or Saturday each week until Christmas. Whoever’s answer gets the most likes wins! The winner of the first four fights selects the question for the next week.
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 @andrewmiller victorious with the Muppets’ version of “Carol of the Bells”! This week, Andrew asks us:
What is one of your favorite light-hearted Christmas songs?
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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A nice rockin’ version:
Wow. So many choices!
Thanks. Who would not vote for that?
Well, maybe a Grinch.
You probably have ?t=21s at the end of the url. Remove that, and it’ll be fine.
Or it might be taking you there because that’s where you left off before, but other people won’t be affected.
There’s one correct answer:
Never vote against the King.
Seymour Swine And The Squeelers – Blue Christmas
Sorry.
Hadda.
First to 11!
Peggy Lee and Winter Wonderland. The coolest rendition of the song.
And let’s not forget…
I do like me some Mark Steyn singing.
Thanks. I’ll look at it.
This is a kids’ Christmas song but I really like them. It isn’t the same kind of kids’ music you may have listened to with your kids.
I heard this for the first time yesterday listening to the entirety of their album after really falling in love with one of their songs. It is Zechariah’s Song. As a kid’s song, well… Zechariah can’t talk!
Ok. I got a real winner here.it is so popular that my community band plays it as the encore every December concert. Anyone who doesn’t like it is a grinch.
https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=2474601
That’s really cool. Both lighthearted and a serious message.
This is awesome! What a great mash-up of Chirstmas and Americana.
Baby its cold outside:
We always play Stars and Stripes for our normal encore and used to play Sleigh Ride for the Christmas encore. Now, Sleigh Ride is on the main program and this is the encore. The audience always enjoys it, probably our most popular piece.
It reminds me of my graduation from HS. Our late musical director was playing the organ at the church were we would hold our graduation and as we practiced he played Pomp and Cicumstance as we exited. I was almost the last one out of our 42 graduates and right as I stepped out to the aisle he was starting a new repetition of P&C and switched to Take Me Out to the Ball Park instead. I almost fell over laughing so hard. It inspired me at the actual ceremony to casually flip my NHS tassel across my neck like a scarf as I turned to exit.
The Arrogant Worms are (were?) a Canadian musical comedy troupe. They have an entire album of funny Christmas songs called Christmas Turkey. This is my favourite.
“The Same Christmas Cake”
I can’t figure out how to embed Youtube – any hints??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ExLZB6eWQI
Lyrics
Christmas makes me realize how greatly things do change
Friends lose touch, people age, and family moves away
But it is what had stayed the same that gives me the most tears
For I’ve had the same Christmas cake for almost thirty years
Granny made it back in sixty-eight and gave it to my mom
Who gave it to her uncle who gave it to her son
Who then gave it to me and that is where it stuck
For I was only three months old and clearly out of luck
Each Christmas of my childhood that fruit-brick would return
My mom would place it on a plate and tell me I must learn
That it is rude to get a gift and not put it to use
And every year I’d take a bite and chip another tooth
After fifteen years of misery I’d had all I could take
That summer I went camping and dropped it in the lake
I thought that I was rid of it, but on Christmas eve
There it was “from Santa Claus” under the Christmas tree
Each year I’d try to lose it but it would just return
So I cried out “oh why have I been given such a burden?”
A voice replied, “it’s not a curse, but the greatest gift”
“For when all else abandons you, you will still have it.”
For all of man’s creations slowly waste away
Relationships do crumble and buildings do decay
The pyramids and stonehenge slowly disappear
But if they were made of Christmas cake they’d last a million years
Where things stand now:
@clavius is in the lead, but @9thdistrictneighbor is close behind!
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I demand a recount
I’m willing to sell my likes (2, the last time I looked) for a reasonably small compensation.
Don’t worry. The election is clean. You’re not allowed to know how the votes are counted, and a large vote dump happened at 3:00 in the morning with no cameras present. It shifted the election, and no one’s doing any checking on the original ballots. But only Trump and other election deniers ask questions about these things, so you can be sure the election is totally clean. Shut up, conspiracy theorist.
Pearls before swine, apparently.
Voiceplay, Plays the chipmunks Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
I will not be taking questions at this time.
Clavius wins! Congrats, Clavius.
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