{"id":3221,"date":"2008-12-18T09:49:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T16:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/merry-christmas-cherkids\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:32:21","slug":"merry-christmas-cherkids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2008\/12\/merry-christmas-cherkids\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas Cherkids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01053685e958970c-popup\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef01053685e958970c \" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef01053685e958970c-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"S&amp;cxmas\" \/><\/a>This will probably be my last posting before Christmas. And here I wanted to get to the latest Cherity news and some neato blog posts out there. Oh well, maybe in a few weeks we can get to those.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, it&#8217;s a bit gloomy this year as holidays go: what with nobody having any money, all the financial scams being exposed (in both the private and government sectors), pitiful economy news day after day, shopping homicides (!), less sunlight, post-election withdraw, too many parties and obligations between Thanksgiving and the big day, right-wingers still insisting we all say the word Christmas, Christmas, Christmas 40 times a day because they\u2019re inherently intolerant of sharing their holiday with other belief systems (where is the love, y\u2019all?), a barrage of slashed-priced store sales reminding us how desperate the retail industry is, and my favorite holiday grievance&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apeculture.com\/holidays\/christmasblights.htm\">poorly strewn holiday lights on front lawns<\/a>. I really hate that. I can\u2019t stress this enough. I think subliminally it makes us all very grouchy.\u00a0(for an example of bad Christmas decorating, see the Sonny &amp; Cher Show set below; who hung that red garland so sloppily?) And people who can\u2019t manage to string up their lights properly are always too lazy to take said atrocities down in a timely manner&#8211;which is January 1st people; it\u2019s why you get the day off.<\/p>\n<p>Day off\/Lights off: just remember that.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some Cher-related Christmas activities for you to do this week:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get your 2009 Cher calendars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shop.forevercher.com\/main.sc\">at this site dedicated to AIDS Awareness<\/a> <a style=\"float: right;\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0105367e4e6e970b-popup\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0105367e4e6e970b \" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0105367e4e6e970b-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Xmas2\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Send some Cher Xmas e-cards like the one to the right (and more) from <a href=\"http:\/\/pub36.bravenet.com\/postcard\/post.php?usernum=3055729049\">the site Cher style<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in the process of compiling my favorite Xmas songs this year for 8 glorious hours of listening on Christmas Day. My bf threatened to bury my iPod to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, Cher fans have been lobbying for a Cher Christmas album for quite a while. This could be a brilliant happening or it could be disastrous. That predicament encapsulates the great excitement of being a Cher fan right there. As it stands the only Cher Xmas tracks available are &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/files\/o-holy-night.mp3\"><span class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0105367e4c25970b\">Listen<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Cher) and \u201cJingle Bells\u201d (Sonny &amp; Cher trying to sound very hip \u2013 it\u2019s funny) from their first variety show found on a compilation Xmas CD I once bought at JC Pennys and Cher\u2019s duet with Rosie O\u2019Donnel, \u201cChristmas, Baby Please Come Home\u201d (the U2 song not to be confused with \u201cPlease Come Home for Christmas\u201d by the Eagles) available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rosie-Christmas-ODonnell\/dp\/B00002MZ1U\">Rosie\u2019s Christmas duet CD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My own Cher wish list for Christmas songs includes her singing \u201cLittle Altar Boy\u201d (done previously by The Carpenters) which is so utterly melancholy. I love sad Xmas songs, my all time favorite being the bittersweet one by Judy Garland &#8220;Have Yourself A Very Merry Christmas&#8221; from the movie <em>Meet Me in St. Louis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0105367e4d35970b-popup\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0105367e4d35970b \" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0105367e4d35970b-300wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"XmasS7C-cartman\" \/><\/a> I