Three Tune Tuesday - Christmas edition - falalalala, lalalala

11 months ago

It's time again for Three Tune Tuesday, that day of the week where members of the Hive community shares three songs of their liking with the rest of the community.

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I take a slow, relaxing approach to Three Tune Tuesday: I like to share pre-1924 78rpm songs from my collection, and record them while playing on an appropriate time-period windup phonograph. I encourage you to take a few moments and slow down with me. Settle down, close your eyes, and take yourself back.. way back.. in time, to a distant uncle's parlour in the early 1920's. There are comfortable seats, pleasant conversation, and old music.

It has been a very long time since I've done a TTT (sorry @ablaze; I think I'm good to go now). Being that it's very close to Christmas I'm thinking a nice Christmas inspired TTT theme is in order for the day. I haven't looked yet, but I'm sure there are a number of others who are feeling the same way.

I turned on the local radio station today and immediately lost Whamageddon. I really can't stand that song, and was pissed that I was subjected to it just as soon as I heard it on the radio. Grrr.

So I've decided to share some not-quite-as-popular-and-definitely-not-as-annoying Christmas songs. These songs are not from my usual repertoire of pre-1925 songs; rather, they're much more modern, though still not 'new'.

Christmas Caroling, the Irish Rovers

This is a fun song, and one of my annual favourites. The Irish Rovers, for those not familiar, are a group of gentlemen originally from Ireland but who emigrated to Canada in the 60's. They were all granted Canadian citizenship in the mid 70s, so we now claim them as our own.

Christmas Caroling is a fun song about three lads singing for beer.

Christmas at the Ale House, the Irish Rovers

Yep. I'm sure after singing for their beer, the lads went straight to the Ale House.

Scarlet Ribbons, also the Irish Rovers

I first heard this song as a youngster, during the period in their career when the Irish Rovers went by simply The Rovers and made an attempt to move into the country music field. That was short lived, and they since returned to their roots in traditional Irish music.

Even as a child I appreciated the gravity of the song and the magic of it at the end. It still moves me today.