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Same Old Lang Syne

post #1 of 15
12/21/10 at 4:44pm
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Has anyone else noticed that this 30 year old Dan Fogelberg chestnut is in extremely heavy rotation on Christmas radio stations this year? Is this the case across the nation or is it exclusive to my region?
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post #2 of 15
12/21/10 at 4:47pm
No, that's become a standard. Has been for a while now.
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post #3 of 15
12/21/10 at 4:53pm
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I don't know, this year its frequency has increased tremendously. Of this I am sure.
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post #4 of 15
12/21/10 at 4:58pm
Saw Moltisanti in the grocery store, snow was falling Christmas Eve...

Yeah, I've picked up on it becoming a little more prevalent the last couple of years. The fact that I kind of like it terrifies me.
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post #5 of 15
12/21/10 at 5:02pm
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Like it? I love it.

Did you guys know that in reality the woman's husband in the song was a P.E. teacher and not an architect? It's true.
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post #6 of 15
12/21/10 at 5:06pm
I'll be damned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_Old_Lang_Syne

Things I didn't know:

1. That bit about the architect/P.E. teacher.
2. Dan Fogelberg's dead.
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post #7 of 15
12/21/10 at 5:12pm
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Fogelberg. Bill Bixby. Telly Savalas. I hate you, prostate cancer.
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post #8 of 15
12/21/10 at 5:26pm
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti View Post
Fogelberg. Bill Bixby. Telly Savalas. I hate you, prostate cancer.
Were you in favor of before you found out about Fogelberg or was that the last straw?
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post #9 of 15
12/21/10 at 5:28pm
Yeah, first noticed it in heavy rotation about two years ago on Orlando/Tampa Christmas stations, still gets played quite a bit. I think it comes down to program directors wanting "hip" songs (i.e. recorded after 1963 or so) that aren't novelty songs (e.g. "Grandmas Got Run over by a Reindeer," which has thankfully all but disappeared). Bruce Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" and Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" seem to benefit from this, as well; I don't think I can drive an hour without hearing both of those.
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post #10 of 15
12/21/10 at 5:35pm
Well, I could listen to Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" all damn day. You can tell the band is just loving playing that song, and hearing Springsteen crack up while Clarence Clemmons is doing the "ho ho ho" is a wonderful moment. It's not really Christmas 'til I hear this song.
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post #11 of 15
12/21/10 at 5:40pm
This song destroys me, has for as long back as I can remember (I'm talking when I was a little kid), and I have no idea why.
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post #12 of 15
12/21/10 at 6:12pm
I've got such a distressingly large Christmas music collection of my own that I rarely get exposed to commercial Christmas radio, but even at that, I know I hear this song quite a bit in stores. I second the love for the Boss, and apart from the obvious (Darlene Love, Vince Guaraldi, etc.), people around me know it's Christmas when they hear Louis Armstrong's "Zat You, Santa Claus?", Dino's "The Christmas Blues," Keef's "Run Rudolph Run," and the complete Ventures and Los Straitjackets sets.
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post #13 of 15
12/21/10 at 6:15pm
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It's the "We drank a toast to innocence / We drank a toast to time" part that makes me misty.
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post #14 of 15
12/21/10 at 6:16pm
Is it a little blasphemous that U2's version of "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" hits me harder than Darlene Love's version?
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post #15 of 15
12/21/10 at 6:17pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Is it a little blasphemous that U2's version of "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" hits me harder than Darlene Love's version?
A little, yeah. But you know what Hans would say: "It's Christmas; is the time for miracles."
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