Sorry, I’ve been listening to a lot of Christmas music lately so random lyrics will pop into my head at the slightest provocation. And I’m very familiar with Christmas music. Honestly, I can listen to it all year long. Does that make me a freak? Perhaps. But that’s neither here nor there.
The reason we’ve gathered here today is to celebrate the holidays LFTI-style! So let’s get to it.
First, since it’s not on lifefromtheinside.com yet, I thought that I would post the latest LFTI Holiday Video Greeting here in the blog! Pick a present from under the tree, pour a glass of eggnog, shove a candy cane in your mouth, make a snowball, hang some mistletoe (if you can find it, seriously they don’t sell that stuff anywhere this year! Just because it’s poisonous for pets?! So is Drain-O, but I haven’t seen them pull that from the shelves…) light a fire (safely in the fireplace), split a yule log, trim the tree, hang garland, deck halls and get ready to get into the holiday mood with LFTI!
And now that you’re of a generous spirit…BAM! I’m gonna hit you with New Music Wednesday!
And what, you may ask, is the melodious offering this week? Why it’s the soundtrack to the LFTI Holiday video of course!
So, here it is, the less-compressed version of You Could Teach Santa (a thing or two):
UPDATE: The embed doesn't seem to be working. You can hear the song here:
You Could Teach Santa (a thing or two)
As you can see, it has hit about 98 in the Holiday Music category over at OurStage.com. Believe it or not, it has jumped from 170-something overnight. So that’s good. It only has 6 views as of this morning. So, if you want, feel free to play it everyday until Christmas. That might help the standings. Of course, you can also go to OurStage, create a profile and partake in the arduous judging process too, voting for this song all along the way (really, judging over there is no joke. It’s quite the process). But just playing it is fine too.
A little history about this song:
A few years ago, two Christmases in a row in fact, Tanya and I made Christmas albums for our families for presents. For the first album we recorded 10 original songs and for the second album we recorded 11 original songs. It was quite the undertaking (I had a lot more free time back then).
This song was on the first album and was written for my mother who really could teach Santa a thing or two about generosity, love and, as of last night, how to give his oldest son grief about his new Blackberry.
Now, so that you don’t feel cheated about receiving a “recycled” song, I painstakingly re-recorded this tune for the LFTI video. I mean painstakingly. The original was recorded on a smaller scale. In fact, I recorded it on my old computer with sample software (only 4 tracks) and the little plastic computer mic that came with it.
Oh, you know what, here it is, for the first time on the internet, the orginial version of You Could Teach Santa a Thing or Two:
Here is the link (embed not working)
You Could Teach Santa a Thing or Two (Original Version)
Have a Happy Holiday Season!
The New Year will bring all sorts of interesting stuff!
ROBB
