… on the Second Day of Christmas:
First up is the hammered dulcimer. As one wag noted … if that’s the hammered, how good will the sober dulcimer sound?
Next is our Steve’s offering … Once in Royal David’s City” | The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge:
And the one I dropped from the main list to accommodate IYE’s:
Was going to run Chuckles’s version of Jingle Bells, just to annoy Dearieme but thought … why not annoy him with this instead:
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is about it in the carol department for 2025. Eyes now set on New Year’s Eve.
Apparently there is a version of Jingle Bells going viral, an Indian takeaway on the song. I will try to find a link.
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JH: Er, Andy … not sure we’ll bother with that, all right?
I like carols: it’s all the pop, or popified, Xmas musical muck I can’t bear. To reduce the great Ella to that abomination is a crime against humanity.
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JH: Quite right but shirley she was in good company, musically, in the post.