The Evening Blues - 12-24-20
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features Santa Claus music. Enjoy!
Lightnin' Hopkins - Santa
"[Trump's demand for a $2000. stimulus check] is an attack on every American.”
-- Amy Klobchar
No News Or Opinion
A happy Christmas Eve to one and all!
A Little Night Music
Sonny Boy Williamson - Santa Claus
Louis Armstrong - 'Zat You, Santa Claus?
Eddie C. Campbell - Santa's Messin' With The Kid
Elvis Presley - Santa Claus is back in town
The Moonglows - Hey Santa Claus
Marquees - Santa's Done Got Hip
Babs Gonzales - Be - Bop Santa Claus
Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Oscar McLollie & The Honeyjumpers - Dig That Crazy Santa Claus
The Hepsters - Rockin' n' Rollin' with Santa Claus
Sir Mack Rice - Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'
William Clarke - Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - I'm Your Santa
Gary Walker - Santa's got a brand new bag
Bob Seger and The Last Heard - Sock It To Me Santa
Chuck Berry - Run Run Rudolph
Comments
For years it was a Christmas season custom to see the
Trail Band with guest artist Linda Hornbuckle. She had a signature song for this time of the year:
[video:https://youtu.be/BY31rFDuzNs]
She was really good bluesy singer.
Happy Christmas Joe and JtC. May this be a good one for us, one and all.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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evening dm...
great tune! thanks!
have a great christmas eve!
Happy eve!
We caught this fun old film today. Maybe you'll like it too. (1.5 hour)
"CHRISTMAS EVE" George Raft, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Dolores Moran, 10-31-1947
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSxhfHvgELs]
"Christmas Eve" Storyline - The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reed seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Full Cast & Crew Starring, George Raft, George Brent, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell, Virginia Field, Dolores Moran, Ann Harding, Reginald Denny. Douglass Dumbrille, Dennis Hoey, Clarence Kolb, Molly Lamont, Molly Lamont, John Litel, Walter Sande, Joe Sawyer, Konstantin Shayne, Andrew Tombes, Claire Whitney, Soledad Jiménez, Marie Blakel, James Conaty, Edgar Dearing, Robert Dudley Robert Dudley, Joe Gray, Al Hill, Ernest Hilliard, John Indrisano, Paul Kruger, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eddie Parks, Mike Ragan, Mike Ragan, Charles Sherlock, Bert Stevens, and Brick Sullivan.
Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Rekeased October 31, 1947.
We liked it anyway. Light and interesting.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
evening lookout...
thanks for the movie recommendation. perhaps we'll get to it after ms shikspack gets through her traditional set of xmas movies.
have a wonderful christmas eve!
We made it a nice Christmas Eve
with candles, three old American movies, (shown on German TV) and the easiest Christmas Eve dinner there is (I did not even know that this was a custom in the northern parts of Germany), potato salad with Wiener Würstchen, something like hotdogs. Boy it was so good to do something so easy and relaxing, after all the stress to do something nice to neighbors and friends.
I always wondered why is it that there have been so many good musicians in the US and with some deep thinking (and some liquor) I came to the conclusion that is because the good people of this country suffered a lot and out of that suffering the most beautiful songs and music arose to overcome the pain.
Thank God for American movies and American Blues. I am happy now and that's good so.
Cheers to you all.
evening mimi...
heh, when you compress a lump of coal enough, you get a diamond. when you compress a soul enough, you get the blues.
glad to hear that you decompressed with a nice, easy dinner.
have a great christmas eve!
Ahh, Christmas cookies
A new tradition.
Baked up a batch of Nantucket Salted Peanut cookies
from somebody's great-grandmother. Funny thing,
there is no salt in it. MMM good!
This is close to the recipe I used...
https://cottagehousekitchen.com/salted-peanut-cookies/
cheers
evening qms...
those look completely delicious, i hope that they taste as good as they look!
have a great christmas eve!
Good evening Joe and everybody else. Thannks for the tunes
Joe. Everybody have a happy xmas eve and xmas too.
everybody be well, be happy and have a great one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
thanks! you have a great christmas eve, too!
howdy bluesters
Hey Joe, and all,
Thanks for the great Santa numbers, bunch of great stuff. I saw you did Mike Bloomfield last night... he was revered in 1970 in my circle of 15 yr. old hippies in high school in Hunt. Bch., CA. Super Sessions was at 2 of 3 houses. Even before Peter Green, there was Mike Bloomfield. He was an unbelievable guitarist, he had the feel to the bone.
Here is one of my favorite customary Christmas numbers.
Christmas Balls - Ben Light & His Hollywood Surf Club Boys - 1936
Nice to have the blues without the news!
Thanks again Joe, I appreciate your work here.
Have a great one all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Figures dystopian,
you’d contribute something musical and a little naughty. Some more blues for you …
[video:https://youtu.be/71Gt46aX9Z4]
All the best to you and yours
rofl J! :)
I guess I couldn't hide it any longer...
I lasted a few years. I first heard that song on the Dr. Demento radio show in the 1970's in L.A., and have it on a cassette somewhere. I was thrilled when I found it on utube... so I could share it with everyone.
Thanks for the great Gary Coleman, I like his version better than the Stevie Ray popular one.
And likewise, my very best to you and yours,
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Also too, the original
happy xmas
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
excellent version Janis, thanks and happy xmas.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening janis...
thanks for the tune!
i hope that christmas is already going well over there on the upside-down other side.
evening dystopian...
heh, thanks for the tune!
Thanks Joe for the music...
Nice to see no news tonight! Thanks for doing this five days a week for us.
Today in exercise class we rocked to a great medley of Christmas tunes including my favorite "fruitcake"!!
Wishing all at C99 the best and that we as a group keep moving forward!
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
Thank you jb
"Wishing all at C99 the best and that we as a group keep moving forward!"
For you and DO
[video:https://youtu.be/p-nqzwIvnZ0]
evening jb...
heh, i'm glad to have a few days break from the news, too.
have a great christmas eve!
Rene & Georgette thank you for including The Moonglows
All the best to you and yours.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
heh...
i look forward to that tune every year, it's one of a few xmas songs that have been lifelong favorites that don't ever seem to get tired and worn.
Happy eve, joe ~
Enjoy the evening!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
evening ra...
thanks, you too!
Silent night ... not
Showing up here late as usual. Hope everyone has had, or is having, a great Christmas eve. Around here, all the Texans are firing off their best fireworks. Sounds like a war. Just something wrong about shooting fireworks on Christmas eve...
Wish it would snow. But it won't.