Taking inspiration from an elderly couple singing songs and selling tapes at a Furr’s Cafeteria in Las Vegas I decided the old ball and chain and I would record some songs. The result is a mashed together version of all kinds of different experiments with mixing, jokes, original songs and other such things mostly comprised of first takes. Personally I am proud of this piece of work given the low number of takes and the fact that we were recording in a closet in our old barrio.
Good King Wenceslas
I have always thought it was a weird song. Who is Wenceslas and what is the feast of Stephen? It has a nice sound though and I hear my aunt really likes it.
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Still Still Still
We just wanted to try this one out.
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Winter Wonderland
Comedy Gold in my opinion. Done with a lounge style and some creative mixing to really ham it up.
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One Day and a Night and a Day
This is an original that was semi-inspired by the style of Charles Ives.
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It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
We tried some crazy stuff at the end that I think is pretty cool with ebow type sounds at the end.
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
I can’t help but think of the elderly couple singing songs at Furr’s cafeteria in Las Vegas, every time I was ever there, when I hear this one, which then leads me to think about really thick macaroni and cheese.
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The First Noel
Just wanted to try our hand at this one too.
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Pine Mountain
This original instrumental is named for a brand of fireplace logs but also now has reference to a mountain near Baker Nevada that is not named “Pine” but has a lot of pine cones on it.
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Holly Jolly Christmas
Another goofy shout out to the Furr’s band from my memories.
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Silent Night
We didn’t think we could get away without doing this one.
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What Child is This?
What the heck? Why not this one too?
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There you have them. On to our next huge embarrassing failure.