{"id":6773,"date":"2015-12-19T17:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/19\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-christmas-tunes-2\/"},"modified":"2015-12-19T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T17:32:40","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-christmas-tunes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/19\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-christmas-tunes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Christmas Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Boulevardier\"<\/a>Merry Christmas everybody.  Pour yourself a drink, and enjoy.  Me, I'm nursing a Boulevardier<\/a>.  It's a Negroni with cojones: swap out the gin for bourbon.  One ounce bourbon, one ounce sweet vermouth, one ounce Campari, straight up or on the rocks, with a twist of orange.  A serious libation.  The vermouth rosso contests the harshness of the bourbon, but then the Italian joins the fight on the side of the bourbon.  Or you  can think of it as a Manhattan wherein the Campari substitutes for the angostura bitters.  That there are people who don't like Campari shows that there is no hope for humanity.
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Cheech and Chong, Santa Claus and His Old Lady<\/a><\/span>
Canned Heat, Christmas Boogie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Leon Redbone and Dr. John, Frosty the Snowman<\/a><\/span>
Beach Boys, Little St. Nick<\/a>.  A rarely heard alternate version<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ronettes, Sleigh Ride<\/a><\/span>
Elvis Presley, Blue Christmas<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff Dunham, Jingle Bombs<\/a> by Achmed the Terrorist.  TRIGGER WARNING! Not for the p.c.-whipped.
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Porky Pig, Blue Christmas<\/a><\/span>
Charles Brown, Please Come Home for Christmas<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Wanda Jackson and the Continentals, Merry Christmas Baby<\/a><\/span>
Chuck Berry, Run Rudolph Run<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Clapton, Cryin' Christmas Tears<\/a><\/span>
Judy Collins, Silver Bells<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ry Cooder, Christmas in Southgate<\/a>.  Don't miss this one if you are a Los Angeleno.  Great video.<\/span>
Bob Dylan, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Who could possibly follow Dylan's growl except<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Waits, Silent Night<\/a>.  Give it a chance. <\/span><\/p>\n

A surprising number of Christmas songs were written by Jews<\/a>.  
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Merry Christmas everybody.  Pour yourself a drink, and enjoy.  Me, I'm nursing a Boulevardier.  It's a Negroni with cojones: swap out the gin for bourbon.  One ounce bourbon, one ounce sweet vermouth, one ounce Campari, straight up or on the rocks, with a twist of orange.  A serious libation.  The vermouth rosso contests the harshness … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Christmas Tunes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,154,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-food-and-drink","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}