As I post this video, tomorrow will be Christmas Day, and so ends the Twelve Days Before Christmas series. However...we ???? need a New Years Eve song, and I just may have one coming next week, with a special guest vocalist.
"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called Les Anges dans nos campagnes, with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.
The mid-Sixties pop song, "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" by Spanky and our Gang directly makes use of the chord progression and melody of this song. It's not unusual for this to happen in a song from that era, although it was more common in the early Sixties. The song, "A Lover's Concerto" performed by the Toys used the melody of the familiar "Minuet in G major" from J.S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, for example.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGmRd7tRcMI
A bit of holiday cheer.
Bonus! Toward the end of the performance, some idiot was revving up his radio controlled car, drowning out the music. When the guy who was filming it asked him to please tone it down for another minute so we could finish filming, he responded with "fuck off!" So, after the end chord you can hear me and Stan Behrens (Harmonica) commenting, "what an asshole!" The beauty is, this person's assholiness is captured on film for all to see. Merry Christmas to one and all! (Except for the asshole.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAI25-3yA0