Immortality thru Christmas pop tunes

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I swear to GOD, when i finally get my band together and make it big as a sell-out on a major label, i'm gunna record a bunch of christmas pop tunes, which will be played on the radio UNTIL THE END OF TIME.

Holiday tunes = insured retirement.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean, CHRIST, the station that our receptionist listens to has been doing Christmas tunes 24/7 since BEFORE Thanksgiving...

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a pretty good plan - but everyone will hate your songs because they hear them so much. I was thinking about this the other day: I bet there are Christmas songs that actually nobody likes, but which get played because they're Christmas songs - they probably get included on so many compilations that, despite being universally loathed, they outsell lots of really great music.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 26 November 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: being hated by everybody for writing annoying Christmas music VS. making enough money off the royalties that you can buy friends

― Huk-L, Friday, 26 November 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

John Fahey did this, yo.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Suicide, even.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wot? John Fahey made enough money off the royalties to buy friends?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Not so much 'buy' as 'rented'.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine once wrote a song called "Thanksgiving" that was on a major label, but last time I asked him about royalties he said something like "Well, I got a 0.38 check from Slovenia."

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever wrote "White Christmas" must have gotten hella rich since it was rereleased, like, every year.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 November 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

About a Boy to thread

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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I think that would be Irving Berlin who, from what I understand, had a considerable catalog under his belt apart from that song.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

How much would Bing Crosby's public recognition go down if he had never sung "White Christmas"? I'm not saying he'd be an unkown now, or even strictly music geek material - he was far too popular in his day to be that forgotten, surely - but I can't really think of any other Bing tune that I've heard prior to actually seeking the stuff out (well, there's the Bowie duet, yeah.)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't really think of any other Bing tune that I've heard prior to actually seeking the stuff out (well, there's the Bowie duet, yeah.)

Which was a Christmas song too, of course!

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ross bagdasarian owns this thread.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I'd forgotten it was I. Berlin!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 November 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

imagine a world where the ONLY reason why david bowie is known is b/c of his christmas song!

we also increasingly live in a world where bob geldof is known only for HIS xmas song (or maybe the wall).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

a world where bob geldof is known only for HIS xmas song
Well, what else did he do?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That song about killing people.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

also: that semi-recent solo album about how he was fucked up but then he met his wife and "she told me I was beautiful/and I made her come a lot".

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, that IS a Christmas song

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 26 November 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What about She's So Modern, anybody remember that one, off A Tonic For the Troops? Or the epic from the same album, Rat Trap?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Backing up a bit, what did John Fahey ever write that he made a bunch from in royalties?

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 November 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

no, but Rat Trap Tonic would be a cool album name.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris Butler (who seems like a decent guy and once offered me some of his fried rice) still gets royalties from Christmas Wrapping.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 27 November 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

time for another year's worth!

altho, i do like this batch of holiday tune mash-ups.

― kingfish crab trampycakes (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

That first one is pretty great! I still have to listen to the rest.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

I mean the second one.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 4 December 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

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