would also give my kingdom to hear a mash-up of Cher doing the aforementioned \u201cO Holy Night\u201d\u00a0as a duet with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hGujoyIfMp8&amp;feature=related\">Cartman\u2019s hilarious South Park version<\/a>. I smell instant cult hit. And let\u2019s face it, a Cher Christmas album would sell well on a tinsel-strewn shelf of the Caesars Cher store next fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cher Scholar\u2019s List of Depressing Xmas Songs<\/strong><br \/>\n(just be glad I won\u2019t be listing Wham\u2019s &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas \u2013 Judy Garland<\/li>\n<li>Little Altar Boy \u2013 The Carpenters<\/li>\n<li>Hard Candy Christmas \u2013 Dolly Parton<\/li>\n<li>Blue Xmas \u2013 Miles Davis<\/li>\n<li>Silver and Gold \u2013 Burl Ives (from the tragicomedy <em>Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch \u2013 Thurl Ravenscroft (a.k.a. Tony the Tiger)<\/li>\n<li>Peace on Earth\/Little Drummer Boy \u2013 Bing Crosby and David Bowie (not bloody likely which makes this song so sad)<\/li>\n<li>River\u00a0 &#8211; Barry Manilow (yeah, he Christmas-ified Joni Mitchell\u2019s song from her <em>Blue<\/em> album)<\/li>\n<li>I Believe In Father Christmas \u2013 Emerson Lake and Palmer (one version has a lame ending \u2013 beware of that version)<\/li>\n<li>White Christmas \u2013 Otis Redding<\/li>\n<li>Box of Money \u2013 Pearl Bailey<\/li>\n<li>Alone on Christmas \u2013 Darlene Love from Home Alone (Darlene is the sh*t)<\/li>\n<li>Merry F*cking Christmas \u2013 South Park<\/li>\n<li>All I Want For Christmas is You \u2013 John Waite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Depressingly Cheerful Songs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With Bells On \u2013 Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (pretty much any Christmas song by Dolly Parton greatly increases my holiday spirit against my will)<\/li>\n<li>Mary\u2019s Boy Child \u2013 Boney M. (loved to dance to this one when I was 9 in 1979; which I still do but now I like to pretend I\u2019m a Peanuts character)<\/li>\n<li>Jingle Baby \u2013 Stephanie Mills (It\u2019s sexy and I can see Cher doing it)<\/li>\n<li>Joy to the World \u2013 Mariah Carey (hate the drum machine but kind of like her mash-up of the traditional with the Three Dog Night song \u2013 joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea!)<\/li>\n<li>God Bless Us Everyone \u2013 Celine Dion (guilty pleasure)<\/li>\n<li>The First Noel \u2013 Air Supply (see above)<\/li>\n<li>Holly Jolly Christmas \u2013 Burl Ives<\/li>\n<li>Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy \u2013 Buck Owens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Best of the More traditional:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I Wonder as I Wander &amp; Ave Maria \u2013 Barbra Streisand<\/li>\n<li>Agnus Dei \u2013 Amy Grant<\/li>\n<li>Children, Go Where I Send Thee (I only have a Michael McDonald version but I\u2019m sure there must be a better one out there)<\/li>\n<li>Santa Claus Is Coming to Town \u2013 Cyndi Lauper and Frank Sinatra (odd but it works)<\/li>\n<li>Here Comes Santa Claus \u2013 Elvis Presley (classic Elvis and fun to sing along)<\/li>\n<li>Silver Bells \u2013 Dean Martin (see Elvis entry above)<\/li>\n<li>The Christmas Song \u2013 Mel Torme (no one else should sing this one)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Of Note<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TLC\u2019s Sleigh Ride (more cautious sounding than cheerful)<\/li>\n<li>The Chanukah Song, Part I and II\u00a0(Adam Sandler)<\/li>\n<li>Original Heat Miser\/Snow Miser songs from <em>Year Without a Santa Claus<\/em>are not available on iTunes but you will find the band Bag of Donuts\u2019 trying to be fierce with &#8220;Heat Miser&#8221; (with &#8220;I\u2019d Like to Buy the World a Coke&#8221; tacked on at the end), Crash Vinyl doing an agro-flaming version of &#8220;Snow Miser,&#8221; and Miami Relatives doing a groovy expanded version of \u201cPut One Foot in Front of the Other\u201d from <em>Santa Claus is Coming to Town<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Carol of the Bells \u2013 South Park (um-kay)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bf\u2019s choices:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That drunken ramble by The Pogues &#8211;\u00a0 Fairytale of New York<\/li>\n<li>I Hate Christmas \u2013 from <em>Scrooge<\/em>(our version is Anthony Newley from The London Cast but he loves the TV version with Albert Finney\u2014and who wouldn\u2019t?)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7CiUf4CtaSk\">Paul Shaffer&#8217;s impersonation of Cher&#8217;s &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221; appearing every year on Letterman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will probably be my last posting before Christmas. 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